Moppin'

[tilly_stratford]

To av dei som stod han nær seier han er sær
Og spiser kun makrell
Dei kan ikkje for det men di syns han er
Tiltrekkande likavel

Aww no! The Amazon package arrived today, and it's still another two days until I can allow myself to listen to the CDs. For once in my life a package doesn't get hung up in the Norwegian postal system, and I swore it would be my reward after studying for the big test.

I keep deciding to open it, "just to look at the pretty covers" but oh no, I know it'll be too easy to pop one into the laptop the moment that cardboard is torn apart. I know your game, Tilly.

This'll be a discipline test, indeed.

In other news: The kitchen will be evaluated in terms of cleanness (that's a word, I've decided it's a word) tomorrow, and it's my job to do the floor. As of now my nemesis next door is making food, and I'm not going in there to be subject to his petty criticism. It might not be a great plan - it's getting late - but I'm sticking to it. Just get ooouut of the kitcheeen...!

Ooh, and lookie: A Kaizers Orchestra concert closer to home on the first of May. Tickets for me and Tiny are already ordered, and I've invited Marie and R along. This one, too, doesn't have an age limit (rrrgh), but hey, for once I'm a semi-local to one of their concert venues, I need to go.

So quite by coincidence I discovered the old Audio Visuals website. Only one third of the links work, and it's a design nightmare of the nineties variety, but it's fun to see the forerunner to Big Finish.

I knew The Sword of Orion was an adaption of an older audio play, but I didn't know the same was the case with Minuet in Hell.

I was surprised to see that many, many things were changed in Minuet in Hell, but several of my favourite wordy bits were present in the original. Gideon's rant about the Doc's "misplaced revolutionary fervour" in particular.

And then I saw that the Audio Visual Doc was played by... Nicholas Briggs. Huh. He's been the Doctor in audio, on stage and in the comics (well, his likeness. Though I had to be told that, I still can't quite see it. And he's more of a faux-Doctor, and... well, somebody read them). He's been everywhere. I'm sort of curious about how he does deranged/drugged Doctor though, as opposed to Paul McGann.


I've been thinking I would love to see some of Seven's run. I'm so intrigued by Sylvester McCoy, though I've only seen him during those five minutes of the Langella Dracula movie. He rolls his Rs! His early career consisted of stuffing live ferrets in his trousers! He plays the spoons! He's tiny, though still was employed as Rolling Stones' bodyguard!

I thought those reasons were as good as any. I was so disappointed when he had to cancel his Invasion appearance.

Also thought I'd like to discover Three and Six. Three because of the Delgado Master and more of the Brig, and Six because - well, I like to root for the underdog. And I started at The one Doctor, which might've warped my expectations somewhat.

I wish he'd done the part with the beard though. Even if it effectively shattered my illusions about his hair colour.

Gosh, I should get to that floor mopping before midnight.