After traveling for over 20 hours yesterday, I have now managed to sleep for 15 hours. I think that may be the longest ever sleep. I now have this loud buzzing in my head that I think must be a reaction to the roar of the 'plane's engines for all that time.
Especially as the entertainment was so bad on Lufthansa, I was so grateful or the miracle of technology that is the video iPod.The films I can remember watching were -
Notes on a Scandal - Wonderful performances by Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and especially Bill Nighy.
Touching the Void - Great scenery, amazing story, but I was tempted to wonder why anyone would be so keen to volunteer to put themselves in so much danger. I'm not a risk taker in that way myself.
Holywood Ending - Poor Woody Allen having temporarily run out of ideas and, very unusually for Woody, it was too long.
Bullets over Broadway - I thought I hadn't seen this before , but as I got into this I realised I had. Some predictable ideas from Woody Allen but very enjoyable.
Orphans - Very bleak, but great all the same. The ripper had managed to get the subtitles stuck on the "on" position, so I had to have the subtitles that were put on the movie so the Americans could understand Glaswegian switched on all the time. They kept translating "fag" as "smoke".
Heartlands - No subtitles, despite the weird northern english accents. I only wanted to see this one as Mark Kermode said that this was one of the best uses of one of my favorite songs, Wreckless Eric's Whole Wide World, in a movie. It was a nice little low budget UK movie.
New York Doll (the Arthur Kane movie) - The only film I watched on the plane that I was knowingly watching for the second time. One of the saddest, most uplifting, most touching and most bizarre stories in the history of rock and roll. Arthur was a true gent and a much better bass player than he was ever given credit for. I'm still so sad he is no longer with us.
New York Dolls (the reunion gig) - Amazing they could be so good after not playing together for 29 years, only having a week of rehearsal and Arthur's bass only removed from a pawn shop a month before. Good old Morrisey for being the guy who got the Dolls back together again.
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