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Location: Canberra - in the ACT - SE Australia
Joined: January 30, 2002
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Went with Patricia (Trisha) and her sister, had a Turkish lunch before the movie, which I 'shouted.' Look it up.
Memorable day Friday, though Saturday was worse. Severe heatwave days, 40C plus and windy, so a good day to get to somewhere else. National power-grid nearing overload. Gov'ts asking folks to go to large 'energy efficient' venues, and turn home A/C off!
Turned the AC in the lounge/dining/listening room off. QUAD 63s off anyway. But left the WoHouse evap. ducted cooling going with every extractor fan running, 2 in kitchen, 1 laundry and 1 in bathroom. Left front security door avec Crimsafe mesh open, as it was in the lee of the house in relation to the WNW to NW winds. To exhaust the damp air. .......
Oh yeah, the Movie!!!??? I was mostly riveted. But I think you'ld need to be a big fan of Jackie herself, or a woman from that era to be deeply, deeply moved by the film, but I ended up admiring her courage all over again. Learnt some stuff about her.
Good movie to take your SO to, I'd reckon. Watching (Natalie Portman / Jackie) undress out of her bloodied, brain and bone spattered clothes that night back in DC in the White House was NOT sexy.
The device of having her talk to the reporter who wrote about her right after helped the story along IMO.
The standard of acting is very, very good, especially by Ms Portman.
Points of view?
Back in 1963? I was a randy tween 12? year old, a cathedral chorister (a RSCM student) and 'identified as bright' grade 7 staring High School when it all happened in Dallas.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, my wife was on a Dutch passenger ship crossing the Caribbean to Port Everglades in Florida! her family were on the way to the UK for her Dad's first long Sabbatical at U.Coll. London.
She would have been 14 when JFK died in 1963 and was coming BACK to Australia on a P&O ship via Suez, to the Royal Military College Duntroon in Canberra. Her sister Margaret and younger brother Ian were on the ship. Her Dad was Prof. of English there from end WWII.
So she's kinda 'imprinted' on cruising, and on JFK and Jackie. ;-)
I found out it was on nearby, plus heatwave, and Trisha bought the idea. We invited Margaret and it was a good half day out. I also bought/swapped the _right_ kind of Y-adaptor* cables for my multi-amped QUAD 63 based system, that is slowly coming together.
? Three SS stereo power amps for Summer - total power p.c. is 670 watts RMS. IE 1340 watts total. 63s plus four bass units in a 'Swarm' arc. All matt black. 2 by 2 *stereo bass. Uses passive line-level & active - giving asymmetric odd-order filters @ 150Hz.
Will use 1/3rd octave Eq and may add parametric. Until I can pay for ADC and DSP Eq, that is.
Trisha reckons the progress is 'glacial.' "Yes Dear!"
Should play pretty damn loud. Which brings us back to LOUD, and Mahler or Stravinsky.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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