meanderings

[burntcopper]

... the cough is back. SHITE. Here's to an indefinite period of pain and wheezing. More wheezing than coughing so far.

Oh, and just had a disturbing moment - was listening to a commentary and realised that someone I fancy has exactly the same speech patterns as one of the actors (and his character), just with a different accent.

Fidding with my necklace that the bro gave me for xmas. Polished carbon. Which we both snicker a lot over because I'm essentially wearing a lump of coal. (we're the children of a geophysicist. just be glad we're not taking the piss out of seismic diagrams. our minds have already been warped enough to the point of Dilbert.)

Finally got round to listening to the commentaries on Blink, and the Human Nature eps. Confirmed two rules for me about Dr Who commentaries. Well, actually, three, but we'll get to that later.

a) Julie Gardner should never be allowed anywhere near the commentaries. Damp. Squib.
b) When in doubt, always have the writer + at least one of the techs. Far funnier and maximises the Who geekery.

c)...I'm never going to find a commentary better than the ones for Empty Child and Doctor Dances, am I? :sigh: damn you, Stephen Moffat and Barrowman. You spoiled me for all other commentaries because they don't have quotes like 'for those of you who tuned into this to hear a discussion about furniture, you're in for a real treat' 'Which websites are those, John' 'My next story, Dr who and the Golden Pavilions' 'Quite why the Chula built in this ability to operate old remingtons' 'And this would besmirch the complete irrelevancy of this scene' 'They may have been stuntmen, they could have just been some inexpensive welsh people' 'For those of you who don't know, that's actor speak for concussing a prop assistant one night'

Those are just some of the choice Moffatt ones. If I start on the Barrowman ones as well, I'll be here all night...

Comments

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

And don't have Rusty because he mumbles so badly that I can't make out a word.

Why the fuck don't they subtitle the commentaries? It drives me crazy.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

on the QAF one he's fine. mind you, I listen to commentaries as mp3s.

[dcsunset44.livejournal.com]

It's been far too long since I watched Empty Child, I think I may have to do that now :)

Is your cough allergy related? My ex-hubby got bronchitis every spring for years before we finally figured out it was caused by tree pollen and London pollution.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:sigh: I wish i could blame it on allergies, but I don;t have any. It's humidity related. Basically, the less moisture in the air, the worse my lungs cope (put me in the sahara and I'm dead) - born in rainforest country, lived fifteen minutes from the Thames most of my life in a very green area, the only place my lungs have never had trouble was uni, where I lived in a tiny seaside town and London is... fucking awful. Add on top of that moving to the dry, hot side of the office with added air conditioning and fans going constantly and I'm screwed. I spend most of the winter coughing up phlegm. And it doesn't help that I normally have very healthy, ridiculously powerful high capacity but very sensitive lungs. This equals a lot of pain and the danger of tearing things in my ribs during coughing fits. Went through the rigmarole of doctors' appointments and chest x-rays this winter to see if there was any other cause, but it's just lack of moisture