You Must Be Loving Your Life in the Rain
1. Having recently bought The National's High Violet album, I have decided that England is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. I love the National. There's a amazing amount of complexity in their work yet at the same time, their songs sound deceptively simple.
(Possibly because of the title is also reminds me of one of my favourite songs in the whole wild world America by Simon and Garfunkel. Also, it it wrong that I view America as one of the greatest love songs of all time?)
2. Chris Addison is getting his own panel show. Yay! I love 7 Day Sunday so it's great he's getting a show on TV. Also, it's supposed to be more about showing off new talent than about point scoring, which is quite lovely. Could they please invite Tom Baker at some point?
3. Also, the Armando Iannucci HBO show Veep is a go, and it's not a straight up American adaptation of The Thick of It, rather it's own entity, which is a relief because nobody other than Peter Capaldi should ever play Malcolm Tucker. Although, the main character does sound a quite bit like Nicola Murray. Can't say I'm really sold on the idea of Julia Louise Dreyfus in the lead, however (surely actresses would be falling over each other for the role, right? There's not that many lead roles for woman in political satires. But then Mimi Kennedy once said she was surprised she wasn't fighting of Meryl Steep for her role in In the Loop, but it didn't get a lot of attention).
4. I've been rewatching some old West Wing episodes that I've only seen once and have a bad reputation. The Long Goodbye and Access were not as bad as remember (poor Allison Janney though, every time she got an episode (which she didn't need as she was quite capable of winning an Emmy without a special spotlight episode), they were also experimental episodes that didn't quite work). Disaster Relief - the one in which Josh gets drunk and yells at the Capital Building - is actually worse than I recall. I think the scene in which Josh yells as the Capital Building may be the worse scene in television history.
(Possibly because of the title is also reminds me of one of my favourite songs in the whole wild world America by Simon and Garfunkel. Also, it it wrong that I view America as one of the greatest love songs of all time?)
2. Chris Addison is getting his own panel show. Yay! I love 7 Day Sunday so it's great he's getting a show on TV. Also, it's supposed to be more about showing off new talent than about point scoring, which is quite lovely. Could they please invite Tom Baker at some point?
3. Also, the Armando Iannucci HBO show Veep is a go, and it's not a straight up American adaptation of The Thick of It, rather it's own entity, which is a relief because nobody other than Peter Capaldi should ever play Malcolm Tucker. Although, the main character does sound a quite bit like Nicola Murray. Can't say I'm really sold on the idea of Julia Louise Dreyfus in the lead, however (surely actresses would be falling over each other for the role, right? There's not that many lead roles for woman in political satires. But then Mimi Kennedy once said she was surprised she wasn't fighting of Meryl Steep for her role in In the Loop, but it didn't get a lot of attention).
4. I've been rewatching some old West Wing episodes that I've only seen once and have a bad reputation. The Long Goodbye and Access were not as bad as remember (poor Allison Janney though, every time she got an episode (which she didn't need as she was quite capable of winning an Emmy without a special spotlight episode), they were also experimental episodes that didn't quite work). Disaster Relief - the one in which Josh gets drunk and yells at the Capital Building - is actually worse than I recall. I think the scene in which Josh yells as the Capital Building may be the worse scene in television history.