I liked you better when you were singing

Just in time for me wondering about music videos, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling has presented me with a cover of Shakespears Sister's "Stay." Apparently it usually looks more like this.

They're playing T.T. the Bear's Place tonight to promote their new single, By Hook or By Crook (2013). I slept much less than I would have liked, but I am seriously thinking about going anyway. I haven't seen the band live since their last CD release in 2011.

Speaking of promotions, the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Indiegogo campaign to raise extra funds for The Big Broadcast of 1962: A Byfar Christmas Carol is now live. They need $1000 by December 4th and are prepared to make it worth your while (aside from the excellence of the resulting show, obviously). Donate money! Get stuff! Support radio! We have T-shirts?

No one move a muscle when the dead come home

The ironic aftereffect of viewing The Night of the Doctor (2013) last thing before bed is that I woke up wanting a time machine. The Doctor who sold his soul, sacrificed his name, gave away everything he stood for and became a monster to fight monsters? Of course I want him played by John Hurt. And then I want a series of that nameless Warrior seen for just one stinger moment in that fire-polished ripple of metal: Doctor no more . . . I have always thought John Hurt was beautiful, especially in his dark, watchful younger years. He always looked a little bruised around the eyes, even when the rest of him was boyish; he's a good face for someone I suspect of deploying the Gallifreyan equivalent of the Deplorable Word to end the Time War. I imagine we'll find out the full story in "The Day of the Doctor," but it will still be just a flicker, like this glimpse of Paul McGann. Thirty-year-old John Hurt is not happening without serious technology. (Neither is more onscreen McGann, I am afraid, although at least in his case there's years of radio drama to catch up on.) It's still probably most I've enjoyed a script by Steven Moffat since "Blink." And I can write wistfully about the rest.