When I'm reaching deep down into my senses

[sovay]

Bad: This is the third night in a row I have not slept. I am beginning to feel very frayed around the edges and I hurt all the time.

Good: I am reading tonight at Pandemonium Books & Games! Come hear me read different stories and answer different questions than at my previous appearances. I don't think it should be a selling point that I might be tired enough to speak in tongues.

On the strength of their "Save the People," spatch and I really feel the Mountain Goats should just do a full-album cover of Godspell or a concert revival or something.

On the strength of "Soft Stud," I am having trouble waiting for the rest of Black Belt Eagle Scout's Mother of My Children (2017/2018). Queer Native feminist alternative rock? Do you want to take my money now or yesterday?

Talking about Neue Sachlichkeit with moon_custafer reminded me of Max Beckmann's Double Portrait (1946). I visit it whenever I am at the MFA; it's one of my favorite pieces of the museum, along with the stamp seal with a suḫurmāšu or Ellen Day Hale's Self Portrait (1885). I like Beckmann's portrait of Perry T. Rathbone (1948), but the other one keeps coming back to me.

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[asakiyume]

I was never a big fan of Godspell, but I *love* that song. It's one I've sung to myself all my life. And yeah, that's an excellent cover.

The reading is going to be wonderful; I only wish you didn't have to go into it so exhausted. If you end up speaking in tongues, and if one of them should happen to be Japanese, listen for an "ojōzu desu ne" from the gallery ;-)

[sovay]

I was never a big fan of Godspell, but I *love* that song. It's one I've sung to myself all my life. And yeah, that's an excellent cover.

I am glad to have made it known to you!

I grew up on the original off-Broadway cast recording and saw an excellent high school production at an impressionable age, so I am actually quite fond of the musical. I can sing random chunks of it without reference.

The reading is going to be wonderful; I only wish you didn't have to go into it so exhausted. If you end up speaking in tongues, and if one of them should happen to be Japanese, listen for an "ojōzu desu ne" from the gallery

Hah. Thank you!

[moon_custafer]

He looks pretty much exactly the way you’d picture someone named “Perry T. Rathbone.”

[sovay]

He looks pretty much exactly the way you’d picture someone named “Perry T. Rathbone.”

The real surprise is that he was a legendary museum director, not a popular amateur detective.

[moon_custafer]

Can't one be both?

[sovay]

Can't one be both?

It's true there's no documentation that he wasn't.

[gwynnega]

I hope you have a great reading! Also that you get some decent sleep soon.

I'm very fond of Godspell and really like that Mountain Goats version of "Save the People."

[sovay]

I hope you have a great reading! Also that you get some decent sleep soon.

Thank you! The reading was a lot of fun, so I'm hoping the sleep follows soon.

I'm very fond of Godspell and really like that Mountain Goats version of "Save the People."

It may be my favorite cover of theirs, and I really liked their years-ago version of "You're So Vain."

[selkie]

That song has been stuck in my head all day while I have had to be doing things absolutely the disparate, desperate, complete opposite of that song.

Remind me again if both your incisors show when you smug-grin or just the one on the right.

[sovay]

That song has been stuck in my head all day while I have had to be doing things absolutely the disparate, desperate, complete opposite of that song.

I think it's taken up permanent residence in mine.

Remind me again if both your incisors show when you smug-grin or just the one on the right.

I think both of them, but my grin pulls to the left these days, so feel free to pick whichever best suits your purposes.

[selkie]

*headtilt* I think this is one of those things where my right is your left and I forgot that again, but I will be advised.

I have just discovered Margaret Lockwood ca. 1936-44 and it is a flaming shame no one's asking me my casting opinions for Film Harriet, particularly if one looks at Night Train to Munich.

[sovay]

I think this is one of those things where my right is your left and I forgot that again, but I will be advised.

If I had actually slept, I might even have been able to tell that this was a stage left/house right confusion! Carry on.

I have just discovered Margaret Lockwood ca. 1936-44 and it is a flaming shame no one's asking me my casting opinions for Film Harriet, particularly if one looks at Night Train to Munich.

You are the author! You can inflict your casting opinions and photosets upon the world without anyone asking! And you should!

[selkie]

In the interim I made the children go do thirty minutes of silent reading with a sidecar of silence and discovered she's the person from The Lady Vanishes -- whatever films I haven't seen, I am up on my Hitchcock from graduate school -- and therefore was my visual cue for Harriet all along; it just takes the universe a while to loop in ways I can track.

