'Never Leave Me'
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."
t sits by Jessica
Allegorical whale holes, my ass.
Once, on Prairie Home Companion, Guy Noir was asking where some villain had found the plans to build the bomb or whatever, and she said that it was hidden in the whaling chapters of Moby Dick. I laughed and laughed.
Perhaps Spike's use of the word "effulgent" is due to a heretofore, unexplored influence of Melville on his oeuvre.
-t, which GRRM are you reading?
A Storm of Swords. My BiL gave me a Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings a couple of weeks ago and I picked up this one when I was done with those. I'm just about finished with it and telling myself sternly to not go find a copy of the next one right away, dammit. My To Be Read pile is not shrinking on its own.
you had Lost Boys, which is essentially vampirism as wish fulfillment — it was really the first time you can absolutely take a pin and point to these great vampire moments on celluloid or on video, or in print, whatever, where people really seemed to have looked around and gone, ''What is the downside of this thing again? Hang on, you get to live forever, you get to be absolutely sexually attractive and you don’t have zits... You have magic powers; what you're giving up is daylight.'' And this [sentiment] from people who aren't seeing a lot of daylight anyway. Seems like a very, very good exchange.
Oh, Neil. Let me draw pink sparkly hearts, perhaps with bat wings, around this paragraph.
Don't you love it? It was my favourite too.
Since that was pretty much what went through my teen-aged brain the first time I saw Lost Boys, I think this paragraph was destined to be my favorite.
Since that was pretty much what went through my teen-aged brain the first time I saw Lost Boys, I think this paragraph was destined to be my favorite.
My reaction was stereotypically gay - "THAT'S the best they can do, wardrobe-wise? I'll stick with Lestat, thanks."
"THAT'S the best they can do, wardrobe-wise? I'll stick with Lestat, thanks."
For the mid-80s, Jamie Gertz's wardrobe wasn't too terrible-- sort of that gypsy chic thing going on. I seem to recall she had several full skirts I loved.
This isn't literary, this is me bitching about spellcheck again.
From SPACE.com:
"Some pessimists predicted the Milky Way was doomed to a grizzly death by dismemberment if enough of these galaxies collide with it."
Those are not intergalactic BEARS. Those are small GALAXIES, so it should be a "grisly death". So very bothersome!
And yes I'm awake early; I get to work a normal day today.