lea's twitterings: TOO INANE FOR LJ!

[angevin2]

• 00:16 discussion question for tomorrow: plato is an enormous wanker, Y/Y? #
• 01:46 i do have to say, it's sort of neat seeing particle physics all over my flist. even though i don't understand it. #
• 01:54 holy shit the MLA job info list comes out friday *cries and cries* #
• 08:37 in class. students doing department-mandated thingie. want to go home and go back to bed but, alas, cannot. #
• 10:21 why can't people hold highly-strung phone conversations in places that ARE NOT THE FACULTY COMMONS? #
• 14:20 in-class exercises are useful, but occasionally i will hear students whispering and assume they're going "i hate this class so much and why #
• 14:20 is our instructor such an idiot?" possibly i am just paranoid. #
• 18:14 @ theredshoes dude, that is pretty awesome. i wonder if the "has the lhc destroyed the world" site has one too... #
• 18:30 @ theredshoes i know! i have it on my flist #
• 18:31 @ theredshoes dude i should do some twitter shakesnark theater tonight! i haven't done any in ages #
• 18:44 @ theredshoes awesome. in a few minutes i shall make something to eat, and then slap in some shakespeare. #
• 18:45 @ theredshoes now i just need to decide which one to watch #
• 18:53 i am going to go make a sandwich. while i'm away, feel free to make suggestions for tonight's play :) #
• 18:56 @ theredshoes okay, that'll work. macbeth it is #
• 19:04 i have a fried egg sandwich and am starting up macbeth. with nicol williamson and jane lapotaire. #
• 19:04 it has a particularly psychedelic-looking menu screen. #
• 19:05 the witches are gathering at mini-stonehenge. #
• 19:06 i like how everybody comes across the bloody guy in the middle of nowhere #
• 19:07 @ theredshoes no, they're just sort of wearing lots and lots and lots of layers. ragged layers. also one of them appears to be brenda bruce. #
• 19:07 @ theredshoes don't get too excited; i have heard this is not one of their greatest installments. we'll see, i guess. #
• 19:09 the bloody sergeant is having difficulty with his blank verse, i fear. though i suppose it's hard to speak fluently when you're bleeding all #
• 19:09 over the place. #
• 19:57 through the audience #
• 19:58 donalbain looks like a girl and sounds like a ferengi. #
• 19:58 @ theredshoes i actually prefer when they talk to the camera for the most part, but there are ways to do it and ways not to. #
• 19:59 @ theredshoes it does work sometimes though. in the mckellen richard iii for instance it is fantastic (i think film richard iiis HAVE TO #
• 20:00 talk to the camera) #
• 20:03 @ theredshoes well, the chorus directly and explicitly address the audience. which helps. banquo is talking to the camera now and it is bad. #
• 20:03 @ theredshoes dude i think it is hugely interesting. but you are right about interiority. otoh how does it translate to film when you film a #
• 20:04 production that predates the entire concept of the fourth wall? #
• 20:05 i like that when mac sends lady mac off so he can talk to the murderers she stays in the foreground. it emphasizes the increasing-alienation #
• 20:05 thing. also nicol williamson is really, really annoying me. #
• 20:06 "and put a barren scepter in my grip"? REPRODUCTION: UR DOIN IT RONG. #
• 20:07 @ theredshoes dude, i bet you'd be a good director. #
• 20:07 note for the ESOL: i will not put the murderers in sweatpants. #
• 20:08 thing that would be a great crackfic: macbeth persuading the two murderers that banquo is responsible for everything bad about their lives #
• 20:09 @ theredshoes i saw it live twice; both productions were highly flawed. sadly, lady mac cannot carry the play on her own #
• 20:09 also, i have not seen a lot of nicol williamson's work. in other things he changes his facial expression sometimes, right? #
• 20:09 i remember his hamlet being rather more effective than his macbeth #
• 20:10 @ theredshoes well, that owl totally stole the show! #
• 20:12 i know that lady mac is starting to crack up in the second half, but i feel like she shouldn't be overly _weepy_ about it. #
