I will miss my son when he goes back to college. I think I might miss his new Christmas presents even more. His Kindle, for example, I deeply covert. He is reading one of his favourites on it, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and this quotation leaped out at me and shouted: "Time Lord Victorious":

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ( Read more... )

I've been wallowing in the new Murray Gold soundtrack album all afternoon (to the detriment of my studies). I was a bit disappointed in the Series 4 one, and the only track from it I ever really listen to is the Song of Freedom, but this is a stunner. What's interesting about it is that it's far more of a narrative - in effect, the story of the ( Read more... )

I've had my iPod in a lot over the last day or so, and FWIW, here are my thoughts.

The moment when I decided I’d have to have the S3 soundtrack was when the Doctor was at the funeral pyre in LOTTL and the soaring music added hugely to the impact of that already very powerful scene. Normally, I’m pretty sniffy about soundtrack albums, and SF ones can ( Read more... )