Stuff and Moonshine

Early Wednesday morning I dreamt I was watching a cheesy movie in which Jack Black and Jeremy Brett were cast as father and son. There was one good moment -- when the two of them, to create a distraction while the other characters escape, hijack a limo and tear around town, Black driving and Brett leaning out through the sunroof, a rose clutched between his teeth, grinning maniacally at passers-by.

Last night our blu-ray of Sherlock finally arrived. COINCIDENCE?!! Not to put down Sherlock, I just couldn't think of any other way to mention those two things in the same post.

Just rewatched the Grenada versions of The Resident Patient (great intro sequence, plus Nicholas Clay,) and of The Red-Headed League, the inspiration for the Elton John song, 'Saturday Night's Alright for Stealing Bullion.'

Had a slew of Sherlock Holmes dreams last night, including one which was basically a gender-swapped version of 'The Copper Beeches,' and a steampunk one that I didn't get to see the end of, but which had a sequence where the heroine is kidnapped by someone with a skyhook and a zeppelin, and then escapes by seizing an inflatable raft and jumping while they're over a river, after telling the villain she trusts gravity more than she trusts him.

Later, she regroups with Holmes and Watson, and they come across a password-locked entrance which turns out to be very "speak friend and enter" -- as Holmes points out, it's a door - the logical thing to say is "open." He has to say it three times, though, because the first couple of times the door tries to trick him with false images of different rooms he can't enter.