Oh, that's a long way

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Today's recovered note dates from February 2011. I had just seen Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009) the previous month; I was discovering a new character actor everywhere I could.

My highly learned report on Local Hero (1983): I've never seen anyone run like Peter Capaldi unless they were about three years old and imitating an airplane. He's so breathlessly bendy, with that adolescent explosion of limbs. And then he grew up to play Malcolm Tucker and look like a bundle of angry coathangers. But he still has that very impressive run.

I still haven't been able to see more than a few episodes of The Thick of It (2005–) broken into three parts on YouTube, but I can, pleasantly, make this post having just seen Capaldi in the second series of The Hour (2011–12), where he and Anna Chancellor were frequently more compelling than the A-plot; that was one of the problems with the second series. If they film a third, I'm hoping he sticks around. He had a bit of physical business in the last episode that could nearly break your heart.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I've never seen anyone run like Peter Capaldi unless they were about three years old and imitating an airplane. ... And then he grew up to play Malcolm Tucker and look like a bundle of angry coathangers.

Hee! Perfect.

Nine

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Hee! Perfect.

Thank you. I will always regret never getting to see him as Professor Marcus.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I've not seen Local Hero in years. The soundtrack is my primary memory of it. I should try to see it again sometime soon, so I can see the run you've described here.

I hope you can see more episodes of The Thick of It soon.

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I hope you can see more episodes of The Thick of It soon.

I still don't think it's out on Region 1.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I'd watch Capaldi in almost anything, but I'm still trying to blot out The Lair of the White Worm.

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I'd watch Capaldi in almost anything, but I'm still trying to blot out The Lair of the White Worm.

That is fair. I really need to watch The Devils (1971) or Savage Messiah (1972) or something. The only Ken Russell I've seen is Lair of the White Worm and Gothic (1986), which has been entertaining but possibly not representative.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I like this whole "recovered notes" theme for 2013! I always wonder where your trains of thought derail to.

Lately I have been obsessed with finishing my albatrossian project, but when LJ works, I am still reading. Thank you for posting.

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I like this whole "recovered notes" theme for 2013!

Thank you! There is a lot of desktop clutter; some of it is almost certainly not worth salvaging, but the stuff that was half-finished movie posts I might as well finish, and the stuff that was random notes I might as well put up. It's the internet! There's no penalty! The worst that happens is nobody reads it!

Lately I have been obsessed with finishing my albatrossian project, but when LJ works, I am still reading. Thank you for posting.

You're welcome. Thank you for reading.

I encourage the completion of the albatross.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I don't see why a silly Regency that started as crack ended up with all this burdensome plot and content. I'm not coping well with it, honestly, so I'm just deciding which porn to put where and then I may consider that pig lipsticked.

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I'm not coping well with it, honestly, so I'm just deciding which porn to put where and then I may consider that pig lipsticked.

The plot and content happened because you're incapable of being a bad writer and all the directions in which the project sprawled since you started sending me porn snippets have been good ones, so I am sorry it is being difficult to cope with, but I really have no evidence the results won't be worth it, at least from the perspective of the person who's been wanting to read this thing for like a year.

[edit] Keep in mind your Vilna novel happened because you needed somewhere to put a blow job!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I did send you that draft for your general opining. Opinionating. Whatever. *sulks and waves arms at lumplike computing machine of dubious operability*

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....there are so many reasons to love you and cherish our long friendship, aren't there? Geeegh.

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I did send you that draft for your general opining.

Ja. And my opinions were enthusiastic.

....there are so many reasons to love you and cherish our long friendship, aren't there? Geeegh.

Porn: the gateway drug. No, not to risky sexual behavior. Just novels.

[selidor]

Seconded.

(My levels of incoherent are approaching truly record highs; consider this a placeholder for sensible comment on the Captain America review for the future).

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(My levels of incoherent are approaching truly record highs; consider this a placeholder for sensible comment on the Captain America review for the future).

Understood and appreciated. Thank you.