To your heart from mine, one line to keep us safe

[sovay]

My poem "The House Snakes" has been accepted by Uncanny Magazine. It's the one that ambushed me night before last when I was trying to write about a different Bronze Age Aegean civilization; it owes something to Mary Renault's The King Must Die (1958), like a difference of opinion. There was a snake goddess of gold and ivory on display at the MFA when I was a child; she may be a modern fake, but I loved and used to visit her. I wouldn't have thought of her as one of my touchstones, but there is something about Ariadne I keep returning to.

Since a_reasonable_man drove me and Autolycus to the cat's appointment this afternoon, he also lent me his phone to document some of the surrounding post-industrial brick. I liked this recession of layers and textures best. I really need to find some good pictures of the Hood plant back in the day.



Last night I rewatched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) for the first time since 2006. It is still a terrible movie—I believe now it was the earliest blockbuster I could identify as having traded emotional connective tissue for boom, not to its benefit—and I still have an unmanageable amount of feelings about Jason Flemyng's Dr. Jekyll.

Comments

[dramaticirony]

Well, glad you had a chance to watch the few good minutes alongside the rest of the footage.

I was just thinking about this film, as I'm rereading 20,000 Leagues in preparation for the debut of Nemo from Realm (formally Serial Box) this September.

[sovay]

Well, glad you had a chance to watch the few good minutes alongside the rest of the footage.

Thank you! I have been contemplating a revisiting review—I know more about film, I still have opinions, and at least I think my prose style has improved—but I suspect my brain might be better spent on things people might actually want to see.

I was just thinking about this film, as I'm rereading 20,000 Leagues in preparation for the debut of Nemo from Realm (formally Serial Box) this September.

Naseeruddin Shah is a pro and most of his character was left on the cutting room floor. That film suffers egregiously from excising all the wrong things. < / stifles rant >

(I hadn't heard either that Serial Box had changed its name or that it had a Captain Nemo retelling forthcoming, so thank you for both pieces of information!)

[moon_custafer]

A week or so back I decided to watch the Hallmark Channel’s 2005 Mysterious Island, which was exactly as corny as one might expect, but not totally without charm. The CGI giant bugs were extremely unconvincing, but the cast did their best (props in particular to Gabrielle Anwar for punching a giant mosquito in the face). The chief antagonist was a pirate played by (checks) Vinnie Jones, who was doing his best to out-Robert Newton Robert Newton.

[sovay]

but the cast did their best (props in particular to Gabrielle Anwar for punching a giant mosquito in the face).

That does feel like committing to the premise. Were you watching it for anyone in particular, or just watching it?

[moon_custafer]

The party that gets stranded on the island where Morally-Neutral Captain Picard and Inspector Dalgliesh live consists entirely of stock characters, namely:
1. Heroic Black Guy
2. Rascally Guy (with twirly moustache)
3. Woman, with
4. Teenage Daughter
5. Kyle Maclachlan
6. Guy Who’s Only There to Be Eaten by a Giant Bug Five Minutes After Landing

[sovay]

5. Kyle Maclachlan

I like that Kyle MacLachlan has achieved a category of his own.

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the poetry sale!

[sovay]

Congratulations on the poetry sale!

Thank you!

[minoanmiss]

I remember that snake goddess. :)

*ContemplateS*

[sovay]

I remember that snake goddess.

When I can get back to museums, I will visit my regular round of objects again. The Babylonian stamp-seal with the goat-fish of Ea is another.

[choco_frosh]

I would join that tour!

[cmcmck]

I love this photograph!

[sovay]

I love this photograph!

Thank you!

[shewhomust]

Hooray for every poem that finds a home! And love for the brick and greenery ...

[sovay]

Hooray for every poem that finds a home! And love for the brick and greenery ...

Thank you!

I got a nice closer view of some of the brick, too.

[choco_frosh]

I hope the cat was okay!

[sovay]

I hope the cat was okay!

He was! It was his weekly check-up and this week the news was good!

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

Hurray for that excellent poem finding a great home!

I like how the markings on the wall look pictographic--a man running, there to the right.

[sovay]

Hurray for that excellent poem finding a great home!

Thank you!

I like how the markings on the wall look pictographic--a man running, there to the right.

Oh, I like that.