sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-08-30 03:44 am

A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere

I had just written an intensely miserable post about the state of my life and my health and whatever was supposed to have passed for my career, but then I discovered the existence of the 1970 London cast recording of 1776 and it surprised me into laughing out loud, specifically because while I had never heard anyone but William Daniels as John Adams and I expect no one again to match his particular abrasive flint, Lewis Fiander couldn't have been terrible from the amount of incredulous disgust he puts into his "Good God." Anything to do with American democracy is of course somewhat depressing to contemplate at the present moment, but not more so from a musical than from the news. In other charms of the week, I have two different kinds of infection in a body that is already not responding as hoped to several months of medicating for an underlying condition, so anything that distracts me from mere grim hanging on to someday reading other people's death notices is a net good.
regshoe: Alan and Davie from NTS Kidnapped; Davie has his arm slung round Alan's neck, and they look at each other with earnest, concerned expressions (Now I like you even more)

[personal profile] regshoe 2025-08-30 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish you could! Hopefully some more sleep soon, at least.