Classical Notepad

FAMILY/WIFE friendly

YRADIER trans Tárrega: La Paloma - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 432 102) (guitar on its own)

FAMILY/WIFE UNfriendly

Ries

SAINT-SAËNS



TOMASEK: Piano Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 20 - Jan Simon (pno), Prague Radio SO/Vladimír Válek (Supraphon SU 3819) SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Glenn Gould (pno), American SO/Leopold Stokowski (Sony SM3K 52632)

When I can't think what movies to get

at www.fatso.co.nz Rabbit proof fence

and some others...

Courtesy of someone over at linuxformat.co.uk :

As for movies, I've watched at least 400 films over last 6 years, and probably only would watch every 20th or so again.

Again, possibly not everyones taste, but Sin City, Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs, Cloverfield, Sideways, Touching the Void, Goodnight and Good Luck, Bourne, Layer Cake, The Departed, Everything, Final Cut, Dog Soldiers, Charlie Wilsons War, Dogma, The Painted Vail, Enron, Michael Clayton, Darkness Falls (Ray Winstone, not recent horror of same name), Lost in Translation, Pursuit of Happiness, Vanilla Sky, The Boiler Room, Thankyou for smoking.
All of these, imho, were a break from the norm when they came out.

But moreover, other countries are good place to look, they genuinely do things differently:
Tell No One, Assembly, Days of Glory, 9th Company, House of Flying Daggers, The Lives of Others.
All fantastic.

Shaking and shaking some more

Ok, so it wasn't THAT big a shake - but big enough after all these recent Pacific ones !

What to do with cabbage (creatively)

Heat oil (the current fashon is grape seed oil - although I think i prefer sunflower - but harder to get).
Add garlic finely chopped (or squished) and
chopped cabbage thrown in, some seeds - I used pumpkin and sunflower (there's that sunflower again!)

Wilt it down a bit - rough s&p (I always have a little left from last time in the pestle)

Yum.

This one I cannot claim as my own, and I have not yet tried it..

bugger - can't find the paper it was in.. Yesterday's Dominion I think

The short version is to fry thinly sliced brussels sprouts with garlic and slivered almonds (much like my recipe!! now that I think about it - and perhaps why I noticed it).
The article was part of a promotion to get ppl over their childhood hatred of boiled-to-mush sprouts (which I actually like - as I was NOT forced to eat them!)