Just reading the setup for Lucia di Lammermoor sounds goth as all get out:
's why I recommended it. I might not *be* goth, but I know it when I see it.
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2008 10:45:33 am PDT #6504 of 28378
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Toddson - Jun 20, 2008 11:01:44 am PDT #6505 of 28378
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In this vein (so to speak) I grabbed some vampire books at a big book sale ($2 for hardcovers! .50 for paperbacks!) - The Vampire of New York by ... someone-or-other Hunt and the first of the Danny Valentine books. Also one called The Vampire and the Cowboy (seriously - how could I resist?).
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 11:02:13 am PDT #6506 of 28378
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Now I want to go home, sit in a shady spot in my back yard, and re-read vampire books.
Toddson - Jun 20, 2008 11:02:32 am PDT #6507 of 28378
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Also - isn't there an opera of The Fall of the House of Usher?
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 12:10:28 pm PDT #6508 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Whoa, wacky synchronicity. Lucia di Lammermoore just opened in San Francisco yesterday.
I do seem to recall a House of Usher Opera, now that you mention it, Todd.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2008 12:17:00 pm PDT #6509 of 28378
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I might be holding out for a Suspiria opera.
Well, Argento recreated the opening murder from Suspiria for a fashion show, so I'd guess an opera wouldn't be out of the question (and his movie Opera partly came about because he was hired to direct an opera - can't remember which - but there were so many protests over his involvement that he bowed out, Italians taking their opera very seriously and all).
For Poe, I say The Conquerer Worm is the gothiest.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 12:21:26 pm PDT #6510 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Debussy did about 30 minutes of an opera for House of Usher but didn't finish it.
Another opera was produced in 1991 by Peter Hamill (rock musician) and Chris Judge Smith. It's never been performed in its entirety.
Historical tidbit:
Poe's inspiration for the story may be based upon events of the Usher House, located on Boston's Lewis Wharf. As that story goes, a sailor and the young wife of the older owner were caught and entombed in their trysting spot by her husband. When the Usher House was torn down in 1800, two bodies were found embraced in a cavity in the cellar.[9]
JZ - Jun 20, 2008 12:24:48 pm PDT #6511 of 28378
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Whoa, wacky synchronicity. Lucia di Lammermoore just opened in San Francisco yesterday.
Also, it's being broadcast for free tonight at the Giants ballpark. People are bringing blankets and snacks and bedding down on the playing field. If I thought there was a chance in hell Emmett would tolerate opera, I'd've been pimping this outing approximately nine times a minute for the past two weeks.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2008 12:28:48 pm PDT #6512 of 28378
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Debussy did about 30 minutes of an opera for House of Usher but didn't finish it.
I saw a Philip Glass Ensemble show back in the 80s where he did two really cool pieces - Fall of the House of Usher and Descent into the Maelstrom. As far as I know, he never actually recorded either, which is too bad - I thought they were both awesome.
Hil R. - Jun 20, 2008 12:29:39 pm PDT #6513 of 28378
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Nobody's yet mentioned The Masque of Red Death? (That's the only book we read in ninth grade English that I managed to like despite the idiotic teacher.)
For Frost, there's also Peck of Gold. I'm not sure it's goth, but it's something. And I love it.
Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.
All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some of the dust was really gold.
Such was life in the Golden Gate:
Gold dusted all we drank and ate,
And I was one of the children told,
'We all must eat our peck of gold.'