Comments | rivkat: Media circus! Books, theater, TV, and music

rivkat

Media circus! Books, theater, TV, and music

Mar 16, 2004 00:24

Random thought: rosenho got me to download Brimstone, starring our own Magnificent Bastard as the Devil. He's less creepy as the Devil because he's having such a good time and he's so explicit about his commitments. Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of the show, but watching all of the episodes was worth it to see Glover yell out "I never loved anything but ( Read more... )

vidding, reviews, su: humor, au: baruth, au: norton and lackey, other tv, au: hamilton, nonfiction, au: bradbury, au: weingarten and barreca, au: james, fiction

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batdina March 15 2004, 21:45:46 UTC

I'd watch the Scully vid.

Viz the lit-crit question, I have a friend from grad school who wrote his dissertation on audience building in repertory theatre in the plays of Shakespeare. It probably touches at least a bit on what you're asking about. He's brad at berens.org if you want to chat with him personally like. Also, Stephen Booth, in a smallish chapter in his book King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition and Tragedy touches on it when he talks about doubling.

cesperanza March 15 2004, 21:55:59 UTC

Hey, I'll send you some links offlist, okay? Ironically, I'm pretty proprietary about these ideas, since I'm writing this right now. *g*

rivkat March 15 2004, 22:07:16 UTC

Okay -- I look forward to it.

cesperanza March 17 2004, 11:13:15 UTC

Trapped at work today, but wanted to make sure you didn't miss this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ithiliana/121942.html (which was posted in

ter369 March 15 2004, 23:12:39 UTC

First person present tense, I should mention.

You're so considerate. As that would bug certain readers. Though many readers would not notice.

Am puzzled by Caitlin Kiernan's aversion to first person narrative, which makes her wonder who is telling the story, and where they are in space & time to dictate it in past tense. Uh, where is any storyteller in space and time, etc, she replied in her head, not wanting to add more stress to Kiernan's plate.

.....but this really fits the definition of "the kind of thing you'll like, if you like that kind of thing."

As a friend said of this book last week, "It's not that it's good, it's that I can't find anything else in this category that is."

Brimstone tesla321 March 16 2004, 06:48:31 UTC

Actually, I *was* a huge fan of the show, but strictly for Glover. I used to watch it, "Millineum" and "Homicide:Life on the Streets" for what my ex-husband referred to as "D's Friday Evening of Pain." Glover, of course, is why I started watching "Smallville" to start with. Little did I know what goodies awaited me.

I *got* to get DSL, damn it. I can't download anything, even a vid takes forty minutes.