I'm in the midst of baking another apple pie (I know, right? I swear that my mom is obsessed with pie now) but I wanted to remind my fellow stateside Austenites/costume drama fans that PBS will be showing the new adaptation of Emma with Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, and Michael Gambon starting tonight. (Check your local listings, haha.) I, like ( Read more... )

Dude. Dude. DUDE.

I just discovered this DVD set called The Charles Dickens Masterworks Collection, which includes Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, and Great Expectations. You all know that I love the first two, and while I haven't seen the other three, I'm sure that I'll love them, too. How can I not when they ( Read more... )

This is just a friendly reminder to my friends in the States that Little Dorrit will be premiering on PBS's Masterpiece tonight.

Reasons why you should watch:

• It's written by Andrew Davies, illustrious screenwriter of Pride and Prejudice and Bleak House.
  
• The amazing cast that includes Matthew Macfadyen, Andy Serkis, Russell Tovey, and half of the ( Read more... )

Watching Matthew Goode stand in front of a blank background and talk about governments usurping privacy rights in the name of national security is probably the hottest thing I've seen all week.

I now totally get why everyone thinks he's the bee's knees. GUH.

I'm watching the Arcade Fire on Austin City Limits right now, and while it's all very enjoyable, the songs seem to get old after awhile. Maybe it's the sequence that the editing staff decided upon, but hearing all of their most upbeat songs in one extended go really isn't doing it for me. It's like there isn't any breathing room, which the addition ( Read more... )

Today's agenda:

i. Go to Target and buy the new Arcade Fire album. (Calexico's horn section plays on one of the songs, yo ( Read more... )

There's a documentary about the Beatles on PBS right now, but I can't watch it because I have yet another midterm to study for. Of course, it has interviews with everyone except John, Paul, George, and Ringo, but I still want to see it!

Boo on bad timing. *is upset*

If given the opportunity, everyone should watch the American Masters portrait of Annie Leibovitz. She's most known for her work for Rolling Stone (a naked John Lennon curled around his beloved Yoko Ono) and Vanity Fair (Whoopi Goldberg immersed in a tub of milk, Demi Moore both very pregnant and in the nude, Tom and Katie and baby Suri), but her ( Read more... )