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At last she got acquainted with a rambling mad playactor

Apparently if permitted to sleep, my body thinks it should be allowed to do it again. I napped this afternoon and am contemplating further adventures in napping this evening. It's inconvenient in terms of a day, but on the other hand my sleep debt was old enough to vote in the last election. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of

moon_custafer: Keith Moon fills in for John Peel in 1973. The musical choices are clever and more surf-inflected than I would have guessed and the interstitial sketches are deranged. Eleven out of ten, no notes. "Here it is once again, for those of you listening, in color."

2. Courtesy of

selkie: clips from this weekend's semi-concert performance of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl starring Cynthia Erivo as Jesus. The effect is not unlike Nina Simone's "Pirate Jenny" (1964). Also queer af.

3. With incredible timing, the Harvard Film Archive has just announced this winter's series of Columbia 101: The Rarities, meaning that anyone in the Boston area who actually wants to hit themselves with None Shall Escape (1944) will have two chances on 35 mm including the first night of Hanukkah. I plan to be there. Several other titles of interest I have never seen, or never seen in a theater. Especially since this spring took my plans for Noir City Boston out at the knees, wish me luck.

4. Of the minimal amount of television I watched as a child, nearly all of it was brought to me by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you. My mother has begun to refer to the incumbent of the White House with epithets as out of Homeric epic, of which "starver of children" is currently the strongest: bodies, minds, future. The earthquake swarm around Akrotiri subsided earlier this year, but everyone I know feels like Thera and counting.

5. A whole lot of people sent me the newly published Sumerian myth and it does make me very happy.

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Several other titles of interest I have never seen, or never seen in a theater.

I hope you can go! That's a great selection of movies, I'd love to see Ladies In Retirement and The Glass Wall on a big screen! (I've just found out that a local museum is screening a bunch of classic westerns this month including High Noon and Shane--I'll try to make it!)

I hope you can go! That's a great selection of movies, I'd love to see Ladies In Retirement and The Glass Wall on a big screen!

Thank you! The Glass Wall is definitely in the plans—it's right after None Shall Escape on my list of never-in-theaters and I might as well double-feature it with The Killer That Stalked New York. For movies I have not seen in any format, Address Unknown, The Brave Bulls, Ladies in Retirement, and Gunman's Walk are currently looking the best. I understand I cannot just camp out at the HFA for five weeks, but it's so tempting. There's even some stuff in here I had just never heard of, like the pre-Codes.

(I've just found out that a local museum is screening a bunch of classic westerns this month including High Noon and Shane--I'll try to make it!)

Wishing you the same luck! That sounds great. I have definitely never seen Shane on the big screen. (I feel like there's a fifty-fifty chance my parents took me to High Noon at the Brattle in high school.)

I too am happy about the epic (but even more about the sleep).

I too am happy about the epic (but even more about the sleep).

Thank you! I would love if it kept going.

I am happy Keith Moon started the set with "Surfin' Bird."

As much as I love Jesus Christ Superstar, the portrayers of the title character have always seemed the weak link--until Cynthia Erivo.

I am happy Keith Moon started the set with "Surfin' Bird."

The whole thing is a treasure.

As much as I love Jesus Christ Superstar, the portrayers of the title character have always seemed the weak link--until Cynthia Erivo.

I am really hoping there will be some kind of official recording and not just invaluable TikToks. I got chills from her "Gethsemane." I've never heard a numinous as well as painfully human Jesus in this musical before.

Edited 2025-08-04 02:15 (UTC)

I don't know about any official recording forthcoming, but apparently there's already a bootleg recording of the whole show here? (And possibly also elsewhere, given the comment about it having been filmed by others; I am not wise in the ways of theater bootlegs.) In case that is of interest.

I was lucky enough to see it myself in person! Albeit from the second-to-last section, so I have also been enjoying finding youtube clips etc. so I can actually see things, like their faces!

I was lucky enough to see it myself in person! Albeit from the second-to-last section, so I have also been enjoying finding youtube clips etc. so I can actually see things, like their faces!

I'm so glad you got to see it live! And also that you have the ability to revisit it with close-ups and expressions!

I'd like to use 'starver of children' and all its connotations/denotations as an epithet for the current officeholder, he who I tend to call the giant orange toot the better to keep things age-appropriate and, really, to avoid getting truly profane at speed. All credit to your mother. I'm also a PBS kid, all grown up (in body if not entirely in mind), and I will forever owe a significant debt to the CPB "and viewers like you" for the formative and still-visible, if one knows what to look for, effects. It's about time I put my loyalty where my mouth is and donate to my own much-beloved Wisconsin Public Television, to match my contribution to the radio side of things.

I'd like to use 'starver of children' and all its connotations/denotations as an epithet for the current officeholder, he who I tend to call the giant orange toot the better to keep things age-appropriate and, really, to avoid getting truly profane at speed. All credit to your mother.

I will tell her and I don't think she'll mind at all.

