Finished with the 'F's

And my musical odyssey through my ipod continues...

Fables of the Reconstruction - REM
Falling off the Lavender Bridge - Lightspeed Champion
Fate - Dr Dog
Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
Feeling Strangely Fine - Semisonic
The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
Fiji Baby - Goodshirt
Final Straw - Snow Patrol
The Fine Art of Self Destruction - Jesse Malin
Fireboy - Grant McLennan
The First Days of Spring - Noah and the Whale
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
Five Roses - Miracle Fortress
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Float Away with the Friday Night Gods - Marah
Flowers - Echo & the Bunnymen
The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
The Football Factory Soundtrack
For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
For the Dead - Gene
For Today - Netherworld Dancing Toys
Forever Delayed - Manic Street Preachers
Forty Licks - The Rolling Stones
Forward March! - The Strange Death of Liberal England
Frank - Amy Winehouse
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Friends of Rachel Worth - The Go-Betweens
From a Basement on the Hill - Elliott Smith
Funeral - The Arcade Fire
Future Clouds & Radar - Future Clouds & Radar
Future Reference - Rhombus

The 'F's were a bit forgettable really - some old fave artists in there - Gene, Snow Patrol and The Go-Betweens. Stand out new listen for me was Future Clouds & Radar though - really enjoyed them. Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes are always good, and the Netherworlds were a bit of a blast from the past :-).

Crazy Heart

Went to see this - was very keen as it had both Jeff Bridges and country music. What a great combo!

And it was good - the music was great. Am def going to get the soundtrack. It was a film Mum would have liked - you knew exactly where it was going, but it was still enjoyable watching it unfold. Country singer, alcoholic, meets girl... and thats all I'll say.

The relationship between Jeff and Maggie G wasn't that convincing to me, but that would be my one minor quibble. Still a very good film, and one worth catching. Although probably equally good on DVD...

And a few films...

I've been making more of an effort to get out and see films actually at the cinema - instead of doing my usual waiting until they are out on DVD... So lately I've seen:

• Avatar: I went to see this as I was expecting it to mop up at the Oscars, and I thought I really should go and see it. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would and liked the 3D - although then it didn't win everything at the Oscars!
  
• Invictus: Very good - although Morgan Freeman still sounded like Morgan Freeman... But it did almost make me glad that South Africa won the world cup - almost!
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Having just finished the second book in this series I was curious to see how they would adapt the first book. But being a Swedish film as opposed to a Hollywood one, it was pretty close to the book, so some of the scenes were pretty disturbing. Which has meant it has been accused of focusing too much on the violence against women - not sure I agree with that. It was difficult to watch at times, but I've seen as bad in CSI and other horror movies.
• Alice in Wonderland 3D: I enjoyed this. Lots of the reviews have been quite critical, but I just thought it was a good visual adaptation of the story. Didn't really need to see it 3D I don't think, but it was still fun.
  

Henry Moore and a glass of wine

Met Nicola quite late on Saturday and we headed off to Tate Britain to go to the new Henry Moore show that has just opened. Quite unusual for me to get to an exhibition so early on - I'm usually seeing it right at the end!

It was very good - although I think I preferred seeing his sculptures at Kew Gardens. But still definitely worth seeing - and he really did seem to have a thing with a certain part of the female anatomy...

Afterwards we went for a drink at the Arch Duke - nice wee winebar very close to Waterloo. Turned into more than one, but it was a lovely way to end the outing!

Watching someone else's favourite band...

I went to see Power of Dreams with Kevin - I'd not heard of them, but had listened to them a bit on MySpace and thought they sounded quite good, plus it was at the Luminaire, which is a great venue.

It was a reunion for their 20th anniversary so there were some real die-hard fans there. VERY funny watching people go crazy as they recognised the next song - especially when you have no real idea of any of them!

Strange support band from Reading who had brought their own posse along - also diehard fans. Highlight of that bit was the 'topless dancing' - two quite tattooed young men taking their tops off and getting up on the stage to dance...