sovay: (Haruspex: Autumn War)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2023-03-07 03:33 am

Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav

I have been having a run of the kind of days where I can't understand why my body keeps waking up at all. In the afternoon, [personal profile] spatch showed me a mural he had found a few days ago, which the owners of the house should be frequently complimented on, and in the evening we watched Ken Russell's Mahler (1974), which with all due thanks to [personal profile] gwynnega for the recommendation we turned out to love. Autolycus sleeps with his tail wrapped beneath his ears like a pillow. My ability to watch movies seems to have returned to a normal level; the time I have to write about them has not. The number of problems the institution of universal basic income would solve for me is honestly not small.

gwynnega: (Leslie Howard mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2023-03-08 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
That Alex von Tunzelmann article almost makes me want to try to get to the end of Lisztomania. (But not quite.)

Like, I think the prologue of Bride of Frankenstein may be closer.

Exactly!

I don't remember exactly why I hated Gothic so much. It may have been nothing more than the sad realization that it was going to be one of those Ken Russell films, as opposed to the kind that I love. (That single is great.)