Just a few updates....The Beatles Party and LJMaps

gakked from anneth, thanks to twistingflame
for the link info.

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

CJL sent me information on the celebrities I mentioned in the post below (such as Ricky Jay, Sid Bernstein, Billy Jay Kramer and Steve Van Sant) but knew zip about - here it is, very interesting historical information on the recording industry. Oh what follows is in cjl's words not mine :( Read more... )

Link to great essay and ATS ratings news

Here's a link to a really wonderful MC Escher
Essay by a poster name of alcibades.

http://users.rcn.com/alcibiades/EscherEverywhereYouLook.html

The essay discusses amongst other things how the writers and directors of ATS have pulled visual images from MC ESCHER and used them in the show as metaphors.
Character arc examined in depth include Cordelia, Angel and Spike. There's also an interesting take on how superstring theory may explain Spike's current existence on ATS. Alcibades is the same poster who did a wonderful series of posts on ATPO in the fall of 2002 about "framing" and "windows" - has a wonderful eye for the visuals.


Now for those people out there who watch Neilsen ratings with unease and fear - the fervent prayer of the hopelessly addicted: "please, please, don't cancel my favorite show!"

There's an interesting series of posts on sparklies, (warning this is a Spike centric board - but a good one, several B/A shippers post there - including the
wonderful person who provided the ratings info in these posts.)

http://www.sparklies.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=101&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50

The gist is that ATS is doing well this season. Actually it's doing the best it's done since Season 2. Several of the ratings this season echo Season 2 and Season 1. It really dipped in ratings in Season 3-4. Reasons? (If you are into this stuff...)( Read more... )