birdies, try and hide!
SO, as a quick adendum to last post ... apparently a lot of christians are really upset about this "Golden Compass" movie. They should be! It is, after all, an attack on the institutions most of them hold dear. In fact, the books are an attack on the very concept of deity. I remember reading them in 2002 and thinking that it was remarkable such a fuss had been made about Harry Potter but nobody seemed to be up in arms about Pullman's books. I guess Pullman avoids the dreaded witchcraft, exchanging it for something a bit more subtle and harder for the zealous shriekers to detect. It probably does take a film franchise to really get the blood boiling,though .. after all, everyone knows that kids are more influenced by movies than books!
I think it'll really work tonight. http://hellonearth.muspelfire.net. last show of 2007, etc. I'm going to read Clark Ashton Smith's "The Chain of Aphorgamon" sometime near the beginning, which is nine eastern time, and give my throat and any errant ears a "rest" with morose, melancholic doom metal in a theme that sort of coincides with this very doomy tale. Light up your pipes for this one! ... if you have 'em that is.
I think it'll really work tonight. http://hellonearth.muspelfire.net. last show of 2007, etc. I'm going to read Clark Ashton Smith's "The Chain of Aphorgamon" sometime near the beginning, which is nine eastern time, and give my throat and any errant ears a "rest" with morose, melancholic doom metal in a theme that sort of coincides with this very doomy tale. Light up your pipes for this one! ... if you have 'em that is.