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Tonight's beer is Weltenburger Kloster Winter-Traum. A nice little wintery beer, decent fruitiness on the nose, slightly bitter aftertaste, but that could also be the sauna and changes in temperature in me. Oh yes, as I decided to warm up the sauna, this was then also my sauna beer. Perhaps not the most suited for, but all in all, I liked this little easyly-drinked darkish winter beer.
Today's book is Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
PC Grant is a young policeman, who happens to interview a peculiar witness in a murder investigation. The witness in question is a ghost. Soon Grant is whisked on a journey where he joins the magical mystery police department, lead by the last wizard in Englan, Detective Inspector Thomas Nightingale. Solid, well-written and genuinely interesting little urban fantasy with nice creatures and beings, especially them rivers as gods. Cracking stuff. Recommended.
As the beer was good and the book even better, I thought that the film of the day should be best. And it is. The film of the day is Shooting Party (1985). Based on a novel of the same name, it tells of an age soon gone, as a group of lords and ladies are invited to participate in a partridge massacre shooting in 1913.
Great ensemble cast with James Mason (in his last role), Edward Fox (BRILLIANT!), John Gielgud and host of others talk and shoot and talk some more and the shoot even more. It is a bravura script, with hints of the impending end of an era. Proper class divide, sumptuous locale and chilling end: simple, yet effective and oh so evocative. Am amazed that they haven't done this as a six-part tv-series yet, as it is JUST what the British TV is currently churning out, for better and for worse. Hightly recommended.
The song is Don't Stop the Dance by Bryan Ferry Orchestra from the album Jazz Age. Now, the most elegant artist in the pop music clearly has a love for the age roughly around the time of the Shooting Party (give a decade or so and a bit less Edwardian). Bryan Ferry has written and performed tons of classic songs and this one is at the same time truly Ferry as well as truly Jazz. Thanks to Tapani Bagge for the last one.
Eating Muffins 