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The sacrifice was to cast himself in the main role
First Jirous, now Václav Havel. To me he was mostly a character in a play I loved, but that doesn't mean something hasn't gone out of the world.
Back at the beginning of this month, I ordered the script for John Hodge's Collaborators from the National Theatre. (They still don't sell DVDs of their live broadcasts and I loved it.) It arrived yesterday in the mail, which was one of the two good things about yesterday. The actual line turns out to be "Smackhead groin doc turned smut-scribe," but I still think it's funny.
The previous day was the thing with the DMV, so I wound up watching Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) in the middle of the night to cheer up. It did work. It's one of the movies of my childhood; every time I watch it as an adult, I notice something else perverse. I should actually write about it sometime.
I still haven't really slept in two days.
Back at the beginning of this month, I ordered the script for John Hodge's Collaborators from the National Theatre. (They still don't sell DVDs of their live broadcasts and I loved it.) It arrived yesterday in the mail, which was one of the two good things about yesterday. The actual line turns out to be "Smackhead groin doc turned smut-scribe," but I still think it's funny.
The previous day was the thing with the DMV, so I wound up watching Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) in the middle of the night to cheer up. It did work. It's one of the movies of my childhood; every time I watch it as an adult, I notice something else perverse. I should actually write about it sometime.
I still haven't really slept in two days.
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I'm still sorry you haven't slept. Ugh.
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The rarest of all governors.
I keep hoping for the DVDs, but the script is an excellent thing to have.
I should actually write about it sometime.
Oh yes, please!
Still hoping sleep will get its act together...
Nine
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You type pretty well for the dead. You should see what happens when the Alexandrians take a stylus to a laptop.
*hugs*
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I'm glad you've enjoyed the script, and happy as well that Arsenic and Old Lace cheered you up.
I wish you real sleep and comfort.
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..but they were such lonely old men....
...another Yellow Fever victim Teddy!...
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Václav Havel suggested Frank Zappa act as ad-hoc U.S. ambassador to a newly-liberated Czechoslovakia. For this alone the man deserves mad props. Hugs to you, from the doomed edge of Empire (or doomed Empire's edge, depending).
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Dude! Yes! Go!
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Thank you. I had some last night, but I also had a migraine, so I'm not sure I won.
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He is being well-remembered.
I keep hoping for the DVDs, but the script is an excellent thing to have.
It reads very well. The stage directions are minimalist, but a couple of them are very funny. Something had evidently happened to my copy in transit, because it arrived looking not quite as though it had been through the wars, but definitely dinged-up around the edges; I am considering this thematically appropriate.
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I heard from
I wish you real sleep and comfort.
Thanks.
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"CHAAAAAAARGE!"
(That movie made it very unsafe to go up stairs in my childhood house for some time.)
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That is beautiful. The obituary didn't mention.
Hugs to you, from the doomed edge of Empire (or doomed Empire's edge, depending).
Heh. Thank you.
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What was your dream-version like?
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Damn. There's a story in here somewhere: the war on sleep. I bet it was either already written by Angela Carter or should have been. I don't have the time!
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A bloody good title. Somebody ought to write a story to equal it.
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