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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2010-03-08 05:39 pm

I Don't Even Know What To Say Here.

why do I not have a scanner


Dear Harriet.

Many thanks for the quite excellent ukelele, which is certainly the loveliest I have ever received. And apologies for taking so long to thank you, but I have only just discovered your kind letter again. As I am utterly unmusical, and as my PA was eyeing it most greedily, I allow him to play on it and have passed on your tuning tips. So thank you from both of us.

Have a wonderful 2010 and I hope it's full of beautiful ukelele music.
- Derren x



I thought it was from one of you until I hit 'tuning tips' and realised none of you would have known I included some. Also that few of you would have taken the trouble to prepare beautiful custom stationery with his name and his agent's details on it. (I find it hilarious that this is exactly the language of the letters I've received from mock Derren Browns, though. You guys are obviously excellent at characterisation!)

Oh, and I was so embarrassed about the ukulele-sending, and I felt I'd made a complete tit of myself, and he must be so busy (he's touring at the moment, isn't he?) and yet he's written an actual letter of thanks in response. That is just ridiculously lovely of him.

asdfjkgjadfghadfjhgfhgh I am actually shaking.
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[identity profile] sunlightdances.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Bweee! *twirls you*

[identity profile] wanttobeatree.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW THIS IS CANON:

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[identity profile] timydamonkey.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Derren Brown goes up at ten awesome points right there. :D It's clearly personalised too!

It's really cool when somebody you write to responds. I sent an email to Darren Shan once as he blogs extensively about writing to sort of go "so what do you think of unconventional writing styles? do you reckon I'm shooting myself in the foot?", and not only did he reply to it, he posted it on his blog with the reply... It was a freaking HUGE response too. I was delighted.

It still sits in my favourites. :D

[identity profile] anazri.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That is adorable and several kinds of amazing. :D

[identity profile] zeitheist.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD.

I think I've just fallen in love with Derren Brown.

[identity profile] honeymull.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT IS PRETTY MUCH UNUTTERABLY AMAZING.

[identity profile] dracothelizard.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
MASSSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE AWWWWWWS.

GREEDY PA. UNMUSICAL DERREN. BLESS THEM BOTH.

I hope Coop will play it in his presence often!

[identity profile] reipan.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That is beautiful :D Yay for you both!

[identity profile] mekosuchinae.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, my gosh, that is amazing! <33333333333

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That is awesome!

edit: Also, I love that it is the loveliest ukelele he has ever recieved, suggesting that he's recieved others.
Edited 2010-03-08 18:03 (UTC)

[identity profile] geekgirlofdoom.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww. Fandom win!

[identity profile] wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoo!

[identity profile] darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhh, that is wonderful. *loves him even more*
(I keep thinking I should send him something but then I think about the fic I've written about him and decide I probably shouldn't draw attention to myself. Heh. Plus I have no idea what I'd send anyway)

[identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/ MY HEAD IS AFLAME On YOUR BEHALF. <3

[identity profile] derryderrydown.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT IS AWESOME!

(Subliminal message: Send Charlie Brooker a ukulele. Doitdoitdoit.)

[identity profile] reipan.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I second this. By the time you are twenty-five, Hats, you will be known as That Girl Who Sends Ukes to Celebrities. I think it's your calling.

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[identity profile] the-wanlorn.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[identity profile] harveytheayeaye.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy Moly! That is amazing!

[identity profile] th-esaurus.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I AM SO HAPPY ON YOUR BEHALF. I was really, genuinely sad when you kept saying you hadn't had a reply...my opinion of Derren Brown suffered for it, I'll admit. BUT NOW. DERREN IS HAPPY AND YOU ARE HAPPY AND I AM HAPPY.

[identity profile] anewcitylife.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
OH GOD THIS IS THE CUTEST THING EVER

[identity profile] twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, my gosh, that is adorable and so very awesome! aww!

[identity profile] twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Delayed thought here, you don't suppose it's the same PA who looks like you? Or who is perhaps you, made to forget your double-life, thus maybe explaining the eying of the ukulele?

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[identity profile] wildeabandon.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Gosh, that's absolutely adorable :)

[identity profile] theoret.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaaahhh! I AM SO ENDEARED RIGHT NOW IDEK. *flails*

HE IS DELIGHTFUL! YOU ARE DELIGHTFUL! THE WORLD IS DELIGHTFUL! \o/

[identity profile] strangeumbrella.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
OKAY EVERYTHING IN THIS IS AMAZING

[identity profile] make-a-move.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
That's brilliant! Oh how utterly charming and lovely that man is.

[identity profile] dancesontrains.livejournal.com 2010-03-08 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
http://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/statuses/10183275725

I ACTUALFAX WENT OH MY GOD!! OUT LOUD WHEN I READ THIS
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