T for Terrific, V for Variety...
Apr. 21st, 2010 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleMy parents always say the worst thing they ever did for me was give me a tv for Christmas when I was eight. To my great delight I get to counter with the fact that I now get paid to watch videos for a living (sort of). [It was little white plastic black and white set. I watched a lot of Mission Impossible on it when I was supposed to be sleeping :)]
But it is true that I love me some teevee.
So exploring all these new channels I get now is just fascinating.
Have now seen the crack that is Top Gear.
I watched a 1960 film with Albert Finney called called "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning," which was a bit like a downmarket "Alfie" but kept giving me Ghost Machine flashbacks as it was a little bit the same tone as Owen's abusive yob storyline.
eta: here's the theatrical poster. I do love a poster with quotes by Bosley Crowther.
Also, watched a bit of new new Who as they were re-running "The Eleventh Hour." BBCA chopped out the unexpectedly naked Doctor bit, which when I thought about it didn't surprise me in the least. But still...
In non tv related news...
Had a bit of a fright just now when I looked at my calendar and realized that May 1 is only 10 days away. INCOMING THEATRICALNESS!! INCOMING INCOMING!! YELLOW ALERT!
LOL
Fall, we do the Shakespeare in the park festival. Spring, we do A Journey. Townwide peripatetic theatricalness. Last year I was the Dormouse in our Alice themed Journey. We threw a tea party at the local coffee shop and had the kids and their parents play along with our wackiness. This year it's fairy tale based and I am not really sure what I'm getting up to, other than an interactive craft/creativity thing ... and then the whole day culminates in the town park where we get everyone to play along with us as we go mad and cultivate silliness. Part of the New York company comes in for the weekend and it's exhausting, but very exciting.
Great fun. I just sort of didn't realize it was that close. Dude. Time and me just don't get along!
But it is true that I love me some teevee.
So exploring all these new channels I get now is just fascinating.
Have now seen the crack that is Top Gear.
I watched a 1960 film with Albert Finney called called "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning," which was a bit like a downmarket "Alfie" but kept giving me Ghost Machine flashbacks as it was a little bit the same tone as Owen's abusive yob storyline.
eta: here's the theatrical poster. I do love a poster with quotes by Bosley Crowther.
Also, watched a bit of new new Who as they were re-running "The Eleventh Hour." BBCA chopped out the unexpectedly naked Doctor bit, which when I thought about it didn't surprise me in the least. But still...
In non tv related news...
Had a bit of a fright just now when I looked at my calendar and realized that May 1 is only 10 days away. INCOMING THEATRICALNESS!! INCOMING INCOMING!! YELLOW ALERT!
LOL
Fall, we do the Shakespeare in the park festival. Spring, we do A Journey. Townwide peripatetic theatricalness. Last year I was the Dormouse in our Alice themed Journey. We threw a tea party at the local coffee shop and had the kids and their parents play along with our wackiness. This year it's fairy tale based and I am not really sure what I'm getting up to, other than an interactive craft/creativity thing ... and then the whole day culminates in the town park where we get everyone to play along with us as we go mad and cultivate silliness. Part of the New York company comes in for the weekend and it's exhausting, but very exciting.
Great fun. I just sort of didn't realize it was that close. Dude. Time and me just don't get along!
