All men who do not like tobacco and boys are fools

Christopher Marlow.

Not me. I was watching the Shakespeare documentary (which is called 'In Search of Shakespeare' and if you get the chance, watch it), and this part was about the lost years.

Of course it turns out that he spent a lot of it in Lancashire. I always said that everything good has something to do with Lancashire.

Anyway there was a lot of talk about Kit Marlow. Which was interesting. There was this one line at the end about them both being bright young things but one of them got success and glory while the other one seemed to chase death. And with some of the things Marlow said and did he really must have had a death wish.

But yes, this documentary is a good example of the genre. You know how I was complaining about the Leonardo one being all about his life, art be damned, well this was the opposite, this was all about how the life influenced the art.

And the best bit was that they had various members of the Royal Shakespeare Company acting bits of the plays. Julian Glover (Aragog in Chamber of Secrets or the chief evil Nazi dude in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) did this scene out of Henry VI (part 2 I think), Talbot grieving over his son. And it wasn't anymore than a snippet but I was practically in tears.

It was spellbinding.

Smackdown

( Usual rambling inside )

Oh and for anyone interested, RAW in two Mondays time coincides with Bastille Day and the age of consent for any sort of sex in France is 15.

With those two random facts I bid you a happy late Independance Day for those who celebrate.

Or for British crusties, the day we got rid of them :)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into my Livejournal

The minute one sporting thing that I go nutty over finishes - Wimbledon, another one starts. The Tour De France.

First off I'd like to recommend the official site - www.letour.fr Don't let the French ending of the address worry you, there's an English subsite.

I am utterly and completely content this year because my favourite climber, Santiago Botero joined my favourite team Deutsche Telekom which already contains my favourite sprinter, Erik Zabel, and my favourite rider, Alexandre Vinokourov, who's surname I can never spell right.

So yeah. All is good.