pedanther | Entries tagged with disney

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Fiction books
(anthology). Ocean
Ina R Friedman, Allen Say. How My Parents Learned to Eat
Ayano Imai. The 108th Sheep

In progress
Ben Aaronovitch. Moon Over Soho
Kim Newman. The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

Non-fiction books in progress
Barbara Sher, Barbara Smith. I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Kim Newman. Bad Dreams

Okay, it's been at least a week since the last guess, so I don't think we're going to get any more.

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This evening there was a concert to showcase the arts centre and the various local musical groups and activities. The line-up included a couple of bands, a couple of choirs, a music teacher solo and in a duet with one of her students, and various other solos, duets, etc. (I was in the brass band.)

It was nice enough, but I'm not sure how successful it was as a showcase - subtract the performers and their relatives, and there wasn't very much audience left over.

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This reminds me that I haven't written the entry I was planning to about the annual performing arts festival.
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The main part of the performing arts festival is the music sections, which take up a whole weekend, but there's also a drama section, which takes one evening a few weeks later.
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One of the reasons I went to the drama night this year was that the adjudicator was Raymond Omodei, who was Director-in-Residence at the Repertory Club for a few months this year. Adjudicating the drama night was one of the incidental things he did as Director-in-Residence. The main thing was directing a play, The Playboy of the Western World.

And there's a whole 'nother entry I could write about that, but I don't think I'll do it right now. This is long enough already.

Last Friday, Jim Henson was officially inducted as a Disney Legend. (Disney owns the Muppets now, of course, but even before that they had several fruitful collaborations, most famously probably Muppet*Vision 3D.) This report on the ceremony includes photographs and two videos: Brian Henson and Sesame Street's Leslie Carrara-Rudolph re-enact a skit from the old "Sam & Friends" days, and two familiar faces who haven't often got to work together sing "The Rainbow Connection".

[edited to add: Another video from the ceremony - includes a retrospective montage, the skit, Brian Henson's speech, and a deputation of Henson's offspring accepting the honour on his behalf]

This reminds me that I have a bunch of other Muppet-related links I keep meaning to post:

At Home with Animal

A collection of behind-the-scenes videos and extras - includes some extended and alternate scenes from The Muppet Movie

Behind the scenes at The Muppet Show (The scene being filmed here is one of my favourites in the series - if memory serves, I've already blogged the video of it in the past.)

Sesame Street art by Evan Cheng - a wide variety of Muppets in a wide variety of styles

I guess everybody's seen this already, but what the heck, I haven't reblogged it yet: Bohemian Rhapsody, Muppet style

Fiction books
JD Arnold, Rich Koslowski. BB Wolf and the Three LPs
Tim Powers. Earthquake Weather
Tim Powers. Expiration Date (re-read)
Anthony Price. Other Paths to Glory
JRR Tolkien. Smith of Wootton Major (re-read)
Robin Wood, Diana Harlan Stein. The Theory of Cat Gravity

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
(committee). Bless 'Em All: a pictorial history of St. George's College 1931-2006

In progress
Linda Gale. Discover What You're Best At

Abandoned
H Keith Melton. Ultimate Spy

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
JRR Tolkien. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son

Fiction books
(anthology). Batman Black and White volume 2
Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson, Will Blyberg. Astro City: Confession
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener. Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time
Warren Ellis, John Cassaday. Planetary: Crossing Worlds
Warren Ellis, John Cassaday. Planetary: The Fourth Man
Warren Ellis, John Cassaday. Planetary: Leaving the 20th Century
Warren Ellis, Darrick Robertson. Transmetropolitan: Lust For Life
Warren Ellis, Darrick Robertson. Transmetropolitan: Lonely City
Warren Ellis, Darrick Robertson. Transmetropolitan: The New Scum
Warren Ellis, Darrick Robertson. Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard
John M Ford. The Dragon Waiting
John M Ford. The Princes of the Air
Diana Wynne Jones. Enchanted Glass
Diana Wynne Jones. The Game
Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb. Cabaret
Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Jamie Grant. All Star Superman volume 1
Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Jamie Grant. All Star Superman volume 2
Dennis Palumbo. City Wars
Anthony Price. The Alamut Ambush
Steve Purcell. Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway
Osamu Tezuka. Astro Boy: Volume 3 (re-read)
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 007 (re-read)
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 008

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
Russell T Davies, Benjamin Cook. The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter
Paul Dini, Chip Kidd. Batman Animated

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Louisa M Alcott. Little Women

Fiction books
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener. Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War
Neil Gaiman. Absolute Sandman volume 3
Tanith Lee. The Dragon Hoard (re-read)
Alan Moore, Zander Cannon. Smax
Adam Rex. The True Meaning of Smekday

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
(none)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
S M Stirling. The Sky People

Just back from seeing The Princess and the Frog. I enjoyed it.

Unlike the last two big Hollywood films I went to see in the cinemas, I feel no urge to post in detail about what I think its good points are. I suspect that this is actually a sign that it's a better movie than they were.

It doesn't look like I'm going to find time to do a detailed Swancon report, so I should at least note some of the things I'd intended to write about:

* What I read on the train to Perth
* What I failed to avoid watching on the train to Perth
* My cunning plan to have fewer books at the end of the convention than at the beginning, and what became of it
* I had a picture in the art show (a personal first)
* I was on a panel (another personal first)
* It was a panel about why you should all be reading Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden Universe series
* Richard Morgan's guest of honour speech
* The King of the Copper Mountains
* Grant Watson's presentation on Walt Disney's animated feature films
* Why I went to the book launch for Jenny Blackford's The Priestess and the Slave, which I'd thought I wasn't interested in
* It wasn't because of the free ouzo
* Games I played for the first time (including Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game (we humans won, which I gather is not usual), Wings of War (I was the second pilot to shoot someone down, and the third to be shot down) and Rock Band)
* Games I played for the second time (Swancon Quidditch)
* Games I didn't get to play, but wanted to (