Good Morning!

[stoney321]

Somehow, I ended up with a whole bunch of new folks on this journal, which.... HELLO! you did read the user info page, right? I'm a complete spazz. Fair warning! And a little reminder that you don't have to ask to friend me, I know there are a bunch of people who just read this space without interaction, which is fine. Commenting and chatting is fine, as always! I know there are some people who do those "getting to know you" fill out thingies, but I haven't had enough coffee in my blood system to be that coherent, so I'm doing it in poll format!



[Poll #700963]


Holy sheet! That's one big poll. I'll wait a few days before checking to see how many people defriended me over that one. WHEEEEEEE!! and I don't look often so you can drop me like a bad habit and there will be no hurt feelings, yo.

*cough* In other news, I may have a new list of Gud Summries coming up - oh lord.*cough* And my lovely, lovely Kako had her baby and is well - even though VERY early, yipes! - and I saw pictures and OH! baby boys!! *so proud of my brave, brave mskakaako*

[ETA]: It's ely_jan's birthday?? *kicks semagic for not telling me* Happy birthday! She is a KICK ASS beta, a great person, and I like her bunches. I hope today is one of the better days in recent past, tootsie pop! *squish*

[ETA2:] DAMMIT!! If HP is your fandom, let me have it in comments. I TOTALLY FLAKED, THE HELL? (I was going for the joke, but the JOKE IS ON ME.)

Comments

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

I don't think I want to know, but pls pls explain.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ha! Is v v simple: I am broken inside. Is the first thing to pop up.


Also: HELLO!! *squishes you* So glad to play with you recently, JOY.

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

Hello to YOU. The playing is good! Agh, am so scared for my exams. *clings* /irrelevance.

Laurence Olivier. No, he DID have affairs with men, I just cannot remember who. D'you like Olivier, then?

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, he did, am trying to think. I had a link that listed all of that information and the site has been shut down!!

(Like Olivier? You kidding? I have a background in theatuh, madam, I love all the great Old Ones.)

YOU WILL ROCK THE EXAMS. *is certain*

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

If I had the energy (I so don't) I would go and check in my Olivier biography.
(Hey hey! Tell about the background. However, I would like to say that I think his Lear was Very Bad - the one they televised - even worse than ...ohgod, I cannot remember his name yes I CAN Robert Stephens's Lear, why is it that old men who are mad and dying always want to be Lear? Wait, I answered my own question. Ian McKellen is doing Lear now, at Stratford)

*wails* I do HOPE so.

[cruisn4alawsuit.livejournal.com]

Have studied acting (both screen and stage) since was small child, did a few commercials as child, was improv and stand-up comic, then became hausfrau and buried my soul to compensate. :D

IAN MCKELLAN will be greatness.

And I am lazy and not logging out as Tom, so pls to be forgiving. (oh, Sophie, you study so hard, are naturally sponge-like with your brain, and you shall survive!! I do remember the stress of exam time but srlsy. You will do well.)

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

Dude WHY the hausfrau. Obviously v. great and wondrous, but could you not write/publish stuff? I didn't do commercials, but I had little tiny TV parts a couple of times.

Hmmmm. OH OH but Harriet Walter is being Cleopatra I DIE OF THE LOVE. No seriously I am the world's most pathetic H. Walter fangirl (her and Judi Dench, but MOSTLY Harriet Walter). Harriet Walter is brilliant (note to self, Sophie, GET OVER THIS), and she is beautiful and tall and she was in a play with Judi Dench and Toby Stephens and it was all fabulous. Also her Beatrice was the best thing ever and I have frozen my arse off at SO MANY STAGE DOORS.

Oh, you should come visit me. I am so not hard studying or anything. Also I cannot do sentences for some reason, suspect am tired.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

UGH, is my GREATEST SORROW that I stopped auditioning, srsly. Am trying to finish My Big Novel which could satisfy me inside...

Oh JUDI DENCH. I would cry if I met her. How I love that woman. And Emma. And so many others, mostly UK Actresses, funny... Am not familiar with Harriet Walter - DON'T SHOOT - and will remedy this.

I would loooooooove to come out there and have a week of theater going and good food and interesting discussion, YES.

(You should go mock Tom. If you have time. :D )

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

What is your Big Novel about.

I have met her!! Twice. She is very small. Possibly smaller than me, and I am tiny. Also she has violet-coloured eyes i KNOW only Mary Sues have violet-coloured eyes, but Judi Dench has them too. Also I liked her husband, Michael Williams? Have you seen Tea With Mussolini?

You SHOULD. It would be great.

(I will! Although at present I am reading what George Orwell had to say about TS Eliot, and finding soap opera slash fanfiction. Oh dear)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

In a nutshell: how motherhood is the new pastoral myth and the damage that causes reflected over the generations.

