it occurred to me

Mar 19, 2011 10:18

that I haven't really poked my head above ground in a while, so here I am, your friendly imitator of certain groundhogs. You know it is spring!

the usual TMI )

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bulleteyes March 19 2011, 15:42:21 UTC
Always good to hear from you. Yeah, the sick and tired bit just reaches a point where it is not fun anymore . . . (Every time I've used that line around a well person they don't get it and every person who has dealt with severe illness nods at the black humour. Kinda lets you in on where people are at the moment.)

I highly recommend the film, "Dean Spanley". Netfix will stream it. Jeremy Northram, Bryan Brown, a brilliant Sam Neil and my favorite marvelous old wreck, Peter O'Toole proving once again that he can never be counted out until he says he's done. Don't read too much about it lest they give things away and I know you don't care for those nasty spoilers. It is from s short story by Lord Dunsany and reader that you are you might be familiar with his work.

It's been a weird comfort to me lately.

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dossier March 19 2011, 16:03:04 UTC
I have added it to my queue, because Peter O'Toole is indeed the best old wreck, ever. There's a movie not on Netflix, Wings of Fame, which is a weird little metaphysical flick. Very hard to find, sadly, but if you can locate it, I do recommend it for the weirdness.

I'm handling the sick and tired of being sick and tired as it is definitely a means to an end. It does give you a lot of empathy towards other people who are chronically unwell.

It really only lasts about a week, so tolerable. The last time I was really ill it went on about 5 years before I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance, and wow, that was such a relief. Nothing like finally being healthy again! I am looking forward to that in the near future.

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teenygozer March 19 2011, 16:03:21 UTC
Fingers crossed you are feeling better soon!

Meeee-thos! I remember sitting up and saying, "WHO IS THAT? WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!" when they do that close up on him on the floor in his study. I knew exactly how Duncan felt. What I wouldn't have given for The Methos and Joe Show to have followed up after HL cancellation. The HL movies play like the crackiest of crack-fic, best not to take them seriously, but enjoy them for their silliness--I hope someone in the fandom can lend them to you to save you having to spend money on them.

There was a great deal of fabulous fiction that was sparked by Methos' arrival on the scene (seriously, in the mid-to-late-90s we had a Golden Age of HL fandom!) that would have made great cinema. Do you need story recs, or are you up on the fandom from a fic POV?

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dossier March 19 2011, 16:16:42 UTC
LOL I backed into Highlander from the fanfic, but recs are always welcome, because I didn't have any method to save what I had read, and I am missing a huge chunk of Highlander things wot I have read on my delicious. MacGeorge was a favorite, as I recall, as is Kat Allison and Jeanne deCarnin (rip).

I'd previously seen the episode 'Methos' back in the day (someone gave me an all Methos vhs tape), and so I didn't really have too much context for the episode the first time around, but seeing it after having been through S1-2, I thought it totally fascinating that the 'immortal warning signal' that Adam was putting out was composed of a lot of really deep tones, very heavy. No way that he could be any one but the R.O.G.! I also had forgotten that Methos had a new catchphrase to enlighten Duncan: Live another day, grow stronger. Nice alternative to there can only be one, and a real paradigm shift, showing just how he got to be that old. Crafty and sly, our Methos.

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teenygozer March 19 2011, 17:18:29 UTC
I loved MacGeorge, too -- bizarrely, I just now did a search for her work and Google warned me off her wordsmith site! Apparently it's very recently been found to install malicious software on the computer of anyone who browses it! The page I got noted that it could be a third-party infestation, which seems likely as I doubt she'd put malicious software on her own site. I also remember Kat Allison and Jeanne DeCarnin as good 'uns and am going to do some searches for their stuff, too. Hopefully their sites won't be infested with malware ( ... )

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