Quotes, more filk, and a link

[selenak]

Yesterday was very busy; however, I did have the time to browse around in a nearby bookstore in between. Was very amused to see the published script for Love Actually complete with cut scenes and questionnaire for the actors as an appendix. The questionnaire, among other things, contained the questions "Whom would you want to have as your naked stand-in?" and "If you had to have sex with a Prime Minister, who would it be?" For the later question, two of the guys chickened and picked Maggie Thatcher since she's female, but the overwhelming majority went for Winston Churchill (Emma Thompson: "Imagine the pillow talk."). Tony Blair got two voices; so did Llyod George. Points for originality to Colin Firth, who picked Pitt the Younger ("not jowly"). The naked stand-in question was the opportunity for the cast to take the piss out of each other. Colin Firth again: "Hugh Grant, ten years ago." Hugh Grant: "Colin Firth, only with a better body." Alan Rickman: "Liam Neeson. Hell, almost anyone would do by now." And so on, and so forth. Keira Knightley picked Johnny Depp.*g*

Meanwhile, what have I done by melding Babylon 5 and the Beatles? Now kathyh wants Lovely Lyta, Mean Mr. Morden and While My G'Kar Gently Weeps. (My G'Kar muse immediately told me the later was out of the question; Paperback Writer is his song.) What I did come up with was an Ivanova/Talia version of Norwegian Wood, though. Again with apologies to Lennon and McCartney: Susan, at any point after Divided Loyalties.



Ivanova's Lament

I
once had a girl
or should I say
she once had me?
She
could read my mind;
I was not kind,
nor was I blind.

I told her that Psi Corps had ruined my mother and there
was the reason why I didn't let myself care.

Still
we became friends:
this was not planned.
She got to me.
We
started to see
that it could be:
Talia and me.

And then came the day when she wasn't there:
her voice and her face, no more did they leave me of her.

I
said my farewell
or should I say
she spoke to me.
She
was only hate -
it was too late.
That is my fate.


Switching to another fandom and genre: cadesama has her X2 DVD and wrote an absolutely hilarious review in haikus, no less. (Which reminds me - altariel1 once wrote haiku summaries of Blake's 7 episodes on a mailing list - are they online somewhere?) Read the haiku version of X2 impressions here.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Lovely Lyta? Sounds like a song from a Sandman musical. A duet. Sung by Loki and Puck.

True, and I've always wondered...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...whether JMS named Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5 after Lyta Hall in Sandman. He's friends with Neil Gaiman, after all, and did persuade him to write a B5 ep, and the two Lytas have similar developments...

[kathyh]

Lovely filk of one of my favourite Beatles songs. I can see that Paperback Writer is more suitable for G'Kar *g*.

The "If you had to have sex with a Prime Minister, who would it be?" question sounds fun. I might follow a small trend and go for Lloyd George on the grounds of experience, on the other hand Lord Melbourne or Disraeli would probably be more amusing. I'm not sure Pitt the Younger was interested in sex so Colin Firth might have his work cut out...though who could resist a wet-shirted Mr Darcy...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest Disraeli myself, but then reconsidered - it's probably too much to demand novelists and witty conversationalists have the energy for good pillow talk, too. They have to relax somewhere, after all. And didn't Lord Melbourne have a thing for spanking?

Pitt the Younger - and the period almost fits, so Colin Firth could use that look to convert him....

[kathyh]

Mr Darcy/Pitt the Younger slash?? That would make an amazing FPS/RPS hybrid. And I really need to stop now before I think of any more...

Not sure about Melbourne and the spanking. Mind you he was married to Lady Caroline Lamb so I'm not sure anyone could blame him!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me - altariel1 once wrote haiku summaries of Blake's 7 episodes on a mailing list - are they online somewhere?

I missed you asking this question, but I happened to be flipping back through your LJ this morning and it caught my eye.

Yes, they're here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.adams1/personal/haikufront.htm). Not all my own work, by any means - members of the B7 mailing list contributed most of them.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's great to read them again.