At last she got acquainted with a rambling mad playactor

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

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!)

[radiantfracture]

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

[gwynnega]

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.

[chanter1944]

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.

[selkie]

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.

[asakiyume]

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.

[nineweaving]

All of those curses.

The myth and those movies are a blessing.

Nine

[thisbluespirit]

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

[umadoshi]

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

[larryhammer]

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

[skygiants]

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

"Thera and counting"

[minoanmiss]

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.