Cris is waiting for Edinburgh

[crispfencer]

TV

• Stay Tuned! (チャンネルはそのまま!) is a miniseries about the running of a local television station, with each episode focusing on a different job role. As a bit of a broadcasting nerd, I really enjoyed this show and learnt lots about jobs I never would've thought of before, like scheduling and master control operators (watching live tv to check for mistakes). Also, the plot is surprisingly good! 
• Bit late to the party, but I've been watching Fresh Meat! Lots of familiar faces and I'm getting way too invested in the characters. (I am 100% a Howard, lol.)
• While I'm waiting for Good Omens to come out on DVD so I can join in the fun party all yous seem to be having, I watched Takin' Over The Asylum, a drama from 1994 about a radio station in a fictional psychiatric hospital in Glasgow. BBC Scotland are currently repeating it with a big picture of a twenty-something David Tennant as the thumbnail so I couldn't not watch it... It's really good! Episodes come out every Saturday, so I'm looking forward to the next installment. 
• Nabod y Teip finishes tonight, say it ain't so... ;-;

Films 

• Barefoot Gen was not as distressing as Grave of the Fireflies, but pretty bloody close. Basically, it's Hiroshima through the eyes of a child and his pregnant mother.  Fun for all the family! (I cried through pretty much the entire film, which even for me is something)
• Rewatched The Wind Rises! What a good film.

Books

• Reading Great Teacher Onizuka (again). A reformed gangster turns to teaching, and uses his unconventional skills to win over his high school students.
• Might try tackling Paradise Lost for a second time...

I travel up to Edinburgh next Friday! I am so, so excited.

Comments

[horselizard]

stay tuned and takin' over the asylum both sound cool and i'd like to check them out! thanks for the recs, i wouldn't have heard about them otherwise :)

also WOOOOOO edinburgh! hope you have an awesome time! :D