au weekend
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 09:46![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This weekend I went to Bath to see some school friends; didn't actually see much of Bath as we spent the whole time playing Trivial Pursuits and Articulate, and also we watched Stardust. I was very pleased to find I loved this film as much this time as last time, it's very traditional in some ways with the whole fantasy quest/romance plotness, but the humour and the inventiveness of the things and people they meet on the way, and how real the characters all feel gives it an extra layer of yay! right from the first bit of dialogue: "Do you want to cross the Wall?"/"Yes. Because, let's face it, it's a field."
Listened to the beginning of the Classic Serial on Radio 4, it was The Mayor of Casterbridge and I was happy giggling away at how all the characters were Marked For Sorrow etc but then we got to the scene where yer man is selling his wife and child (which I did know about in advance) and it just made me really uncomfortable and I had to switch it off. Has anyone read it? Should I have persevered? Given that I only enjoy Hardy when he's being ridiculously ridiculously overdramatic and I am mocking him?
On Sunday I made lemon cake with extra lemon and a lemon glaze in an attempt to recreate the lovely bit of cake I had last weekend on the South Bristol Art Trail, rather successfully. I also made rhubarb crumble last Thursday so my kitchen is full of yummy stuff. My brain associates rhubarb with the 1920s so this was the right time to make it. I watched The Unicorn and the Wasp on Sunday night; briefly, I thought it was funny (though most of the jokes seemed to be references to/nicked from previous episodes), the antidote sequence had me in stitches, DONNA DONNA DONNA, Fenella Woolgar needs to be in more stuff, the deaths were a bit too silly, and I guessed about yer woman's secret child and even entertained the possibility that the wasp might be it, but then went "no, that's too mad, she can't have given birth to a giant wasp". I am fairly convinced that when they got Agatha Christie into the TARDIS she woke up and didn't have amnesia at all and then they had adventures, like how H.G. Wells had many adventures with Peri and Six that time, yes? Yes. And she never told anyone because if she'd said "oh I was travelling through time and space in a police box with a woman from the future and an alien inna suit" everyone would've accused her of being mad in the brain. Then I watched the rest of the Black Orchid extras. I really wasn't expecting them to feature a Blue Peter presenter in his pants, but there you go.
Listened to the beginning of the Classic Serial on Radio 4, it was The Mayor of Casterbridge and I was happy giggling away at how all the characters were Marked For Sorrow etc but then we got to the scene where yer man is selling his wife and child (which I did know about in advance) and it just made me really uncomfortable and I had to switch it off. Has anyone read it? Should I have persevered? Given that I only enjoy Hardy when he's being ridiculously ridiculously overdramatic and I am mocking him?
On Sunday I made lemon cake with extra lemon and a lemon glaze in an attempt to recreate the lovely bit of cake I had last weekend on the South Bristol Art Trail, rather successfully. I also made rhubarb crumble last Thursday so my kitchen is full of yummy stuff. My brain associates rhubarb with the 1920s so this was the right time to make it. I watched The Unicorn and the Wasp on Sunday night; briefly, I thought it was funny (though most of the jokes seemed to be references to/nicked from previous episodes), the antidote sequence had me in stitches, DONNA DONNA DONNA, Fenella Woolgar needs to be in more stuff, the deaths were a bit too silly, and I guessed about yer woman's secret child and even entertained the possibility that the wasp might be it, but then went "no, that's too mad, she can't have given birth to a giant wasp". I am fairly convinced that when they got Agatha Christie into the TARDIS she woke up and didn't have amnesia at all and then they had adventures, like how H.G. Wells had many adventures with Peri and Six that time, yes? Yes. And she never told anyone because if she'd said "oh I was travelling through time and space in a police box with a woman from the future and an alien inna suit" everyone would've accused her of being mad in the brain. Then I watched the rest of the Black Orchid extras. I really wasn't expecting them to feature a Blue Peter presenter in his pants, but there you go.
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Date: 21 May 2008 17:01 (UTC)He was terribly adorable, wasn't he? :D
He was so earnest! It was lovely.
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Date: 22 May 2008 04:09 (UTC)LMAO.
Oh, god, the way you describe that reminds me of this thing that I read in one of Kurt Vonnegut's books. He was saying that you could plot most books out on a graph. At the left side, the beginning of the story, on the right the end. There would be a line between the two points. The top part of the line would indicate good fortune on the main character's behalf, and the bottom would indicate bad fortune.
He showed how this worked with a couple stories. With Cinderella, the story starts out in the bad fortune category, and slowly goes up, as she finds her fairy godmother and all that rot. Close to the end of the graph, there was a sudden drop into 'bad fortune' (the stroke of midnight). It stays low, until the Prince comes, and the line goes upwards quickly, with an infinity symbol at the top.
Anyway, he also did one for Franz Kafka's book "The Metamorphosis", in which a rather unhappy man turns into a cockroach.
Here (http://homepage.mac.com/languageismycopilot/gerry/vonnegut.jpg) is the graph.
... And yeah, your description of Jude reminded me of it. XD.
And I rambled on a lot. Sorry! XD
I want to rewatch Timelash now. :D :D :D
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Date: 22 May 2008 12:55 (UTC)Oh, Tess. "We were alll born under a blighted star" and so on. Luckily I was studying it with like minded people...
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Date: 22 May 2008 14:37 (UTC)It's from one of his collections of essays. Palm Sunday, I think. :3
Lucky, haha. X3
At least now I'm prepared to read Jude! x3
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Date: 23 May 2008 10:21 (UTC)At least now I'm prepared to read Jude! x3
Forewarned is forearmed!