Neil Gaiman: Classic Or Dud

lol I had no idea he was married to Amanda Palmer, but other than being a thread on ILX I have no idea who she is anyway.

OMG!!!!! why did you not also post this to the Amanda Palmer thread???

He apparently has never opened that thread.

Bingo.

simple simon met a gaiman going to his third home to spread some rona..

Though I'd never opened a Neil Gaiman thread till now.

he writes those shit comics that aren't viz or beano!

lol if you can call that writing

I watched about half of season 1 of American Gods and it was some insufferable shite that even the great Ian McShane couldn't ameliorate with his fine presence.

I liked Good Omens and Neverwhere, have given up on everything I've looked at since then, including American Gods which I found not of interest from any angle.

It's easy to criticise but who among us can honestly say they wouldn't feel inclined to fly 11,000 miles to get out of being locked up with A. Palmer?

New Zealand maybe not a great place to go to patch up a rocky relationship.

xp a guy who chose to marry Amanda Palmer and have a child with her?

We actually have the answer to that and it is no.

Fun fact: the Gaelic name for the Isle of Skye is An t-Eilean Sgitheanach.

I'm sure Neil Gaiman speaks it like a native... a native of Hampstead, that is.

I bitched about this on the Amanda palmer thread. Theres no hospital for a couple hundred miles for the inhabitants of Skye and little reason for them to get covid without outsiders coming in

Who would have thought some rich entitled London wanker who 'loves Skye more than anything' could be that selfish?

Runrig are from Skye, if he could take out one or two of them with his London diseases it'll all have been worth it.

think yr more of a londoner than he is, tom -- he grew up in east grinstead (parents = scientologists) , living there on and off till 1987, then moved to wisconsin in the early 90s

Runrig also appear in the Duolingo Gaelic course pretty early on, probably before Skye.

(xp) A Sassenach incomer all the same.

that i will not deny

Reminds me, I work with a guy from the Canary Islands who told me their nickname for mainland Spaniards is 'los Godos', the Goths.

I've been listening to the Sandman audio drama on Audible and it's...not bad, I guess? I don't listen to audio-books much as my attention span with these things is pretty abysmal. But some chapters have been enjoyable, in particular the Dr Destiny storyline. The episode set in the diner was creepy was fuck.

Can't say I care much for Death's voice actress. I know the character is meant to be quirky and upbeat, but she sounds far too high-pitch squeaky (I actually thought it was Kristen Schall for a minute) and a bit one-note. It's too bad, as aside from her the "Sound of Her Wings" episode was done really well.

Creepy as fuck

Didn't know this existed. Kristen Schall might actually be a good Death!

Schall would have more range, I'd reckon. I'll give Dennings another chance when the next Death story comes up, she might improve.

The second part of the audio series is out. They actually went ahead and cast Schall as Delirium, so in any scene where she interacts with Death (Kat Dennings), the two are impossible to tell apart! Still, Season of Mists and A Game of You are two of my favourite extended Sandman stories, so this should be good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00120cb

^ Desert Island Discs from earlier in the month

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4JQZ297tX36CzL1JSkQHy4D/nine-things-we-learned-from-neil-gaimans-desert-island-discs

and that link seems to be the bones of the talking.

Anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJTB6FPVaA

looks good enough

though there is a slight element of cheapness about it that seems unavoidable in every Gaiman adaptation for some reason

it's an issue with clive barker as well. something about british horror/fantasy.

akm
Posted: November 5, 2016 at 8:52:29 AM

did that not happen?

lol

(Candyman seems perfectly suited to its budget fwiw imo)