She speaks poniards, and every word stabs

[hedda62]

Things I did yesterday:

1) Got stung by a BIG-ASS BEE while attempting to tame the elderberry jungle that used to be my vegetable garden. I assume I disturbed a ground nest, which means not a carpenter bee (since they nest in wood), though my passion for amateur entomology was somewhat dampened by having a bee inside my shirt. (It flew into my cleavage first, while I was bending over pulling up weeds, and then kept following me around and finally stung me on the back of the shoulder. I hate not being able to see the thing that's attacking me.) I must have been an entertaining sight as I went from laughing hysterically at "Cabin Pressure" to shrieking and running up to the house, where I still had Martin and Douglas snarking in my ears as I gasped out "Get this bee off me" to my surprised husband. Luckily, BIG-ASS BEES pale in comparison to medium-size ones when it comes to venom, so I just had a small swelling along with my dose of embarrassment.

2) Went back down later to get the black raspberries I can now reach after removing thickets of elderberry, pokeweed and bedstraw. I guess I'll finish the job... another day.

3) Loaded even more "Cabin Pressure" onto my phone along with some new playlists (such as "Ambiguity" which starts out with "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" "What's Happening?" "Don't Explain" "Maybe I Will" "What'll I Do?" "I Can't Decide" with a later sequence of "For All We Know" "I Don't Know Why" "Don't Know How" "I Think You Know" "God Only Knows" "I'm Not Calling You a Liar." I have to keep myself amused somehow).

4) Went down-county to see "Much Ado About Nothing" (which, if it was a song title, would fit nicely into the above). Oh, Joss and his friends. It was lovely, if distractingly full of familiar faces. I was a bit worried I'd have trouble with Amy Acker as Beatrice, what with having seen her as Root a lot recently, but she was perfect in her blend of vulnerability and steel, and the only time I didn't believe her was in the "Oh God, that I were a man!" sequence, because it was quite obvious that she'd have no problem killing Claudio herself (though it's also a way of testing Benedick). Denisof was a pretty good Benedick; Fillion was himself; Fran Kranz (who is familiar though I don't know why, because I never watched more than a few episodes of "Dollhouse") was a great Claudio; but my favorite aside from Amy Acker was Clark Gregg as Leonato. I mean, a small part of me was saying "Look what a lovely house Agent Coulson has" but really, he belonged there, in that timeless black-and-white-and -gray world they'd created, with endless food and entertainment and scenery and glasses of wine. Oh, and Sean Maher is surprisingly good at being evil. Highly recommended, not that any of you were going to wait for my recommendation before jumping on this. (Also, theatre with enormous padded fake-leather seats almost justified $11.50 a ticket.)

Comments

[raven]

Bees in your cleavage! You poor thing. :( But, hey, Cabin Pressure! Isn't it just lovely?

[hedda62]

It is lovely, and thank you for passing it along! I just finished listening to the one where they are taking the final letters off book titles. Three Men in a Boa, ha!

I would really rather have the bee in my cleavage than on my back where I can't see it, but generally away would be nice.

[philomytha]

Bees in your clothes, yikes. I'm glad it wasn't too bad a sting. I once found one that was trying to hibernate for the winter in my bed; I sat on it, with predictable results which rendered the next two days of sitting in a classroom at school deeply unpleasant.

And I've only listened to one episode of Cabin Pressure, but I really must try some more, since everyone raves about it and I always need more funny things in life.

[hedda62]

It really is nice to have something you can just listen to and giggle (or even guffaw). And ow, sitting on a bee.

[mmegaera]

OW. The closest I've come to anything like that was the time I stepped on a wasp in my bare feet a couple of decades ago. I ended up with a big toe the size of a baby's fist.

I've been going back and forth about seeing the new Much Ado. The Branagh version is my alltime favorite movie, so this one would have almost impossible shoes to fill.

Sean Maher is Don John? [tries to wrench brain around to think of that properly]

[hedda62]

I think it helps that it's a really different movie, what with the black-and-white and the modern dress and the intimate feel to it all - though obviously it's the same text and the same roles and some of the approaches are similar. *shrugs* I love the Branagh film too, but this one worked for me very well. And yes, Sean Maher as Don John is a little brain-wrenching, but he's slipping around being pale and quietly controlling and oddly sexy, and hm, yes.