I have disappeared for a while ;) I've got so many things going on in my life at the moment that sometimes I wish one day had more than 24 hours. Halloween Soup!
It is good for you and for the bats, too! Bafta hosted a series of screenings of new Japanese films. I got a couple of free tickets from the Japanese Embassy for "Teacher and Three Children", by venerable director Kaneto Shindo.
I also got tickets for Mental, a documentary about mental illness in Japan, by Kazuhiro Soda. Both films were very good and I enjoyed them very much.
Royal Festival Hall. I was in for a treat...
A talk by Werner Herzog certainly means a big deal to me. I've been enjoying and admiring his work for something like 25 years!!! God, I'm getting old. I was 10 when I first saw "Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht".
He is a living legend yet very approachable and down to earth. Cool people are not stuck-up.
Very friendly and witty. A great mind, full of life and curiosity.
One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy. Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told. Eight for a wish, Nine for a kiss, Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss. Eleven for health, Twelve for wealth, Thirteen beware it's the devil himself.
Little girls, this seems to say, never stop upon your way, never trust a stranger friend, no one knows how it will end! As you're pretty, so be wise! Wolves may lurk in every guise! Now, as then, it's simple truth, sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!
Cool people are not stuck-up, exactly.
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