Imaginary time capsule

What do you do when there are four more hours left of the train trip and you've gone through really all the entertainment you brought for the journey?

Obviously you make a handful of animated GIFs of the aforementioned entertainment. Without a mouse, just to agitate that recurring tendonitis. Anything but boredom, right?

( Bowie and Shatner, how's that for a teamup )

Anway, back to the grind and all that. My Easter vacation was heavenly, just chilling with my family and watching obscene amounts of British crime telly. You Brits are still the best at that.

Okay, did someone wind back time five months or so? Because here I am, suffering from insomnia, watching Orson Welles movies and getting hooked on Star Trek (though I blame that last part on muffy_flywall).

The only thing I'm missing is all those inferior Western movies, but man, I'm not going there again for a long time.

( Such weakness )

Anyway. Maria and I've scheduled for another Trek marathon today, so I'll get back in the balance by oogling all the actors and actresses of that erstwhile show. Man, the sixties was an attractive age. At least on NBC.

The best thing with the DS9 episode 'Trials and Tribble-ations' isn't really how it's a cute and clever way to use the original series (and how the plot with the Deep Space 9 crew going back in time and attempt to save Kirk & Co. from an explosive tribble is lulzy enough for me to enjoy); It's really how they chose to superimpose the image of Avery Brooks over Evil!Kirk's mistress, so it looks like Kirk is giving Captain Sisko the most epic bedroom eyes ever. Hee.

Yes, I'm twelve years old.

This also being my first DS9 episode, I can say that Doctor Bashir is my initial favourite. I guess I have a fetish for Trek medics with distinct accents or something.

I'm going to keep trying out this series, but there's still that nagging voice in the back of my head going "nooo, I want the future to be colourful and gleaming and vaguely art deco, not dark and grim and greyish brown."


ETA: O'Brien mistakes Lieutenant Freeman for Kirk - and the guy who played Freeman was Shatner's stunt double! This episode is like a candy bag of cute!

Because somewhere out there this figurine exists.



Aah hahaha.

I've stopped sleeping again. So now I've just watched my first episode of The Twilight Zone. Amazing how the one single plot I could name from the show was the one with the gremlin on the wing of the airplane, and that just happens to be the one featuring The Shat (looking a right studmuffin in the early sixties).

Tilly; Unfocused student by day, closet sixties!Shatner-fancier by night.

What the hell, let's do that celebrity picture spam meme that's been making the rounds again.

( Immaturity and shiny pictures )

I haven't slept for two days, indulge me.

I love walking in the city after dark, listening to some suitable Tom Waits in the warm and windy weather with my coat unbuttoned and flapping in the wind - I'm Sam Spade, I'm Philip Marlowe and that isn't the weight of a Nokia I feel in my pocket, it's a Colt .39 and everybody should be able to tell just by looking at me that I'm a real non-skid who'll throw lead if a hinky palooka should start getting real gashouse.

Or maybe I've been watching too many noir films lately. (Man hardboiled forties' slang is fun!)

Yesterday I gave (most of) the audio play performance Spock vs. Q a listen. I mean just look at that title. I find it perfectly understandable if you're making high-pitched keening noises from the excitement right now. In fact I'm pretty certain the script writers were so busy jizzing their geek pants they forgot to actually make it about anything.

( The long-awaited haiku debate )

My new audio love for the moment seems to be The lives of Harry Lime from the early fifties, starring... well you can probably guess by now. (You can download them for free and all legal here!)

Why such a cold-blooded (albeit utterly charming) character as Lime from The Third Man should get a radio prequel full of exotic romantic adventure is a little bit odd, but that's why I find it so refreshing; Because Lime is the narrator they really play around with the unreliable narrator thing and it's delightful.

"I'd lost the lovely green emerald... and the green eyes of Amy. The emerald didn't bother me too much, but Amy, oh... Amy. She nearly interfered with the great romance of my life; My love for Harry Lime."

I was rewatching 'Dagger of the mind' (since it was the third TOS episode I ever saw and I was completely blinded by the go-go boots at the time). With all the Kirk torture I do hope the girl in the room next to mine didn't think I was watching some really weird porn.

Also, this still cracked me up. So much so I had to GIF it.



WHOA LOOK GRATES.

Oh, and time to issue that work harassment complaint, Spock. Doublechecking the monitoring my ass. (Comprimated to hell and back because it's a long time since I did GIFing)

Let's see now, it's been forty-five hours since I last slept (and that was chemically induced at that). Feeling slightly nauseous. And very bitter. But I'll spare you that.

Surfing online shops, I've discovered that obviously I need the Star Trek TOS 2010 calendar like I need the air that I breathe. Just putting that out there. But seriously, if nobody bestows this on me for Christmas I'll just have to buy it myself, because I've found the previews and apparantly June is Scotty-month (!!). And November is everybody's-unconcious-on-the-bridge-month, fittingly enough.

Final observation: I'm exceedingly entertained by the fact that I only ever browse the beautifully named More Shat, Less Shame at night, and only when I've gone a couple of days without sleeping. It's like my baser nature emerges or something*.

Somebody set phasers to stun, I could use some rest.




* While we're at it, can somebody please explain to me why fans refer to The Shat's manbulge as EVE? I've been looking at acronyms and only come across things like, er, Expected Vertical Error.

That’s the way to do it. That’s the way to do it.

I spent one hundred and thirteen minutes like this:



And I'm not even kidding. This movie just brought out my inner seven yearold - completely immersed, giggling at the jokes and yelping at the scary bits.

It’s hard forming any sort of coherent sentences about this movie, but I’ll try.

( I too want my last words to be something by Melville )

And that was Wrath of Khan.

I haven't done half as much work as I planned to do today, but hey - I've written a gushy entry about WoK and I rewatched Citizen Kane, no day like that could be truly wasted.

Ah, finally on the familiar side of the country again. Now my five day tour of various family and friends starts - later today I'm heading into Oslo to browse the Kon-Tiki museum with Rune, can't wait!

On the train journey over I learned what new acquaintances watching Firefly on my laptop (my first episode!) and having the TOS communicator chirp as a message alert tone can bring. Had a very nice conversation with a fellow geek, he convinced me my next step should be watching Babylon 5 (EVIL WALTER KOENIG OMG).

Oh, and after no new Big Finish audios for more than a year I finally gave The Maltese Penguin a listen. I was squirming in my seat trying to not grin quite so wide. Not only do I find I love Six and Frobisher, it's also a parody of one of my favourite movies ever. Peter Lorre impersonators are a dime a dozen but when they brought out the Sidney Greenstreet parallel my jaw dropped.

Oh Big Finish I've missed you so.