Past astro borders, Zeno lies waiting
Not only is the MBTA today made of pure butt, I don't like their new website, either. The user interface is less intuitive to interact with and the trip planner's ideas of directions are more confusing. I'm impressed, but maybe I'll just stick to paper schedules from now on.
1. I forgot to mention that the podcast in which I participated at NecronomiCon is now free to stream online: The Outer Dark 016: Live from NecronomiCon 2017. Other participants are the excellent Craig Laurance Gidney, Scott R. Jones, Stephen Graham Jones, and Peter Straub, with Scott Nicolay hosting and Anya Martin moderating. I seem to have overestimated how carefully I need to speak for radio, but it was a lot of fun.
2. Anthony Lane not liking The Limehouse Golem (2016) does not deter me from wanting to see it, since he consistently underestimates almost anything that counts as genre, but I am glad at least he appreciates Bill Nighy:
No film in which Bill Nighy appears can ever be discounted. Rakish, dapper, not quite ruined, quavering with half-concealed amusement, courteous toward a fallen world, and somehow both urbane and faintly spectral, he could have stepped straight out of a Sargent portrait. I can imagine him in spats. What a pleasure it is, then, to see him in a frock coat and a spotted necktie, stalking the London streets. In "The Limehouse Golem," set in 1880, he plays Inspector Kildare of Scotland Yard, whose career as a detective has been held back, it is whispered, because he is "not the marrying kind." The role was originally to have been played by Alan Rickman, who died last year—a passing as hard to accept as that of Severus Snape—and Nighy was cast instead. Rickman's Kildare would have been more insidious, perhaps, with a deeper drawl, and more likely to be suspected of the crimes that he was deputed to solve. Nighy, as sensitive as a seismograph, approaches them with a shudder.
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strange_selkie: different kinds of manual labor being done really well, which means really beautifully because efficiency generally is. Some of it is performance flair, but some of it is just practical and also ridiculous.
1. I forgot to mention that the podcast in which I participated at NecronomiCon is now free to stream online: The Outer Dark 016: Live from NecronomiCon 2017. Other participants are the excellent Craig Laurance Gidney, Scott R. Jones, Stephen Graham Jones, and Peter Straub, with Scott Nicolay hosting and Anya Martin moderating. I seem to have overestimated how carefully I need to speak for radio, but it was a lot of fun.
2. Anthony Lane not liking The Limehouse Golem (2016) does not deter me from wanting to see it, since he consistently underestimates almost anything that counts as genre, but I am glad at least he appreciates Bill Nighy:
No film in which Bill Nighy appears can ever be discounted. Rakish, dapper, not quite ruined, quavering with half-concealed amusement, courteous toward a fallen world, and somehow both urbane and faintly spectral, he could have stepped straight out of a Sargent portrait. I can imagine him in spats. What a pleasure it is, then, to see him in a frock coat and a spotted necktie, stalking the London streets. In "The Limehouse Golem," set in 1880, he plays Inspector Kildare of Scotland Yard, whose career as a detective has been held back, it is whispered, because he is "not the marrying kind." The role was originally to have been played by Alan Rickman, who died last year—a passing as hard to accept as that of Severus Snape—and Nighy was cast instead. Rickman's Kildare would have been more insidious, perhaps, with a deeper drawl, and more likely to be suspected of the crimes that he was deputed to solve. Nighy, as sensitive as a seismograph, approaches them with a shudder.
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strange_selkie: different kinds of manual labor being done really well, which means really beautifully because efficiency generally is. Some of it is performance flair, but some of it is just practical and also ridiculous.
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Oh, wow, is that not helpful to the user at all.
that might make them feel better, but as a user, if there's a problem with the red line, i'd like to know before i go downstairs at Davis.
Seriously!
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*Anthony Lane not liking The Limehouse Golem*
Well, that sells it to me! (He really missed the point of "Pacific Rim", didn't he?) I'd forgotten this film was coming out; loved the original novel. And Nighy sounds *wonderful*.
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Enjoy! I'm trying to figure out if it's one of the first podcasts I've ever listened to. (I'm trying to figure out if being part of the recording process strictly counts as listening.)
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Thank you! I really enjoyed it.
Well, that sells it to me! (He really missed the point of "Pacific Rim", didn't he?)
By kaiju miles. Yeah, I trust reviews much more like this one, which made me desperately curious last fall when there was nothing to do about it, or this one, which isn't even by the same staff reviewer, plus if you can sit through the ads at the beginning this is a delightful interview.
"I'm always curious about memorable moments from filming. Is there a day or two that you'll always remember from the making of this one?"
"I remember electricians throwing their bodies over lamps when we caught the tail end of Hurricane—can't remember the name—and the set flooded and the horses reared up and people, actors were acting literally trying to look normal with water up to their knees and all the extras, I've never seen wetter people in my life—"
"The green screen completely ripped."
"—and then the green screen ripped and was about to blow away. It was literally the end of a hurricane, we caught the tail end of some hurricane, I forget the name. That will remain in my memory for a while."
I'd forgotten this film was coming out; loved the original novel. And Nighy sounds *wonderful*.
I'm hoping it bothers to play near me! If not, I expect a full report from you.
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ALWAYS REBLOG TENTACLED UNICORNS.
—that reminds me, I meant to post this because I was very impressed: "Eldritch Spaghetti."
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I'm glad to hear that.
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I don't think you're wrong.
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Holy fuck. I wish all Westerns had been like that. It would have made Sunday afternoons (there always had to be a Western playing, don't ask me why, damn stupid British TV) a whole lot more bearable.
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One of my favorites is his inhabiting a modern Babbit in The Girl in the Cafe
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I have never quite watched the phone book for Bill Nighy, but it's been close.
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I've seen less TV for him, partly because I haven't had a TV for decades (and neither, now, do I have an equivalent streaming package on my computer), but I have watched a lot of movies that way and I have a recording of the 1993 original production of Stoppard's Arcadia in part for his performance, although for the rest of the cast and the play also, of course. "Fucked by a dahlia!"
One of my favorites is his inhabiting a modern Babbit in The Girl in the Cafe
I haven't seen that one! [edit] That means I appreciate the recommendation.
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I never watched much television growing up, but now I am wistful for a childhood of Sunday afternoon weird.
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Thank you!
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The complete original cast reprised the play on BBC Radio 3 the same year it premiered at the National Theatre; some small alterations were made to the script to clarify some visual cues that wouldn't have worked by ear and otherwise it was just the play itself. The (legitimate) site that I got it from no longer appears to host the files, so tell me what e-mail address works for you.