“You're at the gates of human evolution, don't you understand?”, as Take That so wisely sang at the end of First Class. I'm very late to the party but I bought some finest whiskey to accompany the chess game. Also into Good Omens, other comics, book and film content (some of it very old because, well, I am).
So my partner of many years has landed up in hospital (one of the things that brought us together is a shared taste in books and one of the first things we did together was get this copy of Good Omens signed by Terry Pratchett).
So when Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman signed the original Good Omens book, they used to each incorporate a 333 (to add up to 666) and a di
Looking at the reading material on the ward, expecting to be disappointed that it consisted of the usual out-of-date magazines - and then found this Good Omens-themed interview with David Tenant from late May!
Had a chuckle at the pic below - what was going on here?
(Seriously to @neil-gaiman and all those involved in Good Omens, much credit for all the hard work to create things that cast light on real life and also provide an escape from it)
michael sheen wanting to be a drag queen for a while before he settled on acting explains so much but leaves me with even more questions that're unanswered
Instead of ‘enter right’ or ‘exit left’, Erik needs a new stage direction, ‘float down from above’, or ‘exit upwards’ - that last one he uses as an equivalent of ‘mic drop’.
Entering:
(Oh of course you didn’t want to interrupt a memorial, Erik - the fact that you chose to hover majestically in the air rather than have a quiet word with whoever you need to talk to totally proves your point.)
Exiting, when it all gets too complicated:
Love the ‘hmmph’ from Charles here. It’s the hmmph of one who has been through this before.
So just a short stroll from Aziraphale’s bookshop is one of the world’s most famous gay clubs. It’s called Heaven. And nearby is the pub, Halfway to Heaven.
I’ve spent many a night at both these places and it’s only just occurred to me that Crowley would find it hilarious to talk about them to Aziraphale, give that he’d think he was referring to heaven itself.
C: ‘I feel like going out tonight.’
A: ‘Oh yes, shall we go that new Korean restaurant - I know it’s just an all-you-can-eat place but the seafood is actually very -’
C: ‘I’m fed up to the back teeth watching you feed yourself up to the back teeth. Let’s go to Heaven.’
A: ‘My dear, you can’t possibly -’
C: ‘Halfway to Heaven, then?’
A: ‘Purgatory? Why would you want to spend the evening there? It’s so dull.’
C: ‘You’re right, let’s just skip to the main course. Heaven it is, then.’
A: ‘They’ll kill you, Crowley!’
C: ‘No, I’m very popular there now. You’ll see.’
If they went, the music wouldn’t really be Aziraphale’s scene - too much be-bop - but once they’d had a few drinks he’d be trying to do the gavotte to Paul van Dyke’s ‘For an Angel.’
But what else would they dance to? There are so many dance tracks that reference heaven/hell/angels, etc. - but anyway, read on for some suggestions (and after all, if Faithless is to be believed, God Is a DJ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9XDqXoJKhA
Heartbreak - M’Black
(I mean going by the lyrics it could have been written for them)
It's a long way back to heaven
And we're on our way together
I wish I was yours, forever and ever,
and ever, and ever
I hide you, I keep you, I find you
And never let it go
I hide you, I keep you, I save you
And never let it go
This is how my heart breaks, together
This is how my heart breaks, forever and ever
You're tearing it apart
You're breaking my heart, forever and ever
This is how my heart breaks, forever and ever
Now it's on my mind, and it's bringing me around
And it's on my face, I’m not making a sound
I wish I could go back to heaven
But I’m here with you, in this world forever
Every moment that I wake
Every tear I never fake
Every time I never stay
Every minute every day
I hide you, I keep you, I find you
and never let it go
I hide you, I keep you, I save you
And never let it go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vvtRMBnVvo
In the Dark - Tiesto
This could be talking about the apocalypse (extra points for mentioning sinners):
When it seems like the world around you's breaking
And it feel like there's no one else around you
And it's quiet
There's a silence in the darkness
And it sounds like the carnival is over
As you walk in the crowded empty spaces
And you stare at the emptiness around you
You wanna go
To the city and the bright lights
Get away
From the sinners that surround you
'Cause I will be there
And you will be there
We'll find each other in the dark
And you will see
And I'll see you too
'Cause we'll be together in the dark
'Cause if it's coming for you
Then it's coming for me
'Cause I will be there
'Cause we need each other in the dark
And if it terrifies you
Then it terrifies me
'Cause I will be there
So we've got each other in the dark
As I look into the sky
There's sparks bright as ice
You want me to take you over there
I want you to stay with me
'Cause you're not the only one
The only one
No, no
Don't worry
You're not the only one
'Cause if it's coming for you
Then it's coming for me
But I will be there
’Cause we need each other in the dark
And if it's panicking you
Then it's panicking me
But I will be there
So we've got each other in the dark
We'll need each other in the dark
We'll hold each other in the dark
Now we're saved together in the dark
'Cause we've got each other in the dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxiv4EPcO4A
Silence - Tiesto
(This is one of my faves.)
