The Ballet

Took the Lads to see Romeo and Juliet at the Ballet in town. They were both pretty excited about it all and we went to the matinee showing at 2:00 on Saturday (ok it has taken me a while to get around to doing this). I must admit i was thinking ballet... this will be fun! But it was great and i think that the boys both enjoyed it as they managed to sit still for 2 hours of ballet and 2 x 15 min intervals. About 20 mins into the ballet Ben lent across to me and said in a loud whisper "They are NOT talking!". Afterwards we went across the the Belgian Beer Pub and had a Leffe Blond; which was very nice (its a beer!!) If you get the chance it is certainly worth checking out.

Tangerine Dream

Have been listening to a LOT of Tangerine Dream recently. I have been subjecting the children to it in the mornings when they are getting read for school. I mostly listen to thei music from what is called their Virgin period. It is actually when they were with Virgin records; i think that they were one of SirBranson's early signings. Ben likes it and Declan seems completely indifferent. At least they havn't had a psychotic episode from listening to it... I went to see them last time they were in Perth which was for the Festival in 1982 (hmmm how scary is that). Weird concert; no introduction or anoucement, they just wandered on with the house lights up and started and then wandered off again and an usher from the back yelled out that it was the intermission! At the end they did 3 encores then about 20 minutes are most people left they came back on and played for another half an hour to about 5 people who were still chatting in their seats! Anyway looking for some "interesting" music check out Straosfear or Phaedra as their best works.

Classical Accordian

Went with Mum to see a chap, name escapes me, and the ACO (Australian Chamber Orchestra) in concert. His claim to fame is that he is a classical accordian player. A real Accordian too! not a piano accordian like mine, this has truckloads of little buttons and looks tricky! He played some amazing stuff including the amazing leibratango that Grace Jones nicked for her album from long ago. THe ACO were also excellent. I must admit that Richard Tongetti is just an stunning violin player. He is just soooooo much better than any of his excellent team. If you get a chance to see them it really is worth it. I am not a huge classical music person but they really are great. Had to go to their web page at www.aco.com.au to get the Tongetti bit right and the name of the Accordian player is James Crabb. He is scottish but live in Denmark and has a very short haircut. While i was sitting at the Concert Hall in Perth last night i was thinking back to all of the strange and varied concerts i have seen there: Tangerine Dream, Sky, Juilan Bream, Luka Bloom, Julian Weir, Winton Marsalis, Acker Bilk, Ofra Harnoy, The Vienna Boys Chior, Christie Moore, p.j.harvey, Mary Black; mum and dad even tried taking us to the free inugrial concert (along with about 7,000 other people -- we didn't get in). I suppose Perth being so small with a limited number of venues you do get a farily diverse usage of one place... Rose has never liked the architecture but i don't mind it really -- it is fairly unique and i suppose i am used to it now!

Cake Stall

Well the oldest lad is off to school today to do his Cake stall to raise money to sponser a child through World Vision. There seems to be a lot of enthusasim with his classmates; which is lovely. I think that his teacher has found his group a bit challenging recently and is using it to focus their efforts onto something more constuctive. It does bring back very vague recolections of school in Suffolk and raising money for Bangledesh or somthing... There have been a lot of beers between there and here!

The Ball

The work Ball was on on Saturday night... It was actually quite fun. It was held at AQWA (the Aquarium of Western Australia http://www.aqwa.com.au/main.asp) and a bus was provided from Fremantle. We got to have a bit of a look around the Aquarium before we embarked upon the alcohol... The band were better than last year but still insist on playing rather MOR stuff from the 70's. (no Emerson Lake and Palmer unfortunately...) Actually amusingly on this Blog in the about the Blogger section you get to add the music that you like and films and all the usual stuff. I doubt if anywbody ever goes and has a look apart from the time i checked to see if it had appeared there. I noticed that the bands are setup as links. I thought that the links probably took you to Amazon or somebody in attempt to sell you the album. But no! It takes you to a list of people who also choose that band! I was a bit surprised when another ELP devotee is a housewife from Texas. Not that i have anything against housewives from Texas (they can almost certainly spell better than i can) but i sort of expected them to like Johnny Cash or Lyle Lovett... But there you go you should never pidgeon hole people!

Firewalls... Grrrrrr....

Well i was going to try and put some photographs of some fun things on this site or tied to it in some inexplicable way but as i cannot get the software to do that to either handle proxies or it may want a port that the firewall scorches off then you are not going to see too much... and i had my personality profile output and it was so dull so i was sure that the rest of humanity was probably screaming out to read it!! Nevermind i will try it from home and see if we have a bit more success there...

...and in the beginning

Hello welcome to the Hotblack Desiato Blog Page... This isn't my name it is just here to protect the depraved... Well lots of fun at the moment as the site of interest is scientology.org and doing your own personality profile and haging it on the wall... A friend of mine from a lot of years ago and now resident in London has a Masters in Phsycology. He did his Masters thesis on personality profiling and deriving that sort of information from questionairs. He walked backwards and fowards down King st in Perth till he got invited in to do the profile and got one that whould have made L.Ron Hubbard proud. After they had told him that he was the man for them he told them that he was a professional Personailty Profiler and they went mad and scremed at him and told him to leave... Well trot of there now, to the profile, print out the results and hang them on the wall and discuss with workmates...
P.S. If any of the spelling in here is wrong bad luck i am an engineer...