I am still so amused about Lionel Rich Tea. I'm going to make that joke every time I see a Rich Tea Biscuit now, and people will pity me. Also, I'm just filled with amusement at the idea that he got that randomly in his e-mail and thought it was SO FUNNY that he had to make it his avatar and share it with everybody. SUCH A DORK. (Which is of course why we love him.)
I have the same issue about some action sequences! They're so close-up and so frantically cut these days that I'm sometimes left wondering what on earth just happened.
Yup. You have to do what you want to do. You have talent; it'll happen. But, yes, Maurice Sendak is an inspiration for us all. (RIP, Mr. Sendak, and thanks for recognizing the Wild Things in all of us.)
(Squeeeee! And thank you. I AM EXCITED. Classic Who Feels!)
Frazer Hines IS good-looking, and there's nothing wrong with admiring adorable pensioners! I mean, this thing about admiring men in my own age range is pretty new to me. *g* (And can I just say that I have a giggle every now and then at how the younger fans marvel at the fact that Noel is nearly 39 and "still looks so good"? What did they think would happen, that he'd morph into the Crypt Keeper? 39 isn't exactly decrepit, you know!)
But yeah. Weirdos. My very first crush, that I recognized as a crush, was on Johnny Depp, and it just intensified as he took on weirder and less mainstream projects. I think that says it all. *g*
Not gonna lie: I spent a sizeable portion of last night alone laughing my butt off at Lionel Rich Tea. And the fact that it's Noel's twitter avatar? Completely adorkable. What a precious man, oh my word.
I think that's part of the reason I've really latched onto Classic Who, actually - it's not dominated by frantic greenscreen explosions and things my brain can't process. All the actiony-action stuff is simultaneously sensory overload and profoundly boring to me. I know some people actually find parts of Classic Who a bit ponderous by modern standards, but I mean, The War Games was ten episodes long, and I was RIVETED for the whole thing.
(And wept for days when it was over. Prepare for FEELS.)
I knew something was the matter when someone I followed on tumblr felt weird fancying Julian Barratt because he's her dad's age. D: Kiddo, either you're not old enough to be on tumblr, or I'm old enough to stepmom teenagers *insert midlife crisis here, oh god it's true though*
ASDFGHJKL; FRAZER'S HANDSOME FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE THOUGH I want to cast him in a film so I can seduce him with my manly-man feminine wiles. My first crush was David Bowie, so I totally understand the peculiar-dudes love. OH YES. I love Johnny Depp the most when he's weird. What fabulous people.
See, I'm fascinated by your thoughts on Doctor Who and the difference in the storytelling. I really LIKE the idea of not being dominated by sleek special effects... which probably also explains why I love Boosh and Luxury Comedy so much. (Yes, I know there's actually a lot of techno-wizardry that goes into making some of those things happen, but it's not flashy; the aesthetic is purposely shambolic, textured, very homemade and DIY, so the focus is on characters and relationships and concepts, rather than on effects and action.
And your warning is duly noted. I will watch with kleenex handy!
Julian is her DAD's age?!? Yiiiiikes. I'm only a few years younger than Noel, and I am totally weirded out when I hear girls say he's old enough to be their dad, because... surely I am not old enough to be the mother of a teenager, right? (Wrong. Unfortunately!) Thankfully, I am still mentally about ten, so it all seems to work out.
They are fabulous people! And eeeee, yes, Bowie. I had a major, major crush on him. Still kind of do, because... my most intense crushes are always sort of brain- and personality-based, you know? And I was never not going to love a man who wore eyepatches and dresses and sneakily made people listen to songs about philosophy and science fiction, when they thought they were just dancing.
I mean, if you consider the fact that they were filming most of this stuff on a budget of tuppence, it really is impressive some of the stuff they managed to put together, and actually a lot of it does look really good - 60s/70s/80s cheesy I suppose, but I really do appreciate the aesthetic and the work that went into it all. And I mean, I love that the Boosh have said they'd had to ask the costumes department to make their costumes look less good, because they wanted it to look handmade and kind of terrible, which of course made it more awesome.
Every once in a while I'm freaked out by the youngness of some of the people on the internet. I'll strike up a conversation with someone on tumblr or something and then feel all weird when I find out I'm old enough to be their teacher O_o Combine this with the fact that I've been mentally 64 for a good decade or so, and... the internet is so WEIRD!
MARC BOLAN!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Fabulous Marc Bolan. I love him so muuuuuuuuuuuuch!
Oh, totally. I find that I tend to appreciate the design aesthetics and ingenuity even more BECAUSE there's so much more creativity when it's done on a shoestring. You know what I mean? You can't be lazy or glib when your ideas are huge and your budget is tiny. I think a lot of big-budget, super-sleek high tech stuff is very... thoughtless, in a way. Empty. It doesn't HAVE to be, but it often is, because there's only thought about how to be impressive and nothing else. (Like, uh... what function it serves in the story.)
I love the Boosh for taking that approach; I genuinely do. And I seriously cannot imagine the courage it took to get on stages with all those totally handmade (and looking it) props and sets, not knowing if people would get the joke or the idea, or whether they'd realize that the imagination and characters and story are the part that's actually important.
