Weekend; also capsule reviews

[serinde]

audiovile and naudia were off to I-CON, leaving sweh and I to spend a quiet anniversary weekend mostly at his place. It was a veritable sampler platter of a few of our favorite things, including toy shopping, the pub, Tea & Sympathy, cheezy-with-a-Z TV, and of course teh kinky sexx0r.

Also, I got to see the first three episodes of the new (by which I mean "most recent", or "eighth", or if you want to be that way, "Christopher Eccleston") Doctor Who. My heart runneth over with woobie. I do not think this pretty boy they have lined up next for the role is in any way going to compare, though I'll give him a chance, I reckon.

Saturday night, we watched Personal Services, a Terry Jones-directed film loosely based ("NO, WE SWEAR IT ISN'T, EVEN THOUGH SHE'S LISTED AS CONSULTANT") on the life of Cynthia Payne, the famed London brothel-keeper. (Well, famed to everyone but me, apparently.) It had its issues, primarily with pacing--bits of it really dragged--and there is a good 20 minutes at the beginning where I hadn't the foggiest what was going on; but it's worth your Netflix attention.

All Bond movies still suck ass--AMC was running a marathon, y'see--and only make me want to go back & read the books again. Which is difficult since a whole bunch of mine are MISSING AGKGKGKGKGK. Time to troll the street book vendors, I guess.

Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

The next Doctor was in the Christmas Special, so I've already seen some of him. IMO he's at least as good as Eccleston was, with the bonus that you don't constantly want to reach in and slap him.

Foxtel ran a Bond marathon a while back. They showed the films in alphabetical order. Really.

(Did I mention that I appear to have a first-edition Doctor No?)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I did want to constantly reach in, but not for the slapping.

Or, not that kind of slapping.

Um.

[dkfromtk.livejournal.com]

You've obviously never seen a Connery Bond movie.

On the off chance you have, and your statement still stands, I weep for you.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I have. Several.

You've obviously never read any of the books, and therefore do I weep for you.

[dkfromtk.livejournal.com]

Then we weep for each other.

Excellent.