Give me release
Witness me
I am outside
Give me peace
Heaven holds a sense of wonder
And I wanted to believe
That I'd get caught up
When the rage in me subsides
I can't help this longing
Comfort me
I can't hold it all in
If you won't let me
Heaven holds a sense of wonder
And I wanted to believe
That I'd get caught up
When the rage in me subsides
In this white wave
I am sinking
In this silence
In this white wave
In this silence
I have seen you
In this white wave
You are silent
You are breathing
In this white wave
I am free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AphBGDjaw
The afforementioned God is a DJ - Faithless
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends
This is my church
It's in the change
The poetic justice of cause and effect
Respect, love, compassion
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
For tonight
God is a DJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmI3upHbiqU
Heaven - DJ Sammy
And finally some cheesy nonsense!
Baby, you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven
Happy Pride Everyone!
As a huge Velvet Underground fan I'd love to know if Crowley has a favourite TVU song. Thank you!
I suspect that he drives out with “The Black Angel’s Death Song” playing*, but when he’s at home and relaxing it’s “I’ll be Your Mirror” or “Pale Blue Eyes”.
As long as it hasn’t been in the car for more than two weeks.
Woah, I tried to convince everyone about the relevance of The Black Angel’s Death Song to Crowley, in a previous post
https://generation-x-men.tumblr.com/post/185777541226/rewatching-go-and-not-sure-if-its-been-mentioned
Michael Sheen as Kenneth Williams...If anyone wants to see some real gay angst, I’d recommend this and I haven’t even watched it yet. Need to psyche myself up as I read the Kenneth Williams diaries when they first came out - they were a fascinating but very painful read.
Somewhere on here is a post about Aziraphale and Crowley mostly occupying the same on-screen position relative to one another (unfortunately I didn’t save it).
This also seems to hold true when Professor X and Magneto play chess.
A trope emerges:
‘Good but tortured by circumstance and occasionally gets it wrong’ - place character on the left.
‘Bad but has a point, with a flair for the ridiculously over-dramatic’ - place character on the right.
Then real life intervenes and mixes up the good-or-bad moral compass to the point where the only option is to run away to a cottage in Sussex or an eco-friendly island-based commune.
In the end, only one of these pairs really switches places:
The other one kind of does but only because of spoiler-alert type plot twist...
Today’s paper...Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde in X-Men). The Times online is behind a paywall so thought I’d take a pic. She talks about her life with her wife in New York and LGBTQ issues.
“Religion has been used to justify so many horrors - it can’t be used to justify treating LGBTQ people as second-class citizens.”
Shame we never got a Kitty Pryde-centric film, especially covering when she was battling against Emma Frost. This is something the MCU could do but I’m dreading what they’re going to make of the X-Men as it is...
So this is an Empire I kept from 2014 - not that long ago really, but it seems an age away that DOFP was the biggest ever superhero movie. (Well, I still fly the flag for x-men being the biggest, anyway, even though I’ve enjoyed a lot of the MCU.)
There were even 25 different covers to collect, which seems a bit ambitious.
Obligatory chess reference. In fact, here it’s revealed that Ian McKellen’s cousin has written several chess textbooks.
Fassbender jokes going on honeymoon with Sir Ian. (The dodginess of shipping yourself with your older self will hopefully only become a thing we have to worry about if time travel is ever invented.)
Good quote - “Halle’s so beautiful I wanted to punch her in the face.”
Ah, the tortured timeline - probably even more tangled up now.
Can we also say Agnes Nutter: “accused of being a witch”, here played by Whose Line Is It Anyway stalwart Josie Lawrence (who of course who also plays Agnes Nutter (in both the radio adaptation and the TV show)
Dark Phoenix is not the worst X-Men movie and deserved better than its bad reviews and box office failure.
Another more measured review of Dark Phoenix. I think the fact that the train sequence is a re-shoot makes it pretty impressive as it’s a good scene.
“As a more intimate story about the X-Men and Jean Grey, Dark Phoenix was designed to play more to the soap opera aspects of X-Men (and The Dark Phoenix Saga comics) to make it more about the characters than about sheer spectacle....
The final film has been changed as a result of reshoots to the original ending, which had a huge battle at the United Nations and Jean becoming the Phoenix to repel an alien invasion. This was scrapped in favor of a scaled-down (but still very entertaining) fight on a train...
In the end, Dark Phoenix's failure, unfortunately, ends Fox's X-Men with a whimper rather than capping off its 19-year saga with a glorious success. But perhaps history will be kind and will one day regard Dark Phoenix as a pretty good X-Men movie that was shot down by impossible circumstances.”
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