Fannish delights
Today is a good day to be a fan of various people and their creations. The one and only Luminosity has created a new Angel vid (theme: Angel and the forces of Wolfram & Hart); the links are here.
Moreoever, on the Farscape side of things, kixxa explains the four seasons of Scorpius (Sikozu is spring, John is summer, Grayza is winter and Braca, of course, is the fall guy).
Also, I'm wondering whether the German film industry is finally out of the doldrums. Following cavendish's review I went and saw Das Wunder von Bern, which is utterly charming - cavendish explains why here. Simultanously, kathyh saw Goodbye, Lenin and praised it in her lj. Then she proceeds to make me jealous by announcing she's going to see Anthony Stewart Head in Pirates of Penzance next March. I suppose londonkds, rozk and other fortunates living on that island in the silver sea can join her?
Lastly, today would have been Sylvia Plath's 71st birthday. Like James Dean or Marilyn Monroe, one can't quite imagine her as an old woman. The most intriguing speculation about what she would have done if she hadn't comitted suicide I've read recently came from Diane Middlebrook, because Ms. Middlebrook thinks she might have tried her hand on TV scripts. Which isn't as unlikely as you think: Ted Hughes wrote several radio plays for the BBC to make some money (let's not forget they were both pretty poor back then), Sylvia tried to write one and was interested in experimenting in other genres. Plus kathyh tells me several blacklisted American writers had ended up writing episodes for British TV shows earlier. Which is why I can't get the image of my head: Sylvia Plath writing for Dr. Who or Blake's 7. Come on. I can see it. SP writing the definite Avon/Servalan episode...
Moreoever, on the Farscape side of things, kixxa explains the four seasons of Scorpius (Sikozu is spring, John is summer, Grayza is winter and Braca, of course, is the fall guy).
Also, I'm wondering whether the German film industry is finally out of the doldrums. Following cavendish's review I went and saw Das Wunder von Bern, which is utterly charming - cavendish explains why here. Simultanously, kathyh saw Goodbye, Lenin and praised it in her lj. Then she proceeds to make me jealous by announcing she's going to see Anthony Stewart Head in Pirates of Penzance next March. I suppose londonkds, rozk and other fortunates living on that island in the silver sea can join her?
Lastly, today would have been Sylvia Plath's 71st birthday. Like James Dean or Marilyn Monroe, one can't quite imagine her as an old woman. The most intriguing speculation about what she would have done if she hadn't comitted suicide I've read recently came from Diane Middlebrook, because Ms. Middlebrook thinks she might have tried her hand on TV scripts. Which isn't as unlikely as you think: Ted Hughes wrote several radio plays for the BBC to make some money (let's not forget they were both pretty poor back then), Sylvia tried to write one and was interested in experimenting in other genres. Plus kathyh tells me several blacklisted American writers had ended up writing episodes for British TV shows earlier. Which is why I can't get the image of my head: Sylvia Plath writing for Dr. Who or Blake's 7. Come on. I can see it. SP writing the definite Avon/Servalan episode...