Until it's red, all red as foxes

[sovay]

My poem "Foxstory" has been accepted by Through the Gate. It was directly inspired by Jenn Grunigen's Storyfox: A Database of Vulpine Science Fiction and Fantasy. I am very glad it has found a home.

I just saw that Louis Jourdan has died. Like most people who grew up on MGM musicals, I saw him first in Gigi (1958), but I will remember him as one of the best Draculas I have seen.

So has Alan Howard. I was in the wrong country to see much of him; I caught him only in odd episodes of television and the whispering of the One Ring. I knew of him mostly because of his uncle. I really need to see The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

It is snowing again. Or still. There was clear blue-skied sun earlier when I walked back and forth to my doctor's appointment. The sky is blind white now. I don't know if it's even a storm anymore. It might just be a condition.

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I loved his Richard III: insinuating and persuasive and self-mocking all at once.

That sounds very good.

War Music! I did not know he was connected with that!

So his website says. Maybe there's a recording? (Please?)

Is this the moment to mention that I heard Christopher Logue read a chunk of it while it was still work-in-progress? (Admittedly many people did, because it was work-in-progress for a very long time, but still...)

Conversations with you share the quality of Derek Jarman's journals where, if an artist was working at the time, your life crossed through theirs.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ay me. Golden lad and girls. The little practice snippet of Howard's Richard III against Sinead Cusack's Lady Anne is tantalizing.

Nine

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's a very small country, and Newcastle was something of an unexpected hub; most people doing anything interesting passed through, over the course of thirty years. And I was always there.

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most people doing anything interesting passed through, over the course of thirty years. And I was always there.

It's a good thing! I never know who's going to turn up next.

It looks as though there are recordings of War Music and Kings: a remembrance of Howard mentions them. Fingers crossed.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, splendid; I did always love his voice.