FFW - the social bit

[karohemd]

Thursday evening I took many trains to arrive in Brighouse at 22:35 (as scheduled), wandered down to the Old Ship and had Liberal Drinks with miss_s_b, her dad, innerbrat, matgb and someone whose name I don't remember. After closing time, we headed to miss_s_b's for being enthusiastically greeted by the mad dogs of the house, a bit of chat and then an early night.

Friday morning I stopped being able to sleep rather early (a combination of the usual first night in unfamiliar surroundings and the bright light in the morning) so I went downstairs and joined innerbrat in playing LEGO Batman on the wii. After a quick breakfast, matgb kindly gave us a lift into Bradford (parking turned out being cheaper than bus tickets for everyone), we picked up our passes and had to wait for a bit for the first film because Bradford had just been declared Unesco City of Film and the announcement was made at the NMM. We also ran into the usual suspects from the Brit Horror forums.
After Flash Gordon we parted ways as we watched different films, around 10 I had late dinner at Omar's (the largest Naans in Yorkshire and they're not lying), being joined by the BritHorror crowd and then reconvened with SB and the other lot for the fun midnight showing of Shaun of the Dead. Home and sleep.

Saturday morning we went in quite early as we wanted to see the Short Films (which were very good, more in my film post). Dinner was at the Love Apple where I had some lovely griddled halloumi and then quickly back for the highlight of the day, Aliens in 70mm. No midnight film so we drove back and relaxed at SB and Mat's.

Sunday was another early morning which I started with Gnaw, being joined by the others for Call of Cthulhu. Had lunch with innerbrat at the lovely Vegetarian Indian buffet (really tasty dishes, one with chickpeas and paneer, the other was a veg jalfrezi. I didn't have the sweet potato one but innerbrat did, the fried starter bits were great as well, just the dessert was a bit too sticky for my taste (but lovely and cinnamony). Back to the NMM for a bit of wander around before I left innerbrat in the TV section and watched Terminal Man.
After that I listened to Mike Hodges (director of Flash Gordon, Terminal Man, Get Carter etc.) being interviewed by Tony Earnshaw which was really good and funny and I was a bit sad I had to leave before the end because I had a ticket for Star Trek at the IMAX (which was big and actually a bit too big for my taste, despite sitting rather far back).
After a nice bottle of Black Sheep and a muffin at the bar, we parted ways again, me to watch Suspiria and the others for Scar Crow with a Q&A session with cast and crew afterwards (which took quite long to finish).
Back in Brighouse, SB cooked up some fine pasta with tomato sauce and a leaf salad which was a nice end to the weekend.

Monday I got up, packed, had a quick breakfast, sad goodbye to hosts and other houseguest, wandered down to the station in glorious sunshine and had perfect train connections to Cambridge. Went shopping (which will be cooked soon) and caught up with stuff online. I really don't want to go to work tomorrow...

Comments

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Omars is awesome. I've eaten there a few times when I've been to the Bradford Animation Festival. They also do the Curry and Quiz Night in there.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I first went there two years ago when I was in Bradford for Infest. I was hungry and it looked interesting. I also got a HUGE jug of mango lassi for next to nothing then (now they do glasses for more money).

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a curry in London yet that matches the awesomeness of the ones in Bradford and Manchester.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Bradford has a huge Indian community and you also see a lot more southeast Asians in traditional dress than elsewhere. The veg buffet was also good in the way in that Debi and I were one of two white tables while the other three or four tables were Asians.