[Understood! I don't have a good idea of Fleming, though. I wish I were less than half joking when I said the best modern face for her is Toby Regbo.]

[sovay]

she's the person from The Lady Vanishes -- whatever films I haven't seen, I am up on my Hitchcock from graduate school -- and therefore was my visual cue for Harriet all along; it just takes the universe a while to loop in ways I can track.

I don't think I ever knew that about Harriet. You should totally talk/post about this.

[Understood! I don't have a good idea of Fleming, though. I wish I were less than half joking when I said the best modern face for her is Toby Regbo.]

Oh, yeah, even his Wikipedia photo with twenty-first-century hair looks right. That's fascinating.

[selkie]

She has the correct look and also her face is extraordinarily mobile and expressive in that film! I didn't know people blogged about the visual inspirations for their characters. I'll have to give it a ponder.

"Dear Mr. Regbo, extremely sorry for the inconvenience, could you shave your facial hair, put on regimentals, and stand still? Yours, Author."

[sovay]

I didn't know people blogged about the visual inspirations for their characters. I'll have to give it a ponder.

It is totally a thing people do. If I had a way to make those aesthetic grids that didn't require epic amounts of HTML, I would probably have made one or two for stories of mine, just for fun.

[selkie]

Whoa. Your nerdery is the best nerdery, and clearly I should find that book, based on the aesthetic set alone. Also, Francisco Bosch is exceptionally pretty and I approve.

I have spent my negligible childfree time today on the business side of The Sequel and Environs: Deadlines the Likes of Which Shall Not Be Named, but its aesthetic pinterest thingy would heavily feature waistcoats and tichels.

[sovay]

Also, Francisco Bosch is exceptionally pretty and I approve.

Francisco Bosch played Bagoas in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004), which was not a good movie, but at least the casting director knew they should have been making The Persian Boy even if the director didn't.

I have spent my negligible childfree time today on the business side of The Sequel and Environs: Deadlines the Likes of Which Shall Not Be Named, but its aesthetic pinterest thingy would heavily feature waistcoats and tichels.

YAY.

[selkie]

https://mobile.twitter.com/JeannelleWrites/status/1035672696779141121

[sovay]

Totally don't quit.

[thisbluespirit]

I am beginning to feel very frayed around the edges and I hurt all the time.

I'm so sorry. And good luck with the reading! <3

Thank you for all the links! I enjoyed the song.

ETA: I have nothing new to offer just now, but have some gifs of Margaret Lockwood being ridiculously young and cute in The Beloved Vagabond, if you are up to moving images currently:

[sovay]

I'm so sorry. And good luck with the reading!

Thank you! It was a good time!

Thank you for all the links! I enjoyed the song.

I'm glad! I feel I have been falling behind in my quality linkspam lately.

ETA: I have nothing new to offer just now, but have some gifs of Margaret Lockwood being ridiculously young and cute in The Beloved Vagabond, if you are up to moving images currently

I can pretty much always do moving images, so thanks! What on earth is this? Look at that smile!

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! It was a good time!

Good!


Heh, it's from The Beloved Vagabond (1936), and she must have still be about 19 or 20 at the most when they made it.



(I made a bunch of them at the time)

[sovay]

Heh, it's from The Beloved Vagabond (1936), and she must have still be about 19 or 20 at the most when they made it.

I can't tell from that summary if the movie is any good, but she's great.

[thisbluespirit]

It's one of those ones where I'm not sure what to make of it overall - it was a thoroughly dodgy thing in which Maurice Chevalier started out by kidnapping a small boy and wound up marrying teenaged (?) Margaret Lockwood, but in the meantime they all sang and danced and drew art round France to the horror of stuffy English people, and it was all kind of cheery and hard to dislike too much. Wee Margaret Lockwood was the highlight though!

I got it on one of my Ealing Rarities DVD sets from Network. They each contain 4 obscure Ealing films for fairly cheap prices & I try to collect the 30s ones, and they're very hit and miss but often extremely interesting and I appreciate getting hold of them like that.

[brigdh]

Thank you for these links. The Mountain Goats one especially – I'm a big fan, but hadn't heard any of the three songs of the page, so that was a wonderful surprise.

[sovay]

Thank you for these links. The Mountain Goats one especially – I'm a big fan, but hadn't heard any of the three songs of the page, so that was a wonderful surprise.

You're welcome! I like the Mountain Goats a lot.