no one was interested, but anyway

Five minutes on IMDb confirms that Nathaniel Parker is indeed both Inspector Lynley and Dunstan Thorne. The younger Dunstan Thorne (Ben Barnes) is Prince Caspian, strangely enough.

I heart Holidays

So. Yesterday I watched Children of Men, that sci-fi movie with Clive Owen. It was alright. It has Chiwetel Ejiofor in, who is one of my favourites. He was the bad guy from Serenity. (And speaking of Serenity, isn't this the funniest thing ever?) Even though, favourite or not, he's kind of ruined things for me since I watched Kinky Boots - my sister and I sat through an umpteenth viewing of Serenity sniggering and going, "to think... that's Lola!"
Also read a Birds of Prey trade paperback. Birds of Prey are ok if you can get past the boobs. Which I know are kind of the point. But anyway.
And also The Doll's House, to ease my Sandman cravings. My dad's just got a copy of the Absolute and I'm consumed with jealousy. (Consumed by jealousy? Not sure which is right.) I'm totally in love with Rose Walker, possibly even more than I'm in love with Delerium and Death and Nuala and Johanna Constantine.
And while we're on the topic of Neil Gaiman, came across a short story called Cinnamon I hadn't seen before, on his website. It may have been there for some time, I don't check the Cool Stuff very often.

Is it? Could it be?

I think I found a Sandman reference in a My Chemical Romance song. Yes. It's pop culture referencing, the emo way.
The song is 'It's not a fashion statement, it's a deathwish' and the lyrics at the beginning go:
'For what you did to me,
and what I'll do to you,
you get, what everyone else gets,
you get a lifetime'
The Sandman quote is, of course, from the Brief Lives cycle, issue 43. It's one of the more famous quotes. Death comes for Bernie Capax, who has lived for fifteen thousand years. He says,
'That's pretty good. Isn't it? I lived a pretty long time.'
And Death replies,
"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime."
Coincidence? Probably. But on the whole, it's pretty cool. And it gives the song an interesting dimension.
Lyrics from here... Sandman quote here.