I had to sell my harp to pay for that piano
Quick brain dump
♥ I saw someone wearing an xkcd t-shirt today. It made me happy. (The grey, college style one. But how awesome are some of the others?)
♥ The internets have been a bit dead today. This morning especially. Boo internets.
♥ Laura and I went to the Bad Film Club again last night. Every time I go I think I've seen the worst film ever, and then the next one surprises me. Last night was Mariah Carey's Glitter. I don't even have anything to say about it, it was so bad. I don't think I have ever paid less attention to a film in my life. There was a technical hitch at one point and the comedians' mics stopped working for a few minutes, and so that we did not have to listen to what was going on in the film, everyone in the audience started playing the harmonicas and kazoos we'd been given and so drowned it out. That was a beautiful thing. Commando next month, although apparently it's selling out fast.
♥ We're off to the proper cinema tonight to see The Accidental Husband. It looks like it could be shockingly bad, but the lure of Jeffrey Dean is too much for us. I shall have to practically run across Hyde Park to get there, so that should be a nice relaxing evening.
♥ Finally, a book rec. I found the first two of an as yet unfinished trilogy in the library on Saturday. It's called The Looking Glass Wars and is a different take on Alice in Wonderland. Quite dark and very good.
The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges the world’s Carrollian Wonderland assumptions of tea parties, dormice and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic, cross dimensional saga of love, murder, betrayal, revenge and the endless war for Imagination. Meet the heroic, passionate, monstrous, vengeful denizens of this parallel world as they battle each other with AD-52’s and orb generators, navigate the Crystal Continuum, bet on jabberwock fights and slip each other the poisonous pink mushroom. Finally, someone got it right. This ain’t no fairytale.
Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd shattered her world. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the surreal, violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical children’s sojourn Alice in Wonderland. Alyss had trusted Lewis Carroll to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere would find her and bring her home.
But Carroll had got it all wrong. He even misspelled her name! If not for the intrepid Hatter Madigan, a member of the Millinery (Wonderland’s security force) who after a 13 year search eventually tracked Alyss to London, she may have become just another society woman sipping tea in a too-tight bodice instead of returning to Wonderland to battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
♥ I saw someone wearing an xkcd t-shirt today. It made me happy. (The grey, college style one. But how awesome are some of the others?)
♥ The internets have been a bit dead today. This morning especially. Boo internets.
♥ Laura and I went to the Bad Film Club again last night. Every time I go I think I've seen the worst film ever, and then the next one surprises me. Last night was Mariah Carey's Glitter. I don't even have anything to say about it, it was so bad. I don't think I have ever paid less attention to a film in my life. There was a technical hitch at one point and the comedians' mics stopped working for a few minutes, and so that we did not have to listen to what was going on in the film, everyone in the audience started playing the harmonicas and kazoos we'd been given and so drowned it out. That was a beautiful thing. Commando next month, although apparently it's selling out fast.
♥ We're off to the proper cinema tonight to see The Accidental Husband. It looks like it could be shockingly bad, but the lure of Jeffrey Dean is too much for us. I shall have to practically run across Hyde Park to get there, so that should be a nice relaxing evening.
♥ Finally, a book rec. I found the first two of an as yet unfinished trilogy in the library on Saturday. It's called The Looking Glass Wars and is a different take on Alice in Wonderland. Quite dark and very good.
The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges the world’s Carrollian Wonderland assumptions of tea parties, dormice and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic, cross dimensional saga of love, murder, betrayal, revenge and the endless war for Imagination. Meet the heroic, passionate, monstrous, vengeful denizens of this parallel world as they battle each other with AD-52’s and orb generators, navigate the Crystal Continuum, bet on jabberwock fights and slip each other the poisonous pink mushroom. Finally, someone got it right. This ain’t no fairytale.
Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd shattered her world. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the surreal, violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical children’s sojourn Alice in Wonderland. Alyss had trusted Lewis Carroll to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere would find her and bring her home.
But Carroll had got it all wrong. He even misspelled her name! If not for the intrepid Hatter Madigan, a member of the Millinery (Wonderland’s security force) who after a 13 year search eventually tracked Alyss to London, she may have become just another society woman sipping tea in a too-tight bodice instead of returning to Wonderland to battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.