Charlotte Sometimes (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} painted_bird) wrote,@ 2008-04-10 10:27:00 |
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My Wednesday evening
Yesterday evening saw me heading off to the National Gallery late opening after work. Not been for a while, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Absolutely lapped up the room full of paintings of Venice, then spent a long time in front of Louis-Leopold Boilly's 'A Girl At A Window', which I'd never seen before - link to it here: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/colle
The cinema trip was somewhat interesting. Only I would manage to drag my friends out to see The Golden Compass at the Prince Charles cinema, and find out when we got there that I'd got the wrong night and an entirely, and I mean entirely, different film was showing instead. Yes, folks - rather than the Golden Compass, the film showing at 9pm was a rather bleak-looking, arty film in Turkish and German with English subtitles called Auf de anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven). My companions seemed less than impressed, and I must admit to having felt a little apprehensive myself, but we trundled into the cinema nevertheless... And, oh, what a happy accident! It was absolutely wonderful. It was about the craziness of the butterfly effect, it was about all those excruciating near misses in life that we usually don't even know about, it was - just go and see it. It's on every Weds evening for a while I think.
Yesterday evening saw me heading off to the National Gallery late opening after work. Not been for a while, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Absolutely lapped up the room full of paintings of Venice, then spent a long time in front of Louis-Leopold Boilly's 'A Girl At A Window', which I'd never seen before - link to it here: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/colle
The cinema trip was somewhat interesting. Only I would manage to drag my friends out to see The Golden Compass at the Prince Charles cinema, and find out when we got there that I'd got the wrong night and an entirely, and I mean entirely, different film was showing instead. Yes, folks - rather than the Golden Compass, the film showing at 9pm was a rather bleak-looking, arty film in Turkish and German with English subtitles called Auf de anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven). My companions seemed less than impressed, and I must admit to having felt a little apprehensive myself, but we trundled into the cinema nevertheless... And, oh, what a happy accident! It was absolutely wonderful. It was about the craziness of the butterfly effect, it was about all those excruciating near misses in life that we usually don't even know about, it was - just go and see it. It's on every Weds evening for a while I think.
