I wandered briefly into Poirot/Hastings slash fic. I'll never be the same again.
February 15th, 2012
November 25th, 2011
..that Sylvester McCoy is stealing the movie. I've been reading that between the lines in a few places, including it being explicitly stated by Quint over at AICN. A couple of weeks ago, Elijah Wood made an appearance on Steven Colbert hinting at the same thing. Way to go Sylv! I'm very much looking forward to these two movies.
September 3rd, 2011
May 19th, 2011
Stephen Fry will play the Master of Laketown in the Hobbit, and I do a little happy dance! By the way, have you seen the cast list for the new Torchwood series?
April 19th, 2011
Elizabeth Sladen is gone, and I'm gutted. Frankly, I didn't even know she was sick. One of the best loved companions on Doctor Who, perhaps the actress that best understood and executed such a tricky (deceptively easy) role on television. Seeing her return to the franchise for the past few years, thirty years after she left the show, was such a treat. I feel like the loss of such an actress deserves to be handled within the shows Universe, and I hope they do so, preferably of Doctor Who proper. A proper tribute episode would be nice. Over on her spin off show, I understand the Sarah Jane Adventures was only half way done it's 5th season. While this death seems sudden, I presume they were well aware of her condition and probably have a back up plan. I really hope they handle her passing with class, but knowing the people in control, I have absolutely no fears that they won't. This would be the event it would be nice to see Tom Baker back and involved for in some fashion.
March 18th, 2011
Dangermouse has written a TNG novel. Who references? Maybe some jabs at Voyager?
February 11th, 2011
It's me, I'm not dead! Yay! Had a great time last weekend seeing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1)
jblum, lordalius, and jvowles, among others. Thanks to jvowles for having us all over on Saturday. I got my first look at Outland, a pilot sitcom out of Australia which is my new favorite thing in the world. You can see the pilot
here.
On Tuesday, I then sawlordalius again as he came to town to stage manage what I'm sure was a lovely baroque french opera. Luckily, I wasn't busy today, so we were able to hang out and scream at Mubarak to get out already as well as watch various lovely things. We haven't actually seen each other face to face for about a year now, believe it or not. We'll have to do better. ;)
Being a Verizon customer, I have only just now entered the iWorld with my new iPhone, which arrived yesterday, and I'm in love. Where has it been all my life?
No surprise, I'm sure, that I've been absolute rubbish at livejournal for.... well, about the past year at least. Hope to do better! I have been quite busy. And, as I don't believe I've hocked it here yet, you can buy my recently (well, several months ago at least) released album of Italian Opera Arias here on Amazon, as well as on amazon.co.uk and on iTunes. The album is available on these sites as either a CD or an MP3 download. You can also hear samples of all of the tracks for free! If you want a special treat, you can see a bad review right on top of the reviews on the amazon link. Still, I've had some great reviews on the various sites and it's been selling reasonably well. I'm told the publisher just had to re-stock amazon, in fact.
I know I only really have contact with many of you through livejournal, so I apologize for being so bad at keeping up lately. If you are active on the social networking sites, you can find me much more active on both Facebook and Twitter. Add me! Most of all I hope everyone is doing reasonable well, and doing their best to make it through this winter!
Ciao for now!
jblum, lordalius, and jvowles, among others. Thanks to jvowles for having us all over on Saturday. I got my first look at Outland, a pilot sitcom out of Australia which is my new favorite thing in the world. You can see the pilot here.
On Tuesday, I then saw
lordalius again as he came to town to stage manage what I'm sure was a lovely baroque french opera. Luckily, I wasn't busy today, so we were able to hang out and scream at Mubarak to get out already as well as watch various lovely things. We haven't actually seen each other face to face for about a year now, believe it or not. We'll have to do better. ;)Being a Verizon customer, I have only just now entered the iWorld with my new iPhone, which arrived yesterday, and I'm in love. Where has it been all my life?
No surprise, I'm sure, that I've been absolute rubbish at livejournal for.... well, about the past year at least. Hope to do better! I have been quite busy. And, as I don't believe I've hocked it here yet, you can buy my recently (well, several months ago at least) released album of Italian Opera Arias here on Amazon, as well as on amazon.co.uk and on iTunes. The album is available on these sites as either a CD or an MP3 download. You can also hear samples of all of the tracks for free! If you want a special treat, you can see a bad review right on top of the reviews on the amazon link. Still, I've had some great reviews on the various sites and it's been selling reasonably well. I'm told the publisher just had to re-stock amazon, in fact.
I know I only really have contact with many of you through livejournal, so I apologize for being so bad at keeping up lately. If you are active on the social networking sites, you can find me much more active on both Facebook and Twitter. Add me! Most of all I hope everyone is doing reasonable well, and doing their best to make it through this winter!
