Five Musicals Never Produced in New Burbage, by petronelle. Slings & Arrows, gen. Does exactly what it says on the tin. NB that I want to see pretty much every one of them.
If the stage were to open and suck in the entire chorus, feathers and all, only their families would regret the loss. The dancing is well-executed but distracting, and with the libretto, ( Read more... )

And I AM "passionate to the point of insanity."

I just got out of bed and am generally work-avoidant enough to take quizzes about series of books I have not actually read but am thinking about. (Beth said I would probably like it okay if I wanted leisure reading as it is obviously based on the Wars of the Roses.)

( Song of Ice and Fire quiz. Bits of this are highly accurate. Not the 'fucking your siblings' part, because ew. I hope none of them are reading this, because there is no way to bring up this issue that is not highly disturbing in some way. Anyway. Other bits of this kind of work. Also I get where the whole 'similar to the plantagenets' thing comes in. Heh. )

"At Every Corner Have Them Kiss," by troyswann. Slings & Arrows, gen (with refs to canon pairings), post-s3, no rating given but nothing smutty in it, image heavy. The story of what happens when Theatre Sans Argent attempts to stage the Henry VIs: a documentary history. Involves severed heads, raw meat, and, unsurprisingly, Darren Nichols.

"The molehill ( Read more... )

Five random things make a post! Or a fanfic, if they have some sort of narrative coherence, but does anything in my life have narrative coherence (or methodical coherence or coherent method? Sorry, I'll stop now. I was just writing about that passage today ( Read more... )

Last night I went over to Beth's and we watched the entire last season of Slings & Arrows, which she had not seen, but I had since I watched it when it aired on cable. That is some pretty awesome TV. I think the third season is probably the best of them.

Also, I still cry during the last scene where ( minor spoiler )

Cross-posted to melancholydanes

Slings & Arrows season 3 is scheduled for a DVD release on July 3.

It's really good, too.

Two questions:

1. Which Slings & Arrows episode is the one with the "You're talking to a chair and it's weird" conversation? I'm thinking of showing that bit to my class.

Poll

I just watched the last ep of Slings & Arrows and my immediate reaction (no spoilers) is somewhere between "WAAAAAAAAAAH" and "Damn, but that is good TV," and now I am all teary and puffy-faced.

But! Awesomeness!

*wibbles*

Because the universe clearly hates me, my cable was badly behaved enough that I missed all of the S&A season premiere except for the theme song, and ten minutes in the middle where Richard was trying to buy a car from two teenage girls and William Hutt's character was monologuing about King Lear to the strains of the Interpretive Breakthrough Harp ( Read more... )