In which there is the older tradition of rapper performance, and several cunning plans
- Books I mentioned elsewhere that are relevant to my flist's interests: Magdalen King-Hall's original novel behind the film Wicked Lady (review: see title, also cross-dressing), and Ms King-Hall's earlier accidental 1925 literary hoax (review: historical teen fic romp), both out of print but reasonably available secondhand (unlike M K-H's other novels).
- Film: Maggie's Plan, about which I have nothing to say except that this is basically the male fantasy that multiple women want him, and invest their lives in his children, retold from a somewhat more female-oriented perspective and the acting, especially the female leads, is excellent. Oh, and I was laughing aloud in the cinema at points when nobody else was... lol. (4/5 was probably a 5/5 first time through but didn't have anything more to give on rewatching imo so 4/5 and rewatch Linklater's Before Midnight instead)
- DERT 2016, held in Mankfester, because I was looking for videos of championship skipping and these are bettererer: the Newcastle Kingsmen won but I couldn't find a decent vid of them so here with their famous "I hope someone's done a health and safety risk assessment for this" dance are Black Swan Rapper (4min utu) and London's premier (well, only) all-female rapper sword dance team The Tower Ravens (4min utu) with their possibly illegal imitation Beefeater!!1!!
- Reading, books 2016, 150.
148. Letter from a Far Country, by Gillian Clarke, 1982-2006, poetry, re-read. All my favourite poems from this volume were reprinted in Ms Clarke's later Collected Poems from Carcanet, 1997.
• They have gone. The silence resettles
slowly as dust on the sunlit
surfaces of the furniture.
At first the skull itself makes
sounds in any fresh silence,
a big sea running in a shell.
I can hear my blood rise and fall.
• Jams and jellies of blackberry,
crabapple, strawberry, plum,
greengage and loganberry.
You can see the fruit pressing
their little faces against the glass;
tiny onions imprisoned
in their preservative juices.
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- Film: Maggie's Plan, about which I have nothing to say except that this is basically the male fantasy that multiple women want him, and invest their lives in his children, retold from a somewhat more female-oriented perspective and the acting, especially the female leads, is excellent. Oh, and I was laughing aloud in the cinema at points when nobody else was... lol. (4/5 was probably a 5/5 first time through but didn't have anything more to give on rewatching imo so 4/5 and rewatch Linklater's Before Midnight instead)
- DERT 2016, held in Mankfester, because I was looking for videos of championship skipping and these are bettererer: the Newcastle Kingsmen won but I couldn't find a decent vid of them so here with their famous "I hope someone's done a health and safety risk assessment for this" dance are Black Swan Rapper (4min utu) and London's premier (well, only) all-female rapper sword dance team The Tower Ravens (4min utu) with their possibly illegal imitation Beefeater!!1!!
- Reading, books 2016, 150.
148. Letter from a Far Country, by Gillian Clarke, 1982-2006, poetry, re-read. All my favourite poems from this volume were reprinted in Ms Clarke's later Collected Poems from Carcanet, 1997.
• They have gone. The silence resettles
slowly as dust on the sunlit
surfaces of the furniture.
At first the skull itself makes
sounds in any fresh silence,
a big sea running in a shell.
I can hear my blood rise and fall.
• Jams and jellies of blackberry,
crabapple, strawberry, plum,
greengage and loganberry.
You can see the fruit pressing
their little faces against the glass;
tiny onions imprisoned
in their preservative juices.
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