So we sing to say we want to make it right

Today was extremely tiring (although we got health insurance out of it!) but in the last half-hour I have heard two really excellent things:

TwoSet Violin, "Pachelbel's Chicken"

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, "So We All"

They are both very different applications of classical music and they both make me happy. Also Hestia made a literal pillow fort out of the couch:



Good cat.

P.S. And I just found out that Rich Horton's review of Forget the Sleepless Shores is now online at Locus. So it is really not as though I had a month of book and then it was over. That makes me happy, too.

From the throat, I'm tied to you

thisbluespirit made a batch of icons from the BBC Dracula (1977), so I have with permission stolen the one of Jack Shepherd as Renfield. I am not yet sure what I'll use it for, but it will distinguish itself. Most of my icons turn out to be multivalent anyway.

handful_ofdust linked me an article of ten female-led noirs. My reactions range from "Hell, yes, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)/Gun Crazy (1950)/Phantom Lady (1944)/Clash by Night (1952)" to "I'm sorry, I just didn't like Sudden Fear (1952)." Set It Off (1996) sounds amazing. I still need to write about Bound (1996), which should be on this list.

(I keep thinking about putting together my own list of female-focused noir and keep coming up against the fact that I could make a sincere one, but it wouldn't be comprehensively informed. I saw Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) the other night. It contains an actual, factual, archetypal femme fatale; she's played by Jane Greer and when she drops the mask at last, she's astonishing. But it took me until now to see an acknowledged classic of the field, for reasons, and there are equal classics out there on which I have as yet no opinion. I hadn't seen several of the movies on Vulture's list. —I am reminding Tiny Wittgenstein, maybe they haven't seen all the movies on mine.)

I like this photograph moon_custafer reblogged of mushrooms growing among deer bones.

So far my day has mostly involved grocery shopping and cleaning, but that is all right by me.