I'm also a PBS kid, all grown up (in body if not entirely in mind), and I will forever owe a significant debt to the CPB "and viewers like you" for the formative and still-visible, if one knows what to look for, effects.

The vast exposure to the Children's Television Workshop!

It's about time I put my loyalty where my mouth is and donate to my own much-beloved Wisconsin Public Television, to match my contribution to the radio side of things.

*hugs*

I am glad you have much-beloved public television to donate to. It does matter.

Starver of children, Amalek, thief of every good thing, may he die alone, alone, alone, with no one to hold his last breath, may no one walk the dark with him, may he go nameless and without coin from bank to bank of the nameless river, may those who ferry souls never stop for him.

💯

Natural order, all things or I know my business and I stick to it, I figure either one.

/Shells!/ Is that a quote? If so, I'm curious as to the source of one wickedly accurate prayer for retribution. If not, remind me never to cross you!

Is that a quote? If so, I'm curious as to the source of one wickedly accurate prayer for retribution. If not, remind me never to cross you!

That is the seal herself in her ornament.

I am thoroughly impressed! I... have no fitting icon for this thread.

I promise I am not impressive, I just know words mean things and occasionally I'll put them in order and wind them up and watch them go out in the world.

I promise I am not impressive

Don't make promises you can't keep!

I'm a pastoralist in real life. It's just, I take some things very seriously. I would never let someone die alone if I could sit with them, in the ordinary way of things. I'll sit with a stranger. C. Diff, COVID, pressure sores, don't care. I will hold on with you. I'll be the one who knows the room is hospital-cold. I'll count it out until the clock stops, and I won't rush. It's a privilege to sit in that last waiting.

Not that one guy, though. Not that one fucking guy. Not if Sovay themself asked me [mind you, I don't hear them asking!] though I'd give it a think, if they did.

[mind you, I don't hear them asking!]

Hadn't crossed my mind.

*hugs*

*hugs* Let the dough work, I guess.

By pure chance one of my friends elsewhere on the interwebs went to see that performance of Jesus Christ Superstar live! For some reason I'm not able to see the clips you've posted, but she posted one, and yes! Magnificent.

And wow, wow, wow, wow, that Nina Simone clip. I love that song anyway but that is the BEST I've ever heard it. I was transfixed. Turned right around and shared it with Wakanomori, and he was transfixed too.

... Starver of children, yes. That one delights in destruction and immiseration. He's an empty husk that one day will be unraveled and blown away by the wind.

But on the other hand my sleep debt was old enough to vote in the last election. Heh, nice. Not the fact. But the phrasing.

By pure chance one of my friends elsewhere on the interwebs went to see that performance of Jesus Christ Superstar live! For some reason I'm not able to see the clips you've posted, but she posted one, and yes! Magnificent.

Lucky your friend! I'm glad you could see some of it. The clips I linked shouldn't be locked in any way—I'm not on TikTok.

And wow, wow, wow, wow, that Nina Simone clip. I love that song anyway but that is the BEST I've ever heard it. I was transfixed. Turned right around and shared it with Wakanomori, and he was transfixed too.

My mother played it for me in high school and it terrified me then and I have loved it ever since.

... Starver of children, yes. That one delights in destruction and immiseration. He's an empty husk that one day will be unraveled and blown away by the wind.

I want his name chiseled off time.

Heh, nice. Not the fact. But the phrasing.

Thank you. Maybe some day it will be obsolete!

All of those curses.

The myth and those movies are a blessing.

Nine

All of those curses.

I have no doubt of them.

The myth and those movies are a blessing.

Art is one of the neatest things that people do! I would like the current constitution of the world to leave them for time for it.

*hugs*

anyone in the Boston area who actually wants to hit themselves with None Shall Escape (1944) will have two chances on 35 mm including the first night of Hanukkah. I plan to be there. Several other titles of interest I have never seen, or never seen in a theater. Especially since this spring took my plans for Noir City Boston out at the knees, wish me luck.

Oh, lovely! Good luck indeed! <3

Oh, lovely! Good luck indeed!

Thank you! I hadn't looked at any of our local arthouse calendars in a month, but my mother mentioned having heard on the radio about some interesting program at the HFA and I went to their website and bang, I was delighted.

Unrelated, but I know you will comprehend my current very silly problem: I plucked a historical mystery book from the TBR pile, while all summer-brain and trying to fanfic and its backdrop is essentially very much the era of An Ideal Husband, the lead's husband is a spy called Colin, her bff's husband is an upright yet Tory MP called Robert and her male bff is called Jeremy (although he is clearly essentially Lord Goring anyway).

(It otherwise seems pretty decent, but it is amusing me more than it should. Clearly I should have picked it up at a different time, really!)

I plucked a historical mystery book from the TBR pile, while all summer-brain and trying to fanfic and its backdrop is essentially very much the era of An Ideal Husband, the lead's husband is a spy called Colin, her bff's husband is an upright yet Tory MP called Robert and her male bff is called Jeremy (although he is clearly essentially Lord Goring anyway).

