the lost boys

[janne_d]

Finally, I have got around to watching the second and third episodes of Lost that I taped last week. I wasn't convinced that all the hype was justified from just having seen the first epi, but I am on board now - it's well good and the gradual getting to know the characters is very interesting. Plus, invisible monsters and randomly appearing polar bears? Count me in.

I can also see why everyone has been going on about Sawyer - just on looks so far as he's one of the ones we haven't seen much of yet - but what I would like to know is why no-one is raving about Naveen Andrews as Sayid? Now there is a gorgeous man who I haven't seen anything of for ages, probably not since The English Patient. And for those slashaholics out there, he was also the star of The Buddha of Suburbia and had a nice little sex scene with Steven Mackintosh...


In other good news, Tales of the City is getting a UK DVD release and as any dS fans (especially those who've read Shadows Fade by AuKestrel and Kellie Matthews) will know, one of the characters was played by Mr. Paul Gross. Since it came out in 1993, I haven't actually seen it myself, but I did watch More Tales of the City a few years later and, despite PG having moved on to other projects by then, I remember it as being pretty entertaining so I'd guess the first one would be worth a look. Sexual shenanigans in seventies San Francisco. Sweet.

The series of 6 books by Armistead Maupin that it is based on are also very good, btw.

Comments

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

*waves* oh, you're back! have an e-donut!

I'm not watching Lost. This is not surprising.

Oh PG on shiny disk, shiny shiny shiny...

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised - c'mon, everybody else is. Cave to the peer pressure, you know you want to... There's pretty men! And a beach and weird shit going on! And, and, uh... pretty men!

Mmm, doughnuts...

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Me and peer pressure = does not compute. Honestly.

I am always the weird retro hippie one. I own three kaftans for god's sake!

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

You should also read the Tales of the City series, while I'm in nag mode. Very light and fluffy and funny. (And gay, did I mention the sexual shenanigans in seventies SF yet? I think the series goes all the way into the early 80s eventually)

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Tales of the City is getting a UK DVD release - squeek! Yay! I keep seeing the books in the library (not that I haunt the gay/lesbian section and get weird looks from old men or anything *g*) and thinking: oooh Paul Gross...

Is Shadows Fade the sequel to the Billy Tallent/Fraser one?

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

(not that I haunt the gay/lesbian section and get weird looks from old men or anything *g*)

We don't have one in Dover, it's very disappointing as was my search for Lois Bujold, or anything by Greene, Moorcock or Magrs which I haven't read yet (besides All The Rage, I don't want to read about eighties pop for god's sake, I think a lot of the world's population are still in recovery from that, and I barely gravitate into the eighties when it concerns music and when I do it's Queen).

*quits rambling* *brings gayest icon*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yay, Lois McMaster Bujold! Did you know that they seem to be publishing them with proper covers now instead of the hideous american illustrated covers I was forced to buy when I obsessively collected them a few years back because back then you could only get most of them as US imports? It is most emphatically not fair.

Are you looking for the Vorkosigan series or the Chalion books? If you aren't reading about Miles Vorkosigan, why the hell not? Also, the Bujold nexus (www.dendarii.com) has a random quote generator that is quite amusing and some interesting links.

*quits rambling also* *only has 3 icons*

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was looking for Vorkosigan.

'spose that has to wait until I hit London again now.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the sequel to Northern Comfort/No Secrets but I have to say that I read Shadows Fade far more - I like the other two but they were written in the RK-is-drastically-insecure phase and some of it bugs me a little.

But if you haven't read Shadows Fade, you should. It is really long and immensely satisfying and found on the crossover/AU section of Kellie Matthew's page at MRKS.

And you should get out the books, seriously. They're fun.