Saturday, May 03, 2025

momentous events

I'm not being glib. Labor won the election tonight in a landslide, unbelievable, I loved it, I am still a bit stunned by the whole thing.


I mentioned a few days ago the death of David Thomas but not the death of Gerard Kennedy. Obviously this impacted on me as he has been decidedly very prominent in my life over the last year. I am about three episodes from the end of the series (GK was only in two of the final 3!). Will definitely get around to watching these this week, will report back. 

Laura and I went to the German Film Festival screening of the first five episodes of Berlin Alexanderplatz (and we are going to see the rest of them over the coming weeks). Pretty extraordinary, but some parts preposterous, but others marvellous. I love a wallow. 


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