Comments | greygirlbeast: "There’s a problem: feathers, iron, bargain buildings, weights and pulleys."

greygirlbeast

"There’s a problem: feathers, iron, bargain buildings, weights and pulleys."

Sep 24, 2013 12:12

The sky out there could crush you. Fuck you, Autumn.

Someone asked a couple of days (or more) if I listen to the National. I do. I discovered them shortly after finishing The Drowning Girl back in 2011. In fact, I wanted to include a quote from their song "Anyone's Ghost" as an epigraph, and the band was cool with it, but the record company wanted ( Read more... )

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martianmooncrab September 24 2013, 17:44:38 UTC

that everything the copyeditors do is done in track changes now.

if Stephen King wanted paper, he would get it delivered on a silver platter..

greygirlbeast September 24 2013, 17:58:34 UTC

Yup.

pisceanblue September 24 2013, 18:05:07 UTC

Also, The Philadelphia Story is very likely the best of Shakespeare's comedies that Shakespeare didn't write.
Having stated it thus, I immediately apprehend your meaning in terms of the script's structure (not sure if it was taken directly from the play) but I'd never considered it before; thank you, Aunt Beast. The Philadelphia Story and Vertigo are my two all-time favorites.

greygirlbeast September 24 2013, 18:07:55 UTC

You're welcome. I'd love to write an essay on this, but I know I never will.

ext_999196 September 24 2013, 18:18:32 UTC

Don't know if you heard about this, but thought you'd find it interesting. I know you are a fan of The Orange Eats Creeps. Two Dollar Radio, the publisher of that book, is going into micro-budget films, one of the three films they're doing is going to be directed by Krilanovich.

greygirlbeast September 24 2013, 18:33:29 UTC

Two Dollar Radio, the publisher of that book, is going into micro-budget films, one of the three films they're doing is going to be directed by Krilanovich.

Well, that could be cool.

setsuled September 24 2013, 18:39:59 UTC

a second Perrault painting-in-progress from Matthew Jaffe. This time, "Night in the Forest":

Very nice.

The forties are easy on my eyes and my mind.

I know what you mean. I start to feel really off-balance if I go too long without seeing a movie made before 1960.

greygirlbeast September 24 2013, 19:35:14 UTC

I start to feel really off-balance if I go too long without seeing a movie made before 1960.

Which is what I let happen the last few months.

aarongp September 24 2013, 21:41:45 UTC

I love that painting. The shadows and darkness are exquisite.

This digital age is rendering culture so insubstantial and transitory that I'm afraid I'd be overly generous to call it fleeting.
With the amount of dog shit being produced these days, this might be kind of a useful thing, to a certain degree.
But yes, I do see your point and I concur.

The forties are easy on my eyes and my mind.
So well said. Think I might have to dig something out to watch again. A Houston sounds good. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre perhaps. Haven't seen those steenking badges for a while.