Stuff and Things (but not the Happy Things post yet)

[cupcake_goth]

- My sleep was not defective last night, ohthankgoodness. It didn't make up for the vaguely defective sleep from the past few days, but hey, it's a start!

- The sad news about Lux Interior led me to discover that I only have one song by The Cramps in my iTunes. Huh? Time to go pick up some CDs and fix that.

- I just came up with an idea for a skirt I want to make, but I'm not sure when I will have free time to figure out the pattern/gather supplies/find exactly the right image I want to use as the appliqué. I wonder if I could sweet-talk the Stroppy One into creating the design for me that I could print onto iron-on transfer paper ...

- Hey, there's that steampunk event tomorrow night at Heaven! Which I would be more interested in going to if it wasn't for the $17 cover charge. (For the record, I am not a fan of Abney Park's music. It just doesn't grab me. So paying $17 to go see the fashion show, look at vendor tables, and hear djeternaldarkne and dj_sprockets spin is a little steep for my tastes.)

- You people all have seen the amaaaaaazing Twilight fandom kerfuffle that's been going on, right? No, not about the crazy lady who made a felted sculpture representing Bella's womb. (No, I'm not kidding, and no, I'm not linking.) No, I mean the EW post by Stephen King where he dismisses Stephenie Meyer as a crappy writer, and comments about J.K. Rowling being a good writer. Twilight fandom, predictably, goes crazy. A collection of the best insane responses, and comments from people from other fandoms. (clicky-link!) My favorite clueless comment from the TwiFans: "I encourage Rowling and King himself to write the book that fascinates the readers at this point". Look, just go to Cleolinda's entry about this. (clicky-link!) Aaaah, Twilight fandom, making the rest of us look relatively sane in comparison. Thanks!

Comments

[stephl.livejournal.com]

the crazy lady who made a felted sculpture representing Bella's womb.

!!!

...

People are weird.

[bork.livejournal.com]

This repulsed me as well.

I mean - felted?! What a maroon.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the photos have been taken down.

But it was quite the boggler.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

So glad you got sleep!

I am always ready, and most willing, to have crafty adventures with you! I am about to put up the ingredients for my frock I am making for the Vampires' Ball!

Sigh, the Twilight books are not great literature, but the fandom is what makes them truly awful. I have said it before, and I will say it again. Poor Rob P.


Here, this will make it better...
(http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/Maudelynn/birthdays/?action=view&current=1dy29v.jpg)

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

He seems like such a nice guy that has gotten in over his head.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Yes. Very much so.
haha. sorry, every time I look at that Movie Mash Up macro, I spew tea... it took me several seconds to realize what the joke was. Didn't mean to eat your comment page with it.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

By God, I'd pay $10 to see *this* movie.

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

When I read King's comment about Rowling and Meyer, I thought "I knew I liked him for a reason." Then I thought, "Man, Twilight fans are going to have a shi*t fit over this."

[marc17.livejournal.com]

-Seems like I had figured out why everybody was getting bad sleep lately and it was a simple solution. However, now I can't remember it. Perhaps it was all a dream.

-$17! Eeep.

-While in OK and looking for airplane books (since I refuse to read any more Anita Blake), I was looking at the Twilight and other teen vampire fiction. However, the Vampire Kisses series looked much better to my tastes. At least they had the goth girl as the protagonist. Any opinion on that series?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Vampire Kisses series. But be warned, they're very ... cute. They're fun to read, and the characters in them are charming, but I suspect they are a little fluffier than you might want.

You should check out the Morganville Vampire series by Rachel Cain, if you haven't yet. I think the only reason they're considered YA is because the main characters are teens. Otherwise, they're not your standard YA paranormal novels.

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

Hell hath no fury like a frothing adolescent... of any age.

Honestly, while I haven't enjoyed King's books for a while, the Dude knows his shit about writers and writing. I love his nonfiction stuff, and his earlier books when he still had an editor and listened to him, really were very good. However, he really only shines as a short story author.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Yes to your final sentence.

Even so, I could *stand* to read one of his novels. SMeyer's work just makes my head throb and I can't keep going.

[bork.livejournal.com]

Stephen King also wrote an excellent guide to writing.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

He's a fantastic short story writer, and I'm very fond of his earlier novels. ('Salem's Lot, especially.) But my very favorite King book is Danse Macabre, his non-fiction look at the horror genre. I just wish he's write a sequel to it, looking at the more recent developments of the genre.

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if the ignorance or the obvious sputtering incoherent rage is most amusing...

[angldst.livejournal.com]

Oh, my gosh. Steven King. He's the one that got me started on horror books with bloody/lurid covers...at the age of 11, with his novel 'Cujo'. I still like the majority of his writing, but there were a few that didn't really move me (Dolores Claiborne, and a few others). His early work was good, there was an odd/boring patch, and then in 1992, when I read 'Insomnia', it was like reading one of his older books, like he'd got his mojo back or something.

J.K. Rowling I've got no reference on. I've not read any of hers, yet.

Meyer, well, I've read the Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon, and am waiting for Breaking Dawn to become available in my library system (huge waitlist). I'm not impressed with the writing, at all. But yeah, the fandom is nutters, for the most part.

<3

-d, just the thought of a felted womb sculpture has me a bit...flummoxed?

[theda.livejournal.com]

When the HR woman at work was twittering (literally not internet-edly) about Twilight to a friend steered me away with the comment, 'Oh no, I think it would just annoy you..' I came to realization that I just wasn't missing anything if even she recognized that it wouldn't be my cup of tea.

[theda.livejournal.com]

Oh and I didn't steal the sleep last night, I actually only got about 5 hours of exceptionally broken sleep.

We will have to look for another culprit ;)

[mineke.livejournal.com]

By the by, Robert's not spinning, he's modeling ;)

[princekermit.livejournal.com]

"I encourage Rowling and King himself to write the book that fascinates the readers at this point"

To be fair, King hasn't written anything good in a decade.

Non-sequitir: Asked in a comment awhile back but never heard back, so Caliban suggested I ask again:

So Rit Black isn't the best black dye. I know that with other materials, dying it dark blue first helps. Any indication if this works? Or is there a better black dye out there? It's time to re-do the Utilikilt and a few a few other things.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

You will find much better dyes here...
http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/2934904-AA.shtml

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Argh, I meant to reply to that comment, I'm sorry!

Even if you do a base dye job of dark blue or green, you may not get a deep black with RIT. Jaccquard has recently come out with a line of dyes for synthetic fibers, and I've heard good things about them. Pacific Fabrics (supposedly) carries them.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, this Twilight thing looks delish!

[sepulchrave.livejournal.com]

..some of us are actually normal..

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

yes, you are. As I said, the books aren't that bad, it is the rabid fans that make me 0-o