When I opened this topic I surely did not expect to catch Robert Frost and John Keats wearing black velvet and eyeliner, but the evidence is irrefutable.
Willow: Yikes. Imagine the things...Buffy: No! Stop imagining! All of you! Xander: Already got the visual.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 3:19:09 pm PDT #6537 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
hippocampus - Jun 20, 2008 3:20:55 pm PDT #6538 of 28378
not your mom's socks.
How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
Sue! yes! love Akhmatova and Mandelstam.
If we're going modern, I'd drop in Szymborska as well.
but if we're rolling backwards, I'd bring in Lycidas even though it's a pastoral.
::waves back at Raq:: there's good stuff here I haven't read. yippe. thanks for the Sterling link David.
wrt classifying everything dystopian as cyberpunk, yes and no. I don't think the booksellers have any idea what cyberpunk is. Feminine dystopias (I'm thinking Herland) don't normally get pulled in though. OTOH, Candace Jane Dorsey gets put on my list for (learning about) Machine Sex.
here's one that should likely be a crosspost with boxed set. any successful cyberpunk TV shows that anyone can think of?
eta for spelling (though I doubt I got all) oi what a day.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 3:22:40 pm PDT #6539 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
any successful cyberpunk TV shows that anyone can think of?
Max Headroom!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2008 5:01:17 pm PDT #6540 of 28378
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Isn't that Thomas DeQuincey?
You are correct, sir. They were friends (and DeQuincey may have been Coleridge's dealer, so to speak). Damn my confuzzled memory!
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 5:02:35 pm PDT #6541 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, they both did plenty of opium and wrote about it.
P.M. Marc - Jun 20, 2008 5:27:28 pm PDT #6542 of 28378
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
A couple of years ago, Plei found a seller on eBay that was selling off a stockpile of the Charles of the Ritz "paper white" compacts. I think we each bought two.
I bought... more than two. And the loose powder.
Laga - Jun 20, 2008 5:31:19 pm PDT #6543 of 28378
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Would "Dark Angel" be considered Cyberpunk?
P.M. Marc - Jun 20, 2008 5:52:20 pm PDT #6544 of 28378
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The show? I kinda think of it as Cyberpunk. Of course, Jillian snarkily said it was as if someone a filmed Shadowrun campaign...
And she didn't even see the episode with the dudes with the implants...
sj - Jun 20, 2008 5:55:02 pm PDT #6545 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Would Dollhouse, or what we know if it so far, be cyberpunk?
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 5:57:23 pm PDT #6546 of 28378
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Of course, Jillian snarkily said it was as if someone a filmed Shadowrun campaign...
A poorly-run Shadowrun campaign, don't forget that part.
And she didn't even see the episode with the dudes with the implants...
Oh lord. I shudder to think.