I think I managed to find a proxy that lets me log in to DW and post, so here I am (basically, someone Russian once posted a stupid meme on DW about suicide, so our state (and major Internet providers) are thoughtfully protecting us from such nasty things by blocking the DW IP ( Read more... )

I finished watching the BBC Hamlet - I think it moved me more than any Hamlets I have seen to date (not that I have seen that many) - and went on to the RSC one with David Tennant, as long as I'm in the mood ( Read more... )

I know too little about Hamlet - especially about the history of its production, but not just that. Suddenly I started thinking whether the actors weren't too reckless in performing Hamlet's play. The death of the previous king and his widow's remarriage should have been public knowledge - and, well, Shakespeare's troupe did have some trouble over ( Read more... )

I have this - possibly silly, possibly productive - habit. I do not really argue with people about tastes - if you don't like X or Y, fine, who am I to argue with you, even if you give the weirdest reasons for not liking it. But: I keep arguing with an unseen opponent, formulating for myself what I wouldn't say to an actual person ( Read more... )

A comment under a YouTube video from a Richard II performance: "I <3 Hotspur. (No Homo)"

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The amount of things out there in the world that I want to read, watch and study brings out two types of reactions in me. Alternately. Either it's a wonder - oh wow, so much to see and learn, I'll have my life full. Or it's a fright - oh damn, so much to see and learn, when the hell am I doing this ( Read more... )

From time to time my brain insists on having a fit of "Nobody likes me, I am as good as invisible, I am so alone woe is me" fit (with a side order of "My life is so useless") - for all that I know perfectly well that nothing changed as compared to a week ago when I was happy with my life. And no, it's not PMS. And it's really tiresome ( Read more... )

I finished watching the Takarazuka version of Twelfth Night and enjoyed it a lot. They've got the right spirit for this play, I think. Also a bonus: Viola and Sebastian do kind of look like one another. Orsino is young and coltish and amusing, Viola is very nice, but unexpectedly I most loved Sir Toby. Unexpectedly - because he turned out to be ( Read more... )

People who are actually gay and go around and explaining that "We just need to keep our private lives private, and then there won't be any problems, and by the way, same-sex marriage - why on Earth do you need that?" are so very annoying somehow ( Read more... )

Weird day: doing nothing in particular, still feeling tired. Though it's a nice feeling when you realize that something you plod through just for the process, not expecting any results worth announcing, does start giving at least some results ( Read more... )