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The first movie I saw as a child was 'Snow White'. I used to wake up with nightmares about the witch. The movie I remember best from my boyhood is Walt Disney's 'Fantasia'. I saw it three times. It waa probably my introduction to orchestral music. Leopold Stokowski featured as the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Tschaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite' with the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, etc; Night on Bald Mountain with the Devil on top covering his ears when the church bells pealed. At age 13 when at school in Hong Kong we went to see Laurence Olivier as 'Hamlet' in the film, with our Headmaster's instructive pre-viewing briefing, a wonderful introduction to Shakespeare. I'm not a frequent movie-goer: the most recent movie I've seen at the cinema is 'Australia' - spectacular with a good story line, but historically inaccurate.
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Eclectic: the old musicals; Gilbert and Sullivan; a rousing Souza march; folk songs; and classical music of all kinds, which I find myself listening to more than anything else on (Australian) ABC Classic FM. Not a jazz buff but like Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong.
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For lighter reading of the bedtime genre, am a fan of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, with an Edinburgh locale;I recently discovered the Aubrey and Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, beginning with 'Master and Commander' mad efamous by the film. Non-fiction I have read recently includes Charles Allen's biography of Rudyard Kipling,'Kipling Sahib', and Niall Ferguson's 'Empire- how Britain made the modern world'. I'm currently reading Khaled Hosseini's 'A Thousand Splendid Sons' and have started Diarmaid MacCulloch's 'A History of Christianity' the 1016 pages of which should keep me going!
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Light blue because it was my school colour and dark blue because it was that of one of my universities; magenta because, with black, it was the colour of a university college of which I was a member - and now is one of the three colours of ink, with cyan and yellow, that magically blend into every colour of the spectrum on a computer screen and, in the form of ink, for which our inkjet printers have and addictive thirst.
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Indian and Chinese,
especially Cantonese cuisine.
Also fond of Italian.
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My PhotoShare galleries used to give a pictorial insight into my life but unfortunately it has closed (the website, not my life :-) I will hopefully sometime get around to writing something about myself here.
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Swede ( the vegetable, not the people :-)
Debasement and impoverishment of the English language
by overuse and misuse of words like
'awesome' (applied to the trivial),
'showcase' (as a verb, instead of 'show off',
'exhibit', or 'demonstrate'),
and phrases like 'put in place' (instead of, e.g., 'arrange' or 'organise' or 'implement') and 'to be passionate about' when all that is meant is ' to be keen on' or 'to be interested in' something.
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Photography - still nostalgic for film.
Have scanned many old slides and archived to CD.
I have started writing a kind of family/personal autobiography but find it hard to make time for it. |
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