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.

[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...