Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bambi B (A) on October 09, 2006 at 20:05:48

In Reply to: Thanks for your reply...was just curious as to your reasons and thoughts on the matter...you're 6'2"? posted by TWB on October 9, 2006 at 16:49:42:

TWB,

Yes, 6'2". Actually, the Dutch are currently the tallest people in the World, the average Dutch Woman is 6'1" and men 6'3". When I'm in Amsterdam, I feel delightfully petite!

The Sound at Disney Hall: In my only three visits- a small sample, I did hear good sound and have legroom on one occasion, and that's when I sat right in front of the stage and was hearing the sound very directly. -This cost almost $90. On the sides and too far back, the sound to me is atrocious and for a particular reassn: I hear a lot of detail, but it's all from the audience: coughing, programme rattling and someone taking something out of a wrapper. I can hear these noises from completely across the hall and it's far too distractingly powerful. The sound heard from the performers may still be quite refined, but if it's penetrated and overwhelmed by coughing and wrapppers- it's not much use. And after probably 2000+ live performances in my lifetime and playing three instruments, I'm quite good at concentrating on music while cutting out extraneous noises.

The Getty Malibu: The Malibu Getty Roman villa copy is so delightfully goofy in concept, I really liked it. The amusing part is that it was orignally placed backwards with the entry facing into the hill and the "back garden" facing the Pacific. You entered by parking in a dim, industrial underground car park with the air conditioning ducts and suddenly rose into the back of a mosaicced and muralled topiary garden and went back suddenly 20 centuries. It was so shocking a contrast, I used to think it was deliberate Post-Modern irony. So, you came in the back door could see the Getty's famous multi-million Dollar fake Kouros.

I tried to visit for the first time since the reopening for this past weekend, but it's all booked up. I understand the entry is redone to enter from the proper front of the villa and towards the Ocean. The restaraunt has been removed to make this entry more open, and I think there's an impressive new amphitheatre round the back. I'm anxious to see it- from descriptions, the docents yuo spoke to are accurate- it must have resolved all the strange aspects of the old layout.

My late friend Dennis Kurutz was the original landscape designer for Emmet Wimpole and even in it's goofy original form, because of the setting and landscape, it was always a treat to visit- very serene. I am frankly not overly interested in Classical sculpture and ceramics, but I am with Egyptian stuff and those are the nearest Phaoronic objects to me. I live at the mouth of Topanga Canyon and can zip over the hill to the Getty in about 20 minutes. -See you there!

Cheers,

Bambi B