• 20:13 oh man, macbeth should not say "duncan is in his graaaaaaaaaaaaave" as though he were trying to sound like gollum #
• 20:44 @ theredshoes i think tolkien was directly responding to macbeth in several places in lotr -- iirc he says so in the letters. #
• 20:44 the ents are because he was disappointed by how the birnam wood thing turned out #
• 20:45 you know, lady macduff could have gotten out if the damn messenger had hurried up. or for that matter if she'd left instead of asiding #
• 20:46 @ theredshoes not really. #
• 20:47 okay, the death of wee macduff was, um, kind of silly #
• 20:47 DAMMIT PRODUCTION STOP MAKING HARROWING MURDER SCENES INAPPROPRIATELY HILARIOUS #
• 20:48 @ theredshoes YES. because he is hilarious. #
• 20:48 malcolm looks like a bargain-basement rufus sewell, actually. #
• 20:49 i mean, really, you should not play monkey-in-the-middle with a small boy and then toss him to a guy who then spears him on his sword #
• 20:49 because it just looks really stupid #
• 20:51 @ theredshoes they get in a circle, and one of them holds lady macduff down, and the others toss the kid around #
• 20:51 then one of them pulls a sword out, and the one with the kid picks him up, throws him through the air, and he lands on the sword. it is not #
• 20:52 particularly realistic. #
• 20:52 i will say that the macduff/malcolm scene plays differently when malcolm is played by a canny-looking man with facial hair instead of a #
• 20:52 gormless twit #
• 20:53 i love how macduff is all "YOU ARE NOT FIT TO LIVE, ASSHOLE" #
• 20:53 @ speakmefair it is SO, SO WRONG. #
• 20:54 macduff: "fuck this shit, i'm moving to /canada/ england." #
• 20:55 "i am yet unknown to woman! okay, it's because i'm gay, but still!" #
• 20:56 this production is beardier than it really needs to be. #
• 21:14 @ theredshoes well yes, but i was mostly linking you for the cast lists! #
• 21:18 I GIN TO BE A WEEEEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRRY OF THE SUUUUUUUUN #
• 21:18 i do not love nicol williamson's snarly gollumy delivery #
• 21:22 man, the last act of macbeth just is not really all that much fun #
• 21:22 @ theredshoes *cracks up* #
• 21:23 i do like that macbeth is sitting on the steps in front of the throne when macduff comes in and is like "BRING IT BITCH" #
• 21:23 @ theredshoes pretty badly. #
• 21:24 one of these days, i would like to see a macduff who did not say "untimely RRRRRRRRRRRRRIPPED" #
• 21:25 i have to say that when mackers says "i will not yield to kiss the ground before young malcolm's feet" i always go "YEAH" #
• 21:25 and macduff duly lays on. #
• 21:26 WHAT? THAT WAS A STUPID SWORDFIGHT #
• 21:26 @ theredshoes YES HE IS. #
• 21:28 there is no head-severing. we come back to macduff standing over macbeth's body on the steps of the throne #
• 21:29 malcolm: "by the way, i'm anglicized now. yay!" #
• 21:30 at the end, fleance goes over to macbeth's body, takes a look at it, then gives malcolm a long hard look. fade to red. #
• 21:31 @ theredshoes they zoom in on macbeth's face during the swordfight and then cut to what's going on outside #
• 21:31 then they all go into the castle and there's macduff and an ex-macbeth #
• 21:32 @ theredshoes they cut it. #
• 21:33 well, that was not one of the better beeb shakespeare installments. #
• 21:33 @ theredshoes the owl had a REALLY GOOD AGENT. #
• 21:49 maybe tomorrow i will watch some jacobi!hamlet #
• 21:50 there's a bit more here tinyurl.com/5erew5 #
• 21:50 along with some clips from the one i just watched #
• 21:51 @ theredshoes tomorrow night's shakesnark twitter theater will be, like, four hours of me perving on derek jacobi. #
• 21:52 hey, here is the unfortunate banquet scene from the beeb version tinyurl.com/58uanl #
• 21:52 if you wish to see what i was experiencing #
• 21:53 @ theredshoes I DO LOFF YOU. I AM JUST EVIL, IS ALL #
• 21:54 @ theredshoes they were desperately ineffective witches. the mckellen production had awesome witches. even when they weren't smearing goo on #
• 21:54 young shirtless sir ian. #
• 21:56 @ theredshoes I NEVER LIE ABOUT LOW-RENT RUFUS SEWELLS #
• 21:58 @ theredshoes I DID, YES, BUT YOU HAVE THE SIR IAN/DAME JUDI STUFF TO WATCH, TOO #
