Alan Rickman reads Sonnet 130
I so want to click that link, but I only have the one pair of panties with me today.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Aims - Oct 04, 2007 5:57:01 am PDT #4140 of 28222
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Emily - Oct 04, 2007 6:07:57 am PDT #4141 of 28222
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Alas, I think Jen's spoiled that sonnet for me.
Aims - Oct 04, 2007 6:09:38 am PDT #4142 of 28222
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oh, it ain't the words. It's the voice saying the words.
§ ita § - Oct 04, 2007 6:12:02 am PDT #4143 of 28222
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have that CD. I don't listen to it anywhere near enough.
Emily - Oct 04, 2007 6:23:14 am PDT #4144 of 28222
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, I know. I'd happily listen to him read the phone book. But I can't listen to it without a bit of "yeah, but..."
On the other hand, I can't find anything on the Web to give evidence of what Jen was saying, and I can't remember it well enough to repeat it. So never mind...
Aims - Oct 04, 2007 6:58:25 am PDT #4145 of 28222
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She had a rant about it in her LJ, didn't she? I remembered it after you mentioned it.
Anne W. - Oct 05, 2007 2:59:09 am PDT #4146 of 28222
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I wasn't sure whether to put this in Literary or Movies, but I am pleased to report that The Seeker, the movie once known as The Dark is Rising (but apparently the title of the book it was based upon was jettisoned along with 90% of the plot and 100% of the characterization), is getting panned.
sumi - Oct 05, 2007 4:20:04 am PDT #4147 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
You know, I wish that the BBC had made a nice mini-series out of it instead of this movie stuff.
Anne W. - Oct 05, 2007 4:15:41 pm PDT #4148 of 28222
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Oh, very much so, sumi. A miniseries would have been perfectly suited for the pace of the book and would have allowed us to wallow in its mood and atmosphere.
Strega - Oct 05, 2007 5:26:02 pm PDT #4149 of 28222
Normally I understand when changes made for movie adaptations of books. But in this case, it really does sound... well, awful. Some changes for crass commercialism are to be expected, but when I actually went and read about some of what they're doing... Yeesh. It sounds like a really bad movie, quite apart from it being an adaptation only in the loosest sense.
I'm tempted to tell my mom all about it, because she loved the books too (and probably reread them more recently than I did) and I find it adorable when she gets her righteous indignation on.