Mike Riversdale

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ----- 30th May, 2001 This is totally off the subject - but I need to share the heartbreak, the pain, get it off me chest - it's all good therapy. One of the things I have become used to over the past 18 months is saying hello and goodbye to many friends, cities, countries, loved ones……but the hardest and most heartbreaking of all was……my piano. You may laugh but it was a very cool piano. And I was quite attached to it. AND it was the largest and most valuable thing I owned (most people have cars or houses - me, I have a piano.) We first got together about oooh, three or four years ago when I went all musical and decided I wanted to start playing again. So thanks to generosity of a dear friend, I inherited an old upright(!!). Next I signed up for lessons with a mad but lovely music teacher - Olga. Now I wasn't exactly th

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them.

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ----- 22nd May, 2001 Would the real fiona.fraser please stand up? I was pretty appalled to learn that somebody posing as myself sent you lot a hoax email from fiona.fraser@telstra.com towards the end of last week. Have just laid eyes on the email ... it makes reference to a bunch of stuff that never happened, at a bunch of places I don't go to, and is written in a a style poorly imitating my own. (God help me if I ever use "Wow!" as a subject heading ...) Anyways ... I ask you all, if you are able, to block fiona.fraser@telstra.com from your email accounts and/or to disregard anything sent from this address in the future. I have somebody investigating the server path of the email on my behalf and I spoke to Telstra this morning to see what they can do about this abuse of their service. While I'd obviously pr

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ------ France, 1997 Directed by Claude Berri With: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Running length: 1hr 55 mins. This is from the same guy (Claude Berri) who brought us Jean de Florette & Manon des Source - the sumptuous 1986 family saga set in early 20th century Provence. You know, the one with Gerard Depardieu as a hunchback breeding rabbits, and the neighbours who try to stop him so they can have his land to grow carnations on. The sequel, Manon, brought Emmanuelle Beart - the blonde in the first Mission Impossible film - to our attention. I had no intention of covering Lucie Aubrac, except yesterday I took a punt on it at the local video shop, and when I fired it up on the old mitsubishi at home, I discovered to my delight that it was letterboxed! Letterboxing of videos & movies on TV is the subject of many rants on