But you know I know when it's a dream

I think I posted this here a few years ago (and it's very famous, obv.), but the other day I found the link for it in the crap that I took off my old hard drive, and it coincided with me watching Richard III (for the eleventy-millionth time).

A combination of some of my favourite things; Peter Sellers, The Beatles and Olivier's Richard III*.



Also, I was bored and had nothing better to do than post this.


*I am shameless fangirly for Olivier's Richard; mock away, my beautiful ones.

I've done a lot of waiting around today, which always drives me crazy.

If bored, make a LiveJournal post. I have nothing to declare but my geekery. This is a small sample of nerdy stuff in my nerdy life.

( Apologies for my crappy camera work. A photographer I am not. )

I'm pretty sure this doesn't address anyone on my f'list particularly, but the whole idea of adaptations was whirling around my brain a bit and I was forced to put my thoughts on the subject into order.

I should start off by saying that I am neither angered nor excited by the upcoming Holmes film and will probably not see it until the craziness has died down. I know, right? My lack of curiosity has surprised even me!

Also I should say that literature and film was my specialist area when I was at uni, so I do sort of know what I'm talking about (emphasis on the words sort of) XD

It's meant to be fun, so apologies if I come across as a total gob-shite.

( Why it's okay to love the adaptation )

This time of the dorky observation kind.

In the comedy series Yes, Minister there is an episode entitled "Skeleton in the Cupboard" (which is brilliant, but I digress). In this the journalist is played by Donald Gee, who also plays Inspector Lestrade in some of the BBC Radio Holmes adaptations.

Now, they also recorded Yes, Minister for radio and I was listening to it the other day only to find that Donald Gee had been replaced...by Clive Merrison.

After I told a few people this I came to the realisation that this was really only interesting to myself.

*facepalm*

In other news, I think I'm getting ill. Yuck.

I've had the same headache now since Sunday. Oww.

Anywho, enough of that.

Last night I was watching The Apprentice and the narrator said something like "Sir Alan tells the team to meet him in Chiswick"

To which I, completely without thinking, replied, "Chiswick?" in my very best Granada!Lestrade impression. Then realised with horror what I had done, and that I had in fact revealed to normal people the full extent of my nerdiness.

Luckily it was so nerdy that the "normal" people didn't get it and just thought I was being random. Phew.

In other news, I got annoyed at the BAFTAs and then got a bit excited over them. X Factor won which was a travesty but then David Mitchell won and so did The IT Crowd so that was all good. I know I'm late commenting on that but I was really not in the mood over the weekend.

also I totally wanna ship John Sessions and Kenneth Branagh now!

I am also trying to control my wrath over the BBC's remake of Reggie Perrin. I don't like it when people mess around with my favourite programmes on the specious pretext of "updating". Just fuck off with your updating, okay?