Putting the fun in fundamental
Jul. 12th, 2006 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ms_manna visited Altariel Mansions at the weekend. She brought the sparkle, I brought the Inquisition. We watched a romcom which may have had a member or two or N*Sync in it, switched off Valentine, discovered the bizarre IMDB biography of Stacy Keach, and hoped that someone in this world would provide us with a Blake's 7 songvid to the Friends theme tune. Food of exquisite quality was served at regular intervals and devoured at great speed. ms_manna also brought Paul Darrow's autobiography and, to my complete astonishment, I am really enjoying it. He seems to have entered the same stage of his career as Boston Legal-era Shatner, and is enjoying the whole thing immensely and with a real sense of proportion. There is a mouth-watering photograph of him as a twenty-four year old playing Edmund in King Lear. And (everything connects) he has just mentioned Justin Timberlake (describing Tarrant and Dayna as Justin Timberlake meets Janet Jackson).Oh, but he does seem to think 'Power' has a happy ending.
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:23 am (UTC)And an extremely fine time she had, too, thank you both :-)
he has just mentioned Justin Timberlake (describing Tarrant and Dayna as Justin Timberlake meets Janet Jackson).
{cackle}
That's scarily appropriate! All those curls...
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:49 am (UTC)I bet Tarrant would shoot someone who tried to repossess his house.
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:31 am (UTC)The morally dodgy ended happily-ish for the moment and the morally even dodgier got zapped. That's fiction, as big butch Oscar nearly said...
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 10:33 am (UTC)Get thee behind me,
(Yes, still. It's papers all the way down till 30 July.)
PS: I like the new design! Sorry if this is v out-of-date: have been away at conferences and not seen much of my flist, or indeed Doomsday, yet - it's pencilled in for tonight.
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:48 am (UTC)You know, your name may have crossed our minds... Wouldn't it be great: "Your job's a joke, you're broke, you're love life's D.O.A..." or: "It hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year..."
Ahem. Anyway. Good luck with the papers.
Glad you like the design! It's just an ordinary default one - I want to tinker with the text, I don't like the tiny squint-o-vision Arial font. Really looking forward to hearing what you thought about 'Doomsday'.
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 11:31 am (UTC)Heh! It's crying out for a video. (Think of this as grateful payment for the hours I've spent reading the Barbelith BB thread this week. Which - much better than watching it.)
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Date: 2006-07-12 12:24 pm (UTC)And the other thing about the Friends theme, of course, is that it's quite short.
(Barbelith BB thread: oops. Okay, I owe you. ::goes off to download the Friends theme from somewhere::)
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Date: 2006-07-12 12:41 pm (UTC)That's brilliant.
And the other thing about the Friends theme, of course, is that it's quite short.
Forty-six seconds, we determined at the weekend. I have two separate Friends songvids, if that would help - one of Firefly, one of, ahem, N*Sync...
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Date: 2006-07-12 01:31 pm (UTC)Actually, it really would:* I can only find the 3-minute full song version so far, which is no use.
*For very specific values of the word 'help', naturally. For instance, it won't so much help with writing about telephones in the Aeneid.
PS: OMG look at your icon!!
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:27 pm (UTC)'There are no telephones in the Aeneid. The End.'
There you are, easy! Now go get vidding.
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Date: 2006-07-13 10:39 am (UTC):-) That's not going to make my name, now is it?
Luckily I still have some S3 and 4 episodes to rip before I can make the vid, which means I can simultaneously vid & write... Damn you,
Oh, and I just saw that *NSYNC Friends vid. I'm starting to see your point. Eek! (Though Justin Timberlake is funny-looking, and one of the others - JC, I think? - looks exactly like... someone. I thought it was Jack out of Will and Grace but now I'm wondering if it's Brendon Fraser (clearly it's someone who guest-starred on Scrubs, this seems to be how my brane stores faces). May have to watch it a few more times to check...
Damn you,
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Date: 2006-07-13 10:59 am (UTC)Yes, Justin is funny-looking. :-) Although I would say that it's part of their charm that they aren't all clonally identical pretty boys. (And they can actually sing very well indeed, which is a big plus :-)
Actually, if you'd like a closer study of the sparkly joy which is Nsync, there are a couple more vids by Dacey which are equally as excellent as the 'Friends' one. In fact, even if you don't like Nsync but like vidding, they're worth seeing just for the quality of the editing.
I'll have a look for your e-mail address, and e-mail a link to them.
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Date: 2006-07-13 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 11:58 am (UTC)Good luck!
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:52 am (UTC)Oh well, I was just about to make my pre-Summer holidays Amazon order.
Edmund, tho'. Edmund will always be Clive Wood for me.
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Date: 2006-07-12 12:14 pm (UTC)Clive Wood as in the actor in The Bill?
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Date: 2006-07-12 12:23 pm (UTC)And yes, that Clive Wood. His first time round at the RSC (he's been back since, I believe), he was a superb Edmund in the production of King LEar with Antony Sher as a glorious fool (same season Sher did his rather remarkable Richard III) and Michael Gambon as the King (ah, 1982, it was).
I rather liked Wood in The Bill. He seems to have made a career out of ambitious/morally ambiguous/outright villains. Must be the red hair.
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:57 am (UTC)Once was enough.
I'm glad you had fun.
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Date: 2006-07-12 12:13 pm (UTC)We had a brilliant time, thank you :-)
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Date: 2006-07-12 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 02:39 pm (UTC)The Stacy Keach bio - we couldn't believe it as we were reading it.
slightly OT...
Date: 2006-07-15 04:41 pm (UTC)Did Travis have a first name?
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