I never did post my thoughts on the first season of Skins, did I?

( ... must be just exactly what I need ... totally spoilery, be warned ... )

Oh. My. God.

I cannot believe how much I enjoyed that!

Just saw Salome with, you guessed it, sheba_finesse who I could quite easily call My PlayMate but shan't for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which being how much I loathe Hugh Hefner.

*cough*

Anyway.

( down by the lake in your heart. )

So Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr.

Which I bought out of sheer desperation on a morning tea adjournment during a hellishly boring case cos I was completely uninterested in the book of essays I had brought from home and needed something to keep me awake. Selected cos omg fucking AWESOME cover, intriguing title and yep the tagline hooked me with a ( Read more... )

Oh Wilde ...

Were you parodying others or yourself? How on earth am I supposed to tell, here and now?

And yet: There was nothing in the world so white as thy body. There was nothing in the world so black as thy hair. In the whole world there was nothing so red as thy mouth.

On every rare occasion I revisit Wilde, Albert Finney murmurs in my head ( Read more... )

Movie reviews cos there are a few I kept forgetting to talk about and now that we're part of the video store network again, they're coming fast and ... ahem, yes.

But first, back in September when I was down at Mossy, the Aunt and I went to see In Her Shoes and absolutely loved loved loved it. Put Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz in a movie together ( Read more... )

The Andre & Oscar bio didn't hold my interest very long, a bit too salacious and sensationalist. And eventually I remembered "er, dri, how many Wilde bios have you read? You know all this and you're not particularly interested in Gide." So cast that aside and this morning picked up the book on writers and their faiths. Literary Converts: Spiritual ( Read more... )

Thank you for the emails. Twas very sweet of you ( Read more... )

So I'll prolly regret posting this. But what the hell. At least I was moderately productive today. Began this last week in a community and decided on the spur of the moment today, in the wake of the previous post, to see it through ( Read more... )

Jaysus.

Gish-era Corgan with the flicking of his long fuzzy hair and the subtle pout of his vulnerable mouth looks disconcertingly like fuzzy coated early Brian Slade to me.

*fact and fiction colliding*

Oy vey. As if I actually need to be any more attracted to this man ( Read more... )