contrary to popular belief, it really is a good sign when i am blogging lots, because this means that i'm sitting at my computer and doing work. if i don't blog it means i'm stoning in bed or moping in a closet or off somewhere reading children's books and that's definitely less productive than blowing off steam between slow paragraphs.

anyway, i look in on the discworld casting couch, the oswalds, and the L-space discworld casting page every so often and am very upset to find alan rickman has won a "best vimes." how can?!?

i know i want maggie smith for granny, but i can never decide who else would be in my ideal discworld movie. julie walters for nanny? a young eric idle would have been the perfect cut-me-own-throat dibbler. i love the suggestion of jeremy irons as vimes only he's too good looking. someone older and more haggard, like tommy lee jones or clint eastwood maybe. terry jones as one of the UU wizards? a young michael palin would have been a very nice brutha (think eric olthwaithe!) or a very irritating william de worde. or maybe even rincewind. as he is now, maybe lu-tze? paul bettany would make a nice ankh-morpork street character. he could be dibbler too. i am appalled that people keep saying schwarzenegger for carrot. how can? she cries, wringing her hands. and for goodness sake, stephen fry may be gloriously funny but he is not carrot. people only want alan rickman for vetinari because of snape and swirling black robes. i did see a nice picture of al pacino which looked surprisingly nice and vetinari, though his face isn't narrow and vulturish enough. hugo weaving looks like he ought to be in a discworld movie, although i dunno what just yet. someone's got to be albert. though no one is quite cranky enough, although robert duvall or michael caine would do admirably. or is that because i saw secondhand lions on the plane? michael caine would be a magnificent wizard too. definitely albert when he was alive and in power.

let's have our private nominations for casting here.