V for, well, whatever

[sawyl]

Damning review of the movie version of V for Vendetta in yesterday's Guardian. Just goes to show Alan Moore's foresight in refusing to have anything to do with it...

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[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

Fancy a concert this evening ? ( Vaughan Williams & Telemann )

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

While I like VW and Telemann, I totally abhore the Tchaikovsky symphony programmed along side, so I think I'm going to have to pass. I don't what it is about PIT's symphonies, but I find them totally unbearable...

[(Anonymous)]

That's funny I kind of guessed that you did not like Tchaikovsky.
Nevermind it's too cold to spend the evening in a church anyway...

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

That's funny I kind of guessed that you did not like Tchaikovsky.

S weird. Tchaikovsky is my total musical blind spot — practically the only one of his compositions I like is the violin concerto. I can listen to stuff by most other composers I'm not totally super keen on, like Sibelius (I'm very much a Mahler man), and see the merits and realise that it's prolly my fault that I don't totally adore it, but Pyotr Ilich just leaves me feeling mildly nauseous...

Nevermind it's too cold to spend the evening in a church anyway...

Totally. It's cold enough to bring to mind the quote from Confessions of Justified Sinner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Memoirs_and_Confessions_of_a_Justified_Sinner) where, when threatened by a preacher with hellfire and damnation, two students turn around to him and say, "We could do with some Hellfire to warm us up" or something, whereupon there follows a long discussion about how hell is actually both hot and cold at the same time thanks to the total absence of God.