Author Archive: Peter Jakobsen
Julian, Man Up!
As Tim Minchin has impressed with his witty ditty, exhorting Cardinal Pell to fly back from the Vatican to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, perhaps he could now set this one to music? It concerns another prominent figure who refuses to break from cover..
Continue Reading →Random Killer Quotes
From diverse film sources: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” [Apocalypse Now] The lass at the publishing company wants to know how obsessive-compulsive misanthropist Jack Nicholson creates his female characters, to which he replies: “I think of a man. And then I take away reason, and accountability.” [As Good As it Gets] “Go sell crazy somewhere else. We’re all stocked-up here.” [As Good As it Gets] “Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand.” [Cool Hand Luke] “You’ve got to ask yourself a question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” [Dirty Harry] Parting note from a consummate con-artist:…
Continue Reading →12 Killer Quotes – The Godfather Saga
A colleague and friend suggested a bunch of lines from The Godfather saga: [Part I] Don Corleone to Buonasera: “You found Paradise in America, you had a good trade, made a good living, police protected you and there were courts of law. You didn’t need a friend like me.” Michael Corleone to Kay Adams: “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” Kay: “What was that?” Michael: “Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.” “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” Don…
Continue Reading →Torrie Gets Life
Torrie Osborn congratulated by Club President, Nick Chigwidden
Last evening at the Annual General Meeting of the Glenelg Football Club, the Board’s message rang out loud and clear: the Club has a debt and a revenue problem (like the country as a whole). It also has a problem with winning football games: the 1985 and 1986 glories are a long time ago and far, far away. But these challenges we welcome and the Board is being up-front, honest and appears determined to take them on. Furthermore, it is easy to forget how chaotic the start of the 2015 season was for the Tigers: a new coach not given…
Continue Reading →Valkyries
Painted by Emil Doepler
PREMIERE: 26 JUNE 1870 in MUNICH. It was done as a ‘stand-alone’ piece, not part of the Cycle, and reaction was mixed. But Wagner wasn’t going to allow 26 year’s worth of work down the drain and ultimately, as both part of the Ring cycle and alone, it stands atop the operatic ramparts. Discussion: February 10, 2016 at Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Performance: February 13, 2016 at Festival Theatre, Adelaide Die Walküre shows Wagner blossoming as musician and dramatist. In the words of Ernest Newman, “he abandoned himself luxuriously to the sheer joy of music-making, both enlarging the scale of his…
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