There's a frost within your eyes

[sovay]

I wish I knew who'd played Valmont in my last night's dream that was half Les Liaisons dangereuses. Ostensibly he was John Malkovich, but not after I woke up. He was lovely.

After a very nice afternoon of tea, conversation, and Bach, my plans for this evening seem to have gone down the drain of fever and chills, which I do not appreciate. I'm not even sure I have a movie to collapse on the couch and stare at. I may just stare at the remainder of Joseph Conrad's Freya of the Seven Isles (1912) instead. I haven't read it before.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for the fever and chills, but glad you had a nice afternoon.

I hope you're feeling better soon and that the Conrad helps, or at least doesn't hurt.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Damn. I hope the fever and chills are soon banished, and you can get back to "tea, conversation, and Bach."

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

As a Lutheran-born, I am always in favor of Bach, also tea and conversation. Fever and chills not so much. I hope they depart post-haste and leave you more time for the former.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend a hot bath for the chills (even though they're fever induced--you still *feel* cold, even if in fact a thermometer says your internal temps are hotter than usual), but you might get the book wet.

Blankets, then?

I hope you feel better soon.

[sovay]

Blankets, then?

A lot of them. They didn't help as much as I'd hoped.

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Hey there, cinephile, have you ever seen the 1943 Munchausen? (I have not and I am wondering if it's worth expending a lot of effort to find the DVD. The music, by Georg Haentzschel, is gorgeous.)

[sovay]

Hey there, cinephile, have you ever seen the 1943 Munchausen? (I have not and I am wondering if it's worth expending a lot of effort to find the DVD. The music, by Georg Haentzschel, is gorgeous.)

Never—let me know what you think if you see it first?

[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

You would have enjoyed Peter Cook and Dudley Moore hosting "NBC's Saturday Night" (as it was called in its first season, as a competing network had Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell earlier in the evening; reportedly the SNL producers considered calling their show "Saturday Night Live Without Howard Cosell") on January 24, 1976. They did what I'm sure were several of their classic bits, and I had no memory at all of ever having seen Moore as a one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan ("I have nothing against your right leg," Cook tells him; "the problem is, neither do you"), or of Moore as the evangelist Matthew interviewing Cook as one of the shepherds who witnessed Jesus' birth.

Oddly, the only vivid memory I do have of that episode was of Emily Latella arguing against saving Soviet jewelry. And I am going to preposterously claim that I actually remember seeing that bit while wandering into a room where the show was playing, which would explain why I can't remember any of the rest of it.

Hope you are well soon ...

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm, if I had my choice? It would be Colin Firth, who played a more appealing (and dashing) Valmont in the movie named, well, Valmont (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098575/). ;)

For a twist on the tale, I recommend seeing Untold Scandal, which is South Korean version of the story.

Hope you are feeling better soon!

[sovay]

Mmmmmm, if I had my choice? It would be Colin Firth, who played a more appealing (and dashing) Valmont in the movie named, well, Valmont.

I do like Colin Firth . . .

For a twist on the tale, I recommend seeing Untold Scandal, which is South Korean version of the story.

Oh, neat. I love refractions of stories through different cultures.

Hope you are feeling better soon!

Thanks. I'm capable of answering e-mail and LJ, which is an improvement on all of last night.