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Harry Knowles' interview with Tim Burton over at Ain't It Cool News finally got me maximizing YouTube's potential. something i've always been meaning to look up on the net was Sweeney Todd, and there's about a ton of videos you can find over there. including the opening scene:



you can find and read the script and libretto for the Stephen Sondheim musical here, or click on the links below:

http://libretto.musicals.ru/text.php?textid=516&language=1

http://libretto.musicals.ru/text.php?textid=334&language=1

youtube also provided me with a much needed Doctor Who fix (as the DVD collection of series 2 isn't due until Jan 2007). it seems you can find The Christmas Invasion (technically still part of 2005 schedule, methinks, a cross-over between series 1 and 2 and the first adventure with Doctor Number Ten--David Tennant--having just regenerated from the Christopher Eccleston incarnation in The Parting of the Ways) in its entirety, albeit in ten minute bits. here's bit one:



i seem to be coming too late to these things, as Outpost Gallifrey is apparently about to undergo a Time-Lord-style 'regeneration'. well, maybe not quite Time-Lord-style: while it isn't quite going the way of Emerald City (leaving behind the Forum, the Conventions, Episode and Canon Keeper's Guides and their Convention and Events Calendar), one can't help but draw parallels between what Gallifrey's Shaun Lyon and EC's Cheryl Morgan are saying.

more sadly still, i really must get work out of the way before i can fully enjoy any of the fruits of my trawling.

right. on with the motley.

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whoops. turns out there's a full version of The Christmas Invasion over on youtube. so as not to tax me blog, click on the link to see it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXzN-moFy_A