It's day and then it's night
Rabbit, rabbit! I slept almost ten hours. I would not at all mind if this were the model for the year.
We had a relatively quiet New Year's Eve: ham and fondue with my parents. At the actual moment of midnight,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch and I were kissing while listening to radio from the Maritimes courtesy of Radio Garden. (Thanks, jesse_the_k!) I was a little sorry to have declined my mother's offer to lend me the conch I used to blow for eclipses and New Year's, but our neighbors across the street drummed for hours to make up for it.
I knew Anton Walbrook had starred with Renate Müller and Hermann Thimig in the original Viktor und Viktoria (1933), but I had no idea that he himself could sing. In fact he seems to have had an entire operetta career, in his first, Austrian stardom as Adolf Wohlbrück, before the whole Jewish queer thing necessitated a rapid relocation to England. I found out courtesy of this appreciative article, which also includes visual evidence of Walbrook in his stupidly hot youth when I can only imagine him leaving the house and causing traffic accidents and visual double entendres galore like Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It (1956). "Man steigt nach," performed with Lucie Mannheim, is also just very catchy.
lesser_celery has announced the table of contents for Past Tense, the upcoming annual not-NOU one-off. I am in it and, however paradoxically, looking forward.
We had a relatively quiet New Year's Eve: ham and fondue with my parents. At the actual moment of midnight,
spatch and I were kissing while listening to radio from the Maritimes courtesy of Radio Garden. (Thanks, jesse_the_k!) I was a little sorry to have declined my mother's offer to lend me the conch I used to blow for eclipses and New Year's, but our neighbors across the street drummed for hours to make up for it.I knew Anton Walbrook had starred with Renate Müller and Hermann Thimig in the original Viktor und Viktoria (1933), but I had no idea that he himself could sing. In fact he seems to have had an entire operetta career, in his first, Austrian stardom as Adolf Wohlbrück, before the whole Jewish queer thing necessitated a rapid relocation to England. I found out courtesy of this appreciative article, which also includes visual evidence of Walbrook in his stupidly hot youth when I can only imagine him leaving the house and causing traffic accidents and visual double entendres galore like Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It (1956). "Man steigt nach," performed with Lucie Mannheim, is also just very catchy.
lesser_celery has announced the table of contents for Past Tense, the upcoming annual not-NOU one-off. I am in it and, however paradoxically, looking forward.
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Right? SIR, YOUR FACE. AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU HAVE GOING ON THERE.
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Likewise!
(Today I did not sleep and have three doctor's appointments. I would not like this to be the model of the year.)
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He was, although I haven't seen it. The earliest I've seen him outside of photographs is the original Gaslight (1940).
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I don't know how I'd ever part with any of them!
The Zigeunerbaron hits me in all the Ruritanian-sensitive spots.
YES.
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The TOC looks great.
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I think I would enjoy it!
The TOC looks great.
I like the cover, too.