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- Thing One: I have found someplace that sells straw versions of my usual black wool top hat. I am thinking of getting one, covering it with black lace, and then I would finally have a summer version of my hat.
- Thing Two: We never managed to see Sucker Punch in the theatre, but thanks to a video that scrolled by on Tumblr, I spent part of today browsing YouTube so I could listen to the soundtrack. Which I then bought. A remix of Bjork's "Army of Me" with Skunk Anansi! The cover of "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This"! The cover of "Asleep"! This thing is full of bombastic/crazy girl fun.
- Thing Three: A sign of how stressful and scattered this year has been: I had no idea that book 8 of the Vampire Kisses series had been released! My favorite sugary dark reading indulgence! ::flailyhands::
- Thing Four: A picture Libby (from Exoskeleton Cabaret, you know, Libby Bulloff) took of me during yesterday's trip to the zoo.
- Thing Five: There have been some great non-supernatural Gothic fiction suggestions arriving in the GCS mailbox. Someone made the very good point that all of Anne Rice's recent books are about, well, Jesus. I'm betting her (overwrought, bombastic, but cracktastic fun) writing style hasn't changed that much, even if she isn't writing about vampires anymore. However, I will admit that the suggestion of Flowers In the Attic made me raise my eyebrows. Sure, there's no hint of supernatural in it, and it IS a modern take on classic Gothic novel tropes, but ... yeah. I don't know if I'd feel comfortable recommending it.
(I occasionally pick up copies of it at thrift stores, flip through them in a state of mesmerized horror, and then decide that I don't need to take the revisiting the trashy reading habits of my youth THAT far.)
- Thing Two: We never managed to see Sucker Punch in the theatre, but thanks to a video that scrolled by on Tumblr, I spent part of today browsing YouTube so I could listen to the soundtrack. Which I then bought. A remix of Bjork's "Army of Me" with Skunk Anansi! The cover of "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This"! The cover of "Asleep"! This thing is full of bombastic/crazy girl fun.
- Thing Three: A sign of how stressful and scattered this year has been: I had no idea that book 8 of the Vampire Kisses series had been released! My favorite sugary dark reading indulgence! ::flailyhands::
- Thing Four: A picture Libby (from Exoskeleton Cabaret, you know, Libby Bulloff) took of me during yesterday's trip to the zoo.
- Thing Five: There have been some great non-supernatural Gothic fiction suggestions arriving in the GCS mailbox. Someone made the very good point that all of Anne Rice's recent books are about, well, Jesus. I'm betting her (overwrought, bombastic, but cracktastic fun) writing style hasn't changed that much, even if she isn't writing about vampires anymore. However, I will admit that the suggestion of Flowers In the Attic made me raise my eyebrows. Sure, there's no hint of supernatural in it, and it IS a modern take on classic Gothic novel tropes, but ... yeah. I don't know if I'd feel comfortable recommending it.
(I occasionally pick up copies of it at thrift stores, flip through them in a state of mesmerized horror, and then decide that I don't need to take the revisiting the trashy reading habits of my youth THAT far.)
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