I am a lass who alas loves a lad who alas has a lass loves another lad who once I had in Canterbury

[sovay]

Yesterday I did almost nothing at all, which considering how much interaction my last four to six days involved (my God, it's like a social life) was actually fine. I had a voice lesson. I watched some Caprica (2010). I got paid for a poem. I proofread a book.

Today was also quiet: I met Matthew Timmins in Porter Square and we got lunch in the form of sushi from Miso Market (very tasty, befitting their nice writeup in the Boston Globe) and talked for hours about a variety of things not limited to alternate histories or umbrellas and including his unpublished, terrific novel, which took off the top of my head over the weekend. rushthatspeaks called while we were discussing either family geographies or Paranoia, but I called them back on the bus.

I came home and seem to have celebrated this year's Valentine's Day by watching The Ladykillers (1955) and eating pizza. I can't tell what conclusions to draw from that, except that Criterion should put out a box set of Sandy Mackendrick. Alec Guinness plays a wonderful Alastair Sim.

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I've seen him only in A Christmas Carol and Green for Danger hitherto. I remember what a nice change of pace it was to see him smartly dressed and in charge of the situation in the latter movie, right after watching him as a severely broken old guy in his nightshirt, in the former. As you can probably tell, I'm a huge pushover for him in anything he does. Apparently there is a movie of the St. Trinian's cartoons (? I've only seen one or two of these) with Sim in pantomime drag as one of the heads of the school. I can't vouch for the quality.

Oh! And I have no idea if this is accessible in the US, but supposedly there's a BBC miniseries from the sixties of Cold Comfort Farm with Sim as Amos Starkadder. ("There'll be NAE BUTTER IN HELL!")

[sovay]

Apparently there is a movie of the St. Trinian's cartoons (? I've only seen one or two of these) with Sim in pantomime drag as one of the heads of the school.

Yes! I've never seen the whole thing; I've seen pieces. It's actually great.

Oh! And I have no idea if this is accessible in the US, but supposedly there's a BBC miniseries from the sixties of Cold Comfort Farm with Sim as Amos Starkadder. ("There'll be NAE BUTTER IN HELL!")

Funny you should mention Cold Comfort Farm—I was just given a DVD of the 1995 film tonight!

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention Cold Comfort Farm—I was just given a DVD of the 1995 film tonight!

Whatever shall we do, O Lord,
When Gabriel blows o'er field and river,
Fen and desert, mount and ford?
The Earth may burn, but we will quiver.

I want to introduce this to my shape-note group but I'm not sure how they'll take it.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Also watch An Inspector Calls if you can; Sim is superb in that.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I should get that and watch it! I liked the Priestley play as a teenager, when I saw it locally produced.

[sovay]

Also watch An Inspector Calls if you can; Sim is superb in that.

It's on my list. I keep hoping it will come around on TCM.