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Good conversation and good food
I've had an excellent day. First ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quarryquest rang me, all the way from the other side of the world! I'm so stoked. I feel very isolated down here, and it was wonderful to talk to someone. We chatted for about an hour about Blake's 7, the filming locations, Michael Keating, Gareth Thomas, cons, London, how we try to get inside our characters, how memory works...
Then I went out for lunch, to a really cool place called Palazzo Roma. It's 30kms out of the city, in a small agricultural industrial area. The restaurant's in a warehouse attached to a company called Phoenix Italia who make replicas of Roman and Greek statues and columns etc for the garden. It's a symbiotic relationship: one attracts customers who go to the other. The restaurant has all this wonderful Roman stuff set up inside--vine-covered columns, stone benches and tables, statues of artfully-posed people, dressed or not--and serve top Italian cuisine. It's such an odd place to find such high quality food. I had artichoke hearts and caramelised onions, parmagiano reggiano gnocchi, and for dessert, raspberries and [mmmm] crème brulée, my favourite. Yum!
On the way home we went into a bookshop and found the complete Farside collection--every cartoon Gary Larsen ever produced (about 4000) in two massive tomes. They're in chronological order and I'm rationing myself to 6 months a reading.
quarryquest rang me, all the way from the other side of the world! I'm so stoked. I feel very isolated down here, and it was wonderful to talk to someone. We chatted for about an hour about Blake's 7, the filming locations, Michael Keating, Gareth Thomas, cons, London, how we try to get inside our characters, how memory works...Then I went out for lunch, to a really cool place called Palazzo Roma. It's 30kms out of the city, in a small agricultural industrial area. The restaurant's in a warehouse attached to a company called Phoenix Italia who make replicas of Roman and Greek statues and columns etc for the garden. It's a symbiotic relationship: one attracts customers who go to the other. The restaurant has all this wonderful Roman stuff set up inside--vine-covered columns, stone benches and tables, statues of artfully-posed people, dressed or not--and serve top Italian cuisine. It's such an odd place to find such high quality food. I had artichoke hearts and caramelised onions, parmagiano reggiano gnocchi, and for dessert, raspberries and [mmmm] crème brulée, my favourite. Yum!
On the way home we went into a bookshop and found the complete Farside collection--every cartoon Gary Larsen ever produced (about 4000) in two massive tomes. They're in chronological order and I'm rationing myself to 6 months a reading.
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Me too! I just need to get a job.
Lovely icon, btw.
It reminds me of a B7 party I hosted in which quite a lot of the home-video footage was filmed through a glass of Generic Green Beverage / A&S. The effect was christened 'Vilacam.'
Love it! We drink A&S sometimes (well, when we're in the mood). OK, it's really green sambucca. It tastes of minty liquorice, but it's the right colour and alcoholic too--Vila would love it! You can only cope with one small glass at a time though.
Artichoke hearts and caramelised onions sounds delicious!
They were! Sweet little whole baby onions, mean aren't I?
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BTW that Vila is from a set of B7 S4 collectors' card I got incredibly cheap in a mixed lot from an ex-B7 fan here. I scanned them all a while back, so if you want the others (I see you have some--the Vila at least) I can send them to you. They're all posed with their guns except for Servie who's drying her fingernails.
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