That was Angela's first best friend, Sharon?
Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.
'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Aug 27, 2004 3:06:42 pm PDT #5670 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
DavidS - Aug 27, 2004 3:08:06 pm PDT #5671 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That was Angela's first best friend, Sharon?
Dude, it's Krakow.
erikaj - Aug 27, 2004 4:03:50 pm PDT #5672 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
OK, the girl Devon's the other one.
DavidS - Aug 27, 2004 5:55:20 pm PDT #5673 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
OK, the girl Devon's the other one.
Now I'm doubting myself. You're talking about Rayanne, yes?
sumi - Aug 27, 2004 5:57:02 pm PDT #5674 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
No! Sharon.
DavidS - Aug 27, 2004 5:59:16 pm PDT #5675 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Few. My laziness lost and I looked it up on IMDB.
Devon Gummersall is Krakow.
Devon Odessa is Sharon.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 29, 2004 5:50:10 am PDT #5676 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In my continuing obsession with The King in Yellow, I found out that some literary scholars think Chambers may have based the idea for a scandalous work decried by authorities and the Church on J.K. Huysmans' A Rebours (Against the Grain), which I've just purchased. At any rate, it is definitely the "poisonous yellow book" that Oscar Wilde mentioned in The Picture of Dorian Gray. No rumored supernatural properties, but apparently it was so decadent and shocking in its day that people had to be protected from it. Who knew my fascination with the macabre would lead to voluntarily reading classics of French literature?
Also, I found out that the closest real world analog to The King in Yellow is Seress' haunting 1933 song "Szomoru Vasarnap," which was known as the Hungarian Suicide song and banned after scads of listeners took it to heart and threw themselves into the Danube. (The composer's lady love was among their number, leaving behind the song's title on a suicide note.) The composer himself jumped to his death in 1968, though in his case it seems that it was due less to the song's haunting power and more to his failure to follow it up with a similar success in the subsequent decades.
I'm unable to appreciate the full effect (not being conversant in Hungarian), but I recently bought what's supposedly the most evocative English rendition, Billie Holliday's "Gloomy Sunday."
DavidS - Aug 29, 2004 11:11:51 am PDT #5677 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A Rebours is a key text in Wm. S. Burroughs counter-canon. Super decadent, bay-bee! It's even listed in the Catalog of Cool.
Lee - Aug 30, 2004 9:19:00 pm PDT #5678 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Has anyone read Carl Hiaasen's new book Skinny Dip yet?
How is it? I am trying to decide if it is worth taking a hardback on vacation with me.
Jim - Aug 31, 2004 3:14:57 am PDT #5679 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
To be fair, the 20th Aubrey novel is basically unfinished - there are huge chunks just told through letters - and to me reads like a sketch. In fact all the post-Letter of Marque books, once he runs out of actual Napoleonic war, are mildly half-assed and survive on charm and atmosphere and familarity. But I hate the idea of a book 21 anyway; the ending of Blue at The Mizzen is as fitting an close as you could have to the sequence.