There's this thing we're always saying about changes

[sovay]

I could have done without the first thing I saw on the internet this afternoon being that David Warner has died. There is an outside chance it was really a guest shot on Star Trek or Babylon 5, but I am fairly confident I saw him first in Time After Time (1979), since it is the role with which I most strongly associate him in the same way that my default image of Malcolm McDowell has always been a sweet and bespectacled romantic lead. I never wrote about him, I was always glad to see him, most recently in The Company of Wolves (1984) and Black Death (2010). I should watch something for his memory. I miss my Linux-driven pseudo-TV almost as much as I miss my books these days.

My day started with tree surgery in the next yard over and a phone call from the library earnestly attempting to persuade me to pick up a DVD which I checked out week before last and returned last week and which seems to be persisting as a Kafkaesque ghost in the machine—I had already tried to clarify this situation over the phone—while a book which I actually ordered more than two weeks ago continues not to arrive. I am not sure it rises to the level of irony as opposed to stupidity that the DVD in question belongs to the one movie I have managed to watch so far this month, which I have not managed to write about. I wish I felt that my brain was hibernating as opposed to just stopped.

Aside from capitalism and exhaustion, the major events of the last few days have been installing an air conditioner with rushthatspeaks and reading Greg van Eekhout's California Bones (2014) and Pacific Fire (2015) while waiting for Dragon Coast (2015) to come in. sholio has an attractive introductory write-up of the trilogy. Unsurprisingly, my favorite characters are also the bureaucrat whose moral compass is primarily based on injustice offending his sense of professional ethics and his depersonalized partner in detection who has a much better sense of humor than he does. I would not call any of it so far L.A. noir, but it is excellent fantasy AU heist pulp in an acceptably deadpan style and now there's a dragon in play.

I would really just like to be less tired.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

*breaks my small disc of energy in two and gives you one half*

[sporky_rat]

My first thought was that finally Evil had gone on to his next world. I first saw him in Time Bandits and I have measured every other role he did by that.

[radiantfracture]

my default image of Malcolm McDowell has always been a sweet and bespectacled romantic lead.

I think I rather envy you this. My core images of him are all "evil, but with striking hair".

my favorite characters are also the bureaucrat whose moral compass is primarily based on injustice offending his sense of professional ethics and his depersonalized partner in detection who has a much better sense of humor than he does.

Well I'm off to find this.

Oh, and my core David Warner memories are of him as the bad program in Tron, but I feel like I know him also as a middle-aged romantic lead in something that won't come back to me now and perhaps never existed.

I hope you rest better, friend.

[yhlee]

*support support*

I offer you foxmoth hugs, if wanted.

(Foxmoth icon by ellenmillion.)

[gwynnega]

I'm fairly certain I first saw Warner in Time After Time, which I must have seen in the theater when it came out. I'm pretty sure I first saw Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, but I must have seen it shortly before Time After Time was released, because I know I first saw A Clockwork Orange in 1979.

[boxofdelights]

Kanopy has The Company of Wolves and Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment, as well as A Doll's House, Ladies in Lavender, Perfect Friday, and S.O.S. Titanic(1979). I have four Kanopy credits. Do you have any comments on the last four?

[sholio]

I'm so glad you're enjoying the books and hope you get Dragon Coast soon! I'm having a wonderful time talking to you about them! And I am also really hoping your energy will rebound a little. *sends hugs*

[alexxkay]

Malcolm McDowell played such a sweet character in Time After Time that his co-star Mary Steenburgen married him! And she didn't see A Clockwork Orange until *after* the wedding. I once saw an interview with her where (IIRC) she recounted that, the night after she finally saw it, they were lying in bed when Malcolm quietly said, "Welly-well-well me droogies..." They eventually divorced, but not (I think) due to that :)

[thisbluespirit]

I am sorry. ♥ *sends hugs*

Also, I am sure I will have linked this before, but if getting to watch things is being harder than it should be, if audio is any use, here are all the BF S&S audios someone uploaded, with David Warner as Steel. If you did want to try one, Dead Man Walking is only 2 parts and has Silver as a bonus: https://all-irregularities.tumblr.com/post/182497156347/mega (The audios are no longer available from BF, because the license was withdrawn, so this is not doing anyone harm.)

[oracne]

I want to watch "Time After Time" again - I loved that movie so much, the one time I saw it.

David Warner was also Evil in Time Bandits!

[moon_custafer]

Aw!

He was also charming as the voice of Supervillain “The Lobe” on Freakazoid, and more recently, as a Soviet scientist and British-New-Wave fan in the Doctor Who episode ‘Cold War.’

[vass]

No wonder you're tired, with the year you've been having. I hope that conditions improve and your brain can emerge from its bunker.

[poliphilo]

Warner was also a great Shakespearian. I saw his Hamlet- which was arguably the definitive Hamlet of the 1960s. His turn as Henry VI in The Wars of the Roses (which the BBC wisely filmed) is a thing of wonder.

[rydra_wong]

I saw this and thought of you:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jul/28/tacita-dean-david-warner-ben-whishaw-stephen-dillane-providence-hummingbirds