A day off

At long last, a day off.

The things I ever planned to do you wouldn’t believe. Largely these things focussed around cleaning, grooming, shopping, and eating.

What actually happened was a breakfast out with Cornflake, a quick visit to my studio to pick up stuff that as it turned out was all at home all along, coffee with Saucy, followed by an afternoon on the sofa.

I’ve not been to the park for weeks, the ducks must think I’ve flown south or something but the weather was so awful that the sofa and movie plan was put into place.

I found a movie that I fancied for £3.99 on iTunes. Half the dialogue is Russian but there’s no subtitle option. You obviously have to pay top dollar if you want to know what’s being said.

The film was about Rudolph Nureyev, the days that led to his famously dramatic defection at a Paris airport. There are some great dance sequences and they manage to convey the idea that he was an equal opportunities shagger, gender, age or nationality being no barrier to a sexual encounter.

The main problem with the film was always going to be, not the language, but that Nureyev was not going to be the real Nureyev. Cornflake says the dancer who plays him is probably technically better than Nureyev. Cornflake had seen him dance towards the end of his career, he says he had the most extraordinary stage presence, was completely mesmerising but that by then his technique was shot. Cornflake would know he was a dancer himself. He lived in New York in the 70’s and trained for a while at the Dance Theatre of Harlem. It was a sadness to him that he wasn’t going to be a great dancer, he came to it too late to be Baryshnikov. This sadness however was nothing to the heart break he felt when he realised he would never sing like a Temptation. Dennis Edwards had his voice and refused to give it up.

Anyway, I googled Nureyev to compare the actor to the real man, the actor is handsome but Nureyev was so very beautiful. Shockingly in google images there is a picture of Nureyev naked.

How he managed to fit all that into his tights tidily is beyond me.