Wednesday...

[fajrdrako]

Morning: breakfast at Nate's and groceries with maaseru at Loblaw's. They had a good deal in ground beef, and white irises which look like this:

Afternoon: After working on my apazine a little, I went with maaseru to CostCo for a hot dog lunch. Then, getting back home, worked more on my zine. Also worked a little on the CSS for my Dreamwidth page, and learned more about what I was doing and how to do it. (Note to self: learn more about CSS.) Also finished and sent in my French assignment.

Evening: auriaephiala and random came over and we had some wonderful yam quiche (brought by random) and meatloaf (made by me) and watched a DVD with commentary on the Donmar Warehouse production of Othello from 2007, with Chewitel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor, and the very interesting-looking Kelly Reilly. The staging looked excellent. We listened to a bit of the audio-recording, interested in hearing the accents: Ejiofor does Othello with an African accent. Also checked up where the actors were from; seems everyone was from London except the director (Michael Grandage is from Yorkshire) and Iago: Ewan McGregor, who is from Scotland. And out of long habit, I have a hard time not calling him Ewie-baby.

We even talked a little about Iago's character and motivation. On the DVD, McGregor speculates that it is love of Othello that has driven him to turn on the man he feels has betrayed him. random said the production he'd seen in 2005 (with Eamonn Walker) implied not so much that that Iago had gone over the edge, but that he had always been close to the edge and his military career had kept him sane as long as it was stable. When he lost his ambitions and blamed Othello for it, it was a reversion to a self that had been sublimated for years.

Personally I had always interpreted him as being fixated on Othello, but when he lost the position he thought due to him, and lost his position as being the person closest to Othello when Othello chose Desdemona, he embarked on a rampage of destruction.

After that we watched two episodes of Leverage, both excellent: "The Miracle Job" and "The Bank Shot Job". Loved them both, particularly the latter. What clever writing.