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

[sovay]

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.

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[sovay]

I'm glad for distraction! I hope you need less distracting soon, though.

Much appreciated! And the *hugs*

but should I ever get round to watching the 1967 BBC Pride and Prejudice on YT, if it's still there, he was Mr Darcy in that.

Telerecording's still up! With the timecode at the bottom and everything. (Oh, my God, its Mr. Bennet is Michael Gough.)

In DW the director was not up for SF or reigning the cast in and Fiander decided to add a dodgy German accent to his space scientist villain, but it was s17 and everything was out of control: hyperinflation reducing the budget to actually tuppence & Tom Baker chiefly.

That does sound rough.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, my God, its Mr. Bennet is Michael Gough.)

That is unexpected. I'm glad to know it's still there, even if I'm being even slower than usual on my YT watching than usual.