dance for me

[the_reverand]

Have made a deal with the Captain. If I watch all of FLCL, she'll read Blade! And I shall no longer be alone in the wonderment.

Went to bookstore yesterday and G found me an illustrated Salome. Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, who else? And while Salome is a pretty screwy story to begin with, Beardsley's beautifully perverse illustrations lend

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[nutmeg3]

I've been a Beardsley fan forever, and ITA that the "Salome" drawings are terrific. (I have a bloody mind, of course, but still...)

[the_reverand]

Oh yeah, Beardsley's so cool. I have always loved his style, everything is so blatantly sexual. Nudity as fashion.

[stewardess]

Ah. I came across Salome when I was nine and was astounded by it. I had not imagined black and white drawings could be so powerful.

[the_reverand]

Salome at nine!? It's no wonder you're the porn!queen. ^ ^

I was introduced to Beardsley in an art history class a few years ago, and read the play shortly thereafter. He was a master of black and white, no question.

[ribby]

I love Beardsley's drawings, and especially the ones for Salome... he captures Oscar Wilde's sense of the perverse and strange so well! And Art Deco (is that the right period? I can never remember... shame on me!) is such gorgeous stuff anyway... nudity as fashion, but such elegant nudity! *grin* More nude girls than boys, though, sadly.

~Kris

[the_reverand]

Beardsley is art nouveau (deco is the one with all the geomatric shapes).

I think Beardsley can keep his nude boys. They scare me. Though not as much as Herodias's breasts! oO

[mrkinch]

Ack! You cleverly put your comment behind the cut so I was scrolling down, thinking, oooooh, shit, I remember another version of this! Your coloring is absolutely perfect, of course.*shivers* Toreno Akai's Zechs hasn't the mania, and I keep think their roles should have been reversed.o_O Good memories.

[mrkinch]

Forgot: FLCL? I'm supposed to know what that is but I don't.

[the_reverand]

Ahh, FLCL (not an acronym, or at least not of anything I know. I've seen it spelled "fooly cooly" though I think that's supposed to be a pronunciation.)

I can't really say what it's about because I don't friggin' know! And that's why I'm not crazy about it. It doesn't make sense. It supposed to be a protracted metaphor for a young boy's coming of age, puberty, sexuality, the like. It features a kid who hangs out with his older brother's (who is away) girlfriend, and suddenly some chick shows up on a vespa and hits the kid in the head with her guitar and eventually a robot comes out of it (his head, not the guitar). I don't know. It drives me nuts. Lots of sexual innuendo that just... I don't think you should keep a metaphor running that long!!!!

But it's very niceley animated, and cool at times. I have respect for it, I just don't really care for it.

A website.

A pic. Notice where the kid is standing in relation to the chick with the guitar. oO

[the_reverand]

Yes. If anyone was wanting anyone's head on a platter, it was Treize demanding Zechs's. Poor thing. Though I'm not sure anybody could make Treize dance. ^__^

[dusky_paw]

FLCL ? Have fun, I don't think I have ever fully understood that ^_^;;

[the_reverand]

For a bit about FLCL, you can see this reply. It's a very strange anime that I do not understand an it makes me sad. V_V Rather like Paranoia Agent, which is SO beautifully animated but does not quite makes sense to me yet!! Argh.

Fun is both the easiest and hardest thing ever.

[dusky_paw]

I totally agree with that reply, it just doesn't make any sense. I read the manga and ...gave up. Yeah, I admit defeat without shame because I haven't come across anybody yet who really understood this manga (or the anime). Strange thing...

[the_reverand]

I finished watching it and I'm pretty sure I get it now... I think.

Maybe. ^ ^