I blame
Stanley Kubrick
for my obsession with movie action choreographed to excellent music. I was only 15 when my second sister smuggled my third sister and I, both under age, into North Ryde drive in picture theatre (do you remember those?) to see "R"-rated
A Clockwork Orange
based on the novel of the same name by
Anthony Burgess
, a novel I would study a few years later in high school (and about which I could brag to my friends that I'd seen the movie). Maybe it was because I was at that hormonal and impressionable age, but the scene where young Alex, truanting from school, has wild sex ultra-fast to
Rossini's
William Tell
overture might have been the first pique to my interest.
Header pic is Kata-Tjuta seen from the politically incorrect top of Uluru in
Uluru-Kata Tjuta N.P.
Northern Territory, a UNESCO
World Heritage Site. Note the water on Uluru following recent rains.