Guess what.

Månefestival was brilliant! The atmosphere, the city, the weather (for the most part), not to mention the music.

( Too many pictures )

Right then, time for a reaction post for The War Games. I guarantee you it will not be eloquent.

Anyway I'm really thankful for the fact that this is one of the few complete stories that survive from the Troughton era (though I'm sure more will pop up someday. Right? Right?), because I thought it was a lovely, exciting one - what others have ( Read more... )

Mmm Errol Flynn in thigh-high boots and tights so thin you can see the muscles work as he moves. Yesss ( Read more... )

By a complete coincidence I discovered that Ian McKellen celebrates seventy years today. I don't often mention things like that, but hey, Sir Ian is an awesome old man.

Excellent opportunity to go OOOOH at the pretty as well, like him in the part of Romeo years before I was even born:


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Would you always, maybe sometimes
Make it easy, take your timeAh, so my final exam is tomorrow, you know what that means? Vaguely related procrastination ( Read more... )

Or; Why I can't climb stairs today. Jesus Christ my legs are never going to work again.

Well, so yesterday I did my weekly hike up Fløyen and brought my camera along. Then I got lost and climbed another mountain, Blåmanen.

( The products of my pain )

These are my salad days
Slowly being eaten away

Well hello there Randolph Scott and Carey Grant.


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I miss her lips and the smile on her face
The touch of her hair and this girl's warm embrace
So if you don't wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from a-Runaround Sue

This might be the one doo-wop song that is even catchier than 'I saw Linda yesterday'. It's physically impossible for me to grow sick of 'Runaround Sue ( Read more... )

Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the Claymore could wield
When the night came, silently lay
Dead in Culloden's fieldSome time before Christmas the local library bought The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) on DVD. Since then I've been thinking about seeing it, and now I'm glad I did. It's a beautiful film: The colours, the costumes, the sets ( Read more... )

But if you take her out
Remember she can break your heart in two
But she'll put it back, glue it together, make it look brand new
You see she's a very extraordinary sort of girlSo yesterday I watched Hitchcock's Secret Agent, and ( Read more... )