I’m such a nerd
I hear tell there was some sort of sporting event last night. Me? I was wrapped up in some powerful 1957 Soviet cinema. Good stuff.
Lots of good stuff this weekend actually. Friday night I watched a DVD called The Lathe of Heaven. It was an apparently acclaimed sci-fi novel that PBS made into a movie. It did have some interesting Taoist inflections, illustrating how taking well-meaning action can sometimes do more harm than good, and accordingly how the best course is frequently to let the course run itself. I may have to make a point of reading the book now.
Saturday afternoon I was at the Belcourt for High and Low, for which I must echo Gandalf’s high praise.
Then Saturday night it was the Nashville Opera performing Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet. I didn’t go in with the highest of expectations, I figured — OK, well, it’s Romeo & Juliet, it’s bound to be thin & sugary and utterly unsubstantial — but no, it was fantastic. The music was mesmerizing and breathed life into the overexposed story. Of course I’ve now taken in two musical adaptions of the play in under a month, which should probably be enough for a while : )
I’m like you, I think I would have had low expectations for Romeo & Juliet too. But it sounds like it was really good, now I wish I’d seen it!
Nerd? Nah. Sounds more like “reaissance man.”
How weird — that ’s the second time I’ve been called that in a week! It’ll go to my head if I’m not careful … perhaps I should humbly suggest ‘dilettante’ may be more appropriate : )