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

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!