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greygirlbeast

Howard Hughes and the Phosphorescent Octopus

May 27, 2007 12:28

The smoke came back this morning, and we awoke to the stench of distant fires. Behind the cut is a photo of downtown Atlanta taken sometime this morning. My eyes burn, my nose is running, and I'm coughing. Clearly, we have to stop sleeping with the windows open until the fires at last burn themselves out, whenever that might be.

( Waiting to Inhale )

smoke, -03, mordorian death march, sirenia, potc, unwriting

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sovay May 27 2007, 18:06:11 UTC

I'm not going to go on about it, but I will say I was pleased that, unlike PotC: Dead Man's Chest, great swaths of this film did not seem to exist solely for the benefit of a videogame tie-in.

The sea-mythology made me immensely happy, as did the stopping place for most of the characters' lives.

As for the "Lay of Sindeseldaonna," this impromtu Tolkien fanfic that's been occurring between Setsuled and me, I may collect it all together, edit it and add footnotes, and plug it into an upcoming issue of Sirenia Digest, sort of an extra, supplement, freebie sort of a thing.

That would be wonderful.

99th Mind is shooting a video to accompany, "Twelve Nights After," my contribution to the forthcoming Hidden Variable album.

Nice!

unknownbinaries May 27 2007, 18:48:37 UTC

'Thinking Man Tavern' on DeKalb is good, too, if you're looking for something tasty but quietish. Good jukebox.

Their potato rounds are dipped in garlic-flavoured crack, I think.

ebourland May 27 2007, 20:32:04 UTC

Dang, what are you all burning in Atlanta?

Are the Yankees burning Savannah again?

greygirlbeast May 27 2007, 20:35:10 UTC

Are the Yankees burning Savannah again?

It's "only" the Okefenokee (though the Yankees never did burn Savannah, just everything else in their path).

ebourland May 27 2007, 20:42:30 UTC

I thought they burned Savannah. I know they went down there and burned the hell out of everything else. =)

It's like Georgia is Mordor now.

Hey do you know the origin of the word Mordor?

greygirlbeast May 27 2007, 20:53:58 UTC

I thought they burned Savannah. I know they went down there and burned the hell out of everything else

Nope. Savannah was spared by Sherman and made an "Xmas present" to Lincoln.

Hey do you know the origin of the word Mordor?

This from Wikipedia"

Mordor actually has two meanings: "Black Land" in Sindarin, and "Land of Shadow" in Quenya. The root mor ("dark", "black") also appears in Moria. Dor ("land") also appears in Gondor ("stone-land"), Eriador, and Doriath ("fenced land"). The Quenya word for Shadow is "mordo ( ... )

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mellawyrden May 27 2007, 21:23:10 UTC

Happy Birthday Caitlin!!!

setsuled May 27 2007, 23:59:08 UTC

Behind the cut is a photo of downtown Atlanta taken sometime this morning. My eyes burn, my nose is running, and I'm coughing.

Jeez. Mordor indeed.

and I have to say it's one of the things that's helped to get me through the last two+ insufferable weeks of compositional butchery.

I'm very glad.

I may collect it all together, edit it and add footnotes, and plug it into an upcoming issue of Sirenia Digest, sort of an extra, supplement, freebie sort of a thing.

That would be very cool.

I have a feeling the Death March may be ending before we find the end of the story...unless I'm mistaken.

I couldn't say, for my part.