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Jul. 3rd, 2008 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarGive me courage. I recently found out that not only is Foyle's War ending on Mystery! this season, so is The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. And neither is going to have the usual four episodes, but Foyle will only have three, and Lynley will only have TWO. How they can spring something like this on me I have no idea. What will I watch? I hope they come up with some nice new series soon. Preferably a period one. I was never a Morse fan, and I just can't bring myself to watch Inspector Lewis. At least there's supposed to be more Miss Marple this season. It's what keeps me hanging on to hope. *sniffle*
Still in a musical theater mood, I've been listening to the original cast recording of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. It's really quite wonderful. Burton Lane is an awesome composer, I wish he'd have done more shows! I'll have to find out why he didn't. But in the meanwhile, I'm falling quite in love with "Melinda", which ought to rank up there with the great romantic Broadway ballads, "Tosy and Cosh" (dig those harpsichords!) and even the title song, which I can finally appreciate properly, instead of having to put the TV on mute when Barbra Streisand sings it. I haven't actually seen the movie in a while, and I'm not quite sure how much they changed, but I know they took out some songs and added new ones, and I have a sneaking feeling the movie would have been a lot better if they'd stuck a little closer to the stage version, and it definitely would have been better if they'd used the original Broadway people, who are all very good.
Started another doll dress with the pink fleur-de-lis fabric. Circa 1815 this time. I decided to use this project to get some practice with the sewing machine, and got the front skirt panel chewed up for my trouble. This is not encouraging! And when I make costumes for myself, rather than tiny dolls, I'll have no choice but to use the machine. (Yet somehow I have a feeling I'll revert to hand-sewing even on people clothes one of these days; it would probably be faster than having to stop and fix that darn machine every five minutes!)
Still in a musical theater mood, I've been listening to the original cast recording of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. It's really quite wonderful. Burton Lane is an awesome composer, I wish he'd have done more shows! I'll have to find out why he didn't. But in the meanwhile, I'm falling quite in love with "Melinda", which ought to rank up there with the great romantic Broadway ballads, "Tosy and Cosh" (dig those harpsichords!) and even the title song, which I can finally appreciate properly, instead of having to put the TV on mute when Barbra Streisand sings it. I haven't actually seen the movie in a while, and I'm not quite sure how much they changed, but I know they took out some songs and added new ones, and I have a sneaking feeling the movie would have been a lot better if they'd stuck a little closer to the stage version, and it definitely would have been better if they'd used the original Broadway people, who are all very good.
Started another doll dress with the pink fleur-de-lis fabric. Circa 1815 this time. I decided to use this project to get some practice with the sewing machine, and got the front skirt panel chewed up for my trouble. This is not encouraging! And when I make costumes for myself, rather than tiny dolls, I'll have no choice but to use the machine. (Yet somehow I have a feeling I'll revert to hand-sewing even on people clothes one of these days; it would probably be faster than having to stop and fix that darn machine every five minutes!)
