Pinging in from Osterreich
I’ve got a few entries in various stages I may post as soon as I make them into more coherent ramblings. The schedule has been much more compact than I initially thought. On non show days we’re traveling either by day or by air and that’s cutting my on ‘net time quite a bit. For wayward english speaking types (real english, not what those Brits speak) there is a bright side in late night TV viewing land. Daily Show International with Jon Stewart is on CNN International Sunday nights and Leno and Conan are on CNBC Europe nightly as well as US CNBC with the ever lovely “Money Honey” Maria Bartiromo. Then the local staples, Everbody Loves Raymond dubbed in German or Full House dubbed in Italian. We did kill some time on the bus through the Austrian Alps by watching the Brit box version of Python, specifically the Holy Grail. The extras are great, location tours with Jones and Palin. Except for The Castle Arrrghh, they used a single castle in Scotland as the set for all the other castles. And made the film for about 150k Brit Pounds at the time, nearly 30 years ago.
Luggage call in a bit, time to rush out and start a four show run and a pretty intense schedule for the rest of the week. Next week I’ll have a couple of days to kill in Haugesound, Norway. If anyone has any ideas on what to do up there, let me know. I sure hope we have broadband or 3G access.
July 22nd, 2005 at 7:48 pm
re: Holy Grail … does that box set have the scene where they dub the film in Japanese, then re-translate the Japanese back to English for the subtitles? Frickin’ hilarious!
July 23rd, 2005 at 11:44 pm
We couldn’t tell if those translation scenes were real of if Python were “just taking the piss”, as our driver likes to say. It’s hilarious, either way. The Camelot round table song with Lego figures is rich as well.