Ciao for now!
cheerfulJanuary 21st, 2011
Craig Charles, and now Robert Llewellyn, have confirmed that a new series of six episodes is about to go into production in November. No indication yet on the network, but given the three special's success in 2009, it's probably set to air on Dave rather than it's old BBC2 home. The main cast members are set to return, no yet word on either Holly or Kochanski.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar
June 18th, 2010
...why the hate for River Song in some corners of fandom? I absolutely don't get it. I think she's a great character, sort or reckoning a bit back to Bernice Summerfield (whom i loved also), and I love that Moffat is probably going to be bringing her back occasionally. Yet some fans seem to find her... annoying? Or worse, a thread on Gallifrey base attacks the character for being too old (yikes!).... Honestly, I don't know what these people are on about....
June 7th, 2010
I think this was probably the best episode yet this series. Beautifully designed gorgeous shots. The way it so delicately and yet firmly flirted with such a problem like mental illness, while still keeping it in line with the family type program that it is.
( And the last scenes! )
And a giant-invisible-space-chicken! Honestly, who could have a problem with that?
Years ago, in the telemovie, there was all of that stuff about the Doctor being there when Puccini died. This made a connection with my own art form. It made perfect sense for the Doctor to have been there, probably a great friend of Puccini's, visiting him over the years. Can't you imagine Four traipsing about Torre Del Lago, probably a member of Puccini's own Bohemian club, hunting ducks, drinking wine and living their own little country version of La Boheme? To do all of that, to know such a great artist, and know that he'll die so young, chocking with the throat cancer, before he'd even finished his greatest work? To know that he wouldn't be there, over a decade later, to see his student finish the great work for him? Toscanini famously conducted the premier of Turandot, and when the middle of the third act came to the last of Puccini's part of the composition, he put his baton down and ended the Opera, announcing to the audience that that was the point at which the master had died. What must it be like for the Doctor, in the company and friendship of such men as van Gogh, or Giacomo Puccini, perhaps even in his power to somehow save them, prolong their life, and open new greater masterpieces for all of us to enjoy, but unable to act? I wonder, could someone make the episode someday where the Doctor takes Puccini to that glorious premier of his master work, to see for himself before he died just how important his music was to so many of us?
Contrary to the baying of many of the sad fans, the ability of this show to really expertly play on our emotions is not cheap, nor does this make it a soap opera. Extracting this sort of an emotional response is at the heart of great drama. In Opera many of us know this, the combination of the music with the drama is meant to do exactly this, to even overwhelm us with this kind of beautiful response within ourselves. One couldn't possibly make the argument after this episode that Moffat is any less able to hit these emotional cues than was Davies. Worse yet, to sterilize this show, to weed out this bitter sweetness in favor of an emotionless Sci-Fi blandness as so many of those fans seem to be asking would really be tragedy. I love this kind of episode, the kind the new series has brought us, one that was foreshadowed by the best of the NA's and PDA's. I really feel sorry for those people who can't enjoy it. Some of them called this episode bland. Philistines.
( And the last scenes! )
And a giant-invisible-space-chicken! Honestly, who could have a problem with that?
Years ago, in the telemovie, there was all of that stuff about the Doctor being there when Puccini died. This made a connection with my own art form. It made perfect sense for the Doctor to have been there, probably a great friend of Puccini's, visiting him over the years. Can't you imagine Four traipsing about Torre Del Lago, probably a member of Puccini's own Bohemian club, hunting ducks, drinking wine and living their own little country version of La Boheme? To do all of that, to know such a great artist, and know that he'll die so young, chocking with the throat cancer, before he'd even finished his greatest work? To know that he wouldn't be there, over a decade later, to see his student finish the great work for him? Toscanini famously conducted the premier of Turandot, and when the middle of the third act came to the last of Puccini's part of the composition, he put his baton down and ended the Opera, announcing to the audience that that was the point at which the master had died. What must it be like for the Doctor, in the company and friendship of such men as van Gogh, or Giacomo Puccini, perhaps even in his power to somehow save them, prolong their life, and open new greater masterpieces for all of us to enjoy, but unable to act? I wonder, could someone make the episode someday where the Doctor takes Puccini to that glorious premier of his master work, to see for himself before he died just how important his music was to so many of us?
Contrary to the baying of many of the sad fans, the ability of this show to really expertly play on our emotions is not cheap, nor does this make it a soap opera. Extracting this sort of an emotional response is at the heart of great drama. In Opera many of us know this, the combination of the music with the drama is meant to do exactly this, to even overwhelm us with this kind of beautiful response within ourselves. One couldn't possibly make the argument after this episode that Moffat is any less able to hit these emotional cues than was Davies. Worse yet, to sterilize this show, to weed out this bitter sweetness in favor of an emotionless Sci-Fi blandness as so many of those fans seem to be asking would really be tragedy. I love this kind of episode, the kind the new series has brought us, one that was foreshadowed by the best of the NA's and PDA's. I really feel sorry for those people who can't enjoy it. Some of them called this episode bland. Philistines.
