girlofprey

I have come back from my weekend in London with cakesy. Over the weekend, I:

• Went to see Love and War by the Mark Bruce Company, which I loved, with K. It was a little bit nerve racking at first because K and I didn't really agree on a place to meet up, specifically, we just said at King's Cross at about 6.30. Then she called me at 6.25 when I was on a train, just about to pull in, to say her phone was really low on battery, but that she was there, and she said she'd wait at the tube station, opposite where the ticket-buying place was. It turns out there's quite a few tube station entrances near to where you can buy tickets. And her phone was off when I tried to call again. I basically couldn't find her, and ended up having to go to the theatre to pick up our tickets, and I didn't know exactly where the theatre was, just that it was close by. It ended up being easy to find, thankfully, but K wasn't there, and she didn't turn up while I was waiting for her outside. Eventually I went inside, and the show was a bit delayed, and as I was sat there waiting for it to begin K suddenly walked over and asked for her ticket so she could give it to the nice ticketman who'd let her come in to find me. She'd been considering giving up, but then just went to an internet cafe, found out where the theatre was and come to find me. It turned out she didn't know there was a ticket buying place in King's Cross King's Cross, and had been waiting at the one in St Pancras. But anyway. She made it, and we had a great time, and the show was good, yay!



• I had found out just before I came to London that Luke Rattigan was in a play, over the weekend, in London. And it was basically right next to where me and cakesy were already going to see a comedy show later that night. And she is kind and said yes, of course we can go, Rachael. So we went to see Luke Rattigan in a play. And it was very good, and he was good, and it was about gay people and gay rights in the last few decades, and when he was in the audience pretending to be a protester at an anti-gay show thing, he made out with another actor about two rows down from me. It was quite good. And the play was good. And he was good.



• And then later on that night, as I said, we went to a comedy thing, which cakesy had agreed to, once again, because it was Tom Stade, and he was on in London the weekend I was in London, and I kind of love him. And he was great, and he didn't tell any jokes playing on the word 'faggot', hurrah, and he kept picking on a guy in the front row who he informed us all was called 'Heroin Jim'. Oh the things he and Heroin Jim had been up to. He was brilliant. I love him. Except for that one joke. And THEN a man came on doing comedy and magic tricks, and THEN Paul Sinha came on, and he was pretty funny too. Hurrah.

And in between all of that, cakesy and I watched Blades of Glory, and about 2 and a third seasons of The Office (US). Ryan is my favourite, he is young and smart and kind of amoral, but also I love Dwight, and I love Toby, and I love Oscar, and I love Angela, and I love Phyllis, and I love Stanley, and I love Pam sometimes, and I love Michael sometimes. AND OH. Pam was in Blades of Glory too, it turned out. That was quite suprising and special. Hurrah. So all in all, I had a good weekend.

Things I have decided there should be:

• A website place, sort of like imdb, where you can check to find out if actors you like are on stage any time soon. Finding out just afterwards, sometimes, is not really good enough in my opinion.


• A Disney kink meme. I cannot be the only one who thinks this, right? I mean, I probably could be, but I would prefer not to be. DISNEY KINK. COME ON.


• Office AUs. The ones I came up with so far are:
  
  • Desert island
  
  
  • Michael is a pimp and the rest of the office are his hos.
  
  
  • Crime syndicate
  And probably a bunch of others I can't remember now.

And, Oh. They had postponed the episodes from last week because of what happened in the Lakes, which I totally understand, but I was pretty desperate to find out what happened. Maria came back and ended up in the factory with Tony and Hayley and Carla after Tony had killed his henchman/prison boyfriend, and as I was kind of hoping and had kind of thought might happen from spoilers, Tony held her captive for a bit, but wasn't going to hurt her. He just wanted to keep her there, in the office somewhere, while he killed Hayley and Carla possibly. He had a few weird moments, like when she joked that her mother and father-in-law were always available when she needed a babysitter, and he was all 'You go out a LOT, do you?'. And when he said his revenge was 'for her sake as much as his, maybe more so', um, no Tony. It was a little underwhelming for me, but that's probably because I have made it into THE MOST EPIC ROMANCE EVER in my head. But there were some great moments. He grabbed her and dragged her into the factory forcefully but sort of carefully, and he kissed her hair and told her everything was going to be alright. She asked him not to kill Hayley and Carla 'as a favour to her'. His time with her was 'the only part of [his] life worth living'. And he wouldn't shoot her in the end, and she knew he wouldn't, and she just turned and looked him straight in the eye and then left. OH I LOVE THEM. They are like everything I love in a particular kind of pairing, and the Coronation Street writers made it real and put it on a screen. They canonically, on screen, name-checked Little Red Riding Hood in reference to Tony and Maria once, and tonight she was wearing a red coat, and he was wearing black, and oh. Love.

Also on the street, David took to the stand to try to keep his mother out of jail, and he tried really hard, and he really wanted to keep her out of jail, and he didn't lie at all for once, and it didn't really work out. And then later, when all of the evidence had been given in, he just tried to talk to his ex-girlfriend Tina about it, on the street, with big eyes of hurt, because he just wanted her to believe that his mum was innocent, whatever happened with the court case. Oh. I love him. Gary is suddenly back from leave, maybe he can help comfort David that things will be okay (hopefully). Or help comfort him if things go wrong. I assume they will go alright for David and Gail, but I will have to wait until Wednesday to be find out for sure.