The Devil is a patriot, a proper party man
After a weekend of worsening listlessness, brainlessness, and general malaise, I finally saw a doctor and seem not to have any of the currently circulating plagues, but was sent home with a new inhaler and instructions to medicate myself like the nineteenth century on account of my lungs sounding terrible. I would so very much like to be able to think about anything that matters to me. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.
2. Courtesy ofdavidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.
3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.
4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
1. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.2. Courtesy of
davidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.
4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
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1. Courtesy of thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.
I should have said, I landed on it, because I was Googling my current Martin Jarvis Radio SNT effort, and there was a 1983 TV play adaptation of the same thing that took me there BUT one reason I was googling was because I could see the way it was going and I needed plot spoilers.* So I need to tell you that I'm listening to a thing where Martin Jarvis is breaking down and commiting suicide and then there's somehow time travel and I'm not sure how that is allowed when he's not David Collings. (Although apparently the time travel will fix everything, which, tbf, is far less Collings-esque. He would just die and probably also murder someone anyway.)
*(i.e. Murder or suicide? I need warning for faves murdering people in my ears, because it's a bit much.)
I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
Oh, how nice of them to dig one up specially to cheer you up a bit!
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Thank you. This entire month.
*hugs*
I'm listening to a thing where Martin Jarvis is breaking down and commiting suicide and then there's somehow time travel
Boy, that Starfall AU got dark fast.
(What is actually the radio/television play in question?)
Oh, how nice of them to dig one up specially to cheer you up a bit!
Honestly, it did!
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Heh! (All the moreso because my first reaction was: "What's a Starfall AU?" lol)
(What is actually the radio/television play in question?)
J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner, a 1981 SNT version. It also has the amusing bonus of his character having to complain that his problem is that he's not Martin. He's going to get saved by the radio as well, which I suppose is only right and proper.
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Me (right at the start, after one tiny interaction between the two characters): Oh, so he's having an affair with his wife's friend/sister, right? Or will be, whatever.
Spoiler: he was not (had a relationship with everybody else instead) but. End credits roll. It was Rosalind Ayres!
So I'm now amused that I managed to miss the completely obvious, but also I totally did clock the pair of them anyway. (Tbf, I have listened to her an awful lot more than I've watched her, but even so, I may need to go away and do some head!desking for a bit.)
(I'm sorry, you were the only person I could think of who might be remotely amused too! Or at least, would understand what I was talking about.)
Hope nothing is worse today. <3<3<3
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I am deeply charmed that their connection comes through even when their characters aren't meant to have one.
(I'm not sure I have ever seen as opposed to heard her unless one counts Titanic (1997), which I try not to.)
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They kind of might have had, actually, but they spent barely any time on screen together in it, because he went off to be his father in the flashback parts and she stayed in the 70s with his wife.
(I'm not sure I have ever seen as opposed to heard her unless one counts Titanic (1997), which I try not to.)
I mean, I have seen that myself, but not since 1997 when I was at uni and it was the only thing on the (one, one screen) cinema in Aberystwyth for sixty million weeks and a half and my little sister made me (her reason for coming to see me with my parents that time was totally because it was about the only place in the country that was still showing Titanic and she could see it again, and v cheaply too.)
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Double the Martin Jarvis for your price, but at a reduction in Rosalind Ayres?
I mean, I have seen that myself, but not since 1997 when I was at uni and it was the only thing on the (one, one screen) cinema in Aberystwyth for sixty million weeks and a half and my little sister made me (her reason for coming to see me with my parents that time was totally because it was about the only place in the country that was still showing Titanic and she could see it again, and v cheaply too.)
I saw it when it came out. I had a boyfriend at the time who thought it was desperately romantic. I enjoyed Victor Garber, Gloria Stuart, and the technical details of the sinking, and survived everything else by chain-eating my way through the quantity of clementines I had stashed as was my high school and college habit in the pockets of my winter coat. I have never tried to rewatch it. Every now and then I feel that I should, just to see what it looks like to me now that I actually watch movies, and then I don't think I have enough clementines.
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No - about equal, as both time periods went on the same time and while two actors were simultaneously in both, but they were only in the separate scenes.
(1970s Martin Jarvis is frequently either a) Period drama hero or b) person who looks like a perfect period drama hero but is in fact rotten to the core. If it's not a classic lit thing where you know the story already, you just lay your bets as best as you can and see how it goes. XD)
I have never tried to rewatch it. Every now and then I feel that I should, just to see what it looks like to me now that I actually watch movies, and then I don't think I have enough clementines.
It would certainly have a lot of familiar faces in it now. At the time Little Sis was deeply into Leo. She also watched Romeo + Juliet a lot, so she enjoyed her Tragic Teen Fave a lot!!