Sunday evening
Jul. 4th, 2005 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaFrom earliest childhood, my sister has always wanted to build herself a mansion. Not for the sake of actually having a mansion, but so she could have a secret passageway in the mansion. As we were in the metro on the way to see Batman Begins, she was telling me she wanted to put a piano there.
"My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful tunnel shaft at Wayne Manor."
It's really quite a good movie. All the good superhero movies in recent years are good because of human portraits, aren't they, not so much for the Marvel-esque action.
***
After the movie I went to the Bonobo / Herbaliser / DJ Food show. Sold-out v. energetic crowd, with a rather different constitution from what I'd expected - lots of young girls dressed up for dancing. Well, I'd dressed up too (my khaki schoogirl outfit), so. ^^; Saw most of Bonobo from the balcony while sipping a Stella, then went down for Herbaliser. The music these groups make is sort of difficult to describe - I'd upload but I can't at the moment ^^; - largely instrumental hip-hop with jazz jams/solos and elements of funk and electronica? There's a brooding film noir feel to it as often as not. I listen to a lot of stuff like it - Handsome Boy Modeling School, RJD2, Gorillaz too I guess - but push come to shove I don't know what to call it other than "hip-hop". Everyone moved to it like it was hip-hop, anyway. Herbaliser is a drummer, a percussionist, a bass guitarist, a keyboardist, a DJ, a tenor saxophonist/flutist, an alto saxophonist and a trumpetist, plus three guest rappers for the performance, so that gives an idea.
DJ Food came on at 12:30 at which point I'd actually wandered out for a slice of 99-cent pizza and wandered back in. XD (99-cent pizza is a misnomer, I don't think it's cost 99 cents since I was in second year of university, but it was worth 2$.) Sat at a table for an hour for a better view of the turntablism, kept dozing off out despite the high noise level and dreaming of bats. Finally got up and went back up front to dance, and that helped a lot. It was a really awesome DJ set, mostly drum and bass toward the end though he mixed in "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" and even "Toxic" (I think the rockist litmus test is that they stop dancing and look vaguely cheated as soon as they recognize it's Britney Spears even though they were dancing three seconds before when they hadn't yet XD;). It's odd, I don't think I've ever been to a club night of any type where pretty much everyone was intently dancing by him or herself, without huddling in a circle with their friends or trying to pick up. I don't know if it's the music/event itself or the spliffs going round and round. XD;; In retrospect I should've seen it coming when, uh, the band's called Herbaliser and sells papers at the merchandise counter.
"My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful tunnel shaft at Wayne Manor."
It's really quite a good movie. All the good superhero movies in recent years are good because of human portraits, aren't they, not so much for the Marvel-esque action.
***
After the movie I went to the Bonobo / Herbaliser / DJ Food show. Sold-out v. energetic crowd, with a rather different constitution from what I'd expected - lots of young girls dressed up for dancing. Well, I'd dressed up too (my khaki schoogirl outfit), so. ^^; Saw most of Bonobo from the balcony while sipping a Stella, then went down for Herbaliser. The music these groups make is sort of difficult to describe - I'd upload but I can't at the moment ^^; - largely instrumental hip-hop with jazz jams/solos and elements of funk and electronica? There's a brooding film noir feel to it as often as not. I listen to a lot of stuff like it - Handsome Boy Modeling School, RJD2, Gorillaz too I guess - but push come to shove I don't know what to call it other than "hip-hop". Everyone moved to it like it was hip-hop, anyway. Herbaliser is a drummer, a percussionist, a bass guitarist, a keyboardist, a DJ, a tenor saxophonist/flutist, an alto saxophonist and a trumpetist, plus three guest rappers for the performance, so that gives an idea.
DJ Food came on at 12:30 at which point I'd actually wandered out for a slice of 99-cent pizza and wandered back in. XD (99-cent pizza is a misnomer, I don't think it's cost 99 cents since I was in second year of university, but it was worth 2$.) Sat at a table for an hour for a better view of the turntablism, kept dozing off out despite the high noise level and dreaming of bats. Finally got up and went back up front to dance, and that helped a lot. It was a really awesome DJ set, mostly drum and bass toward the end though he mixed in "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" and even "Toxic" (I think the rockist litmus test is that they stop dancing and look vaguely cheated as soon as they recognize it's Britney Spears even though they were dancing three seconds before when they hadn't yet XD;). It's odd, I don't think I've ever been to a club night of any type where pretty much everyone was intently dancing by him or herself, without huddling in a circle with their friends or trying to pick up. I don't know if it's the music/event itself or the spliffs going round and round. XD;; In retrospect I should've seen it coming when, uh, the band's called Herbaliser and sells papers at the merchandise counter.
