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Or are shouted in the wind sweeping furious through the land
I was supposed to have a voice lesson and look at two potential apartments this afternoon. Instead the MBTA is shutting down service completely, so I am indoors and violently stir-crazy already. So far I seem to be avoiding the cold that wasted Rob's cast (I wasn't sure last night), but my ears still hurt. I do not want to be where I am. I like storms, but I am not in a good mood for this one.
If you have been listening to me evangelize about Gravity Falls, you should go read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rushthatspeaks' review of same in this week's Strange Horizons. I'll be reading M.R. James and listening to the Future Kings of England. Which should at least mess up my head in different ways.
From the Guardian, speaking of Daniel Craig: "He's the only Bond so far who might also have played Alec Leamas, the downbeat hero of le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Alongside him, Judi Dench suggests she could have played Smiley."
I don't do Yuletide, but could the internet make this happen anyway?
If you have been listening to me evangelize about Gravity Falls, you should go read
rushthatspeaks' review of same in this week's Strange Horizons. I'll be reading M.R. James and listening to the Future Kings of England. Which should at least mess up my head in different ways.From the Guardian, speaking of Daniel Craig: "He's the only Bond so far who might also have played Alec Leamas, the downbeat hero of le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Alongside him, Judi Dench suggests she could have played Smiley."
I don't do Yuletide, but could the internet make this happen anyway?
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I had settled for staring at TCM, which was showing The Gay Falcon (1941) with George Sanders as Gay Lawrence, a debonair private eye trying (and failing, of course) to give up the game for his long-suffering fiancée. I docked it points from the start for the Chinese houseboy, but within half an hour it gave me Arthur Shields as a blustery thumbs-in-his-braces detective inspector and an unbelievably young Hans Conried as a short-tempered sketch artist in a suit so loud, it was giving the screen rainbows, and I did actually feel better. The dialogue has lines like "Look, sister, he's took the pledge—no more crimes, no more dames!" and "As if you didn't know, you top-hatted termite! If this is your idea of comedy, I'm not laughing!" It's been kind of screamingly obvious who was behind the jewel heists from the beginning and that's not what anyone watches these movies for. So, yeah. There's that.