...I still feel decidedly naughty for plying Jilli with porn.
No, no, don't be! Just write more.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Atropa - Apr 26, 2005 11:43:38 am PDT #5873 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Cashmere - Apr 26, 2005 11:46:47 am PDT #5874 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
ita, are you a Wire in the Blood fan? I'm really enjoying it and I don't know a single other perosn who watches it.
Robin, I've recently started watching. DH and I love it. The only drawbacks are that it's two hours long--it's hard to find that much uninterrupted time to watch.
ita, DH asked me what "Wire in the Blood" means and I had no idea. What does the phrase refer to?
Scrappy - Apr 26, 2005 11:49:45 am PDT #5875 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Me, ita and Cashmere.
Basking in such excellent company.
Fay - Apr 26, 2005 11:53:04 am PDT #5876 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Without knowing a damn thing about Wire in the Blood I'd suggest it's referring to the line in Eliot's Four Quartets. From Burnt Norton.
Garlic and sapphires in the mud
Clot the bedded axle-tree.
The trilling wire in the blood
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.
The dance along the artery
The circulation of the lymph
Are figured in the drift of stars
Ascend to summer in the tree
We move above the moving tree
In light upon the figured leaf
And hear upon the sodden floor
Below, the boarhound and the boar
Pursue their pattern as before
But reconciled among the stars.
Four Quartets is FABULOUS. Just fabulous. Love it. And that section is one of my very favourite. (It in turn harks back to the poetry of Owen and Sassoon, imho)
DavidS - Apr 26, 2005 11:54:45 am PDT #5877 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
dismounts soap box. shuffles off, looking vaguely sheepish
insent
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2005 11:54:53 am PDT #5878 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From the novelist's site:
The phrase "the wire in the blood" comes from T.S. Eliots "Four Quartets". - "The trilling wire in the blood/sings below inveterate scars/appeasing long-forgotten wars."
As for the meaning..
In an interview Robson Green said the phrase "wire in the blood" was taken to mean a genetic kink, something impure and unusual in the blood, that leads to the kind of psychosis Hill might deal with.
Val McDermid says: 'Who knows what Eliot really meant by that line? Robson's explanation is as good as any... For myself, I've always taken it to be a metaphor for the thrill of adrenaline surging through the bloodstream. But we'll never know for sure".
P.M. Marc - Apr 26, 2005 11:54:56 am PDT #5879 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I used to have Cinemax, so I've watched a fair amount of softcore. Usually because I couldn't stop watching the amazing gravity-proof implants passing as boobs.
At TESC, we'd get very stoned and watch hardcore porn. Usually gay porn, on account of the higher production values and prettier people.
I prefer written to visual, and the only visual that gets me going at all is girl-on-girl where it looks like they're really actually into it, and not prepping for the guy who's just off camera.
Cashmere - Apr 26, 2005 11:57:02 am PDT #5880 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Thanks, ita (and Fay).
Usually because I couldn't stop watching the amazing gravity-proof implants passing as boobs.
Heh. Me, too.
erikaj - Apr 26, 2005 11:58:12 am PDT #5881 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Fay, was it "Henry and June"...the not!crap porn with the twenties? Because I...uh, responded emotionally to that myself.
askye - Apr 26, 2005 11:59:35 am PDT #5882 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
When I was looking for Season 3 of The Wire on Netflix the search brought up The Wire in the Blood and I considered renting it but wasn't sure. Now I'm intrigued and off to add it to my queue.
Emeline is so adorable!! she's got all these expressions, she's totally going to take over the world.
I love looking at Buffista babies (and kids). I think we need current Owen and Annabel pictures. And Lilly.