Overall, a wonderfully relaxing, enjoyable long weekend. It really feels like I've had a short holiday.
Films:
Spirited Away
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cowboy Bebop
MST3K'd Manos, Hands of Fate
MST3K'd Space Mutiny
Charlies Angels 2
Friends:
On Friday, I saw Spirited Away with
Most of the weekend was spent enjoying the hospitality of
Sunday was more of the same inimitable and highly enjoyable mix of computer games, anime and films. In the evening we went out for food then saw Charlies Angels 2 (which after 3 pints and viewed as a comedy was OK, my critical faculties were successfully beaten into submission). I then took
Today I left Bracknell in mid-morning, got to London, broke my journey at Waterloo to walk down the South Bank in the sun, have a nice lunch and wander around the Tate Modern for a while. I was very impressed by a video installation by Bill Viola called Five Angels for the Millennium. I also noted as being good; various works by Anselm Kiefer, some Man Ray sculptures, a pillowcase by Jorge Macchi and the fairly well known Cold Dark Matter by Cornelia Parker. Looked for some posters for my living room, but didn't find anything I really liked from the cheaper ones (there was a nice £99 Jackson Pollock silk screen print).
To complete the anime theme of the weekend, I'm off to the Animatrix later with various people.