Finally...
I thought it was time to update. I’ve been meaning to for quite some time but every time I think about it, something else comes up and needs my attention… Bow down before the ultimate procrastinator.
News for my faithful readers: I saw 300 four times and am completely addicted. It’s not just the beautiful half naked men running around, which is very nice in an of itself, it’s also the fact that those beautiful half naked men are killing things. With spears and swords no less… My best friend, Eden, explained it best when she said, “I wan a guy that looks like he just cut someone’s head off.”
See in this day and age you have people killing each other with guns, bombs and dinky little knives that aren’t all that impressive. No more swords, spears, axes or anything that really cool like that. Not that guns are any less effective and can, at times, be quire impressive… it’s just that guns don’t have the same oomph as a sword.
I guess I’m just weird, but we all knew that.
More news: I just (relative term) finished reading Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which I’ve never read before. It was great fun and I know that had I been younger I would have just LOVED Alice… though she didn’t have a lot of common sense. Older now, I prefer the Cheshire cat and the Mad Hatter.
But what I’ve figured out is that all from earth-to-other-world stories follow the same basic outline as Alice and Wonderland You have your Alice Character, who is of course the protagonist, and then you have your White Rabbit character who leads the protagonist into the other world and so on and so forth. I’ve applied it to books like The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and they Alice and Wonderland rules have applied as well as to more recent books like Clive Barker’s Abarat Series (great set of books, if you’re looking for something to read), where they also fit in really well.
One more thing about Alice and Wonderland before we move on: I’ve decided that my first tattoo will be the White Rabbit. Not like the little drawings in the book but something of my own design, probably borderline creepy but not openly scary. And the reason I’ve decided this is because a few weeks ago, before I started reading Alice and Wonderland, I had this dream that I was just going along to get along in this really crowded city street and that at my side there’s this white rabbit just hopping right along with me. And since I’ve woken up from that dream I’ve been seeing white rabbits EVERYWHERE. The day I woke up from the dream, Alice and Wonderland came on and I’ve seen white rabbit candy and statues and bundt cake pans until finally, when mom and I were at Costplus, I saw this little clay mask, about the size of my palm, of a white rabbit for the Chinese Zodiac and I bought it. Now it’s staring at me from my bulletin board every day and since I put it there, the white rabbit’s have stopped following me around.
I asked mom what all the white rabbits could mean and she told that it might be a sign that I was on the right path. I agree but I decided that I wanted to be the white rabbit for other people… SO That’s the story behind me wanting the white rabbit tattoo… so there.
Subject change.
A while ago I sent away for a book that I once had bought read to pieces (literally) and I got it on Monday! Yay! I’ve been reading it voraciously but it’s been kind of odd. When I was younger and I read it I remember thinking that Marian was just the coolest woman-warrior that could be! She was soft hearted, but knew what she had to do and did it, and brave and beautiful and so on and so forth and I also remember thinking that the sheriff was just a horrible, manipulative, hard hearted dog who deserved everything he got in the end!
WELL! Now reading it I keep thinking, “Holy mother of mouthmuck*! Marian’s a naïve, little wide eyed moon calf!” I was floored by how much I had changed in just a few years.
There’s this one scene in the book where the Sheriff’s daughter, Eleanor, having been caught in the act with a wandering mistral, claims rape when everyone knows about her wonton behavior. The minstrel is sentenced to have his tongue cut out for his trespass and Marian went to the sheriff to try and convince him otherwise because everyone, including the Sheriff himself, knows that Eleanor was more likely the aggressor. Obviously Marian fails her tactics and the minstrel is still going to have his tongue cut out and Marian is all sorts of bent out of shape because of that because he’s innocent.
GAWD! What else is the sheriff supposed to do when his daughter claims rape? Call her a liar in front of everyone and ruin any even slight chance she had at a normal life? He had no choice, damn it! I know if I had claimed rape against the minstrel my dad would have ripped the man’s tongue out himself!
I was just floored by the fact that I could have been so… young and naïve. It’s especially horrible because I look back at how girl I was and just wince. I much prefer what I am now.
Kinda funny how I got all sorts of twisted over Marian being so damn stupid, huh?
One more thing before I sign out.
Mom and I saw Grindhouse, which was great fun… if a little long. She and I didn’t realize that they were full length movies, though we should have guessed.
Planet Terror by Robert Rodriquez was wonderful. Lot’s of fun and wonderfully gory and the lead actress, Rose McGowan, was so damn cute and sexy. I had a lot of fun with that one.
With Deathproof, by Quentin Tarantino, had great car chases at the very beginning and the end. But the time between those wonderful crash ‘em up scenes was just pedantic. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer that good dialogue can save an otherwise horrible movie… but it was just a wee too much for me… Plus they killed Kurt Russel who played Snake Plissken in Escape from L.A. and Escape from New York.
That, my dear and faithful readers, is unforgivable in my little book of offenses.
See, Snake Plissken is my ultimate hero and has been since I’ve seen him. He has ‘white knight’ qualities that appealed to my little-girl nature but he also had a tattoo, scars, an eye patch and a Harley! So he was the kind of guy that would save you from getting shot and then hand you a shot gun so you could shoot back!
And that appealed to me as a little girl as much as it appeals to me now.
So to kill him… I was all sorts of funky about it afterwards. Like, if I was an emotional person, would probably have been crying outright. I had to sooth myself with cold ribs that mom had made before we left and then watch Escape from L.A. before I felt better.
How bizarre is that?
Pretty damn bizarre.
Alright, I’ve basically brought you up to speed in my life so I think I’m done now… I have homework that needs my attention anyway.
Hopefully I’ll post sooner than later!
