Fun at the Freak Show
27/01/2014 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaWhat a difference a day makes. The weather has gone from sizzling steamy 37 something down to a gorgeous pleasant and breezy 27 today. The old grey cells even got a bit twinkly as they recovered from the soul sapping miserable heat
The main serpent gossip is that the annual festival of freakiness that is Fringe World just started on Friday
It’s a four week feast of circus, cabaret, burlesque, comedy and assorted drama. It’s sort of like Halloween on steroids
And unlike the official city Arts Festival with all the capital letters and posh mining magnate sponsors, these folks not only keep the shows cheap but have lots of tickets on the day for half price or less. Needless to say there's more than a few shows that take the total piss out of some of these same mining magnates
Of course it’s not all sparkles and sequins and silver linings. There is one big fat grey cloud and this is the monumental stuff up that is the city centre road works and the public transport system
Gone is last year’s option of leaving a show at 11pm and having less than a ten minute walk to the bus station. Said station is being demolished some time this week and its replacement is a good twenty five minutes walk away in a creepy desolate part of town
So it looks like the serpent will have to slink back to the bus by 9.30 at the latest and then spend the rest of the evening catching up on various online course readings and assignments
Got two courses running at the moment and by mid February will have added Michael Starbird’s “Effective Thinking Through Mathematics” and “Fantasy and Science Fiction” which apparently has a massive pile of stuff to read.
So with the feast of art, books, cabaret and freak shows, there should be no excuse whatsoever for lack of serpent ideas for things to squiggle
Seen two shows so far and they were both very good.
One zany creation called “Hamlet and Juliet” had the mad (or not so mad) great Dane all set out to revenge his father. But that plan goes out the window when he meets a gorgeous girl who is a guest at his mother’s wedding. And the rest is a riot of twisted Shakespearean snippets, sleazy innuendo and all sorts of geekish allusions to scenes from assorted movies
Best of all was the decision to book for their other show which is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies and to take a chance on getting the mixed up lovers as a last minute ticket. Turns out the strategy to lure customers in is to have the long weekend sprinkled with lots of $5 specials. This show happened to be one of them.
Still slowly sifting through the big fat catalogue making a list and checking it twice. There’s just too much to choose.
So between visiting shows and catching up on Coursera readings and assignments, it’s likely the Izzie will not be lurking much in online journal land over the next three weeks
The main serpent gossip is that the annual festival of freakiness that is Fringe World just started on Friday
It’s a four week feast of circus, cabaret, burlesque, comedy and assorted drama. It’s sort of like Halloween on steroids
And unlike the official city Arts Festival with all the capital letters and posh mining magnate sponsors, these folks not only keep the shows cheap but have lots of tickets on the day for half price or less. Needless to say there's more than a few shows that take the total piss out of some of these same mining magnates
Of course it’s not all sparkles and sequins and silver linings. There is one big fat grey cloud and this is the monumental stuff up that is the city centre road works and the public transport system
Gone is last year’s option of leaving a show at 11pm and having less than a ten minute walk to the bus station. Said station is being demolished some time this week and its replacement is a good twenty five minutes walk away in a creepy desolate part of town
So it looks like the serpent will have to slink back to the bus by 9.30 at the latest and then spend the rest of the evening catching up on various online course readings and assignments
Got two courses running at the moment and by mid February will have added Michael Starbird’s “Effective Thinking Through Mathematics” and “Fantasy and Science Fiction” which apparently has a massive pile of stuff to read.
So with the feast of art, books, cabaret and freak shows, there should be no excuse whatsoever for lack of serpent ideas for things to squiggle
Seen two shows so far and they were both very good.
One zany creation called “Hamlet and Juliet” had the mad (or not so mad) great Dane all set out to revenge his father. But that plan goes out the window when he meets a gorgeous girl who is a guest at his mother’s wedding. And the rest is a riot of twisted Shakespearean snippets, sleazy innuendo and all sorts of geekish allusions to scenes from assorted movies
Best of all was the decision to book for their other show which is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies and to take a chance on getting the mixed up lovers as a last minute ticket. Turns out the strategy to lure customers in is to have the long weekend sprinkled with lots of $5 specials. This show happened to be one of them.
Still slowly sifting through the big fat catalogue making a list and checking it twice. There’s just too much to choose.
So between visiting shows and catching up on Coursera readings and assignments, it’s likely the Izzie will not be lurking much in online journal land over the next three weeks
