Trying to sail around the world, just me and a cat

[alexsarll]

For some reason I chickened out of giving Cromwell's statue the usual two fingers yesterday. I suppose I simply wasn't wearing enough black, and that can often rob me of some of my...me.

Those of you with the good taste and discernment to be members of diggerdydum will already know this, but:
Two Doctors a foot
From me at NFT; O
MGoneoneone
I was there through the munificence of alexdecampi to see The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse. I had been warned that it wasn't actually particularly funny, but I wasn't especially bothered by that; I have usually enjoyed the League more for creating a mood than making me laugh out loud. And besides, the premise (writers pursued by their own characters, a fictional world become aware of its own fictionality) is exactly the sort of thing I love. It was a pleasant surprise, then, to find out that as well as that, the film is bloody funny. Magnificently self-indulgent, of course, but in such a way that even if you don't know the TV series, it still works. As the League pointed out afterwards, Pleasantville et al manage a similar trick with programmes which don't actually exist. The whole Q&A session was a thorough joy; the League played to the unpleasant versions of themselves they put on screen (or at least, that's how they'd like us to interpret it...), mocked the interviewer and audience (deservedly) and gave us an innovative pre-DVD selection of live deleted scenes. Plus, Reece, who was apparently bunking off the technical for his forthcoming run in As You Like It, did his "All the world's a stage..." speech in a variety of League personas.

Have you ever thought 'My life is incomplete without a picture of barrysarll wielding nunchucks?' If so, and if you do not read the ongoing saga of 666inmyheart, the answer to your prayers is here.

Matthew Vaughn is off X3.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Even aside from my optimism about how he'd do it, is it really likely the replacement will be some genius auteur? I fear they'll get a hack.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh, hush! Jersey Girl was a mis-step, but I still believe.

[capitalflash.livejournal.com]

i'm really worried now...

[666inmyheart.livejournal.com]

The ongoing saga of 666inmyheart. I like that. I may have to nick use it.

xx

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Her ongoing mission: to seek out new mentalism, to boldly drink where no man has drunk before.

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

Hey, was the last question about 'do you write yourselves or each other and if so have you learned anything about your perceptions of each other?' Cos if so, that was my friend chicalolita

Am REALLY looking forward to going to the fillum, ho yes. TLoG is directly or indirectly responsible for me knowing basically everyone I am not related to.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I did wonder that there weren't more people there that I recognised, might have known they'd be friends of friends. Yes, yes it was. Did she succeed in stealing the mic?

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

Dunno, but apparently David Walliams was ogling her low cut top, according to her friends. We used to be on a LoG forum, you see, which is how we met, and also on a Yahoogroup which is how I met that Dickon and then that's essentially how I ended up meeting all of you lot.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I didn't spot Walliams. Figures, though.

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

Tis the Comedy Mafia.

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

what if my life is not complete without a picture of batty sarll wielding nuchucks and I have a prohibative work firewall?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Then presumably even if I posted said picture, it would not show, would it?

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

not unless you move it from it's current net location, or copy and paste it into an email for me.......

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

Be fair, now. One not-quite Doctor and one not-yet Doctor.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

He's a Time Lord! You can't rule future incarnations out of play. Sideways ones, perhaps - but I plead Hypertime.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Hypertime = further interest for diggerdydum, keep up the good work Comrade Sarll.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Hypertime is actually a DC comics thing, I'm not sure if the term has ever been used in Who...

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Bollocks! It sounded good. Oh never mind.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

Reece! :D Lalalalalalaa

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Straight.

The play he's in is at Wyndham's Theatre from Friday, apparently.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

[innerbrat]

NUNCHUCKS!

When can I play with them? I wanna play with them!

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

Ah, you realise what you have set yourself up for there, don't you?

[innerbrat]

If I get a photo of myself wielding chucks and looking twice as badass and yet also much prettier than the Sarll, it'll all be worth it.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

I don't think I looked badass when I tried (the opposite infact) but I did look pretty! :D

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think they are currently in the custody of kitty_collar.

[666inmyheart.livejournal.com]

We got them from the 99p shop on Camden Road when you're walking towards Mornington Crescent. It is offically the best 99p shop in the WORLD.

I still have my Special Police badge and my gun in its holster in my bag. I took it to work with me in case someone got special.

xx

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Given the service users with whom you work, I'd imagine that's a racing certainty.

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

What are your thoughts on Mr Wrench then?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I like it, though it wasn't quite what I expected - I think I had something more flamboyant in mind, rather than straight synthpop. Well, for a given value of 'straight'...

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is fairly straight ahead synth-pop I suppose. In fact it's probably one of the 'straightest' tracks on his album, thinking about it. The others are generally more flamboyant and, I expect, closer to what you imagined, but SL is a good, er, entry point (heh) into him.