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[essayel]

Major internet upsets due to new server which, natch, doesn't work on my machine AND cocks up the normal connection! Oh well.
Read Camilla Bloom's new piece over at her LJ and think I need a lie down. Man's best friend indeed!
E mail from Kate today offering to lend me Gemini so that I can finish it quickly and we can argue about the content - now that's really dedicated fan! Of course I jumped at the chance. I'm going cold turkey since I finshed Caprice and Rondo. I wonder if I can introduce any of the HP girls to the delights of Lymond and Niccolo? But - on the other hand - how eager am I to see slash written about them? It would happen - I just know it would!! On a lighter note my sketch of Lymond and Slata Baba was given an honourable mention - probably something along the lines of "Why's that broad holding a chicken?"
Must do some more drawing (one for Steph, one for Cathy, lots for me)and finish part 2 of WTPP and part 2 of the Mattress.
Did a dubiously legitimate thing last night in watching a BAFTA committee copy of the Two Towers. Sigh. Went to bed emotionally drained from yelling "No, dammit, you can't ride cavalry onto a pike schiltron - it just isn't done - no I don't care if you've got ten wizards on your side - etc etc etc" Jenny went to sleep and snored all through the battle of Helm's Deep. Loved the story about how Peter Jackson got the stamping and chanting for the battle from the 30,000 strong audience of an England/New Zealand cricket game which he 'borrowed' and directed at half time. This film is beginning to grow on me - I wasn't so fussed at first - and I have had a fairly radical change of view about Legolas since I've seen how he can throw a punch!

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[essayel.livejournal.com]

Must finish a 'Charlie and dragon' sketch first - it will be a Common Welsh Green, of course. But the initial pencil of the Snape and Draco being heroic sketch has gone down OK.
Have you ever heard Gordon Lightfoot's music for The Snowgoose? It's out of print now, I expect, but it was very beautiful.

[innerslytherin]

I haven't heard it! *Gasp* A Gordon Lightfoot song I haven't heard!
Now I'll be searching for it all over!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

It was written in the early 70s as an instrumental piece for British television film of Paul Gallico's story with Richard Harris as Philip and Jenny Agutter as Fritha. I had a copy of a copy of a tape when I was in college and listened to it until it wore out - sob.