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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[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.