Do eReaders dream of electric librarians?

[greygirlbeast]

Hold on for Round Three of higgledy piggledy.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,413 words on "John Four," and found THE END. It's a strange story, maybe even strange for me. Maybe even grim for me, right down to the irony in the Biblical allusion of its title. I wrote yesterday's pages to the Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky. It was the

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[bellarabesques]

Granted, this is from someone just getting into letterpress, but plastic will never be as beautiful as paper. It just won't. It's awful to say the physical medium makes little to no difference to the art.

[greygirlbeast]

but plastic will never be as beautiful as paper. It just won't.

Hell, if the readers were at least metal!

It's awful to say the physical medium makes little to no difference to the art.

But there you go.

[robyn_ma]

'and this is just a dumb mistake, one that made it into print.'

No, goddammit. Jeez, do I have to come over there and be your public-relations secretary?

The correct sentence is, "And this was completely intentional, as I was trying for geographic disorientation, and anyone who reads it as a 'mistake' obviously isn't paying attention to the eerie nuances of my work."

You're welcome.

[greygirlbeast]

The correct sentence is, "And this was completely intentional, as I was trying for geographic disorientation, and anyone who reads it as a 'mistake' obviously isn't paying attention to the eerie nuances of my work."

Pffft. Nope. Caitlín fucked up.

[stsisyphus]

I have to go get that album now, if only for your "music" tag.

Also, I fully support anything that comes out of your RingPunk dream.

[greygirlbeast]

I have to go get that album now, if only for your "music" tag.

It's an excellent album.

Also, I fully support anything that comes out of your RingPunk dream.

Oh. No. Not another -punk.

[fusijui]

the end of the world is only merciful if it really is the end of the world

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/teeth.jpg

Awesome dream. and it was very Miller's Crossing somehow

"The Ring? What Ring?" (blam blam blam) Speaking of such things -- I'm guessing you've seen what they were able to restore of the Howard Hawks version of LOTR?

[greygirlbeast]

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/teeth.jpg <-- This is brilliant!

I'm guessing you've seen what they were able to restore of the Howard Hawks version of LOTR?

Nope.

[fusijui]

Emily & Joey's of bouncing between killing and eating children and throwing rocks at slow people, and fluffy kittens and true love and the best hug ever, that seems totally natural and compelling... er, to me.

Tolkien-wise, don't get your expectations too high or anything, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xruJ10C19U

[greygirlbeast]

Tolkien-wise, don't get your expectations too high or anything,

I shall try not to...

[catconley]

Better than The Secret of Roan Inish? Wow. I definitely want to see that movie!

There's a late 1800's opera house in the town where I grew up, and that's where I saw Roan Inish for the first time. The acoustics in there are great, so we could hear every movement of the wind and waves, and the soundtrack was so clear. They'd finished the restorations just a little while before they showed the movie, so you could still smell a little of the new paint and carpet smells, but underneath it, you could smell the old wood smell of the chairs and the stage. It was an amazing experience. I have a copy of the movie on DVD and I enjoy watching it, but it's not quite the same...

[greygirlbeast]

Better than The Secret of Roan Inish? Wow. I definitely want to see that movie!

Yes. You must.