Ten things meme

[gervase_fen]

As seen on parrot_knight's journal:



1. Baked potatoes with grated cheese, particularly scooping out the insides, mashing up the cheese and spud, and waiting for the cheese to brown in the oven.

2. The news that Garth Nix will be writing a prequel and a sequel to the Sabriel trilogy.

3. Seeing Kate Rusby with parrot_knight at the Oxford Playhouse, especially "Mary Blaze" and much Yorkshire anecdotage.

4. Reading John le Carre for the first time - I'm halfway through "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" and it's terrific. I'm particularly enjoying the allusions to the off-stage regulars, Smiley and Peter Guillam, both central to "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Which leads on to...

5. Rewatching, for the first time in years, my DVD of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Alec Guiness, of course, is superlatively good, but kudos too to Michael Jayston, Ian Richardson and Bernard Hepton.

6. Atonement being as engrossing and as moving as all the reviews have said it is.

Felicitous discoveries on Youtube, particularly these:

7. English Folk on Crackerjack

8. Flight of the Conchords channeling Chris Boucher/Kaldor City

9. The astonishing Tommy Emmanuel.

10. The Fairsley Difference.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Just looked at Flight of the Conchords - augurs well for the appearance of their TV show on BBC 3. The song reminds me a bit of that Delia Derbyshire hymn for robots from Out of the Unknown, as replayed on Victor Lewis-Smith's Radiophonic Workshop documentary.

[gervase-fen.livejournal.com]

"Business Time" is also ace - as the Guardian guide put it, not a million miles away from Victoria Wood's "Lets Do It".

Just missing the top 10, as it's more of a guilty pleasure than a source of happiness, is http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ (href), which transports me back to my adolescence - particularly the magazine archive and the playable adventure games.