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cultural highlights
Dec. 29th, 2007 11:14 pmThe holidays turn out to be very interesting from a cultural viewpoint.
We went to see Richard Wagner's "Meistersinger" - 5 hours of quite good music and horrible, horrible libretto -he really should have left the writing of the text to somebody else.
But it was the first Wagner I saw and I must say he's much better than his reputation.
On New Year's Day we will see the "Amadeus" ballet, based on the musical based on the movie. I know the movie, so this is going to be interesting, and the ballet company is really good, so that's going to be a treat.
And today, between some political cabaret shows, I got to watch the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, which was hilarious. They represent a kind of humour that seems to be found only in the country of bad food and bad teeth*.
Speaking of humour, I got a good laugh out of Sarkozy lately. Okay so our last chancellor got himself an oil pipeline to have something to do once the chancelloring was over, but letting yourself get invited on holidays by people with a well-known interest in French politics and not even having the decency to at least try and cover it up takes a special kind of person.
It is said that every country gets the government they deserve. We have Angela, who might not look as good as Sarko on TV, but whom I still prefer any day.
Oh, and btw, Wikipedia says his full name is Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarköczy de Nagy-Bocsa. Nagy is a Hungarian name. And I never knew the French president was also co-prince of Andorra. That is weird.
*wikiwandering*
Did you know that Andorra was at war with Germany until 1957 because they were not included in the Versailles treaty? How weird is that?
Okay, I'm off to bed before I write more nonsense.
HUGE HUGS to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
martianmooncrab and quietselkie!! You rock!
* Okay, the bad food is prejudice, but you can spot Brits by their teeth. I don't know why.
We went to see Richard Wagner's "Meistersinger" - 5 hours of quite good music and horrible, horrible libretto -he really should have left the writing of the text to somebody else.
But it was the first Wagner I saw and I must say he's much better than his reputation.
On New Year's Day we will see the "Amadeus" ballet, based on the musical based on the movie. I know the movie, so this is going to be interesting, and the ballet company is really good, so that's going to be a treat.
And today, between some political cabaret shows, I got to watch the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, which was hilarious. They represent a kind of humour that seems to be found only in the country of bad food and bad teeth*.
Speaking of humour, I got a good laugh out of Sarkozy lately. Okay so our last chancellor got himself an oil pipeline to have something to do once the chancelloring was over, but letting yourself get invited on holidays by people with a well-known interest in French politics and not even having the decency to at least try and cover it up takes a special kind of person.
It is said that every country gets the government they deserve. We have Angela, who might not look as good as Sarko on TV, but whom I still prefer any day.
Oh, and btw, Wikipedia says his full name is Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarköczy de Nagy-Bocsa. Nagy is a Hungarian name. And I never knew the French president was also co-prince of Andorra. That is weird.
*wikiwandering*
Did you know that Andorra was at war with Germany until 1957 because they were not included in the Versailles treaty? How weird is that?
Okay, I'm off to bed before I write more nonsense.
HUGE HUGS to
martianmooncrab and quietselkie!! You rock!* Okay, the bad food is prejudice, but you can spot Brits by their teeth. I don't know why.