Nope, that's hilarious. (What was its publication date?)

Nope, that's hilarious. (What was its publication date?)

2011, but it's no 6, as it's one of those things where I picked up a couple later titles and never yet have stumbled over some earlier ones in a charity shop, and looking it up I see the first one was published in 2005. And while I don't think it was supposed to give me a general Jeremy Northam issue, now that Duke Jeremy ~~Lord Goring~~ has turned up, I wouldn't be surprised if the 1990s/2000s AIH & tIoBE were an influence, but as it's no 6 & she's not wasting time describing her regulars too much, I only know that Colin has brown eyes and Jeremy is very tall - so until proven otherwise I am assuming I should picture Colin Firth and Rupert Everett (although they could also be nodding to Jeremy Brett in the 60s production). I need to see if Lady Emily's colouring was described at the start as to whether or not she should be Cate Blanchett or Frances O'Connor. And I await any sort of description of Robert the conscientious fallen Tory MP with some interest, although no doubt he will turn out to be blond and serve me right. XD

(They are the Lady Emily books by Tasha Alexander, and so far this one seems fun, although with the occasional oddity of rapidly-written historical UK-set fiction by US authors. There are apparently 23 of them!)

And I await any sort of description of Robert the conscientious fallen Tory MP with some interest, although no doubt he will turn out to be blond and serve me right.

Well, keep me posted. I remain entertained by the casting notes.

(They are the Lady Emily books by Tasha Alexander, and so far this one seems fun, although with the occasional oddity of rapidly-written historical UK-set fiction by US authors. There are apparently 23 of them!)

I had never heard of this series! Twenty-three is a lot.

Well, keep me posted. I remain entertained by the casting notes.

It's become evident that I would need earlier books to be treated to descriptions, and Robert is Sir Barely Appearing In This Book anyway, so in the meantime I am doing the obv correct and entertaining reading of Duke Jeremy as Rupert Everett, with Colin as Jeremy Northam and Lady Emily as Cate Blanchett. (Little indication of anybody's appearance is forthcoming, other than Colin's brown eyes, Jeremy's height and one of the suspects' being so short he keeps standing on tiptoes to speak to Emily as well as Jeremy.)

It's become evident that I would need earlier books to be treated to descriptions, and Robert is Sir Barely Appearing In This Book anyway, so in the meantime I am doing the obv correct and entertaining reading of Duke Jeremy as Rupert Everett, with Colin as Jeremy Northam and Lady Emily as Cate Blanchett.

Excellent!

(Little indication of anybody's appearance is forthcoming, other than Colin's brown eyes, Jeremy's height and one of the suspects' being so short he keeps standing on tiptoes to speak to Emily as well as Jeremy.)

(I do feel it is not entirely fair to expect the reader to have caught up on five books already to have some idea of people's faces.)

I will try not to comment again on this because it really isn't worth it BUT Colin was being peremptory in a very non-JN way, so I switched him back to Mr Firth and accepted that if silly fancasting did apply, it must of course be with Robert the upright politician, how could I think otherwise, but then a few pages later they described the plot of the one where Robert got accused of murder and I lit. laughed aloud: it was An Ideal Husband but if Sir Robert Chilton was accused of shooting the dodgy Viennese mentor instead. XD

but then a few pages later they described the plot of the one where Robert got accused of murder and I lit. laughed aloud: it was An Ideal Husband but if Sir Robert Chilton was accused of shooting the dodgy Viennese mentor instead.

These books sound as though the serial numbers have been filed off in the goofiest possible fashion and I am glad you are enjoying them!

Apparently if permitted to sleep, my body thinks it should be allowed to do it again. I napped this afternoon and am contemplating further adventures in napping this evening.

Well done, body! <3

Well done, body!

Thank you! At the moment my schedule seems deeply discombobulated, but it is containing a lot of sleep.

(Pst! Your last link looks a bit borked. And is excellent.)

(Pst! Your last link looks a bit borked. And is excellent.)

(Should be fixed now. I wanted to link to the actual publication, not any of the news redactions.)

ME ME I DO and I should actually be in town! definitely several items on my list in this series & would love to coordinate

ME ME I DO and I should actually be in town! definitely several items on my list in this series & would love to coordinate

W00T YES LET'S

Hey look I have the right icon.

*sigh*

I want to have seen None Shall Escape the way I'm glad I possess the knowledge of Twelve Years a Slave but just like I cannot get through the second movie again I'm not sure I'm strong enough to watch the former.

Hey look I have the right icon.

You do!

I want to have seen None Shall Escape the way I'm glad I possess the knowledge of Twelve Years a Slave but just like I cannot get through the second movie again I'm not sure I'm strong enough to watch the former.

*hugs*

You can always join me for one of the less harrowing titles. It would be completely different and lovely to see you in person.

Edited (my somehow sole classical icon) 2025-08-05 09:54 (UTC)

You can always join me for one of the less harrowing titles. It would be completely different and lovely to see you in person.

That sounds like an awesome plan!

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