In my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me
Today I saw UP (in 3D! So pretty!), finally, in the cinema with my nerdfriend. It was all I could do to keep the tears (some bits were just so sad) in because I didn't want him to see me crying but it was hard. The dogs were hilarious, though. We just couldn't stop laughing at the alpha dog's squeaky voice. Well done, Pixar, well done. (ALSO, TOYSTORY 3. I WANT.)
Afterwards we loitered around in the city shopping centre and visited the second-hand book store. There I saw Tad Williams's entire Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy for just 10 euros and in pretty good condition. Are there people here who've read those books? Because that's a pretty sweet offer if the books are any good. (I also saw some Storm Constantine and C.J. Cherryh books. *rubs hands*)
I've finished a shitton of books but Oscar Wilde's Complete Short Stories was the latest (You can also find some of them online). Aaaah, Wilde has such a lovely style! Even if the stories weren't really remarkable he'd still manage to make a little artwork out of it. But they were all really sad, so I really can't believe people when they talk of him as a superficial dandy. A shallow person would never write stories like that, he's still more Basil Hallward than Lord Henry, even if he is very witty. I mean, that ending to The Star Child. What the fuck, that was just trampling over my heart. ;_;
Actually, a lot of his stories were like that. I went "NOOOO!" at the ending of The Nightingale and the Rose. And The Happy Prince made me sniff. Though... y'know, homoerotic subtext between a statue and a swallow is a little weird. XD
Bulletpoint time! This is because my thoughts on literature are totally not worthy of review format.
LOL at the Ho Yay between The Selfish Giant and Jesus. Oscar Wilde's ability to put gay vibes in every one of his stories is amazing. Even the stories about inanimate objects and animals. Oscar Wilde really likes blond fair people with violet eyes, I noticed. Now I want to write a Dany fic in Oscar Wilde style. XD The Fisherman and his Soul just blew me away. Wow, the imagery. I especially loved the meeting between the Fisherman and the Witch. The Mermaid and the devil were pretty vivid too. And I loved how the Soul was the cause of sin and corruption, not the body. I want to give Oscar Wilde a really big hug. ;_; (Also, the bit in the introduction with the anecdote about how much he loved his sons just made me tear up.) The Portrait of W.H. was wicked cool. It's a sort of conspiracy theory in a story about who the person was to whom Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets. It's cool because even if the theory is completely implausible, the arguments (lines from the sonnets) are totally awesome. Also, I love how the main character puts all his passion into finding evidence for his theory and when he sends it off he's like "WTF, this theory is complete bullshit". His prose poems are actually what I liked best. It has led me to believe that I might also really like his actual poems, so I'll give those a try. The Doer of Good was so lovely, the one that I liked best. And The Disciple was a nice little drabble about the pool in the myth of Narcissus.
When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.
And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, they loosened the green tresses of their hair and cried to the pool and said, 'We do not wonder that you should mourn in this manner for Narcissus, so beautiful was he.'
'But was Narcissus beautiful?' said the pool.
'Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. 'Us did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he would mirror his own beauty.'
And the pool answered, 'But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.'
OH SNAP
Also, I'm kind of in love with the music of Peter Fox. My life is so much better now that it has German dancehall music in it. SWING! Who says white people can't rap? XD. And I looove this song. I totally need to improve my German, it would be such a shame to let years of German lessons go to waste.
Nothing much to say except that some people in this country are severely pissing me off with their vaccination mass hysteria. Yeah guys, the government and the medical industry are totally injecting you with lethal doses mercury and tracking nano chips. Especially the lady from verontrustemoeders.nl (worried mothers) with her "Don't believe everything people tell you! Do some research and then make your own conclusions!". Um, I'm sorry lady, but I don't think reading conspiracy theory sites is going to beat 20+ years of scientific research.
Oh, and I made a choice regarding Free Subject Month. Decided to go with "infectious diseases in the big city". Partly because I think HIV/AIDS is a fascinating subject. I then got depressed because some people told me they thought it was a stupid subject. But now I have my confidence back, because it is a very important issue in today's medical world. Besides, I heard (granted, after I made the choice) that it was a really easy course, so go me! XD
(Also, apparently there are whole organisations dedicated to promoting the idea that AIDS isn't caused by HIV. With the Foo Fighters supporting them. The mind, it boggles. Musicians should make music, not promote wildly insane theories related to subjects they know nothing about.)
Afterwards we loitered around in the city shopping centre and visited the second-hand book store. There I saw Tad Williams's entire Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy for just 10 euros and in pretty good condition. Are there people here who've read those books? Because that's a pretty sweet offer if the books are any good. (I also saw some Storm Constantine and C.J. Cherryh books. *rubs hands*)
I've finished a shitton of books but Oscar Wilde's Complete Short Stories was the latest (You can also find some of them online). Aaaah, Wilde has such a lovely style! Even if the stories weren't really remarkable he'd still manage to make a little artwork out of it. But they were all really sad, so I really can't believe people when they talk of him as a superficial dandy. A shallow person would never write stories like that, he's still more Basil Hallward than Lord Henry, even if he is very witty. I mean, that ending to The Star Child. What the fuck, that was just trampling over my heart. ;_;
Actually, a lot of his stories were like that. I went "NOOOO!" at the ending of The Nightingale and the Rose. And The Happy Prince made me sniff. Though... y'know, homoerotic subtext between a statue and a swallow is a little weird. XD
Bulletpoint time! This is because my thoughts on literature are totally not worthy of review format.
When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.
And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, they loosened the green tresses of their hair and cried to the pool and said, 'We do not wonder that you should mourn in this manner for Narcissus, so beautiful was he.'
'But was Narcissus beautiful?' said the pool.
'Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. 'Us did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he would mirror his own beauty.'
And the pool answered, 'But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.'
OH SNAP
Also, I'm kind of in love with the music of Peter Fox. My life is so much better now that it has German dancehall music in it. SWING! Who says white people can't rap? XD. And I looove this song. I totally need to improve my German, it would be such a shame to let years of German lessons go to waste.
Nothing much to say except that some people in this country are severely pissing me off with their vaccination mass hysteria. Yeah guys, the government and the medical industry are totally injecting you with lethal doses mercury and tracking nano chips. Especially the lady from verontrustemoeders.nl (worried mothers) with her "Don't believe everything people tell you! Do some research and then make your own conclusions!". Um, I'm sorry lady, but I don't think reading conspiracy theory sites is going to beat 20+ years of scientific research.
Oh, and I made a choice regarding Free Subject Month. Decided to go with "infectious diseases in the big city". Partly because I think HIV/AIDS is a fascinating subject. I then got depressed because some people told me they thought it was a stupid subject. But now I have my confidence back, because it is a very important issue in today's medical world. Besides, I heard (granted, after I made the choice) that it was a really easy course, so go me! XD
(Also, apparently there are whole organisations dedicated to promoting the idea that AIDS isn't caused by HIV. With the Foo Fighters supporting them. The mind, it boggles. Musicians should make music, not promote wildly insane theories related to subjects they know nothing about.)