Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh, for changes: Wuthering Heights! On later rereads, everyone is completely fucked up!
Perhaps the biggest eye-opener was rereading the Chronicles of Narnia after taking a comparative religions class in high school and finally getting all the biblical references. It was the event that really taught me the value of returning to a text.
Changing text perceptions: Gone With the Wind, and Ashley Wilkes. First read, at age 12, I thought he was a romantic, tragic figure. By the time I got to my fourth or so read, in my early twenties, I just wanted him to get a grip and stop trying to live in the past; or, at the very least, decide which stupid ideal he was pining for.
Anyone else who grew up in NY in the seventies or eighties remember Magic Garden?
I have The Magic Garden on VHS, but I don't have a VCR anymore.
Power went out a couple of times. . . at which point I recalled that I had forgotten to replace the batteries in my flashlight.
I have The Magic Garden on VHS, but I don't have a VCR anymore.
I do! Come to my house and you can show it to me.
Here's a little insight into Matilda's devious little mindset...
Matilda: Daddy! Mommy is not a good mommy because she won't let me play [Drench]!
On the plus side, she skipped all the way home singing "Little Bunny Foo Foo" con gusto.
Does it say too much about me that I considered myself an R2D2 girl?
Are you admitting to being robosexual?
Is R2D2 sentient and consenting?
Sadly, it'll probably be 2012 before I can get out to SF. Not-so-sadly, because I'm going to France in October!
But I'll gladly mail you my Magic Garden tapes. It's time they got watched again.
Sadly, it'll probably be 2012 before I can get out to SF.
::marks calendar...::
Yay France!