Random Musings - Day #137

UK Singles Chart
Black-eyed peas score their 2nd ever UK #1 with "Boom Boom Pow". Tinchy Stryder and L Roux both slip down a place to make room for the group whose other #1 was "Where is the love?"

Brandy Wrap-up
Found a good spectrum of reviews of the Brandy gig at the o2. In general, everyone is in agreement that Brandy's performance was great and the only real bad thing is the fact it lasted short of an hour, which certainly not used to a gig being so short. But apparently that the way it works in the states. Can also check out Brandy's twitter too.

Sparrow Heights
I'm still trying to figure out the play/comedy, Sparrow Heights was good or not. You know me, I'd like to try anything once and I got some very cheap tickets from lastminute.com but I decided to chance an off-west-end production at the Greenwich Playhouse.
It was completely off-the-wall from start to finish. The opening scene was someone flying a model airplane around the stage and I thought crap what the hell I paid for. Anyways after the initial shock, I settled down and some funny remarks, particularly saving General George Jeffrey Bungle and the sausage (which is essentially the plot). The acting was very good despite the plot being too simple and too many distractions but hey if it's categorised as comedy that's ok especially when it seems not to dissimilar to Allo Allo. The lead, Adam De Ville (who suspiciously looks like Anthony Head and has appeared on the Bill, played a captain who was forte was well drinks. He acted the part well, too well perhaps! I was also impressed with the talents of the sole lady in comedy, Carole Carpenter. She sung a very good German rendition of "Wind beneath my wings". One of her characters reminded me of Frau Farbissina from the Austin Powers movies.

Random Musings - Day #127

Brandy
I got a phone call from my sister. Her friend had bailed out due to sickness. So a ticket going a spare. Help a family member out and go to a gig at the same time. So off to the Indig02, we went to see Brandy perform. First up was a warm up act, who I thought was called 'S-stream' but I can't find them on google. Anyhow, Brandy didn't mess about straight into 4 songs including "Afrodisiac" and "What about us". She next did "Almost doesn't count" before a medley of her early stuff. Then some new material from latest album. But the best bit was perhaps when she got a guy from the audienc and serenaded him with the song, "Long Distance". I think this was the first leg of her tour. But she was very appreciative of the audience especially you read what's happened to her. The audience btw were standing throughout the show and Brandy's performance was pretty slick (let's not forget, she can act too). My only real gripe was that the show was too fast. It only lasted 55 - 60 minutes, which isn't good value for money. Brandy's performance just about makes up for it. After her set, she came back out to the audience, meet and greeted a few people, signed a few autographed and actually wanted to go up to the balcony!

Station Update
It's 2-1 to 'Closed' as today the ticket office at the local station was closed. Yesterday, it was open.

2.19 is not my favourite number
The FTSE-100 was up 2.19 pts today, which is nothing much. But that doesn't tell half the story. It opened 50 pts up and then went up. I had feeling it would go down so I put in a very small binary bet just to see what would happen (sell at 82). It didn't look good so I just ignored it until after lunch. When I did look it was only 60pts up and I thought it may go down, so sold again this time at 92). The market went down and about 15 minutes left it was down by 15pts. I had already hedged my bets by buying back at 59, earlier, to put me in a no-lose situation. However at close, it looked like it was down by only 7.73. I should have won but about 5 minutes after the close it jumped to finish above the previous close. I just wonder if that was fixed. It like someone scored a late goal to knock me out of the champions league final...