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...I am already looking forward to december 12th when the J. W. Waterhouse exhibition will start in the Groninger Museum: J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite (12/12/2008 - 03/05/2009). I would love to see The Lady of Shalott in real life - and real size - for that matter.
Last saturday we went to Groningen to see the Russian Fairytales exhibition, I can recommend it to everyone, it was absolutely wonderful. If you decide to go, do so on a weekday, we went during the weekend and the museum was packed. We literally stood in line in order to see the paintings. Of course, everyone is entitled to watch the paintings and to study them as long as they desire, but people, please! If you have a rollator AND the media-tour do not pointedly place your rollator directly in front of a painting, sit down and calmly start listening to what the thingy has to say about the painting WHILE ACTUALLY SHOWING YOU SAID PAINTING IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL, ok? PLEASE move your rollator and your media tour to a corner, listen and watch as long as you please and THEN make your way to the desired painting, the line really will move faster this way and young and healthy people can watch the paintings without almost knocking you over. (As a sidenote - the mediatour was actually really cool, you received an iPod-like device with headphones, and as you listened to the tour, the paintings and additional info would show on the screen!)
On the way home we listened to the stories on the cd that came with the catalogue :)
Finally, as everyone else already posted: Heath Ledger died.
Sean texted me at midnight to tell me, I was already asleep but immediately called him, barely awake, to ask HOW? I mean, it's not like I was a big fan, but somehow he seemed a very decent, nice, thoughtful and sensible young man, judging by the diverse roles he chose to play. I am looking forward to seeing him as the Joker (even though the pictures scare the hell out of me - but then again, I am easily scared). Either way, I was, and still am, shocked to hear about his sudden death.
