for the harp rhimes are sing ring and the like

[angevin2]

Between choir practice and my recent post on Jubilate Agno, I have Britten on the brain, and now I am contemplating the fabulous imaginary biopic starring Ian McKellen. I am picturing Edward Petherbridge as Peter Pears, but I dunno if he can actually sing.

In other news, lnhammer posted this. WATER ME. WATER ME OR I WILL DIE.

Comments

[lnhammer]

Awesomely bad, innit? I love how the ineptly elaborated metaphors are suddenly dropped for something irrelevant to every image used so far.

---L.

[gwyneira]

Edward Petherbridge does sing (I saw him on stage in Andrew Lloyd Webber's rather dismal adaptation of The Woman in White), but not well enough to be Peter Pears, alas.

[angevin2]

I suppose that the singing bits could be dubbed!

[elettaria]

Wouldn't they have to be anyway? Pears has such a distinctive voice, and not that many actors are opera singers too.

Those love poems are fantastic in such a wonderfully wrong way, and I immediately showed them to my ex.

[arcadiaego]

That really should exist. Also, I very much miss the time when singing with choirs didn't make me ill right now.

[writerwench]

Oh dear Gods, these are SOOOO perfectly awful and adolescent-male ghastly. Delicious insights into the dreadful vat of uncertainty, half-understood metaphor and overweening emotional turmoil that is a half-formed male mind...