'Cause I play the old song, you play the new song, I play the old song and it goes on

[sovay]

As a matter of record, not only did the painters do a nice job on the reconstructed ceiling of our bathroom and its walls which had been somewhat battered in the process, they reinstalled the ceiling light and we are no longer showering in a dim cave, nine months after the original ceiling-killing flood. I started listening to the 1978 and 2019 BBC Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead so as to be able to compare Freddie and Toby Jones as the Player and realized that the quiet sniffle of Alfred in the earlier production may be the first time I've heard Anthony Daniels when he wasn't a robot. Less happily, my twenty-nine-year-old sound system may be finally breaking down. The speakers pull perpetually to the left. Last time it was the leads which could be stripped and re-cut, but I'm not sure I can fix a rheostat.

Comments

[yhlee]

Yay for fixed ceiling!!

[nineweaving]

Most excellent canopy! How's the gas tap?

Many thanks for the Stoppard links.

Nine

[gwynnega]

I'm glad they finally fixed your ceiling!

[pameladean]

Oh wow, this gives me hope for the future! And I am so glad you have an actual ceiling and the light therewith!

I didn't realize there was a a 2019 R&G. Good to know.

P.

[thisbluespirit]

I'm glad to hear you have a ceiling again - and light, amazing! <3

I started listening to the 1978 and 2019 BBC Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead so as to be able to compare Freddie and Toby Jones as the Player

... at once? XD And, aw, hope you enjoy them!

and realized that the quiet sniffle of Alfred in the earlier production may be the first time I've heard Anthony Daniels when he wasn't a robot.

I'd forgotten about him being in it, but I thought that too. Although I didn't go and check, so it may not be so.

Sorry about your sound system, though! I hope it is fixable somehow. (I can only listen to things like that sitting or lying somewhere quiet with earphones in, but I still mainly rely on my archaic little mp3 player for that, so I do not look forward to the day when it realises that 20+ years is a long time for technology and gives up. I do listen on the phone to BBC Sounds sometimes, but I don't like it. Which is to say, many commiserations on old-tech reliance. I do hope it's ok. :/)

(Oh, and I started Arcadia and am enjoying it so far!)

[minoanmiss]

I'm glad they did a good job considering what it cost you!

[asakiyume]

I love that you've kept a sound system going for 29 years! I hope there's a way to keep it ticking a little longer.

And hurray for a nice paint job!