Oi Fable here, just to say a massive thank you for all your support and the Birthday Saints shirt, made me very happy, It even fits! Come on you reds! Big Loves! xxxxxxxxx
It's quite cool actually - she's coming over to my house every day now to record demos upstairs, whilst I "work" downstairs - means she doesn't get distracted at her home (and I get to eavesdrop on the work in progress!) Kinda fascinating to hear it all building up into something that'll hopefully be great! And that, ladies and gents, is budget recording going on!
That right there will be a golden post to be saved in forum history when she's winning awards left, right and centre.
And I've seen quite a few of you lot, so there'd definitely be no stream of kisses on the end of any post I wrote!
I'm going to watch the programme anyway, if I can past these blasted CH4 player adverts. Have I mentioned before that I don't like adverts.? It is/was funny. It's from the Immigrant's points of view.
Carla Lane, series creator and script writer of The Liver Birds, Butterflies and others, has died aged 87. Good innings.
Watched a film last night that I think I'd better tell you about because you might want to avoid it. It's called The Raven [2012], and it takes events and stories from the life of 19th century American writer Edgar Allen Poe. What can I tell you that is good about the movie.? Well, the acting is OK-ish, although John Cusack, as Poe seems as washed up in this as the writer notoriously was. He's never really been quite as good as he was in Being John Malkovich, and here he's less than convincing too. Luke Evans, as Inspector Fields, is earnest and convincing enough, but he's not backed up by anyone of note. Whenever Alive Eve is on the screen it's a wee bit difficult to take one's eyes off her, but she's also a bit wooden. See it and you'll know what I mean, there. The stars of the film are pretty much the gory bits. They are very well staged and quite nasty. In Poe stories people often die horribly, and in every case here they do that too. as in the opening murder, which is a variation on the Murders of the Rue Morgue. If you are fascinated by that sort of thing then you'll like this film. I can take or leave the stuff. It has to be mated to a decent story, first and foremost, and this one is a confusing mess, right to the end. So, not recommended.
We occasionally make the point that our heroes, people we have admired, or just significant cultural people in our lives, are all shuffling off their mortal coils, in recent times. It's just the age we are getting to. Those 1960-70's icons are just coming to the end of their lives. It's sad but inevitable.
We managed to go a few weeks without hearing of the death of someone meaningful from my childhood/young adulthood but this has spoiled the run RIP and thank you for the stories and great characters.
