Still in haste

Something nice for the day amid bad news: Catherine Tate and David Tennant, looking great in the photoshoot for their upcoming Much Ado About Nothing production. Yeeeeeessss.

And how's this for an amazing Beatles cover? Mumford & Sons cover Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight from the Abbey Road medley and manage to be great and nearly as heartbreaking as the original. I swear, that part of the medley is the true tearjerker in the Beatles canon for me. There are other sad songs, naturally. But that one gets me bawling every damn time. Once there was a way to get back home... is all the heartbreak, grief and longing for what was lost in the world set to beautiful music. And then the Carry that Weight fragment starts to pick you up a bit (despite the still sad text, the music is starting to upbeat again), carrying you to the glorious finale. Which Mumford & Sons didn't cover, but that part of the medley surprisingly works on its own as well.

P.S. This is why the part in the Playboy interview where John is asked about Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight is one of those "you better mean that sarcastically, Lennon, because you can't possibly have been that clueless!" moments for me: "Oh, that's one of Paul's. Apparantly he was under some stress at the time."

Post dealing with rape, reporting and responses to same; trigger-warning

And on a note of what the hell, world? You may, or may not have seen during the last week lj posts about the way the New York Times saw fit to report the gang rape of a eleven years old girl. (Victim blaming abounded.) Now I've come about an online article reporting in more detail and depth about the circumstances. It also links a video from a local news report in which the mother of one of the boys/men (he's 19) is interviewed, and quotes from said interview.

...I'm usually adverse to the whole "blame the parents" approach. Especially with rape. And it must be a horrible situation, finding out your child has done something like that. But if you raise your son along these lines:

FOX 26: What did you do? Did you talk to your son?

Hancock: Yes I did. Yes I did. I said, ‘Baby, I’m your momma. You can talk to me.’ (The victim) said she was 17 years old and that’s what he told me.

FOX 26: But Anita, a lot of people would say, ‘This is an 11 year old child. Even if she lied, she’s eleven.’

Hancock: I understand that. I understand that. I’m not defending him. I’m not defending her. I’m not defending no child because if it were my child, I would feel the same way. My point is, where was her mother?

FOX 26: If this was reversed. If your son wasn’t your son, but you were the mother of this 11 year old, what would you do? What would you say? What is justice?

Hancock: First of all, I would know where she was. That’s the justice. Not knowing where your baby is is not justice. I feel like she should be accounted for not knowing where your baby at.

FOX 26: What lesson does you son need to learn?

Hancock: ID. Identification. This (holding up nametag and picture) is what you ask for baby.

FOX 26: So you’re going to tell your son, next time he meets a girl to ask for her ID?

Hancock: Identification.

...the you are also responsible. "Identification?" Seriously? IDENTIFICATION?

Talk about rape culture.