Ouch

[alexsarll]

Tony Hart too? That's far too many pillars of the national identity toppled in one week. Enough now, please, Mr Reaper, before Ray Davies or Stephen Fry is next.

All the walking for which I now have time and inclination has coincided, unfortunately, with some new boots which are still being worn in, and after Wednesday's excursions, I ended up with rather sore feet. No matter; all it changed on Thursday was that I Tubed from South Ken to Victoria, and since this gave me more reading time later, no harm done. Dead Letter Office is not really a dancey evening, though it's a thing of wonder to hear Subcircus' '86'd' in public in 2008; even during what passed for their heyday it was hardly a club hit. Similarly with The Vapour Trail; I was mainly there for the bands and left before the dancing got started, though it was great to hear non-obvious Cure tracks and 'Lagartija Nick', and the latter would surely have had me on the floor later. So after all this, I'm on the road to recovery and wondering where would be good for a gentle stroll on Sunday.
Except that the bus to Gloomy turfed us all out at Highbury Corner - and isn't that a vastly more annoying experience when you're on pre-pay? And the buses back from Gloomy just couldn't be bothered to exist at all. And in the three or four hours in between, there's a lot of Belle & Sebastian and a lot of other good stuff. There's (some of) you, there's me, and there's dancing. Consequently, today I am hobbling like a late period Peter Cushing. Well, I guess it's a good excuse to stay still and finish The Worm Ouroboros. Yes, I will read it, for all that it's starting to get a bit much. I will not press on with BSG*, nor with Cowboy Bebop to which I have finally been introduced a mere five years or so after the V were all raving about it. No.

*To repeat a point made elsewhere, anyone who spoilers me on the Final Five, much less the Final Cylon, is going to have their own intimate encounter with a toaster.

Comments

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

You'll probably have gathered this, it may be increasingly difficult to keep yourself immune from inadvertent BSG spoilers in the coming weeks, so you'd be best catching up on what you have to ASAP.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm still spoiler-cutting anything sensitive re: what I'm watching, and I'm halfway through Season 3! So as ever, I will be holding other people to my own high standards, and then getting extremely angry when they fail to live up to them. I mean, obviously I will avoid any posts which are blatantly about recent BSG, because I'm not totally kamikaze - I'm just worried about stuff like the article on another show entirely which, in passing, ruined the ending of The Sopranos for terrestrial viewers.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

If a bus doesn't go as far as it ought to and you're on pre-pay - ask for a "transfer ticket" and they'll give you a ticket you can use on the next bus you get.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I shall bear that in mind - though on this occasion waiting in the rain again seemed an even less appealing prospect than walking the remainder.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I have never seen Cowboy Bebop but mentalist communities which I am on for jpop reasons sometimes infringe upon my consciousness with this anime lark and I gather they are making a live action version with um, Keanu Reeves or something?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

So I am told. I can sort of see the logic in that the lead is a somewhat gormless chap with floppy black hair so it at least makes more sense than him playing John Constantine, but still, no.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think he's been brilliant in a handful of films which play to his strengths - Bill & Ted and the first Matrix in particular, and pretty good in a few more, including Much Ado About Nothing where he's slightly blacked up. But beyond that, he can be a bit of a plank.