One man picked out of ten thousand.*

[bending_sickle]

It's a good thing I didn't write this entry earlier this evening, or it would be full of whining descriptions about how it's cold and icy and I didn't do anything but pick up my bike from the repair shop for its broken brakes**(It's Bicycle Repairman!) and fail to sell books to the second-hand shop (No! Not Bernard!) and realize that my knit elephant toy thing is in reality an abomination that could never hope to be a gift.

I mean, I' still going to post about it all, but there will be no moaning and whining, because of one single thing: time-zone compatibility. seschat and I have been commenting back and forth on the previous post, spreading the lolz, all evening. I got her to watch Doctor Who's Blink and she got me to watch Shelter, which we watched at the same time and squeed over at each other via comments. It was epic and I am full of squee. ♥

Last night, I finally settled down to watch David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet. That they made a film version of the play they performed is wonderful, although I cursed the world for it not being common-place for theatrical events to be filmed, because I'd have loved to see John Simm's last two plays, even if he was tiny and blurred.

Anyway, David Tennant is amazing. Like, holy-mother-of-gods amazing. He's my favorite Hamlet. He's funny and energetic and manic (in a disturbing Doctor-like way) and sprawls in sexy, sexy emotive ways and curls up in sexy, sexy sad foetal positions and is in a bondage-chair (I am not kidding!) and just, wow. I've never had so much fun watching a performance of Hamlet (Act 2, where he's calling Polonius a fishmonger! oh the hilarity!), maybe even Shakespeare in general. (Although Much Ado About Nothing is funny, even if Keanu Reeves totally sucked in the Branagh film version.) So that's why the Video of the Day is Tennant-as-Hamlet spouting off a soliloquey barefoot and in the most awesome shirt ever. (Also, Polonius is made of win.)


Video of the Day: David Tennant, Hamlet Soliloquy

Links of the Day:

Supernatural:
iwantpie's Icons
jeovajired's Icons - Includes Bones
lilhellsangel's Icons
secretlytodream's Fanvid: The Fallen in the War
blueeyedliz's Fic: Bloody Bones - Dean drives, Sam sleeps. The usual. Until Dean realizes Sam won't wake up.
wikiwitch's Fanmix: Pull Me Into Sin (Castiel/Meg)
hopelessfangirl's Icons - Includes Watchmen, The Office
nutkin's Fanfic Driving Down the Darkness (Sam/Dean)
crossbow1's Fanfic Recs

Random Fandom:
averys' Heroes Macros
ren_geek's Doctor Who Macros - Poor Daleks, they never get to kill the Doctor.
tea_and_bananas's Icons: Firefly, Dollhouse
YouTube's Rorschach's Plight (Spoof) - Why not to wear masks at night in the city. (You bump into everything and its hilarious.)
Fan Fiction Friday: Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean Grey in "Day of reckoning" - EPIC badfic dissection.

Random:
rex_dart's Explanation of how to understand bra sizes
greygirlbeast's discussion of Alan Weisman's The World Without Man
ontd_political's Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians 'racist' - "Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug" *inarticulate shock*
How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks. - *inarticulate rage*


* Shakespeare, Hamlet
** Which resulted in my pushing the bike home yesterday for ages with the brakes set on "Die, motherfucker!"

Comments

[poisoned-sleep.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched any Shakespeare in aaaages. (Except to rewatch Shakespeare in Love over the summer, which was a lot better than I remembered it being.)

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet was my favourite of several versions I saw in high school. (Gorgeous costumes, and Kate Winslet!)

I remember liking Much Ado About Nothing, but I'm going to have to rewatch it now that I realize that Dr Wilson is in it.

Good clip. :)

xxx
Kit-Kat

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I've watched Kenneth Branagh's and Mel Gibson's Hamlet and remember enjoying the latter. All I remember of Branagh's is thinking it interminable, waiting for the soliloquy scene with the snow backdrop to end for intermission. I suppose I ought to rewatch it to give it a proper go. I adore Much Ado About Nothing.

Glad you liked Tennant!Hamlet :)

[seschat.livejournal.com]

I mean, I' still going to post about it all, but there will be no moaning and whining, because of one single thing: time-zone compatibility. seschat and I have been commenting back and forth on the previous post, spreading the lolz, all evening. I got her to watch Doctor Who's Blink and she got me to watch Shelter, which we watched at the same time and squeed over at each other via comments. It was epic and I am full of squee. ♥

JUST: ♥ You're amaziiiiiing.

And, ohmygod, David in Hamlet! *stares* Oh my god. I need to watch ALL of that.

I'm gonna collapse from the sheer awesomeness of everything, I swear. How can you be so awesome? DOES NOT UNDERSTAND *CRY*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I AM BUT A MIRROR OF YOUR OWN AWESOMENESS! ♥!