bencurthoys




I'm doing 6 things
  

bencurthoys's Life List

  1. 1. write a book and have it published
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  2. 2. Run a marathon
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  3. 3. Complete therapy
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  4. 4. Read Ulysses
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  5. 5. Go hang gliding
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  6. 6. deal with my feelings
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learn to sing (read all 2 entries…)
I think I can tick this now 1 year ago

Having sung Kareoke a couple of times without wanting to slit my throat afterwards.

I’ve been having lessons with Ed at VoxBox – http://www.singing-lessons-london.co.uk/ – and he’s been great.

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Climb Mount Kilimanjaro (read all 2 entries…)
Untitled 1 year ago

physically, the hardest thing i’ve ever done. i seriously wanted to curl up and die there several times, just in order to avoid taking another step.

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Go and see "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"
text & subtext 2 years ago

There were a few elements that I found interesting. The film opens with an interior shot of an aeroplane. All of your film instincts are telling you that this is a heroic bombing raid. The planes dodge the flack, and it’s only slowly that the sound of German voices filters through and you follow the bombs out of the hatch and down onto London, and you realise that these are the bad guys. You feel a passing wave of guit for having rooted for the German bombers, and then can begin to identify with the real heros.

Later, in the final battle between good and evil, the good guys have air superiority. The eagles and the hippogryffs carry huge boulders on ropes, and bomb the baddies with them. Everyone cheers, and the reversal echoes the inital bombing raid, adding a hint of complexity to the black and white morality of the text.

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