cultural highlights
Dec. 29th, 2007 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The 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
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
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* Okay, the bad food is prejudice, but you can spot Brits by their teeth. I don't know why.
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Date: 2007-12-29 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-30 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-30 04:27 pm (UTC)I believe it was Tuvalu or some equally important country that joined Bush's coalition against Iraq by offering the Americans the use of their one airport. It had not significance whatsoever for the war, but it made them look good and get brownie points from the US government.
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Date: 2007-12-30 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-29 11:38 pm (UTC)Sarkozy also got invited by the same guy right after he won the election, to stay on his yacht in the Mediterranean. And he's close friends with all the big media moghuls, which helped him get elected in the first place. *sigh*. I did petition you guys to send us Schröder when you were finished with him but you kept him instead so we're saddled with incompetents. So it's your fault, entirely your fault :p
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Date: 2007-12-30 11:29 am (UTC)Trust me though, you don't really want Schröder. Who needs a person ridiculous enough to sue the media to make them keep quiet about the fact that he colours his hair? When it is blatantly obvious he does.
You got to see things positive: it must be very hard to bribe Sarko, he's used to such huge bribes that there must be only a handful of people able to pay them, which I suppose results in a stable course of action by the government.
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Date: 2007-12-30 02:38 pm (UTC)You got to see things positive: it must be very hard to bribe Sarko, he's used to such huge bribes that there must be only a handful of people able to pay them, which I suppose results in a stable course of action by the government.
That's what he'd like us to believe. It's widely know that Chirac was corrupt to the bone (he has secret bank accounts everywhere) so Sarko just openly gave himself a 170% salary increase first thing after getting elected. Niiiice, when the average worker's disposable income is decreasing.
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Date: 2007-12-30 04:25 pm (UTC)It's kind of pathetic to fire the journalist and the editor. His wife did run away
and who can blame her, getting anybody fired won't change that fact. And how did he intend to explain her absence from public functions after they separated, he kept dragging his family around everywhere, people would have noticed she was gone sooner or later.no subject
Date: 2007-12-30 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-30 05:06 pm (UTC)Then again, aren't the French famous for their affairs? ;-)
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Date: 2007-12-30 05:24 pm (UTC)*gagging noise*
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Date: 2007-12-30 05:42 pm (UTC)If Merkel had used up four husbands, I wonder what the media would have to say about that.
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Date: 2007-12-30 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-30 07:23 pm (UTC)Personally, I think that what a politician does in his private life should remain private (as long as it isn't connected to corruption or any other behaviour that could damage the country he's supposed to be serving). I much rather have a politician who, when it is discovered that he has a mistress, tells the press it's none of their concern than one who tells everyone and their grandmother before they even asked about it.
It does look like trying to turn the attention away from his actual work record.