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Apr. 28th, 2020 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfish -I'm reading a fun novel for a book group that I will cover in more details in the future.
- As expected, Love Never Dies was a totally bizarre and fun experience - partially because I conned several other people into watching it with me and then discussing it afterwards. The version we watched was the 2011 Australian production with Ben Lewis as the Phantom. It suffered from being inconsistent, having no real background characters, having a really boring Christine, and it just felt kind of small. I have been watching some excerpts from the London 2010 production, which suffered a fair few of its own problems, but there were songs that gave characters more interaction and fleshed out the world a little bit - sadly, there's no actual official recording. I'm working with absurdly poorly filmed bits from Youtube.
The problem is, of course, that having major problem just makes the show more fascinating - there are some engaging songs! There's the skeleton of an interesting plot in the London version that was stripped out for the Australian version. (Or maybe just the concept album version.) My brain is going to have some fun taking it apart and looking at all the jagged edges to see how it could be improved or changed or fixed - it's a lovely distraction!
-Mask making continues apace - I made 10 last week and that seems to be my general normal output. I didn't get the 60 yards of foldover elastic I bought via etsy back at the beginning of the month - the seller is in China and I am honestly just not certain if that's been lost or the transit is just going much slower than usual. I tried to make polyester ribbons from my stash work, but they are largely too slippery and too difficult to tie. I finally gave up and purchased more foldover elastic from US suppliers on Etsy, and those should arrive this week.
Etsy's really gone into the mask-making business since I first ordered back at the beginning of the month - the whole front page was people selling premade masks. Which, yay, finally!
- Our local wine shop(e) has a joint venture with a produce wholesaler for a box of fresh produce for $35, so we tried that and got a pretty fair amount of food. The Husbeast thinks it was a little expensive for the quality, which, may be true, but was also easy and definitely enough to keep us in fruits and veggies for the week. I think he prefers to shop for his own tastes.
-Husbeast has returned triumphant from the grocery store. He has been doing all the grocery shopping for the household, which feels luxurious to me since I normally dislike going to the store. But, well, I also would like an excuse to go out and do things other than walking the dog, so I will rationalize my jealousy.
-I have started to watch Leverage again! It's on Amazon Prime, which is evil, but it's delightful so I'm just going with it. The fic is also delightful - I'm going to pace myself but it's exactly what I would like to watch right now.
-Other things I am continuing to watch: The Granada Sherlock Holmes, Poirot back episodes, the Mirror Crack'd, and Knives Out.
- As expected, Love Never Dies was a totally bizarre and fun experience - partially because I conned several other people into watching it with me and then discussing it afterwards. The version we watched was the 2011 Australian production with Ben Lewis as the Phantom. It suffered from being inconsistent, having no real background characters, having a really boring Christine, and it just felt kind of small. I have been watching some excerpts from the London 2010 production, which suffered a fair few of its own problems, but there were songs that gave characters more interaction and fleshed out the world a little bit - sadly, there's no actual official recording. I'm working with absurdly poorly filmed bits from Youtube.
The problem is, of course, that having major problem just makes the show more fascinating - there are some engaging songs! There's the skeleton of an interesting plot in the London version that was stripped out for the Australian version. (Or maybe just the concept album version.) My brain is going to have some fun taking it apart and looking at all the jagged edges to see how it could be improved or changed or fixed - it's a lovely distraction!
-Mask making continues apace - I made 10 last week and that seems to be my general normal output. I didn't get the 60 yards of foldover elastic I bought via etsy back at the beginning of the month - the seller is in China and I am honestly just not certain if that's been lost or the transit is just going much slower than usual. I tried to make polyester ribbons from my stash work, but they are largely too slippery and too difficult to tie. I finally gave up and purchased more foldover elastic from US suppliers on Etsy, and those should arrive this week.
Etsy's really gone into the mask-making business since I first ordered back at the beginning of the month - the whole front page was people selling premade masks. Which, yay, finally!
- Our local wine shop(e) has a joint venture with a produce wholesaler for a box of fresh produce for $35, so we tried that and got a pretty fair amount of food. The Husbeast thinks it was a little expensive for the quality, which, may be true, but was also easy and definitely enough to keep us in fruits and veggies for the week. I think he prefers to shop for his own tastes.
-Husbeast has returned triumphant from the grocery store. He has been doing all the grocery shopping for the household, which feels luxurious to me since I normally dislike going to the store. But, well, I also would like an excuse to go out and do things other than walking the dog, so I will rationalize my jealousy.
-I have started to watch Leverage again! It's on Amazon Prime, which is evil, but it's delightful so I'm just going with it. The fic is also delightful - I'm going to pace myself but it's exactly what I would like to watch right now.
-Other things I am continuing to watch: The Granada Sherlock Holmes, Poirot back episodes, the Mirror Crack'd, and Knives Out.
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Date: 2020-04-28 07:45 pm (UTC)I haven't watched Leverage before so I'm trying not to go for fic until I've finished -- too many spoilers -- and I think so far I like Hardison, Elliot, and Parker immensely but oddly Sophie and Ford are driving me nuts. I think it's partially the "he was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious" romance hitting from episode one. Also Ford feels too sulky to me and Sophie's all wrapped up in him, meanwhile Hardison, Elliot, and Parker are fun as hell.
But I'm only 4 episodes in so maybe that'll change. I just. The wedding scene. Soooo much secondhand embarrasment.
The other list of stuff you are watching is all grand, except I've never heard of the Mirror Crack'd! What is it?
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Date: 2020-04-29 02:15 am (UTC)