A couple of thoughts

[selenay]

Today is a very, very important day.

Happy 43rd birthday to Doctor Who!!

May we see many more such days :-) This makes me particularly happy because we actually have new DW episodes being made - for so long DW anniversaries had no new stuff to talk about and were about remembering days gone by. Now we've got an active show that's thoroughly enjoyable and doesn't forget that there were 29 years of episodes before its return with plenty of hope for many years more. Heck, I'm expecting it to still be running on Doctor Who's 50th and I hope the celebrations of that are truly massive *gg*


PS. Thank you for the kind wishes. The first page of my f-list this morning was half filled with birthday stuff and more than a few were for me, which was realy lovely. I've always been really pleased that DW and I share a birthday :-)

Comments

[paranoidangel]

Since I'm not going to be posting to my blog for a bit, happy birthday to you, and Doctor Who

[nic]

And I'll chime in too - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :D I hope it's fabulous!

xx

Thirded!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday to you both!

I don't share a birth*day* with the Doctor, but I do share a birth*year* so, in theory, I could have watched the first episode (but was perhaps a trifle young to appreciate it!)

[selenay]

Thank you :-) I assume the lack of posting will be due to your imminent move?

[selenay]

Thank you! So far, it's turning out to be a pretty darned good birthday :-))

Re: Thirded!

[selenay]

Thank you! As a DW fan since I was old enough to hold my head in the direction of the telly, it's always been very cool to share a birthday. There have been special episodes for the day and sometimes they even have DW marathons on my birthday. How cool is that?

You were possibly a trifle young too appreciate the beauty of the first ep of DW ;-) I was born on its fifteenth birthday :-) Which meant that I was exactly half the age of DW...er...quite a while ago! And it was my fifth birthday party that I snuck out of to watch the Five Doctors. Obviously I was destined for the fannish world...

[paranoidangel]

Oh, no, I haven't really started doing anything yet! My lack of posting is due to me just not being in (tonight am going straight from work to Oxford to the ballet, then by the time I get home it'll be bedtime)

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[notsoshygirl.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[selenay]

Thank you! It was a lovely day :-)

[selenay]

Thank you! The day was great and the fun is continuing tonight...

[selenay]

Aha! Hope you enjoyed the ballet :-)

[paranoidangel]

Well, the props were good and the musicians were interesting. The dancing bored me though. And most of it seemed completely pointless.

[selenay]

*g* Glad that you found some of it OK. Ballet is a little weird for people who haven't been involved before. I love ballet, but I tend to get bored by the "modern ballet-dance" stuff that some companies do. I'm more of a traditional ballet girl, which is possibly why I'm such a fan of Russian dance companies. But it isn't easy to get into if you've not been exposed to it before.

[paranoidangel]

People were trying to tell me I should see more traditional stories. At least I think that was what they were trying to say. I think I'd rather have had just the orchestra because at least then I'd have felt more justified at watching them :)

[selenay]

:-)

The traditional stories are some of the best to see - they fit better with the music, if that makes any sense. Try to see the Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake before you give up on it totally - preferably performed by Russian companies, the Birmingham Royal (formerly Sadlers Wells) or the English National. You definitely need to see Russian dancers before you declare yourself not a ballet person - they're absolutely fantastic although the English companies mentioned are pretty damn good, too. The traditional stories have so much passion and power when performed by a good company that it's impossible to keep your eyes away from the dancers.

[paranoidangel]

The English National mostly consisted of non-English dancers. There is no way I'd see a ballet of Romeo and Juliet, though, the book and the film were more than enough, thannk you very much, Year 9 english.