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.)

Comments

[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!