Everyone I meet I think is going to die, but I'll never know for sure

[sovay]

I'm awake because my head hurts too much. This is terrible. I was really looking forward to not being sick anymore. Maybe it's just weatherchanging.

I watched several movies this weekend and hope to be able to set aside enough time to memorialize some of them before I run out of month.

Please enjoy this photo of Fritz Lang on the set of Frau im Mond (1929). I am sure the gesture he's making with his hands is some kind of framing or other ordinary conversation, but it's close enough for government work to "Don't ask me, I just direct here."

Comments

[moon_custafer]

The photo I’ve seen of Lang looking over the Frau im Mond script, with the assistance of a toy monkey, must’ve been taken the same day— between the monocle and the plaid flannel shirt, his lesbian-chic game was fierce.

[sovay]

The photo I’ve seen of Lang looking over the Frau im Mond script, with the assistance of a toy monkey, must’ve been taken the same day— between the monocle and the plaid flannel shirt, his lesbian-chic game was fierce.

Or the plaids and monocle were standard Lang attire, in which case, still true.

[choco_frosh]

I'm awake because my head hurts too much. This is terrible.

Ugh, I'm really sorry to hear it. I hope that things will have improved by the time you read this.

[sovay]

I hope that things will have improved by the time you read this.

Thank you. I had slept, which is not unimportant.

*hugs*

[sartorias]

It looks to me like "Na ja, was willst?"

[sovay]

It looks to me like "Na ja, was willst?"

Hah!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm awake because my head hurts too much. This is terrible. I was really looking forward to not being sick anymore. Maybe it's just weatherchanging.

Aw, I'm sorry. :-/

[sovay]

Aw, I'm sorry.

Thanks. I've just been sick for months. The novelty has worn off.

[umadoshi]

Your poor head! :(

[sovay]

Your poor head!

Thanks!

(What is the text of your excellent icon from?)

[umadoshi]

(What is the text of your excellent icon from?)

I don't know if it's from anything in particular--IIRC I nabbed it from a batch of mood-related icons forever ago on LJ.

[sovay]

I don't know if it's from anything in particular--IIRC I nabbed it from a batch of mood-related icons forever ago on LJ.

It appears to be from Through the Looking-Glass! When Tweedledum and Tweedledee are suiting up for their battle:

"Alice said afterwards she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in all her life—the way those two bustled about—and the quantity of things they put on—and the trouble they gave her in tying strings and fastening buttons—'Really they'll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything else, by the time they're ready!' she said to herself, as she arranged a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee, 'to keep his head from being cut off,' as he said.

"'You know,' he added very gravely, 'it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle—to get one's head cut off.'

"Alice laughed loud: but she managed to turn it into a cough, for fear of hurting his feelings.

"'Do I look very pale?' said Tweedledum, coming up to have his helmet tied on. (He called it a helmet, though it certainly looked much more like a saucepan.)

"'Well—yes—a little,' Alice replied gently.

"'I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only to-day I happen to have a headache.'

"'And I've got a toothache!' said Tweedledee, who had overheard the remark. 'I'm far worse than you!'

"'Then you'd better not fight to-day,' said Alice, thinking it a good opportunity to make peace.

"'We must have a bit of a fight, but I don't care about going on long,' said Tweedledum. 'What's the time now?'

"Tweedledee looked at his watch, and said 'Half-past four.'

"'Let's fight till six, and then have dinner,' said Tweedledum."

[umadoshi]

Oh, that's good to know! (I've updated my icon info. ^_^) Alas, though, that the icon's text isn't a quite-perfect match; I frown at inaccurate renderings.

[gwynnega]

I hope it was just a temporary setback from the weather changing.

[sovay]

I hope it was just a temporary setback from the weather changing.

Thanks. I'm having a hard time telling. I am still feeling tired to the point of idiocy.

[nineweaving]

Oh no. I very much hope that your headache is fleeting; that you get some healing sleep. Be well.

The weather has certainly turned fierce. That's a bashing wind out there, and it nearly snatched my watch cap off.

That picture of Lang reminded me of S.J.Perelman's 1932 Hollywood collage, "Scenario": "She shrieks or she don't shriek, what the hell difference does it make?" To my delight, I find that a composer named Kyle Gann has set most of the farrago.

*hugs*

Nine

[sovay]

Oh no. I very much hope that your headache is fleeting; that you get some healing sleep. Be well.

Thank you. I am trying. I really want the security to sleep for a week.

[edit] The weather has certainly turned fierce. That's a bashing wind out there, and it nearly snatched my watch cap off.

I can hear it roaring. I could have sworn our building doesn't even have the architecture for wuthering, and yet.

That picture of Lang reminded me of S.J.Perelman's 1932 Hollywood collage, "Scenario": "She shrieks or she don't shriek, what the hell difference does it make?"

Yes!

(Although Gerda Maurus does not do the shrieking in Frau im Mond; that's left to one of her male co-stars.)

To my delight, I find that a composer named Kyle Gann has set most of the farrago.

That's wonderful.

*hugs*

[rosefox]

I had a brutal headache last night too. Gone now. I blame the weather. Hope you're feeling better too.

[sovay]

I blame the weather. Hope you're feeling better too.

Thank you. I don't know what it's doing where you are, but it is blastingly cold and windy all of a sudden here.

[rinue]

Ha! I think this is my new favorite Fritz Lang picture.

I hope your head stops aching you soon.

[sovay]

Ha! I think this is my new favorite Fritz Lang picture.

I'm glad! I'm really fond of it.

I hope your head stops aching you soon.

Thank you.

[yhlee]

Hope you feel better soon.

[sovay]

Hope you feel better soon.

Thank you.