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Webcasts and Discovery Channel Oh My...
To say I'm tired would be a little akin to saying it only slightly snowed in the winder of 1976. It's a class A grade 1 understatement. I'm knackered. Happy, but knackered.
Last night was a busy night.
Bon Jovi (I did already mention I was a BJ fangrrl yes? I didn't? Well I am!) did a concert last night from Atlantic City and by the wonders of technology...I got to watch it/hear it live. Unfortunately, 'watch' might be too strong a word; I couldn't pursuade the high-bandwidth feed to behave, so I could barely see a thing, but the sound was excellent. They did a two hour set - an hour and a half in one go, then a last fifteen/twenty minutes as an encore - and jammed in a roughly fifty-fifty split between the well known stuff and some of the tracks off the new box set. To my utter sense of SQUEEEEE! One of the tracks they did was "Born to be my Baby" (absolute fav of mine) while another was "I'll Be There For You", which Richie sang (he does the song way much better than Jon does...not that I'm biased [Sambora fangrrl sitting right here]). They also did trimmed down versions of "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead/Bad Medicine/Shout" to closeout the main part of the show. "Shout" included an introduction to all members of the band which was just the absolute funniest thing - all about running for the NJ Gov'ship, building a used car lot in Atlantic City (no, don't ask) and generally employing the rest of the band in, ah, suitable occupations.
They closed with "Livin' On a Prayer" (which was how I knew for sure there was going to be an encore - I kept a track of what songs they'd played and there was just no way they weren't going to play that one!) and I don't think I've heard them do a better version. It was really, absolutely stormin'.
I'm just holding out for them to release the concert on DVD - so that way, I get to SEE it as well as hearing it!
Meanwhile, over on the Discovery Channel...
Discovery have a series called "The Art of War", which is taking a look at the techniques and tactics used by a variety of people in a variety of wars. Last night was Alexander the Great (in preparation, no doubt, for the release either this week or next of the Colin Farrell film, Alexander) and looking, specifically, at one battle, fought against the Persians. Like a great many Discovery Channel/History Channel programs, it uses re-enactment to demonstrate what was going on, when and where. Dan was responsible for the choreography of the battle sequences, and he also played a Persian General who got to go toe to toe [and lose - sigh; you knew THAT was going to happen, seeing as the show was called Alexander and not Random Persian General second from left...] with Alexander in a swordfight that I'm very, very much looking forward to seeing.
Oh, and just to give this all a surreal edge: Playing Alexander in this? Jason Faunt. Oh to have been a fly on the wall when they realised... *giggles hysterically*
So that was last night. Strictly Southworth will be duly updated today/tomorrow (and with thanks to Cmar for the help on this one), while I have a 'nearly complete' set list for the concert, complete with brief notes about some of the assides and comments (Dave had an accordian; Jon took the piss; I fell off my seat laughing), should anyone be interested.
On the writing front: Shadow Games has finally (!!!) breached 80,000 words!!! Of course, I'm getting edits back from one of my editors telling me to cut out a couple of particularly English (and wordy) constructions, so when I make those changes, it's likely to shrink back under 80,000 words again, but ah well...quality vs quantity, I guess!
For CBBers waiting for Francie - it'll be tomorrow sometime; I very much doubt I'm going to have the time (or energy) to do anything today.
Last night was a busy night.
Bon Jovi (I did already mention I was a BJ fangrrl yes? I didn't? Well I am!) did a concert last night from Atlantic City and by the wonders of technology...I got to watch it/hear it live. Unfortunately, 'watch' might be too strong a word; I couldn't pursuade the high-bandwidth feed to behave, so I could barely see a thing, but the sound was excellent. They did a two hour set - an hour and a half in one go, then a last fifteen/twenty minutes as an encore - and jammed in a roughly fifty-fifty split between the well known stuff and some of the tracks off the new box set. To my utter sense of SQUEEEEE! One of the tracks they did was "Born to be my Baby" (absolute fav of mine) while another was "I'll Be There For You", which Richie sang (he does the song way much better than Jon does...not that I'm biased [Sambora fangrrl sitting right here]). They also did trimmed down versions of "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead/Bad Medicine/Shout" to closeout the main part of the show. "Shout" included an introduction to all members of the band which was just the absolute funniest thing - all about running for the NJ Gov'ship, building a used car lot in Atlantic City (no, don't ask) and generally employing the rest of the band in, ah, suitable occupations.
They closed with "Livin' On a Prayer" (which was how I knew for sure there was going to be an encore - I kept a track of what songs they'd played and there was just no way they weren't going to play that one!) and I don't think I've heard them do a better version. It was really, absolutely stormin'.
I'm just holding out for them to release the concert on DVD - so that way, I get to SEE it as well as hearing it!
Meanwhile, over on the Discovery Channel...
Discovery have a series called "The Art of War", which is taking a look at the techniques and tactics used by a variety of people in a variety of wars. Last night was Alexander the Great (in preparation, no doubt, for the release either this week or next of the Colin Farrell film, Alexander) and looking, specifically, at one battle, fought against the Persians. Like a great many Discovery Channel/History Channel programs, it uses re-enactment to demonstrate what was going on, when and where. Dan was responsible for the choreography of the battle sequences, and he also played a Persian General who got to go toe to toe [and lose - sigh; you knew THAT was going to happen, seeing as the show was called Alexander and not Random Persian General second from left...] with Alexander in a swordfight that I'm very, very much looking forward to seeing.
Oh, and just to give this all a surreal edge: Playing Alexander in this? Jason Faunt. Oh to have been a fly on the wall when they realised... *giggles hysterically*
So that was last night. Strictly Southworth will be duly updated today/tomorrow (and with thanks to Cmar for the help on this one), while I have a 'nearly complete' set list for the concert, complete with brief notes about some of the assides and comments (Dave had an accordian; Jon took the piss; I fell off my seat laughing), should anyone be interested.
On the writing front: Shadow Games has finally (!!!) breached 80,000 words!!! Of course, I'm getting edits back from one of my editors telling me to cut out a couple of particularly English (and wordy) constructions, so when I make those changes, it's likely to shrink back under 80,000 words again, but ah well...quality vs quantity, I guess!
For CBBers waiting for Francie - it'll be tomorrow sometime; I very much doubt I'm going to have the time (or energy) to do anything today.
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Very glad I could help. BTW, looks like it's not airing again in the immediate future, but I'm sure it will eventually.
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*note to self: Stop using out of date Australian slang*
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They are, however, nearly inevitable when it comes to the Discovery channel. I'll keep my eyes peeled. :)