You don't just come in here with a big banana and think that everything's peaches

[sovay]

The fact that someone at Playbill not only wondered (as one does) what Oscar Wilde might have made of Jersey Shore, but actually got the actors and filmed the results, has inexpressibly restored my faith in humanity. They're from the Roundabout Theatre's The Importance of Being Earnest. I am so going to the live broadcast in June.

(Also, there's new Wittgenstein. I swear this stuff spontaneously generates. Did I mention I discovered a copy of Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation (1985) among my DVDs on Sunday night? Subtitled in Italian. I had thought it was the soundtrack CD by Coil. rushthatspeaks and I watched just enough to determine we were too tired to do it justice that night, which I believe means it's the first film we'll watch the next time we're together. It has mirrors, and other things.)

The philosopher has transubstantiated himself a livejournal, which I suppose compels me to keep my side of the bargain re that other site. Oh, God, the social contract. Just you wait till Ragnarök, lightbringer.

(I can't tell you whether I'll see Kenneth Branagh's Thor (2011) or whether I'll just spend the hundred and fourteen minutes banging my head against the seat in front of me, but I have to approve of his Loki's double first in Classics.)

Courtesy of fleurdelis28: these are, in fact, some hilariously wrong statues.

(This has been your daily requirement of link salad. All further awesome will have to wait till morning.)

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Banana peach salad! Fabulosity!

Now I want Jack and Algy critiquing a statue of Wittgenstein with a script by Loki.

Nine

[sovay]

Now I want Jack and Algy critiquing a statue of Wittgenstein with a script by Loki.

Eh, I just pictured Karl Johnson as Loki and my brain shorted.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

You have an accidental copy of The Angelic Conversation. Man. You just...absolutely and positively won all the internets right there, my friends. (All I have is a copy of the soundtrack, which is odd yet soothing, especially if you like Dame Judi Dench's voice reciting Shakespeare.)

[sovay]

You just...absolutely and positively won all the internets right there, my friends.

We were very impressed.

[selidor]

I had thought it was a given that the attics and archival basements of England and Europe spontaneously generate extra works and documents. There are cupboards that one reaches into to withdraw Old Master sketches, and curlicue-framed mirrors into which one glances, sees a volume of poetry, and then finds it mysteriously behind you on the table. It's the weight of history, slowly lithifying into a steady-state creation of marvels.

[sovay]

It's the weight of history, slowly lithifying into a steady-state creation of marvels.

Can I tell you right now how much I love that sentence?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

It is a thing of beauty.

Nine

[selidor]

Thank you!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

*Am childishly amused by statue of man attacking babies (or vice versa)"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my favorite one, too.

[sovay]

*Am childishly amused by statue of man attacking babies (or vice versa)"

I cracked up as soon as I saw that one and was then a little frightened, because I couldn't imagine where the list was going to go from there. (Kabouter Buttplug.) I'd known about the Boll Weevil Monument for years, but the rest were new to me.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the extremely quick on the draw punk links yesterday! I haven't used them yet because the kid decided last night that the current fashion trend is "nothing but a diaper because I have a 103.9 degree fever and no other symptoms and I will certainly dance to Sesame Street until midnight while sippying down Gatorade."

Whoooo.

Repeat performance at 3:20 AM, too.

[sovay]

Thank you for the extremely quick on the draw punk links yesterday!

You're very welcome! They should last for a week or so.

I haven't used them yet because the kid decided last night that the current fashion trend is "nothing but a diaper because I have a 103.9 degree fever and no other symptoms and I will certainly dance to Sesame Street until midnight while sippying down Gatorade."

Ergh. How is she now?

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Apparently chipper, at the pediatrician's, roseola (sixth disease) suspected. Try saying sixth disease... So, just a kid thing (and unlikely I will get it, keyn ayin hora. )

Sippies of iced gatorade for all. Unless the acid in the gatorade aggravates your thing with the thing.

[sovay]

Unless the acid in the gatorade aggravates your thing with the thing.

Nah, I just think it's disgusting.

Glad she's chipper.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Those statues--I couldn't stop laughing.

[sovay]

Those statues--I couldn't stop laughing

"You know what's missing from the park?"
"No, what?"
"A three-story eyeball!"
"Come again now?"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's my first thought in so many parks.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Thank you for Oscar Wilde's Jersey Shore. That was a great way to start the morning.

[sovay]

That was a great way to start the morning.

You are very welcome. I had to share.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Playbill...actually got the actors and filmed the results

That is just made of awesome. Thank you.

[sovay]

Thank you.

It made me very, very happy.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

The performances in the Oscar Wilde videos are the best part for me. I'm not surprised that Importance has garnered such good reviews.

[sovay]

The performances in the Oscar Wilde videos are the best part for me. I'm not surprised that Importance has garnered such good reviews.

You could even go see it in person, unlike the rest of us!

(Seriously, I got tickets for the broadcast based on that Jack and Algy: if that's what they can do with Jersey Shore, I really want to see them with Wilde.)