• 22:00 @ theredshoes the pinkness of the lighting is consistent throughout. #
• 22:00 except in england where the sky is blue. #
• 22:03 @ theredshoes the annoying thing is that brenda bruce plays mistress quickly in the second tet and is quite good there #
• 22:04 @ theredshoes I KNOW. IT IS ALL THERE. GAH. #
• 22:07 @ theredshoes that's because in this production THEY ARE WEENIES. #
• 22:07 @ theredshoes but dog-beslobbered car rugs are HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. well, except for the cars. #
• 22:11 @ theredshoes //cracks the hell up #
• 22:15 @ theredshoes yes indeed. the thing is, though, that jon finch is hot. #
• 22:17 @ theredshoes it's a pig actually. #
• 22:30 dude here is the post-stabbination scene tinyurl.com/5cd55p #
• 22:30 @ speakmefair based on his line delivery? EXTREMELY. but then, it was the beeb shakespeare, everyone was doing it. #
• 22:31 @ theredshoes sir ian's macbeth lives in a tiny little box inside his own head, and the box has a bomb in it. #
• 22:33 @ theredshoes omg, watch the post-murder scene next #
• 22:33 as i said: it's like you can smell the blood on his hands #
• 22:34 oh hey, the murderer in sir ian's banquet scene is greg hicks, whom i saw as coriolanus five years ago. he was excellent. #
• 22:36 @ theredshoes I KNOW. it is really one of the greatest shakespeare performances i have ever seen. #
• 22:38 @ theredshoes YES. this production is just unrelentingly intense. #
• 22:40 @ theredshoes YEAH. i saw his merchant of venice in london. that was filmed too; i wonder if any of it is on youtube? it was amazing. #
• 22:41 man. how the hell does sir ian DO THAT? #
• 22:41 @ theredshoes where are you at? #
• 22:42 @ theredshoes OMG I KNOW. IT'S, YEAH #
• 22:43 @ theredshoes YEAH #
• 22:47 @ theredshoes the thing is: now you'll never be able to watch another macbeth without going "eh, he's not ian mckellen." #
• 22:48 dude we should watch that together, too, once you get it from netflix. shakespeare movie buddies! #
• 22:51 @ theredshoes (also there are a lot of beeb shakespeares at netflix... *enable enable enable*) #
• 22:51 also i wonder if that film version of macbeth with tilda swinton as lady mac is still in the works? #
• 22:52 @ theredshoes NO YOU DON'T, SHE'S CRAZY #
• 22:55 @ theredshoes i can't remember if she was supposed to be playing opposite sean bean or philip seymour hoffman #
• 22:56 @ theredshoes also, tilda swinton is always brilliant. (one of my heart's fondest desires is that she should play richard ii ;)) #
• 23:00 @ theredshoes it looks like they have most of them, actually #
• 23:01 @ theredshoes so basically it is in development hell. #
• 23:03 @ theredshoes I AM A BLACK HOLE OF SHAKESPEARENESS. ...come to think of it this is why i can't maintain friendships. sigh. #
• 23:08 dude i killed the conversation with my emo! #
• 23:10 i am not really feeling that emo atm #
• 23:10 because i was watching sir ian and that is happymaking. #
• 23:11 @ theredshoes YAY BECAUSE MY SHAKESPEARENESS IS GIANT AND EATS PLANETS #
• 23:14 @ theredshoes IT IS LIKE THE LARGE SHAKESPEARE COLLIDER #
• 23:18 @ theredshoes HA YES. WELL, WE CAN BE PRETTY SURE _THAT_ WILL CAUSE SOME PRETTY SPECTACULAR SPLODINESS #
• 23:22 i have been stricken with an unrelated craving for tacos. #
• 23:24 @ theredshoes oh man, nachos. i am too broke for tacos myself, even if there were a good place to get them in st. louis which there isn't. #
• 23:25 there used to be a quite good tex-mex place in dogtown which closed because the rise in food and gas prices made it unprofitable #
• 23:25 STUPID GLOBAL CRISES. DEPRIVE ME OF MY TEX-MEX, WILL YOU #
• 23:31 @ speakmefair boooo. that's another thing i'm not sure we have, really good indian food. though there are some great thai and vietnamese #
• 23:32 places here #
• 23:34 damn, now i am hungry. perhaps i shall have some spaghetti, with the rest of the olive pesto from last night #
• 23:36 @ speakmefair potatoes are good in all contexts. #
• 23:47 @ speakmefair and they go with essentially all condiments. #

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