And we finish off the Nursery Rhyme challenge with “Tally Ho! Tally Ho!” Well this feels good. I was beginning to have second, third and fourth thoughts about doing a two month challenge. Somehow it worked out, and it feels good!
My second to last rhyme is the famous saying, “A Cat May Look at a King.” Made even better with a fluffy kitten would be better. For the king I went with Mark Addy as Robert Baratheon. I really am beginning to regret missing this season of Game of Thrones.
Besides…you can’t go with Joffrey. We all know about “the nonsense over the cat”.
Well for this week’s theme I planned to do highwaymen. However due to some technical difficulties I was only able to watch one of my pics, Plunkett & MacCleane.
The film shares the name of two actual highwaymen, but that is all. It is very much it’s own thing in a comic way.
McCleane ((Jonny Lee Miller ) is a destitute member of the gentry in debtors prison. Plunkett ( Robert Carlyle) is a former apothecary turned highway man. When a botched robbery ends with the death of Plunkett’s young partner, they are drawn together with a plan. McClean is the inside man who infiltrates the aristocracy picking their make. Plunkett is the planner. Together they become the Gentleman Bandits. But their success can’t go on forever. Their notoriety draws the attention of Theif Catcher General Chance. Also MacCleane has fallen for the lovely Lady Rebecca., played by Liv Tyler. He has also been drinking away most of the pairs profits.
This was one of those films that was very much it’s own thing. It was listed as a comedy but fits what I’ve been calling humorous adventure. At first glance it seems like a well researched period piece. But as the film goes on it has a very anachronistic vibe, extenuated by a soundtrack featuring The Tiger Lillies..
All in all a fun diversion.
This week’s Rhapsody is from the space band, Spiritualized. Here it is from their Complete Works album, “Feel So Sad (Rhapsodies)”.
Today’s rhyme “What’s The News of the Day,” Is another one I never heard of. But it has a balloon in it so all is good.
The “real” Ariane has been sharing her side of her disastrous jogging date with Brian. There was more to it than Brian just being a clueless jerk. She had something… interesting planned. Or so she says, she seems to take some pride in being an unreliable narrator.
For one thing I’m not aware of Maple Lake Park having good thick woods for muggers to hide in.
There’s plenty more of this come… especially what she has planned for poor, poor Olive… but I’ll wait until they fit more into continuity.
