Once upon a time, when I was much littler than I am now (in more ways than one), I watched an episode of The Twilight Zone where a man is fascinated with a dollhouse in a museum. He sees the inhabitants as real people, while to everyone else they are just dolls. The details of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Accompaniments’
Entering the twilight zone…
Posted in Inspirational, tagged Accompaniments on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Accompaniment – Life on Mars Season One and Two
Posted in Restoration, tagged Accompaniments on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Love this show…highly recommended. I managed to overcome my distaste for 70′s fashion, 70′s police procedural and 70′s interior decor (how many patterns can you have in one room?) to fall utterly in love with this show. I have no doubt the US version will be a pale imitation reversed in a mirror which you’re [...]
Accompaniment – The Trouble with Harry and Life on Mars Series One
Posted in Restoration, tagged Accompaniments on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While I sand, saw and paint madly away, I watched the Trouble with Harry and then took a break from the wonderment of Alfie with some John Simm goodness in the first series of Life of Mars. TTWH is ok – it’s at the more humourous end of the Hitchcock spectrum. It has alot of [...]
Accompaniment – Vertigo
Posted in Restoration, tagged Accompaniments on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nother Hitchcock masterpiece down, 8 more to go. Last night’s effort was Vertigo. Well worth seeing – not in the least because it contains Jimmy Stewart, a man second only to Paul Newman in the scale of classic Hollywood hotness (Brad Pitt eat your heart out). The twists were really good, seeing the landmarks of [...]
Accompaniment – Shadow of a Doubt and Rope
Posted in Restoration, tagged Accompaniments on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two Hitchcock movies from the masterpieces box set, Shadow of a Doubt and Rope. Rope is based on a play which was, in turn, based on the real life Leopold and Loeb killing in 1924. This subject matter was also covered in the film Swoon – just so you know. I really liked Rope – [...]
Accompaniment – Frenzy
Posted in Restoration, tagged Accompaniments on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s now cool enough for me to sand, so I am sanding while working through a box set of Alfred Hitchock’s masterpieces. First stop – Frenzy. Not bad at all – excellent time capsule of early 70′s central London fashion. Hero is totally irritating and unlikable…part of the point, though.
Accompaniments – Amercian Gothic
Posted in Restoration, tagged Accompaniments, dollhouse on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m multi-tasking why I do my stripping (in a purely 1:12 sense), sanding and puttying. I can put a tv series on and tune in and out – provided it’s not to engrossing or cerebral. Currently watching: Amercian Gothic. I never saw it when it was broadcast in Oz and saw it for $25.00 (includes [...]
