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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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 ofselkie: 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.
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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(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!)
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Nope, that's hilarious. (What was its publication date?)
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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 Goringhas 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!)
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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.
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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.)
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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.)
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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!