Lost & Found announcement
Lost: the will to live. Last seen shortly before the opening credits of a Resnick DVD. Likely to be found staring wistfully at the hummus shelves in Tesco*. If sighted, please return as soon as possible - I have to get up tomorrow morning.
God. Damn. It. That adaptation** of Resnick's depressing...
Seriously, it should come with a mental health warning. I had to turn it off after 45 minutes and go listen to Joy Division. You know, just to cheer myself up a bit. I mean, by that point, even The Eternal (sample line: "With children my time is so wastefully spent") sounded damn near as uplifiting as Beethoven's Ode to Joy***.
Still, only another two and a bit episodes to watch, I suppose. Best get back to it. Now, where did I put those razor blades...
N.B. The producer of the series is our lecturer for scriptwriting (and very good he is too, despite having Resnick on his CV). He still has the copyright for it, or something, so it was just a series that was easy for us to use - for studying adaptation, writing sample scenes and storylines for the characters, and so forth. Well, I say "easy" - few things are easy when you've just slipped into a depression induced catatonic stupor. But anyway.
UPDATE: On that IMDb page someone wants to know when Resnick will be available on DVD - user name: CrazyMary.
No more need be said.
*HUMMUS UPDATE: fancy expensive hummus (caramellised onion; olive; lemon and coriander - that kind of thing) can now be found at Tesco again; sadly, none of the affordable plain stuff yet [sighs in a prematurely nostalgic fashion].
**don't believe that customer review: it's all lies. At least, the positive bits are.
***or whatever - I've never really been into happy music.
9 comments:
"For the children."
"What children?"
"All the children."
"On rye or in a bap?"
ps Can you move me from the list, onto the not under duress list. I've finally got it...
:) That's pretty much Lonely Hearts summed up in four lines, isn't it? Excellent.
And consider your link moved.
Um, mostly because it has been. Unless you're reading this in the moments before I do it, in which case it hasn't been. But you could still consider it moved if you like. Sometimes I should just stop writing.
No you shouldn't - that would be wronging.
Another ps...1) thanyou for shifting my place - this blogging game's getting dangerous now. Hours to fill, and some lovely people out there.
2) Given our task to watch 'Life On Mars' (by the way the Penryn Odeon is available for large screen viewing..) check out Cultural Snow's tirade about it. Gives me some hope - as a) I've never 'got it' - and I'm the one who makes a case for HollyOaks and Holby...and b) does it make a certain comment about some certain people we know who do like it? Could make for an interesting debate next Thursday?
My worst fear is that we are sliding down a Top Gear Police procedural riddled hole...Help!
Just read the Cultural Snow bit - nope, can't possibly imagine who you were thinking of... :)
I've never really got Top Gear, and I've never seen the Life on Mars thing, so at least you'll have company as you cling desperately to the edge of that particular abyss. Well, me anyway; oh so talkative type that I am.
Oh, and will be there on Tuesday. Thanks. It can be a little difficult to get control of the telly here.
Ok, so now I'll own up - never been able to watch more than 5 mins of either Top Gear or Life on Mars. Does that make me a cultural failure...
Perhaps, as revenge I will lock all the proponents of suggested viewing of said programmes in a room with a contiual loop of Wag's Boutique and America's Next Top Model on the screen..
I liked Life on Mars (well, the three first episodes of the series 1 I've seen), mainly because of
a) John Simm
b) I couldn't understand a thing Philip Glenister was saying
I think you are right, and it used to be good. I rarely catch things as they happen, seem to live with my head sometime in the 1940s, or 20s or backstage in some Victoriana theatre. Hence so late to blogging...
It also confused me as I couldn't understand why blokey from corronation St was in it - but apparently its not him any way.
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