(Which means I should probably re-read Watership Down soon-ish, because I haven't in about two decades.)
WWCD?
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Topic!Cindy - Jun 30, 2006 11:26:30 am PDT #956 of 28095
What is even happening?
Kathy A - Jun 30, 2006 11:30:45 am PDT #957 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yellow Wallpaper is definitely a mindblower.
All this talk about Watership Down makes me also want to reread it (I haven't read it since that 8th grade class). I was just looking at its Wikipedia entry, and saw three interesting cultural references, among others:
On The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert keeps a copy on a bookshelf labeled "non-fiction".
In Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, when Gromit turns on the van's radio in one scene, the song "Bright Eyes" from the Watership Down movie is heard.
In the Stephen King novel titled The Stand, one of the main characters, Stu Redman, has read Watership Down and uses the book's concept of "going tharn", or freezing in catatonic panic, to describe how another character makes him feel as Stu tries to escape the Vermont plague facility holding him captive. Later, Stu says that another character, Harold Lauder reminds him of Silver, or Silverweed.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2006 11:39:50 am PDT #958 of 28095
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And, of course, it's one of the books Sawyer is passing the time with on LOST.
Gris - Jun 30, 2006 11:43:53 am PDT #959 of 28095
Hey. New board.
I love that book. I reread it about a month ago, actually.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2006 11:51:12 am PDT #960 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
All this talk about Watership Down makes me also want to reread it (I haven't read it since that 8th grade class). I was just looking at its Wikipedia entry
There was a TV series?
Jars - Jun 30, 2006 12:24:28 pm PDT #961 of 28095
I don't think I've ever read Watership Down. I remember actually refusing to a few times when I was younger because the movie freaked me out so much. I should probably try and give it a go now.
But... dead bunnies...
Atropa - Jun 30, 2006 12:31:18 pm PDT #962 of 28095
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But... dead bunnies...
Aaaaaand that's the reason I keep putting off re-reading it.
Kathy A - Jun 30, 2006 12:37:27 pm PDT #963 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
But I just love the idea of Clovis enlisting Bigwig in taking on the world...
Strega - Jun 30, 2006 1:27:57 pm PDT #964 of 28095
There was a TV series?That was news to me, too. But check it out: Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Dawn French, Rik Mayall...
And Kiefer Sutherland. Wacky.
Katie M - Jun 30, 2006 1:49:03 pm PDT #965 of 28095
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
1) Kiefer Sutherland?
2) Who the hell is Hickory?
3) I am amused that they turned Blackberry into a girl. Because if one must have a Strong Female Character--and one must--at the very least choose the brainy one. Brainy people are girly anyway.