[kj] (OT) Natural disasters

[Brendan]

Cheers for the link...looks very interesting.

I might need to go to WGN shortly for a job interview, bit more contract
work there than AKL at the moment, and I have a friend I can stay with. I
need a bit of stoicism too, got served a Whopper Shit Meal with Extra Shit
(upsized, hold the flies, horse piss for the drink) earlier in the week so
I could do with some stoic reinforcement.

I'll try to hook up a tab and go along, let you know what happens ;)


> Hey brendan are u near wellington?

>  My sista is over there with this;

> http://www.nzfestival.nzpost.co.nz/theatre/cirque-ici

>

> below is review to get the taste buds flowing, things like 'throaty

> hiss-like snarl' might get you in appetite seeing as you r here for kj:

>

> Johann Le Guillerm is the director, sorcerer, ringmaster and designer of

> Cirque Ici and a wonder he truly is.  Looking like a dead ringer of Iggy

> Pop

> with his long stringy braids and attenuated, muscular body, he moves with

> a

> dancer's grace and the controlled dynamism of an acrobat. His face is

> impassive and the only sound he utters is a throaty hiss-like snarl. But

> from the moment he enters, prowling the stage in his long appliquéd coat

> and

> surreal, reptilian shoes and carrying a vicious looking whip, he both

> fascinates and repels, and for the next 100 minutes we are mesmerized.

> The audience is almost unnecessary - there is scarce interaction. It felt

> a

> little like watching a scientist in his laboratory, or an alchemist in his

> cave. But mischievious, clever humour is to be had a-plenty.

> As he overpowers carpet squares and metal wash tubs, and bends steel to

> his

> will, he turns the image of the macho, animal controlling ringmaster on

> its

> head and tramples it into the dust of history, where it belongs.

> The show starts slowly, but builds magnificently, until the last two set

> pieces, with the books and the planks of wood take your breath away, and

> you

> are a child again marvelling at the wonder of it all.

> But beneath the skill and the sleight of hand, the child-like audacity,

> the

> originality and the invention, there is a serious sub-text of stoicism in

> the face of adversity; of humankind's ability to overcome obstacles and

> endure, and the desire for simplification in these times of extreme and

> dangerous technology.

> See this extraordinary show. Guillerm is a true original. But take a

> cushion.

> Cirque Ici -Secret. Odlins Plaza. Till 16 March.

>

>

>

>

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> BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

>

> I can almost guarantee a Black Helicopter turned up shortly after, no? ;)

>

> "Why do the cops come, when you have some..." (Cypress Hill)

>

>> ooh, another short story!

>>

>> while in wellington a few years ago, after a small earthquake while

>> drinking at a friends, we all told tales of previous experiences.....

>> our gracious host told us how she was home one morning with her two

>> young kiddies... she had had a 'smoke' and was outside putting washing

>> on the line. suddenly she noticed that there was no noise, no birds,

>> no dogs, just stillness... she got all paranoid and budled the kids up

>> and sheltered under a doorway for ten minutes or so..

>> then she realised it was just a quiet day and sheepishly got on with

>> her chores! oh the laughter! (ya probably had to be there..) still,

>> good thinking to get the kids to safety...

>>

>>

>> =)

>>

>>

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>>

>> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been

>> postponed indefinitely..."

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