Yo ho ho

[tamaranth]

Have had a very nice week, mainly consisting of beach-time. (It's ten degrees cooler on the coast). Camber Sands has been covered with crowds, like ants swarming, but luckily there is enough space that we've never had to sit right next to loud, obnoxious families with small, screamingly sunburnt children. Especially glorious on Wednesday, when sea-mist rolled in over the sand and obscured much of the beach: people emerging like ghosts from the mist, etc, and goose pimpled flesh in the temporary pockets of Novemberish air.

Due to a traffic incident the other day, we ended up on the north Kent coast instead -- at Seasalter, where we found some water, some mud and some goats. The water was almost too warm to swim, but I persevered.

Last night I did the 'sociability' thing instead. Met up with ladymoonray and zoo_music_girl for dinner at Carluccio's (cinnamon icecream, delicious: fresh sardines, distressingly bony), followed by a walk around the dock (scene of the London Dragon-boat Races) to the multiplex at West India Quay to see Pirates of the Caribbean

The cinema would have been much more pleasant if they'd managed their usual over-chilling. But the film is massively entertaining, historically ridiculous provocative and nautically laughable adventurous. Johnny Depp in entirely OTT eyeliner! Orlando Bloom after some quality fencing lessons! Keira Knightley complaining about corsetry! Johnny Depp stole the show, though, with a deliciously camp swagger, and braids, and a peculiar West Country / Aussie accent. Almost a caricature and yet oddly convincing.

It's an extremely bloodthirsty film, reminiscent of Hollywood classics such as The Crimson Pirate (Burt Lancaster) but with more irony and post-modernism (heh): and the special effects worked a treat. And the plot was very like a sieve undemanding. Brain (and eye) candy.

Much, much funnier than Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World will be. And has more handbrake starboard anchor turns, too.

Question for today: Is it too hot to go to B-Movie? Is it, indeed, too hot to put on proper clothes and leave my shady, breezy home?

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

You should try Folkestone sometime (though not before next Friday as, shock, horror, I have a social life this weekend, and am working next week), complete with extra added kitten. It's very pleasant here today, with breezes and sea mist.I do not envy anyone in London; PK says the weather is foully hot.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Unless you're in an air-conditioned building, of course....

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

True, but everyone has to go outside sooner or later. I certainly appreciated the joys of aircon yesterday, mainly as I left the building and the atmosphere outside wrapped itself around me in the most oppressive fashion.