How can silence or expression stop or start here for anyone?

[sovay]

I could be a lot physically happier right now, but I finally transferred all of my music off of Bertie of blessed memory's hard drive and onto this still new and nameless machine so that I can listen to audio I have been missing for more than a year, which at the moment appears to mean a whole lot of primarily Boston-scene punk of the '70's and '80's and the 1993 BBC Radio 3 Sunday Play of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia because nothing cheers me up like hearing art school dropouts make weird noises and Bill Nighy moan, "Fucked by a dahlia!" The latter gives me a good excuse to link to this fic, which like everything else I read for Yuletide in 2023 got overlooked at the time. The former is currently making me feel a little unstuck, but it could also just be the state of my blood sugar. Have some Salem 66.

Comments

[selkie]

nothing cheers me up like hearing art school dropouts make weird noises

On the Zoom, mostly weekly, since 2020. Fuck yeah, Gentlethem!

[sovay]

On the Zoom, mostly weekly, since 2020. Fuck yeah, Gentlethem!

And now sending me actual art!

[selkie]

I'm pondering alternating POV in my remaining wordcount which is a fool's choice so: art is subjective!

Mine is, however, indisputably better for my having dropped out of art school, and for your input.

[sovay]

I'm pondering alternating POV in my remaining wordcount which is a fool's choice so: art is subjective!

You have been sending me art for decades! I was referring to your not actually dropped out child finally showing me his foxes and ceramics, which I take as a gesture of trust and also they're great.

Mine is, however, indisputably better for my having dropped out of art school, and for your input.

*hugs*

(This is my vote for alternating POV.)

[gwynnega]

I had never heard of Salem 66!

[sovay]

I had never heard of Salem 66!

I love them! I think I heard "Across the Sea" (1984) first, but would not swear to it. Basically anything of theirs recommended.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, well, I'm glad for recovered audio anyway! <3

and the 1993 BBC Radio 3 Sunday Play of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia because nothing cheers me up like hearing art school dropouts make weird noises and Bill Nighy moan, "Fucked by a dahlia!"

LOL, I can see one would not want to lose that! (It also made me laugh because my radio Bill Nighy experience has been almost entirely as Samwise Gamgee, so I can both hear him as soon as I read that, because Bill Nighy, but also: No! He would not say that on the radio!! Sam!)

[sovay]

Aw, well, I'm glad for recovered audio anyway!

I spent a lot of time last night listening to much-missed music.

LOL, I can see one would not want to lose that!

It was the entire first-night cast from the National Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn, plus some additional sound effects. I could contrive to send it to you if you wanted.

(It also made me laugh because my radio Bill Nighy experience has been almost entirely as Samwise Gamgee, so I can both hear him as soon as I read that, because Bill Nighy, but also: No! He would not say that on the radio!! Sam!)

He says it with such impeccable comic despair! And has it coming, on account of being Bernard Nightingale.

[thisbluespirit]

It was the entire first-night cast from the National Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn, plus some additional sound effects. I could contrive to send it to you if you wanted.

Thank you! I had a quick internet search, though, because it seemed like the sort of thing I should easily be able to download somewhere, and, indeed, it is, along with a whole lot more! Which might make a good next thing to listen to, maybe. I should certainly try some more Stoppard as well.

And thanks for the pic! You said Bill Nighy, and I am pleased to see him there, but I hadn't expected Felicity Kendal, which is even more of a plus! <3

[sovay]

I had a quick internet search, though, because it seemed like the sort of thing I should easily be able to download somewhere, and, indeed, it is, along with a whole lot more!

Lovely! And also *yoink* because based on their directors/producers, Albert's Bridge and In the Native State should be the original broadcasts which means John Hurt in the one case and Peggy Ashcroft and Felicity Kendal and Saeed Jaffrey in the other. If You're Glad, I'm Frank should contain Timothy West. I am not sure I have read any other of his radio plays. I saw a local staging of Rock 'n' Roll in 2008 and loved it and would be fascinated to hear how it works without the blocking. Thanks for the cache and enjoy Arcadia!

And thanks for the pic! You said Bill Nighy, and I am pleased to see him there, but I hadn't expected Felicity Kendal, which is even more of a plus!

She's wonderful. The two of them together are wonderful. They are not remotely in danger of being a romance.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, glad to have been able to point you to some more audio Stoppard, then!

And I shall look forward to listening to Arcadia, which I have now downloaded. <3

[sovay]

Aw, glad to have been able to point you to some more audio Stoppard, then!

I was unable to resist the plays mentioned plus a few others, after which I downloaded the 1978 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead so as to be able to compare Freddie and Toby Jones as the Player.

[thisbluespirit]

after which I downloaded the 1978 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead so as to be able to compare Freddie and Toby Jones as the Player.

Ha, cool! Obviously, I enjoyed it, and its paired Hamlet, anyway. Have fun! <3

[asakiyume]

Hurray for Arcadia! Hurray for being able to listen to your music again!

[sovay]

Hurray for Arcadia! Hurray for being able to listen to your music again!

Thank you! I really missed my music and everything that went with it! It was like unpacking a section of my books.

[vass]

Thank you for the pointer: I did not know there was a radio play of Arcadia. I'll have to go looking (not just for that but to see what else they've made.)

[sovay]

Thank you for the pointer: I did not know there was a radio play of Arcadia.

You're welcome! It's the original cast from the National Theatre and is the only professional form in which I have actually encountered the play, which is separate from my loving it.

I'll have to go looking (not just for that but to see what else they've made.)

thisbluespirit found it in a collection of BBC Tom Stoppard on the Internet Archive. (The metadata is not hugely informative, but it has the right director.) They have made some other cool things!