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Does it seem slow to rain? Does it feel like soft moss?
Now that we are back in the swing of the year, my days are marked by doctors' appointments. I preferred being outside the calendar. I did dream briefly and unexpectedly of Alexander Knox, playing one of those harrowed, abrasive, obdurate figures on the other side of some internment or imprisonment that made me think he would have been anachronistically great as E. T. C. Werner. Have some link-like things.
1. John Heffernan falls into the category of actors of whom I have somehow become very fond without actually seeing all that much of them, which normally happens with character faces in the '40's. I am unlikely even to see his latest project, the freshly announced Amazon TV version of Tomb Raider, but since his character is described in the promotional dramatis personae as "an exhausted government official who finds himself tangled up in Lara's unusual world," it's nice to know I would almost certainly develop a disproportionate attachment to him if I had the chance. You can tell I am otherwise a solid generation of actors behind the times since I was impressed by the casting all in the same place of Jason Isaacs, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Paterson Joseph, and Sigourney Weaver.
2. This song transfixed me a few nights ago on WHRB: Barbez, "Strange" (2005).
3. I meant once again to praise the Malden Public Library for ordering me a sun-bleached, peach-orange, jacketless first edition of Leslie Howard's Trivial Fond Records (ed. Ronald Howard, 1982), about whose selected nonfiction I have been intensely curious since discovering its existence in 2008, but the problem with reading some of the broadcasts he made for J. B. Priestley's Britain Speaks in 1940 is that one runs into passages like:
Democracy today, to survive at all, must be as militant as autocracy, and what the world is desperately in need of now is not the gentle, philosophic democracy of Jefferson, but the outspoken, militant and ringing democracy of Roosevelt, representing the righteous anger of the free people of the world aroused against the cynical arrogance of the totalitarian feudalists.
1. John Heffernan falls into the category of actors of whom I have somehow become very fond without actually seeing all that much of them, which normally happens with character faces in the '40's. I am unlikely even to see his latest project, the freshly announced Amazon TV version of Tomb Raider, but since his character is described in the promotional dramatis personae as "an exhausted government official who finds himself tangled up in Lara's unusual world," it's nice to know I would almost certainly develop a disproportionate attachment to him if I had the chance. You can tell I am otherwise a solid generation of actors behind the times since I was impressed by the casting all in the same place of Jason Isaacs, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Paterson Joseph, and Sigourney Weaver.
2. This song transfixed me a few nights ago on WHRB: Barbez, "Strange" (2005).
3. I meant once again to praise the Malden Public Library for ordering me a sun-bleached, peach-orange, jacketless first edition of Leslie Howard's Trivial Fond Records (ed. Ronald Howard, 1982), about whose selected nonfiction I have been intensely curious since discovering its existence in 2008, but the problem with reading some of the broadcasts he made for J. B. Priestley's Britain Speaks in 1940 is that one runs into passages like:
Democracy today, to survive at all, must be as militant as autocracy, and what the world is desperately in need of now is not the gentle, philosophic democracy of Jefferson, but the outspoken, militant and ringing democracy of Roosevelt, representing the righteous anger of the free people of the world aroused against the cynical arrogance of the totalitarian feudalists.
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Magnificent. Heart-wrenching.
*hugs*
Nine
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That last phrase does not need to have come around so resonantly on the guitar.
*hugs*
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Same! I recently discovered that he's also in the miniseries adaptation of Nancy Mitford's Pursuit of Love that I've been neglecting to watch for *checks notes* five years, which might actually push me to get around to it...
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Definitely report back on that!
(I was even happy to see him turn up in a totally superfluous part in Mark Gatiss' Lot No. 249 (2023).)
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I don't think there should be a good time to be okay with the police state.
*hugs*
"Conversely, a nation which thinks only of war and aggression, which plots and plans to achieve its ends and its destiny by brute force, is exhibiting the symptoms of retrogression and uncivilisation, and has become a criminal member of the society of nations."
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I had looked for it in assorted library systems to no avail eighteen years ago. It finally struck me to ask Malden given their incredible track record over the last year and sure enough. It's amazing.
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John Heffernan falls into the category of actors of whom I have somehow become very fond without actually seeing all that much of them
Yes, me, too, although I've seen quite a bit more of him recently. He does always stand out, even in very small roles. He was particularly notable in Becoming Elizabeth (which I'm still salty about having being cancelled, as it was definitely the best Tudor drama I'd seen in recent years). He and Romola Garai managed between them to somehow make Mary I/Edward Seymour one of the main ships just based on joint vibes or something.