Get Stuck In

[tealin]

Notes to self re: Sherlock Holmes radio plays:

- Put some indication of chronology in playlist title (are there iPods that allow sub-directories?)
- Import some more into iTunes so I don't memorize the dozen I have in there at the moment
- Eliminate the redundant 5 seconds between cuts 6 and 7 of Abbey Grange
- Find that darn violin piece someday
- It goes Retired Colourman/His Last Bow/Sarah Slean on loop for 2-3 hours. If you are not ready to complete this in its entirety, do not listen to The Retired Colourman.

P.S. Clive Merrison RULES – take that, Carleton Hobbes! ah-HA!
P.P.S. Bert Coules, I love you and your smart, subtle, confident storytelling. Exactly what I needed at the moment.

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In other news, everyone seems to have gone to Mars for Memorial Day weekend. No one's at work! No one's online! Excuse me for a moment while I run haloo-ing through the echoing caverns of emptiness! YAAAAAAAAAHOOHOOHOOOEEEEY!

Comments

[laurick.livejournal.com]

How did you download the radio plays? I fell in love with the BBC broadcasts, but was never able to find a way of saving them!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I am enough of a technodork that I recorded them more-or-less manually, with the aid of Audacity and a really mindless job that coincided with BBC7 rerunning the whole series. :D I missed a few episodes and am missing nearly all of one of the collections but it's a decent chunk nonetheless! I just have to go in and cut them into tracks and find/patch skips in the stream.

[conga-chili.livejournal.com]

What are you haroo-ing about?? I was at work, and did not hear you.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It was a quiet halloo, which might have sounded like me shuffling to the cereal bar. :)

[catmoran.livejournal.com]

are there iPods that allow sub-directories?

Not that I know of. My solution is to put them in their own playlist, which sort of has the same effect. Except I was doing it for the Dr Horrible soundtrack, rather than radio plays.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm doing right now, but I'd like to be able to group them by collection (The Adventures, the Memoirs, etc) so I'm not jumping around the canon based on arbitrary title alphabetization. Each play is about 10 cuts long so 1 play = 1 playlist. It'd also be nice not to have to scroll past them all when I'm looking for a music playlist...

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have many of the plays, actually... Need to remedy this. Infact! I just checked and I only see A Study in Scarlet, CA Milverton and A Scandal in Bohemia -- whaaaat?

[tony-cliff.livejournal.com]

Hunh - I just pulled down a sarah slean album - night bugs - it's pretty good! She makes the nice musics!

Sherlock Holmes movie

[(Anonymous)]

Have you seen the trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI

It's a bit....iffy to me, to say the very least, but hopefully it won't totally destory Holmes's character and maybe be at least worth the money paid for the movie ticket? 0_o

Re: Sherlock Holmes movie

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I've heard of the thing (keep hearing about it from concerned citizens) but that's the first I've seen of the trailer – on one hand I'm happy that it's so far removed from the original, because that means it'll be possible to enjoy it as long as I can shut my brain off whenever they say his name, but on the other I'm sad that it's a little bit less like Rutherford Lodge* than I was expecting it to be. Nice production design, though, and I hope (hope hope hope) that, like Wild Wild West, it'll bring back Little Sunglasses so the big ugly bug-eyed ones won't be the only option at the store anymore. (selfish, I know, but I like Little Sunglasses, and I go through them like kleenex.) Also I am a big fan of the rip-roaring Hans Zimmer score which, if it's the same one they have in the movie, I may add to my collection of Soundtracks Wot I Do Not Associate With A Movie But Are Fun On Their Own. And as I have ample warning that they are raping and eviscerating one of my favourite fictional characters I have plenty of time to practise my selective perception.

Clive Merrison is still the only Holmes for me, and they will never take him away. :D