Ha! I think my problem is in the opposite direction, in that, however much I have trained myself to do grown-up things, I really am terribly childish in a lot of ways, so I'll totally relate to these people in some ways (including students), and then some little thing they say or do will remind me that, oh, I am actually an adult and have learned my lesson about things that they don't get yet. It's always this little moment of, "Oh! Oh yeah, I am an adult... " Not sure if I'll ever get entirely used to being an authority figure. *g*
MARC BOLAN YES. Gah, yes. He IS fabulous. He is one of my hair icons, obviously, but so much more than that, too. And I love love love listening to T. Rex on a sunny day. Actually, I just love listening to Jeepster and Telegram Sam as much as possible.
I have the same issue about some action sequences! They're so close-up and so frantically cut these days that I'm sometimes left wondering what on earth just happened.
Yup. You have to do what you want to do. You have talent; it'll happen. But, yes, Maurice Sendak is an inspiration for us all. (RIP, Mr. Sendak, and thanks for recognizing the Wild Things in all of us.)
(Squeeeee! And thank you. I AM EXCITED. Classic Who Feels!)
Frazer Hines IS good-looking, and there's nothing wrong with admiring adorable pensioners! I mean, this thing about admiring men in my own age range is pretty new to me. *g* (And can I just say that I have a giggle every now and then at how the younger fans marvel at the fact that Noel is nearly 39 and "still looks so good"? What did they think would happen, that he'd morph into the Crypt Keeper? 39 isn't exactly decrepit, you know!)
But yeah. Weirdos. My very first crush, that I recognized as a crush, was on Johnny Depp, and it just intensified as he took on weirder and less mainstream projects. I think that says it all. *g*
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I think that's part of the reason I've really latched onto Classic Who, actually - it's not dominated by frantic greenscreen explosions and things my brain can't process. All the actiony-action stuff is simultaneously sensory overload and profoundly boring to me. I know some people actually find parts of Classic Who a bit ponderous by modern standards, but I mean, The War Games was ten episodes long, and I was RIVETED for the whole thing.
(And wept for days when it was over. Prepare for FEELS.)
I knew something was the matter when someone I followed on tumblr felt weird fancying Julian Barratt because he's her dad's age. D: Kiddo, either you're not old enough to be on tumblr, or I'm old enough to stepmom teenagers *insert midlife crisis here, oh god it's true though*
ASDFGHJKL; FRAZER'S HANDSOME FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE THOUGH I want to cast him in a film so I can seduce him with my manly-man feminine wiles. My first crush was David Bowie, so I totally understand the peculiar-dudes love. OH YES. I love Johnny Depp the most when he's weird. What fabulous people.
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See, I'm fascinated by your thoughts on Doctor Who and the difference in the storytelling. I really LIKE the idea of not being dominated by sleek special effects... which probably also explains why I love Boosh and Luxury Comedy so much. (Yes, I know there's actually a lot of techno-wizardry that goes into making some of those things happen, but it's not flashy; the aesthetic is purposely shambolic, textured, very homemade and DIY, so the focus is on characters and relationships and concepts, rather than on effects and action.
And your warning is duly noted. I will watch with kleenex handy!
Julian is her DAD's age?!? Yiiiiikes. I'm only a few years younger than Noel, and I am totally weirded out when I hear girls say he's old enough to be their dad, because... surely I am not old enough to be the mother of a teenager, right? (Wrong. Unfortunately!) Thankfully, I am still mentally about ten, so it all seems to work out.
They are fabulous people! And eeeee, yes, Bowie. I had a major, major crush on him. Still kind of do, because... my most intense crushes are always sort of brain- and personality-based, you know? And I was never not going to love a man who wore eyepatches and dresses and sneakily made people listen to songs about philosophy and science fiction, when they thought they were just dancing.
Oh, and Marc Bolan, too. Mmm, yes.
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Every once in a while I'm freaked out by the youngness of some of the people on the internet. I'll strike up a conversation with someone on tumblr or something and then feel all weird when I find out I'm old enough to be their teacher O_o Combine this with the fact that I've been mentally 64 for a good decade or so, and... the internet is so WEIRD!
MARC BOLAN!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Fabulous Marc Bolan. I love him so muuuuuuuuuuuuch!
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I love the Boosh for taking that approach; I genuinely do. And I seriously cannot imagine the courage it took to get on stages with all those totally handmade (and looking it) props and sets, not knowing if people would get the joke or the idea, or whether they'd realize that the imagination and characters and story are the part that's actually important.
Ha! I think my problem is in the opposite direction, in that, however much I have trained myself to do grown-up things, I really am terribly childish in a lot of ways, so I'll totally relate to these people in some ways (including students), and then some little thing they say or do will remind me that, oh, I am actually an adult and have learned my lesson about things that they don't get yet. It's always this little moment of, "Oh! Oh yeah, I am an adult... " Not sure if I'll ever get entirely used to being an authority figure. *g*
MARC BOLAN YES. Gah, yes. He IS fabulous. He is one of my hair icons, obviously, but so much more than that, too. And I love love love listening to T. Rex on a sunny day. Actually, I just love listening to Jeepster and Telegram Sam as much as possible.
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