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Globe) and talked for hours about a variety of things not limited to alternate histories or umbrellas and including his unpublished, terrific novel, which took off the top of my head over the weekend.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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[margavriel.livejournal.com]

I had a voice lesson.

That sounds productive. How often do you have them?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yay for being paid for a poem!

A discussion on alternate histories and umbrellas sounds fabulous.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

How are you finding Caprica? I just watched that at a go a couple weeks ago, and would love to discuss.

Criterion should put out a box set of Sandy Mackendrick.

I concur!

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great day. I had a hang out at Starbucks day but my friend had heard of neither Nicki Minaj or Amy Winehouse and thought that I hated Alan Moore when I hate Frank Miller. There was an element of "buh-buh-but what d'you mean you never heard of these people?" incredulity that hopefully didn't sound like "I'm just that smarter than you" which it's not. Just people have different tastes and different biases and they might not care about whatever performer might be big at the time.

It was still a nice time.

Today I have to write a paper on Isolationism and if I finish by this afternoon, I'm going to the opera (those $20 rush tickets are pretty awesome).

But sounds like you had a great day. Been meaning to watch the original Ladykillers after that Coen Brothers movie which felt like a potentially great movie (even as it was an utter failure)

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

I was happy to hear about the voice lesson because I wasn't sure you were doing anymore with song. Do you sing somewhere or is this for yourself right now?

Also, do you ever hear your own poems in song?

[gwynnega]

I love The Ladykillers.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for pay for poetry!

I'm glad you've had pleasant-sounding quiet days.

I came home and seem to have celebrated this year's Valentine's Day by watching The Ladykillers (1955) and eating pizza.

Sounds appropriate enough.

I apparently celebrated SS. Cyril and Methodius Day by sessioning in Hamden. I had a terrible time getting into a parking space because people can't park properly in that perdition of a parking lot and wound up sitting in an awkward place due to lack of chairs; it actually proved to be a fairly comfortable seat, other than getting poked in the knee with a flute every so often, and once the V-day dining crowd left the place proved quiet enough that I could sing "The Errant Apprentice"* without pushing my voice to the point of making myself cough.

*I was on the point of singing Brian McNeil's "The Devil's Only Daughter" ("Now I've had a drink or two, just enough to tell you true/If you'll keep frae interrupting me again./You're quarter saint and quarter witch...") but a friend asked me for the other one and I saw it was a better choice besides.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Wait, Guinness *plays* Alastair Sim? I didn't think Sim was well-known enough to be a character in anything. Not that I am complaining. I remember how delighted I was to find that anybody but me even knew of Alastair Sim, let alone being a fan of his work.

Also:

BRAINWORM SUBJECT LINE
MUST CREATE BRAINWORM IN REVENGE

Ding dong! Ding dong! DING dong! DIIIIING DONG! Four bells in the tower of Bray! Dingdong. Dingdong. Ding. Dong. Diii--iii--ing--donnnng.