Prayer from The Angel Islington made into an eerie, echoing round:

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Original radio version can be heard here: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-03-14/benedict-cumberbatch-sings-in-neverwhereRead more... )

As promoted on BBC Breakfast this morning, a potentially interesting new musical homage to the works of William Shakespeare, specifically the sonnets. There is no evidence that Shakespeare's sonnets were ever sung originally, although apparently the earlier Italian sonnets of Petrarch were performed to music in Italy, and Franz Liszt composed works ( Read more... )

There are two different books with this title, one by the American writer Vincent Starrett first published in 1933, being an affectionate ‘biography’ of the fictional character, and another by authorial duo Michael and Mollie Hardwick, being the novelisation of the 1970 Billy Wilder film. I was able to obtain cheap second hand copies of both via ( Read more... )

Ooh! AR and Emma Thompson are on the cover of the new TV tie-in edition of The Song of Lunch...


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A unique chance to send (yourself?) a Valentine in the form of a poem read by someone special from Times Online ( Read more... )

The more I look at the recent HBP poster the sadder Severus seems. This effect and few words emphasize how I feel about it ...

So sad!


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In Memoriam

Woolworths: Failing brand and icon of the High StreetSo. Farewell Then ( Read more... )

Yep. You can tell how humdrum my real life is right now by the preponderance of Snapey stuff in my posts. He remains my favorite source of escapism, or as I prefer to call it - eSnapism.

But tonight I find myself totally unable to get to sleep without getting some things off my chest …( Silly stuff )

This has been bubbling and brewing in my brain for several days since the silly photoshoot, and I need to spew it out. So I crave your indulgence … Parody is my paradigm!

(See: http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/pussy.html for original poem)

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Muggle StudiesSilence everybody ( Read more... )