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Oh, sweet Neptune's briny pants
And yesterday sort of ran away into a blank check of housecleaning and errands, but I did get out without being rained on and the slight undercooking of the brownies meant they collapsed like molten chocolate cake when I cut into them, so it could have ended worse.
1. The mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #48, containing my poems "Danger UXO" and "Natural Phenomena." The first is a wolf-hour poem, written after I was reminded of a minefield in my head; the second is about the relationship of listeners and sirens. The issue itself opens with a story of ghosts and resistance from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashlyme (about which I will enthuse at you especially, because I got the chance to read it in draft form and now it has a home) and closes with a bloody injunction from handful_ofdust and in between there are things like cucumberseed on apocalypse and Patricia Russo on purple-eyed cats and cake. There are links here, if you'd like a copy or a subscription. The theme is opportunity. You might as well take advantage of it.
2. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012) (because I refuse to refer to it by the American re-titling, as if the presence of scientists in an adventure should scare most audiences away) is an absolutely delightful hour-and-a-half of sight gags, silliness, adorable flightless birds, pigs not actually being a kind of fruit, the Royal Society, an escalating series of those chase scenes Aardman loves where you start with someone quietly taking a bath and end up waving your hands incoherently to explain the Easter Island head, baking soda, vinegar, some serious libel of Queen Victoria, and I feel like it sums up something about the movie somehow that it uses Brian Blessed as a blink-and-miss-it punch line—when the endearingly enthusiastic, dreadfully underqualified Pirate Captain is filling out his entry form for the Pirate of the Year Award, the options for "Roaring" are "Regular," "Incessant," and "Brian Blessed"—and then Brian Blessed actually shows up. Unsurprisingly, he's very loud. The secondary characters are not much more fleshed out than their names (the Pirate with Gout, the Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens, the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate—although I appreciate that not only does that particular Chekhov's gun never go off, pretty much nobody notices it's on the wall in the first place), but I assume more time with the regular cast is the sort of thing sequels are for. I spent the entire film thinking I should recognize the voice of Charles Darwin and then he turned out to be David Tennant, so he's a lot more talented than I thought he was. Martin Freeman is kind of playing Martin Freeman, but he looks sweet in that scarf.
3. God of Vengeance is coming up at the Marvell Rep. I should start making plans.
1. The mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #48, containing my poems "Danger UXO" and "Natural Phenomena." The first is a wolf-hour poem, written after I was reminded of a minefield in my head; the second is about the relationship of listeners and sirens. The issue itself opens with a story of ghosts and resistance from
ashlyme (about which I will enthuse at you especially, because I got the chance to read it in draft form and now it has a home) and closes with a bloody injunction from handful_ofdust and in between there are things like cucumberseed on apocalypse and Patricia Russo on purple-eyed cats and cake. There are links here, if you'd like a copy or a subscription. The theme is opportunity. You might as well take advantage of it.2. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012) (because I refuse to refer to it by the American re-titling, as if the presence of scientists in an adventure should scare most audiences away) is an absolutely delightful hour-and-a-half of sight gags, silliness, adorable flightless birds, pigs not actually being a kind of fruit, the Royal Society, an escalating series of those chase scenes Aardman loves where you start with someone quietly taking a bath and end up waving your hands incoherently to explain the Easter Island head, baking soda, vinegar, some serious libel of Queen Victoria, and I feel like it sums up something about the movie somehow that it uses Brian Blessed as a blink-and-miss-it punch line—when the endearingly enthusiastic, dreadfully underqualified Pirate Captain is filling out his entry form for the Pirate of the Year Award, the options for "Roaring" are "Regular," "Incessant," and "Brian Blessed"—and then Brian Blessed actually shows up. Unsurprisingly, he's very loud. The secondary characters are not much more fleshed out than their names (the Pirate with Gout, the Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens, the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate—although I appreciate that not only does that particular Chekhov's gun never go off, pretty much nobody notices it's on the wall in the first place), but I assume more time with the regular cast is the sort of thing sequels are for. I spent the entire film thinking I should recognize the voice of Charles Darwin and then he turned out to be David Tennant, so he's a lot more talented than I thought he was. Martin Freeman is kind of playing Martin Freeman, but he looks sweet in that scarf.
3. God of Vengeance is coming up at the Marvell Rep. I should start making plans.
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Thank you! It's a very strong issue.
I'd not heard of this before. It sounds hilarious, and I'm grateful to you for the recc.
If you are unfamiliar with Aardman Animations, run, do not walk, in the direction of any medium that will allow you to watch Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995). Go from there.
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I'm rubbish at keeping up with visual entertainment, but I'm managing to follow "Copper" on BBC America (started watching it cos friends of mine were contributing to the sound track), so maybe I'll manage to see some of the Aardman stuff as well.
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Most welcome!
If you are unfamiliar with Aardman Animations...
I've seen a couple of Wallace and Gromit shorts, years ago, and liked them. Thanks for the recc--I'll try to see that one, sometime.
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Then you've probably seen this one. It's just my favorite of the shorts. (And even generated a spin-off.)
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I'm not sure I've seen it in full, actually. Even if I have done, it's years ago.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be on Youtube. Perhaps the library will help me.
It's just my favorite of the shorts.
Which strikes me as a very good reason why I should see it, so.