Violet! She is Emily Starr, then! And TS Eliot had proper worship for cats, which I approve, and WHAT SOAP OPERA SLASH??

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

Oooh. *applauds* How long is it?

*grins* Brit soap opera slash. Um, Coronation Street? Anyway, I just found out that Mike Baldwin is going to die of a heart attack in the arms of Ken Barlow, who will then kiss him on the forehead goodbye, and I started giggling about how if Corrie was a proper fandom, everyone would be really happy, but there is shockingly little Corrie slash.

Backstory: Mike and Ken are both 60-odd old men who have been rivals since forever (they've both been in Corrie for like 30 years) because Mike married Ken's daughter at one point and also stole Ken's wife, the awful Deidre, and yes. And Ken is Northern Grit and Intellectualism, while Mike is Cockney Wide Boy, but anyway now Mike has Alzheimer's and is dying.

...our soaps are less glamorous than yours, yup.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

...So far, short story length. Contemplated submission as short story, but have more to say, I fear. *sighs*

And I looooooove Brit Soaps. The few I've seen, I should add. I am FOAMING at the mouth with need of This Life season 2. Is not available in my region code, and I have an older DVD player and I am lame and sad with the lack of it.

Ooooh, Coronation Street! I will add that to either Netflix queue or torrent search and see what the fuss is! Am intrigued.

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. *grins* No no, you won't like Coronation Street! It's.. weird. It's not a pretty soap like This Life (which, um, isn't really a soap, it's more of a drama serial - filmed on film, not tape, done in series) or Cold Feet (OH if you like This Life, you will LOVE Cold Feet, it's SO MUCH BETTER and James Nesbitt and Fay Ripley are LOVE. Also David in it is the posh brother from Notting Hill), it's this REALLY long-running (since 1960) soap set on a street in Lancashire, with a pub at the end of the street called the Rover's Return. Hmm. Don't think you'd know any of the actors except one guy who used to be in Red Dwarf, and one guy who played Alexander (the Emmett character) in UK QAF.

Have you seen EastEnders? That's the BBC's soap (Corrie is made by ITV, as is Cold Feet), which has run since 1985 (and which my Dad makes, sometimes!) and is set in a square (Albert Square) in the East End of London.

They're both patchy, but Coronation Street can be TOTALLY HILARIOUS, because sometimes the writing is just insane. Ian McKellan did a bit part in it because he loves it so much.

OH, and there's a radio soap - can you get Radio 4 or the BBC World Service on the radio/through your computer? You would like Radio 4, I think. Anyway, The Archers has been on every day for 50 years or something. And is amusing and very, very gentle and tame.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HA! Okay, nix the Coronation Street and yes, I know EastEnders! How cool that your dad works on it! Not well, but it comes here, and have caught it on occassion. I stream BBC Radio 4 and 2 on my computer - even have JackDav's "A Clockwork Orange" from Radio 4 on my PC.

I am a bad TV watcher - there are a scant handful of shows I keep up with. I usually have fifty things happening at once, so regular schedules of sitting down and soaking up programs is a rare treat. And most American TV is absolute crap. :D (few rare exceptions: Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Scrubs, Sopranos, Deadwood.)

Currently I am making a habit of watching the new season (for us, at any rate) of Little Brittain, which cracks me up with its awfulness and hilarity. Yeahbut Nobut. And Anthony Head! I have a bit of a crush on him.

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

You listen to Radio 2? Hee. *grins* My MUM listens to Radio 2. Oh, Stoney. You are my mum. Okay, no. But anyway. All right-thinking Brits listen to Radio 4.

Have you seen the Richard Curtis TV stuff? Like, Blackadder, the Vicar of Dibley etc? You'd like the Vicar of Dibley (and of course you'd like Blackadder, but I'd be surprised if you hadn't seen it). Blackadder is... basically, younger versions of the later Richard Curtis casts. If you like Blackadder, you'll like QI, which is a BBC2 gameshow with Stephen Fry as quizmaster. What about A Bit of Fry and Laurie? I may be preaching to the choir here, but is Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (House). And it's funny.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_willferrell/]

Is BBC2 the one with news? Whichever one of your four radio stations with news, and the one with comedy, etc. etc.

OH MY GOD ARE YOU INSINUATING THAT I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH ROWAN ATKINSON? Blackadder was ALWAYS watched in my house. Chuh, next you'll be telling me of "Jeeves and Wooster" like I are un imbesill. :D

Now. NATURALLY you've watched M*A*S*H. And Seinfeld.

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

Well I didn't know if it GOT over there.

*grins* Hmm-mmm, a little Seinfeld, but no M*A*S*H, although I used to be able to play the theme tune for the latter. I loved Frasier.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

*hopes you know that I'm teasing you*

Oh, I loooooved Frasier for its first five seasons. It got a bit formulaic the last two, but still had its moments. Funny, funny. Niles/Frasier were the best neurotic brothers ever.