Bad Santa meets Dr Dee
Nov. 25th, 2004 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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gingiber and anonymous_seth. Seth thought it was a long ttime to spend on one joke, but as I believe I may have mentioned, I am very easily amused. Be warned that this is not a nice film, though, and may make you laugh at things which are just not fucking funny. There's a lot of swearing as well, which may possibly make up for that. Santa in a balaclava preparing for a robbery is just wrong, and the nice Jewish girl with the Santa fetish (she makes him keep the hat on) is worse.
Important point, though : What the hell is the "talking walnut" bit all about?
In other news, I've just finished Fiona's copy of The House Of Dr Dee by Peter Ackroyd, which I liked a lot. It's partly set in Elizabethan times and partly recently, and features an archive researcher's difficult family, Dee, Edward Kelley, angelomancy, homunculi, and various sorts of unexpectedness. Recommended.
If you've read the book already, those Wikipedia articles are well worth a look.
gingiber and anonymous_seth. Seth thought it was a long ttime to spend on one joke, but as I believe I may have mentioned, I am very easily amused. Be warned that this is not a nice film, though, and may make you laugh at things which are just not fucking funny. There's a lot of swearing as well, which may possibly make up for that. Santa in a balaclava preparing for a robbery is just wrong, and the nice Jewish girl with the Santa fetish (she makes him keep the hat on) is worse.Important point, though : What the hell is the "talking walnut" bit all about?
In other news, I've just finished Fiona's copy of The House Of Dr Dee by Peter Ackroyd, which I liked a lot. It's partly set in Elizabethan times and partly recently, and features an archive researcher's difficult family, Dee, Edward Kelley, angelomancy, homunculi, and various sorts of unexpectedness. Recommended.
If you've read the book already, those Wikipedia articles are well worth a look.
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More Dr Dee Goodness
Date: 2004-11-25 03:00 am (UTC)I didn't manage to find any Dee/Kelley stuff in Prague - not even at the travelling museum of witchcraft, alchemy and magick.
[Um, the way I wrote the names in the last para is not meant to imply the existence of slash fiction involving the alchemist and his assistant)
Re: More Dr Dee Goodness
Date: 2004-11-25 03:03 am (UTC)Were they around Prague long? AIUI they didn't impress folk much and ended up elsewhere.
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Date: 2004-11-25 04:58 am (UTC)OK, now it sounds like a fun film :)
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Date: 2004-11-25 09:16 am (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0766108120/102-6601261-6562502?%5Fencoding=UTF8
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Date: 2004-11-26 05:05 am (UTC)Oh I forgot the flying lizards cd last neon, I hope it didn't get left there by accident?
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Date: 2004-11-26 05:08 am (UTC)Which he hadn't. It made no sense at all. Like the talking walnut. Brilliance.
flying lizards cd
It's OK. I picked it up at the end. Did you get a chance to listen to it?