-Rose-
*Mother of mouthmuck is a curse the Augrha from the Dark Crystal says to the Skekses when they capture her in place of Jen. In case you were wondering.
News for my faithful readers: I saw 300 four times and am completely addicted. It’s not just the beautiful half naked men running around, which is very nice in an of itself, it’s also the fact that those beautiful half naked men are killing things. With spears and swords no less… My best friend, Eden, explained it best when she said, “I wan a guy that looks like he just cut someone’s head off.”
See in this day and age you have people killing each other with guns, bombs and dinky little knives that aren’t all that impressive. No more swords, spears, axes or anything that really cool like that. Not that guns are any less effective and can, at times, be quire impressive… it’s just that guns don’t have the same oomph as a sword.
I guess I’m just weird, but we all knew that.
More news: I just (relative term) finished reading Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which I’ve never read before. It was great fun and I know that had I been younger I would have just LOVED Alice… though she didn’t have a lot of common sense. Older now, I prefer the Cheshire cat and the Mad Hatter.
But what I’ve figured out is that all from earth-to-other-world stories follow the same basic outline as Alice and Wonderland You have your Alice Character, who is of course the protagonist, and then you have your White Rabbit character who leads the protagonist into the other world and so on and so forth. I’ve applied it to books like The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and they Alice and Wonderland rules have applied as well as to more recent books like Clive Barker’s Abarat Series (great set of books, if you’re looking for something to read), where they also fit in really well.
One more thing about Alice and Wonderland before we move on: I’ve decided that my first tattoo will be the White Rabbit. Not like the little drawings in the book but something of my own design, probably borderline creepy but not openly scary. And the reason I’ve decided this is because a few weeks ago, before I started reading Alice and Wonderland, I had this dream that I was just going along to get along in this really crowded city street and that at my side there’s this white rabbit just hopping right along with me. And since I’ve woken up from that dream I’ve been seeing white rabbits EVERYWHERE. The day I woke up from the dream, Alice and Wonderland came on and I’ve seen white rabbit candy and statues and bundt cake pans until finally, when mom and I were at Costplus, I saw this little clay mask, about the size of my palm, of a white rabbit for the Chinese Zodiac and I bought it. Now it’s staring at me from my bulletin board every day and since I put it there, the white rabbit’s have stopped following me around.
I asked mom what all the white rabbits could mean and she told that it might be a sign that I was on the right path. I agree but I decided that I wanted to be the white rabbit for other people… SO That’s the story behind me wanting the white rabbit tattoo… so there.
Subject change.
A while ago I sent away for a book that I once had bought read to pieces (literally) and I got it on Monday! Yay! I’ve been reading it voraciously but it’s been kind of odd. When I was younger and I read it I remember thinking that Marian was just the coolest woman-warrior that could be! She was soft hearted, but knew what she had to do and did it, and brave and beautiful and so on and so forth and I also remember thinking that the sheriff was just a horrible, manipulative, hard hearted dog who deserved everything he got in the end!
WELL! Now reading it I keep thinking, “Holy mother of mouthmuck*! Marian’s a naïve, little wide eyed moon calf!” I was floored by how much I had changed in just a few years.
There’s this one scene in the book where the Sheriff’s daughter, Eleanor, having been caught in the act with a wandering mistral, claims rape when everyone knows about her wonton behavior. The minstrel is sentenced to have his tongue cut out for his trespass and Marian went to the sheriff to try and convince him otherwise because everyone, including the Sheriff himself, knows that Eleanor was more likely the aggressor. Obviously Marian fails her tactics and the minstrel is still going to have his tongue cut out and Marian is all sorts of bent out of shape because of that because he’s innocent.
GAWD! What else is the sheriff supposed to do when his daughter claims rape? Call her a liar in front of everyone and ruin any even slight chance she had at a normal life? He had no choice, damn it! I know if I had claimed rape against the minstrel my dad would have ripped the man’s tongue out himself!
I was just floored by the fact that I could have been so… young and naïve. It’s especially horrible because I look back at how girl I was and just wince. I much prefer what I am now.
Kinda funny how I got all sorts of twisted over Marian being so damn stupid, huh?
One more thing before I sign out.
Mom and I saw Grindhouse, which was great fun… if a little long. She and I didn’t realize that they were full length movies, though we should have guessed.
Planet Terror by Robert Rodriquez was wonderful. Lot’s of fun and wonderfully gory and the lead actress, Rose McGowan, was so damn cute and sexy. I had a lot of fun with that one.
With Deathproof, by Quentin Tarantino, had great car chases at the very beginning and the end. But the time between those wonderful crash ‘em up scenes was just pedantic. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer that good dialogue can save an otherwise horrible movie… but it was just a wee too much for me… Plus they killed Kurt Russel who played Snake Plissken in Escape from L.A. and Escape from New York.
That, my dear and faithful readers, is unforgivable in my little book of offenses.
See, Snake Plissken is my ultimate hero and has been since I’ve seen him. He has ‘white knight’ qualities that appealed to my little-girl nature but he also had a tattoo, scars, an eye patch and a Harley! So he was the kind of guy that would save you from getting shot and then hand you a shot gun so you could shoot back!
And that appealed to me as a little girl as much as it appeals to me now.
So to kill him… I was all sorts of funky about it afterwards. Like, if I was an emotional person, would probably have been crying outright. I had to sooth myself with cold ribs that mom had made before we left and then watch Escape from L.A. before I felt better.
How bizarre is that?
Pretty damn bizarre.
Alright, I’ve basically brought you up to speed in my life so I think I’m done now… I have homework that needs my attention anyway.
Hopefully I’ll post sooner than later!
-Rose-
*Mother of mouthmuck is a curse the Augrha from the Dark Crystal says to the Skekses when they capture her in place of Jen. In case you were wondering.
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