Saturday...

[fajrdrako]

A long day, a busy day, a good day. Didn't get to do the reading and writing I'd hoped. Breakfasted at Ikea with maasboroshi and maaseru; bought a small table and a throw rug and some zippered CD holders. I'd wanted to buy the Bueno shelving to hold CDs and DVDs, but they were too big to fit in maaseru's small rental car.

I went to The Comic Book Shoppe and got Black Canary Wedding Planner for Pat. I went to the Silver Snail and got my own comics. Walked home - tired and with aching legs and feet, for not obvious reason - did some housework and made peanut butter cookies. Then Beulah came over and we went to dinner at The Green Door, then watched the first half of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet at my place. I love that movie. The actors in it are so good, and such fun to see - I'd forgotten about Charleton Heston being in it. And Michael Mzloney, whom I loved so much in A Midwinter's Tale. And Derek Jocobi, being excellent as Claudius - I'd forgotten how I liked his interpretation there.

Then went to the APA collation at Sheila's. A good time was had by all.

Except that I had accidentally printed an early draft of my zine - not the finished copy. The last six pages (not to mention all the proofreading and corections) were missing. Bummer.

Good day, though. Delightful. Just overly busy.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I need to get a copy of Branagh's Hamlet on DVD. But I don't get paid until September 27, so I won't for a while.

Derek Jacobi's Claudius is completely magnificent, and an example of the sort of thing that makes me love him even though he goes about saying stupid things about Shakespearean authorship. Sigh.

Hamlet...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I need to get a copy of Branagh's Hamlet on DVD

Me too. I have a video copy that was given to me when a friend upgraded to DVD, and it was acting funny. (Or my VCR was, not sure which.) It worked - mostly. With periods alarming glitches where the picture went wonky or disappeared altogether and we'd have to rewind.

But I really, really want that movie on DVD.

What does Derek Jacobi day about Shakespearean authorship? Surely he isn't an Oxfordian? Or worse?

I am foolish enough to go around saying I don't like Derek Jacobi (or his acting) because I didn't like him as the I, Claudius Claudius or as Brother Cadfael. (Cadfael in my mind resembles Sean Connery.) But then I saw Jacobi in Doctor Whoand again in this Hamlet and he was wonderful. So I guess I like him after all. Sometimes.

I love the nomenclature humour of casting Jacobi as the Hamlet Claudius.

Re: Hamlet...

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

He is, like, an official patron of the De Vere Society or somesuch. It makes me sad. I expect this sort of lunacy from Mark Rylance (whom I love, but who is bonkers), but not from someone as generally with-it-seeming as Jacobi!

because I didn't like him as the I, Claudius Claudius

*gasp* I am SHOCKED. SHOCKED AND APPALLED.

And I agree totally that he was completely brilliant in the Branagh Hamlet. You should also check out the Hamlet and Richard II he did for the BBC; those are great. (Also, Hamlet has Patrick Stewart as Claudius, and Richard II has John Gielgud as John of Gaunt. <3)

Re: Hamlet...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. Everyone in the world liked him in I, Claudius - except me.

Okay, I'll for for his BBC Hamlet nad RII because I like those plays and want to see every version I can. Patrick Stewart as Claudius? Now that's a must-see!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Catching up after getting home -- have you seen Dead Again? There is a truly wonderful Derek Jacobi in-joke at the end of that movie (and it's a terrific movie in and of itself, as well as a nostalgic Ken-and-Em thing).

Oh, and you need the DVD of Hamlet. Not just because it's widescreen and not slice n dice (so no more cyclops scenes [g]), but because of the really terrific commentary. Really.

Michael Maloney [sigh]. He's wonderful even when he's playing a whiny bastard (as in Henry V). And I adored him in Truly Madly Deeply. I know everyone else watches TMD for Alan Rickman. I watch it for Michael Maloney. I wish we got more of him over here...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Who did Maloney play in Henry V? I know I could look it up... Yes, I've seen Dead Again and enjoyed it. Don't exactly remember the in-joke, just that there was one.

Yes, I need the Hamlet DVD. Just as soon as I have sorted out my finances a little more....

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

The Dauphin.

The in-joke was that Jacobi's character stuttered at the end [g].

And the DVD is only about $20...

Although speaking as an unemployed person right now, I do understand about the finances.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The Dauphin - of course! And he was wonderful. I must watch that movie again a.s.a.p. I can think of a few friends who might like to accompany me, or at least be willing to have their arms twisted. It's been a while. (Too long.)

It isn't exactly that $20 is so much (though it's four lunches), it's that there are so many things competing for any spare $20 that might turn up, though I can't say right now that any $20 is 'spare'.... sigh.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

It's too bad we're over 2000 miles apart. I suspect we'd enjoy the occasional movie night together.

My reaction (once I get beyond basic necessities into discretionary money) to fund competition is pretty much first come, first served [g]. Probably not terribly fiscally responsible, but there you are.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

At least we can talk about them, when we see them!

First come, first serves - yeah, that works. After saving on DVDs, I splurged on books today. Eeeee! There's always something.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

An excellent point.

Did you buy anything in the book line that I might be interested in???

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

For the full list of purchases, see my LJ entry here (http://fajrdrako.livejournal.com/765283.html). I'm thrilled by it all - but haven't started actually reading any of it yet, as I'm still reading the library books I have out. Actually, the one I'm currently reading is not only from the library, it's from the library on Lisa's card, so I need to get through it quickly. I have a horror of overdue books - worst of all on my own card, unthinkable on hers!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Winnie the Pooh in Latin. Okay, you're out of my league right there [g].

I don't recognize most of the rest of them, I'm afraid.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love that book both in English and in Latin. I haven't read all the way through it in Latin yet, because I'm doing it very, very slowly - trying to understand it all as I go. It's wonderful fun. And in some ways funnier in Latin.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I never read Winnie the Pooh as a child -- missed it somehow. And I don't read Latin, period. So while I've read Pooh as an adult, I suspect it's not quite the same.

I'm still surprised that I missed it, though -- I was a voracious reader as a child, and had twice-monthly access to a large suburban public library.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My mother used to read Winnie the Pooh to me before I could read, and it was my favourite book as a preschooler - I'm sure she was very patient, reading it over and over. Including When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. I can still recite many of the poems in it.

Since it has been translated into many languages, it's one of the books I make a point of getting and reading in languages I am interested in - Latin, Esperanto, French - I even have a German translation of it somewhere. Though my German isn't nearly good enough to understand it.