I have my iPod in the dock on shuffle. And Radiohead's "Black Star" came on a couple songs ago. The song always manages to remind me of Lord of the Rings--the movies, really. And they have nothing to do with one another, I know. Still...

It's the particular phrase "troubled words of a troubled mind" that does it. It immediately calls to my memory ( Read more... )

"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

Peter Ustinov

--but if you're fortunate enough to be a morbid little cuss, you can see and appreciate the value of both.
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I don't get it when authors of M-rated fanfiction give forewarning of, or apologise for sexytimes and/or cursing in their authors' notes. Why the devil is your fic rated M if there are none of the above? I consider an M rating a promise of sexytimes, quite frankly. And if the audience feels okay with the sexytimes, a little cursing probably isn't ( Read more... )

There's always a continuity issue with camera angles and perspective in conversations between humans and centaurs. Far shots tend to show the head where you'd expect it if a human torso were attached to a horse's body: quite a bit taller than a human. But in close shots the characters are looking almost directly at one another, which just doesn't ( Read more... )

This Jacob/Esau business reminds me of a moment in Memnoch the Devil when Lestat decides that God and the Devil are both insane and he wants nothing to do with either of them. I guess I'm just waiting for somebody in Lost to take the same stance with Jacob and Esau (smoke monster, Man in Black, whatever). Maybe it'll be Ben. Maybe it'll be Jack.

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