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This afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium #24, containing my poem "Wisdom." Just go and buy a copy; this one's important to me. I thought of it while visiting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darthrami and strange_selkie two Aprils ago and it took until last year's Readercon to write, probably because its inspirations were a line from Avatar: The Last Airbender ("All this time, what I thought was a great metropolis was merely a city of fools. And that makes me the king fool") and the knowledge that most of the Jews of real-life Chełm did not survive World War II. There are other things in it, but mostly Yiddish literature and film. And a nice illustration by Daniel Trout.
What I was doing in the afternoon was seeing X-Men: First Class (2011), with which I have some arguments—it's a major-studio summer blockbuster—but the double act of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen should have been impossible to follow and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender actually pulled it off; I'd happily watch them in a second film and I approve of neither of them being saints. Somehow I had failed to realize the director was Matthew Vaughn until we got to the end credits,1 but he styles the film like it's 1962 and he's practically canonized Charles/Erik. Also Nicholas Hoult makes an adorable Beast and it's kind of stupid that I haven't yet seen Winter's Bone (2010). Further analysis will have to wait.
I am going to stare at Lovecraft Unbound (2009) or my pillow, whichever comes first.
1. I also keep forgetting that he directed Stardust (2007), but I am very fond of his debut film, Layer Cake (2004).
This afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium #24, containing my poem "Wisdom." Just go and buy a copy; this one's important to me. I thought of it while visiting
darthrami and strange_selkie two Aprils ago and it took until last year's Readercon to write, probably because its inspirations were a line from Avatar: The Last Airbender ("All this time, what I thought was a great metropolis was merely a city of fools. And that makes me the king fool") and the knowledge that most of the Jews of real-life Chełm did not survive World War II. There are other things in it, but mostly Yiddish literature and film. And a nice illustration by Daniel Trout.What I was doing in the afternoon was seeing X-Men: First Class (2011), with which I have some arguments—it's a major-studio summer blockbuster—but the double act of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen should have been impossible to follow and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender actually pulled it off; I'd happily watch them in a second film and I approve of neither of them being saints. Somehow I had failed to realize the director was Matthew Vaughn until we got to the end credits,1 but he styles the film like it's 1962 and he's practically canonized Charles/Erik. Also Nicholas Hoult makes an adorable Beast and it's kind of stupid that I haven't yet seen Winter's Bone (2010). Further analysis will have to wait.
I am going to stare at Lovecraft Unbound (2009) or my pillow, whichever comes first.
1. I also keep forgetting that he directed Stardust (2007), but I am very fond of his debut film, Layer Cake (2004).
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I'm glad you liked the film, despite arguments.
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Thank you!
I'm glad you liked the film, despite arguments.
It is worth seeing, if you get the chance.