(Image links to the wonderful blog of deareje)
Like most of you, we at Benedict’s Brain stayed up really late for the 2012 BAFTAs. We were caught up in the excitement of monitoring Twitter feeds, dealing with uncooperative livestreams and interacting with other fans across the…
Tomorrow is the day of the Judicial Review to see whether Undershaw (the former home of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes) can be saved.
We desperately need all the support we can get.
You can help by:
1) Checking out the website: www.saveundershaw.com
I was hoping he’d have gone a bit higher up the ranking by now.
http://www.thegreatexhibition2012.co.uk/greats/benedict-cumberbatch/
I’m so pleased to be able to finally share with you the product of a lot of very enjoyable collaborative work with my German friend, NotDarkYet (on Soundcloud and Tumblr). The song is about the ongoing clash between John Watson and Mycroft Holmes over their dealings with Sherlock in the BBC show. You can hear NotDarkYet on guitar and vocals, and me on synthesizer and vocals. Lyrics can be found here.
The evolution of Benedict’s “And the program was a Positive Production for the BBC!”
“ The whole point of Holmes is the way he works within a world that was chaotic, but fundamentally knowable, in the way that disease is knowable and the body is a mechanism that gives away its secrets to those that can read them. The joy of Shelrock Holmes is that it is the last gasp of a readable world, and we love reading a world like that. The idea that you can read with such precision is now seen as more or less old fashioned, but it is so comforting. ”
Stephen Fry
source: Dan Andriacco’s “The Joy of Sherlock Holmes”