nanny diaries

[freckles_and_doubt]

Last night I dreamed that I was working for a TV company and Fran Drescher phoned me up out of the blue to say that her father was also ill, she was having difficulty entertaining him, she'd heard I was in a similar situation, and did we want to get together with our respective fathers for a movie or something. Whereupon I had to tell her, in some embarrassment, that my dad had died a couple of months ago, and she was all conscience-stricken and hung up.

WTF, subconscious? Fran Drescher? I don't think I ever actually laid eyes on anything she's been in. Too weird. Also, later in the dream the Evil Landlord and I rented Cloverfield, which is also something completely not on my radar, so I suspect the theme of the dream was Strange And Unlikely Things.

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[dicedcaret.livejournal.com]

Was the EL wearing tracksuit pants? This is important, please try to remember.
You ever seen 'This Is Spinal Tap'? She had a bit part in that as their agent. Having a Brooklyn accent dialed to 11 speaking in your dreams must be excruciating.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Fortunately the dream-line was very bad and I could hardly hear what she was saying, so the accent didn't feature much. And, weirdly enough, I think the EL actually was wearing track-suit pants. Please tell me why this is significant?

I have never seen This Is Spinal Tap. It is my secret sorrow. I think I need to head a video club theme that way sometime, once I've got all the weird-arse French animation/classic musicals/strange early sf films out of my system. The problem with Video Club is that there are too many themes.

[dicedcaret.livejournal.com]

Your recent burglary resulted in one item being stolen: the EL's tracksuit pants. NYC being attacked by a skyscraper-sized invulnerable Barney is equally inexplicable.

Please borrow my Spinal Tap DVD. A seminal work. And if you're into stories about rock bands, real or imagined, I also have Anvil! The Story of Anvil

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I believe Anvil is very good, but actually I was thinking of pairing This Is Spinal Tap with Almost Famous, just for the incongruity. And because I haven't seen either.

[tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com]

Add in Everybody's Famous and you've got a deal.

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking you should pair Spinal Tap with that Metallica doc, which is all the more hilarious for being actually True.

scroob

Mr Sheffield

[(Anonymous)]

She was also in that TV series "The Nanny", which aired on SABC TV in the early 90s. Not sure if you caught that.

Cloverfield was cool but ultimately a little disappointing...

Re: Mr Sheffield

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Cloverfield by all accounts includes graphic scenes of people being dismembered, and is therefore on my Shall Not Watch list. 'Coz I'm a wimp.