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Apr. 24th, 2020 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfish-My brain is continuing to cooperate with moderate fannish activities! I re-read a few old favorite fics, some of which are properly more than 15 years old at this point.
- I also started reading The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt for a book group - I'm going to need to get to chapter 15 for next week but that's not seeming like it will be any kind of a hardship.
-Her Doggish Majesty deigned to don her harness and coat and venture out into the rain with an entourage of humans. She got half a block before she stopped dead and could no longer be coaxed forwards - we turned around and got her home to dry her paws. I am beginning to see the reason why people get huskies and other well-furred dogs - our lightly fuzzed overdog is just not set up to venture into the wet and wild world of New England weather.
- My husbeast is a good man and brought me coffee while I was temporarily immobilized under the dog. (You can't just get a dog on your lap and then kick her off to go make coffee. That's too cruel.)
- I stumbled across a meme discussion about how the absurdly catchy song we all know and have stuck in our heads, Caramelldansen, is actually the product of several remixes and fannish parodies. The poppy sped up version is a remix by the late DJ Speedycake (who was very surprised to hear reports of his death) and the characteristic "hands on head like puppy ears" came from a fanvid of an anime called Popotan and was a huge meme on its own before the streams got crossed and this started to be A Thing.
-This song is a fucky bop and I regret nothing except for the fact that I will never learn the words to sing along.
-A friend is gonna swing by after work and pick up some more masks.
- I have some excellent film plans for the weekend! My bluray of Knives Out arrived and I'm planning to watch and perhaps even figure out to sync up the commentary track that the director put out months ago. This film is both fun to watch and an excellent mystery and a thoughtful example of a director who loves a genre doing something really good in a short turnaround and really nailing it.
-I have some TERRIBLE theatre plans for the weekend - the newest Andy Lloyd Weber musical being released on Youtube is the much reviled Phantom of the Opera sequel: Love Never Dies! Set 10 years after the original events of the musical, on Coney Island, Erik and Christine act out the much altered plot of a sequel novel by Frederick Forsyth, Phantom of Manhattan. I have read that novel, and it was NOT GOOD - it's a parody of a genre that the author clearly does not enjoy one little bit. The only bit that has stuck with me is that, Forsyth decided it was too much of at threat for Raoul to have a functioning dick, so he made the man impotent due to a childhood accident. This show's never had a lasting theatrical run and it takes the excellent ending of Phantom and goes, nah, that was TOO GOOD, we're gonna take this in an even more shitty direction! I am so looking forward to watching this nonsense.
- I also started reading The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt for a book group - I'm going to need to get to chapter 15 for next week but that's not seeming like it will be any kind of a hardship.
-Her Doggish Majesty deigned to don her harness and coat and venture out into the rain with an entourage of humans. She got half a block before she stopped dead and could no longer be coaxed forwards - we turned around and got her home to dry her paws. I am beginning to see the reason why people get huskies and other well-furred dogs - our lightly fuzzed overdog is just not set up to venture into the wet and wild world of New England weather.
- My husbeast is a good man and brought me coffee while I was temporarily immobilized under the dog. (You can't just get a dog on your lap and then kick her off to go make coffee. That's too cruel.)
- I stumbled across a meme discussion about how the absurdly catchy song we all know and have stuck in our heads, Caramelldansen, is actually the product of several remixes and fannish parodies. The poppy sped up version is a remix by the late DJ Speedycake (who was very surprised to hear reports of his death) and the characteristic "hands on head like puppy ears" came from a fanvid of an anime called Popotan and was a huge meme on its own before the streams got crossed and this started to be A Thing.
-This song is a fucky bop and I regret nothing except for the fact that I will never learn the words to sing along.
-A friend is gonna swing by after work and pick up some more masks.
- I have some excellent film plans for the weekend! My bluray of Knives Out arrived and I'm planning to watch and perhaps even figure out to sync up the commentary track that the director put out months ago. This film is both fun to watch and an excellent mystery and a thoughtful example of a director who loves a genre doing something really good in a short turnaround and really nailing it.
-I have some TERRIBLE theatre plans for the weekend - the newest Andy Lloyd Weber musical being released on Youtube is the much reviled Phantom of the Opera sequel: Love Never Dies! Set 10 years after the original events of the musical, on Coney Island, Erik and Christine act out the much altered plot of a sequel novel by Frederick Forsyth, Phantom of Manhattan. I have read that novel, and it was NOT GOOD - it's a parody of a genre that the author clearly does not enjoy one little bit. The only bit that has stuck with me is that, Forsyth decided it was too much of at threat for Raoul to have a functioning dick, so he made the man impotent due to a childhood accident. This show's never had a lasting theatrical run and it takes the excellent ending of Phantom and goes, nah, that was TOO GOOD, we're gonna take this in an even more shitty direction! I am so looking forward to watching this nonsense.
