Q&A with Josh Lanyon discussion

I haven’t posted here before but I am going to join in. Four of the actors from ‘It’s a Sin’ appeared on Christmas Bake Off and it was good watching them bake and then be judged by Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. I have put Its a Sin on my list of series to watch.

At the moment I am watching second series of The Witcher
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/8018... Then I am going to start reading the series. I do enjoy high fantasy and it will be nice to have a series I can get into.

Recently I watched The Long Call. The Long Call
I thought it was great to see the drama but the book was so much more interesting.

I didn’t realize The Long Call got turned into anything. That’s awesome. I’ve been enjoying the Vera Stanhope books recently. I’ve gotten through book 3. But I do think I might prefer the tv show? But then, I saw the show first, so that may have something to do with it. Lol.


I just got All Creatures Great and Small based on the book, which I’ve not read, but I saw the ads for the show, thought it was a movie, recommended it to my Dad and he bought me the first season on DVD. So I’ve got something to keep me busy for awhile.

To that end, I finished Lost season one just before my vacation and I’ve borrowed season two already from the library so maybe I’ll get started on that when I get home tonight. I enjoyed season one, but so far I’m not sure I’d watch it again, so I’ve not bought it yet. However, I’m watching it because Michael Emerson is in season two and so maybe once his character, Ben Linus, shows up, I’ll change my mind. We’ll see.

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "...At the moment I am watching second series of The Witcher
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/8018..."

We just finished Season 2. I've been collecting the audiobooks, but so far have only listened to The Last Wish, which is a collection of the short stories that make up much of Season 1 on Netflix. It was good, but the narrator's voicing of Geralt is very different from Henry Cavill's voicing and it takes some getting used to. :)

I know I'm late to the party, but I've just ''discovered'' the incredibly talented Bo Burnham (born 1990, began his career on YouTube in 2006).

Here some of his older things (2014):

Lower Your Expectations Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llGvs...

Sad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLSvY...


Something newer (June 2021):

White Woman's Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHotX...

Welcome to the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Bne...

Cute wild animals:

https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

Cute wild animals rescued from bizarre predicaments ;-):

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddes...

Lovely photos. I follow quite a few nature organisations on Instagram and the photos of animals and of places around the world are just fantastic.

Abigail Thorne has since some 9 years or so the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube. This video from January 2021 (37 minutes) had over 2 million views:

Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITRz...

Please notice that the person at the beginning of the video is an actor, it suggests what Abigail had to do before coming out, that is playing a part.

I've just ordered on paper the quoted Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde. Since a long time I had wanted read something by Lorde, but probably I would have started with an essay.

Shetland, Season 6 — the series based the Shetland Island book series by Anne Cleeves.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/5414...

Also, the TV version of The Long Call was released last Fall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lon...

(We'll watch that next.)

I saw a few episodes of Shetland years ago. It was good, but I never got into it.

Binged Lost season three all weekend. I definitely don’t think I’ll be watching it again, but it’s interesting. The first two seasons were more interesting though. Started four last night.

And thanks, Antonella, for posting about that coming out story!

Jordan wrote: "I saw a few episodes of Shetland years ago. It was good, but I never got into it..."

I love the scenery and the actors' voices (we have to watch with subtitles) and have become fond of the core actors. We just finished Season 6 which ends in a cliffhanger with the plot cycle mystery resolved, but lots of other unresolved "issues.:"

I found this explanation quite soothing, not only because Thay (Master = Thich Nhat Hanh) just died, but also because lately I started to have slightly morbid thoughts about getting older:

Where Do We Go When We Die? | Thich Nhat Hanh, 2002 07 22 (Plum Village, France)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvcTg...

I own Ways of Seeing by John Berger, but I didn't know you can still find on YouTube the BBC series.

Here the first of the 4 episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4...

Here an article about the importance of the series:
Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art
https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...?

Vera series/season 11!

Helga Stentzel is a Russian-born artist based in London, her artistic current is ''household surrealism''. See for ex. her

Clothing Line Animals Series:
https://www.helgastentzel.com/collect...

The video ‘Silent Place’ by the Irish band Jiggy celebrates the global togetherness of dance (less than 3 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ6oC...

Antonella wrote: "The video ‘Silent Place’ by the Irish band Jiggy celebrates the global togetherness of dance (less than 3 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ6oC..."

Love this! Just shared with my dancer daughter and tango dancing husband.

Antonella wrote: "The video ‘Silent Place’ by the Irish band Jiggy celebrates the global togetherness of dance (less than 3 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ6oC..."

WOW! That was cool!

This is nice drawing for book lovers ;-):

https://m.facebook.com/milltownpl/pho...

This is out now in Italy, I'm looking forward to it:

Flee review – remarkable refugee story told with heart and audacity
***** ((5 stars out of 5))
A thrilling documentary made with a blend of animation and archive footage tells an immensely powerful tale of a gay Afghan survivor

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021...

Something nice and light:

Iceland Rainbow Street – Seydisfjordur Blue Church
https://dailytravelpill.com/iceland-r...

That’s really pretty!

Cambridge, MA has some rainbow crosswalks and public benches, but not whole streets like that.

The British Museum has many interesting videos, at the moment for ex. a series about Stonehenge because of «The world of Stonehenge» exhibition (till Mid July: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibit...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDy2...

Mymymble wrote: "For those who love YA I have to recommend Heartstopper on Netflix. It’s the most adorable YA happy romance- not usually my genre but I nevertheless loved it. So feel good. https://amp.theguardian.c..."

Thank you. I knew they wanted to make a TV production out of Heartstopper: Volume One, but I didn't know it is already there! (And I love Owen Jones)

I’ve been watching the new version of All Creatures Great and Small. Finished the first season before my vacation and am hoping to start season two soon!

Did you know this site AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions(in English and in French)?

https://awarewomenartists.com/en/arti...

Antonella wrote: "Did you know this site AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions(in English and in French)?

https://awarewomenartists.com/en/arti..."

That's cool

Just watched the movie Proud Mary, and wow was that good! Taraji P. Henson was amazing. AND it was clearly filmed, like, every inch was clearly filmed in my city. LOVE. Very action packed, as she's an assassin, but with heart, as she tries to do right by a 12 year old boy who's father she killed.

The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR created a short free version of a game meant to inspire understanding and empathy for the plight of refugees.

Path Out is is an autobiographical adventure game that allows the players to replay the journey of Abdullah Karam, a young Syrian artist that escaped the civil war in 2014. Camouflaged as a Japanese RPG, Path Out is a tale full of surprises, challenges and paradoxical humor, giving insight in this real-life adventure, on which Abdullah comments through youtube-style videos in the game.

In fact for the long version you are asked how much would you like to pay...

https://causacreations.itch.io/pathou...

Dark Winds, the latest version of Tony Hillerman's Longhorn/Chee/Manuelito books. A story in six episodes that's something of an amalgam of a couple of Hillerman's books. I liked the settings, the actors, and the first two or three episodes, then had niggles. Hillerman's books have a hardness to them — they're definitely not cozies — but something of the hard slickness of the later episodes of this series wasn't as satisfying as I'd expected. Season 2 is scheduled for 2023 release. I'll watch it.

I was curious about Dark Winds. I’m only up to book five, I think. Also trying to read more books by actual indigenous authors, but I do own the omnibus hardcovers of the first twelve Hillerman books. So far I’ve really enjoyed them. They remind me a bit of Hansen and others like him.

Anyway, pretty sure Dark Winds is on a streaming service so it’ll be awhile before I get to watch it anyway.