A Happy 80th Birthday to Lord Sir Charles of the Dance
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@quiteamess.bsky.social PinnedThe first pics from the Beatles movie are really uncanny
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Former child, potential corpse/immortal. I could procrastinate during a plane crash. There's going to be a lot of old Dr Who and C20th TV and all that here. Occasional cats and alt-pop.
@quiteamess.bsky.social Pinned@quiteamess.bsky.socialI've just looked at the lyrics for the first time in my life and discovered "La question c'est voulez-vous" when I've thought it was "I can still say voulez-vous" for nearly my entire lifetime and now I've relistened and it sounds nothing like that.
@quiteamess.bsky.socialAha.
@quiteamess.bsky.socialWorking on an AI Third Doctor fan-film and the results are uncanny.
@quiteamess.bsky.socialA thing on the radio the other day about tu becoming the default over vous in modern French made me think about how this must be quite specifically about shagging on a formal basis.
@quiteamess.bsky.socialDrunk driving AND picking up pirate Radio Caroline, the scoundrels!
@quiteamess.bsky.socialMy favourite deaths. Swing for Tatum O'Neal and her pony and you'd better not miss, you drunk mini driving louts!
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@quiteamess.bsky.socialHashtag Absolute Cinema
@quiteamess.bsky.socialI bet he said it quite a lot. Sardonically.
@quiteamess.bsky.social:(
@quiteamess.bsky.socialThe Master himself would approve
@quiteamess.bsky.socialBought this acer as barely a seedling nearly 20 years ago. Living in a pokey beige newbuild outside Hinckley it was the only fauna on the estate apart from tiny squares of grass. Originally planned to plant it out but it's so happy in its pot with regular feeding, I think it's staying put.
@quiteamess.bsky.socialIt's a little harvest festival here
@quiteamess.bsky.social@quiteamess.bsky.socialIt's a classic
@quiteamess.bsky.socialI'm overdue a rewatch, I hadn't remembered that!
@quiteamess.bsky.socialJessie Matthews - herself fired from a radio soap in 1969 - played the role in a 70s theatre tour, still considered a shocking move for the 1930s elfin 'dancing divinity'. When asked if she found it difficult to play a lesbian she replied, not at all, she's just like my ex husband.
@quiteamess.bsky.socialHow Beryl Reid makes a bullying drunkard girlfriend-battering actress still feel 3D and sometimes even sympathetic is a testament to her talent. Hollywood A-listers turned the movie down but that was Reid's chance to get back into the tweeds of her original stage performance, and our good fortune.
@andrewmale.bsky.socialReposted by @quiteamess.bsky.socialIf you want to give thanks to the guy who originally created it, say hello to @quiteamess.bsky.social. As he wrote back on Twitter in 2023 "An almost cancelled work trip to London on an almost blizzarding February morning in 2009. That stunning No End demo was in the air as thickly as the snow."
@quiteamess.bsky.socialThanks Andrew, it's so nice to see people feeling that same sense of a moment with the song.
@andrewmale.bsky.socialReposted by @quiteamess.bsky.socialBack on Twitter, when autumn proper arrived I would always post the video someone made for Sandy Denny's No End (Demo) by holding a camera phone up against the train window. By popular request (well, from @robinallender.bsky.social) I'll start doing that here.