How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?

[sovay]

I have been sick for weeks. First there was March into April. Then there was the stomach flu at the end of April. As soon as that wore off, I got the ear infections. I've still got the ear infections. Now I have a sinus infection starting and I'm waiting for a doctor to call me back and tell me what the hell; in the meantime, I am exhausted all the time and I feel like a mental blank and I am not writing anything. It's very tiring.

I found a used trade paperback of Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills (1973) at the Harvard Book Store on Saturday; it has a dreadful cover, but I don't have to look at it while I'm reading. I'm honestly unsure whether I've re-read the book since high school, college at the latest. The Crystal Cave (1970) was the one I always went back to. Merlin's voice is still familiar. Still there.

From today's file of Things I Had No Idea: a short film adaptation of Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love." It's the video for Daisy Chainsaw's "Hope Your Dreams Come True" (1992). I saw it mentioned on the internet and wondered if they meant "inspired by," but no, it's remarkably close (and then it's dedicated to her at the end, so there's no doubt). It's done in the style of a silent movie. Not quite Caligari, but the shot of the Countess in her cobweb-hung bedroom is amazing. Plus I don't know how I missed this band at the time; I should like more of them, please.

Comments

[phi]

*hugs* I hope you feel better soon.

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you! (It would make a change . . .)

*hugs*

[kate_nepveu]

Best wishes on feeling better.

[sovay]

Best wishes on feeling better.

Thanks you!

[yhlee]

Feel better soon. Here, have a cleric icon.

[sovay]

Here, have a cleric icon.

Doesn't hurt!

(Thank you.)

[gwynnega]

I hope you feel better soon!

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you! I do not like extended periods of illness; they make it hard to distinguish how I feel now from how I have felt in worse times past. As well as, you know, just sucking on their own merits.

[ron_newman]

I hope you're doing better very soon!

What work is the subject of your post taken from? Google is happy to point me at the author but not at the story, essay, or novel where the sentence appeared.

[sovay]

I hope you're doing better very soon!

Thank you!

What work is the subject of your post taken from?

Angela Carter, "The Lady of the House of Love." I can't find the text of the story anywhere readily online, but it's collected in The Bloody Chamber (1979). In context it's ironic; the rational, health-conscious bicycle is the instrument that brings the vampire Countess the fair-haired innocent who will, without knowing or meaning it, destroy her.

[ron_newman]

Thanks. I recall a bicycle-riding character in the Wizard of Oz movie whose intentions were also less than benign.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. Is there a spell "Banish Bobcat"?

(My hunch is that the ear infection and the sinus infection must be linked, but that is probably just my own experience talking.)

[sovay]

Is there a spell "Banish Bobcat"?

Well, cast it if you know it!

(My hunch is that the ear infection and the sinus infection must be linked, but that is probably just my own experience talking.)

(I'm afraid of that and hoping it's not true.)

[humglum.livejournal.com]

I love that video. Daisy Chainsaw were an amazing band, and I am so glad I actually got to see them. I used to own a promo copy of that video, but sold it for some insane amount of cash on eBay about a decade ago, because I needed to. I am so very glad for YouTube. You need to also look at some of KatieJane Garside's solo stuff, as well as Queen Adreena. Last I knew, there were a few really wonderful videos floating around on YouTube.

[sovay]

Daisy Chainsaw were an amazing band, and I am so glad I actually got to see them.

All right, I am envious. Where?

I used to own a promo copy of that video, but sold it for some insane amount of cash on eBay about a decade ago, because I needed to.

Understood. I still think that's great.

You need to also look at some of KatieJane Garside's solo stuff, as well as Queen Adreena. Last I knew, there were a few really wonderful videos floating around on YouTube.

I have two songs by QueenAdreena! Since 2011 at least; I'm not sure who I got them from. I didn't realize it was the same singer/writer until I was reading about Daisy Chainsaw this afternoon. I am scouring the internet as we speak.

[humglum.livejournal.com]

I saw them at Club Babyhead in Providence. I think it had transitioned from Rocket to Babyhead by then. Tiny, tiny place. I wish, to this day, I had photographed that show. It's possible they did not allow it, and that's why I didn't. Also possible I was too broke to buy film. I only managed to see so many shows due to being a DJ at WRIU and being good friends with the music director. I rarely had the cash for merch, but I did get to see the bands. So that was good.
I mostly remember KatyJane taking a drill to a babydoll. I need to see if there are any video recordings of that tour anywhere.

[sovay]

I mostly remember KatyJane taking a drill to a babydoll. I need to see if there are any video recordings of that tour anywhere.

I hope there are. That sounds memorable.

(cucumberseed just sent me Eleventeen. I'm listening to "Waiting for the Wolves" right now.)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

You haven't started taking hormonal birth control, have you? For me it inevitably results in just such a series of unfortunate infections. Regardless, I hope things clear up as soon as possible.

[sovay]

You haven't started taking hormonal birth control, have you?

Nope. For various other reasons, it's not really an option for me.

Regardless, I hope things clear up as soon as possible.

Thanks!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I loved The Crystal Caves--like you, it was Merlin all the way, for me.

Daisy Chainsaw is an awesome band name.


Wish we could get your immune system into assertiveness training . . .

[sovay]

I loved The Crystal Caves--like you, it was Merlin all the way, for me.

I am waiting for my brain to come back online sufficiently to see whether I can write about Stewart's Merlin. Right now I am

Daisy Chainsaw is an awesome band name.

The band is fantastic! They were short-lived enough and weirdly under the radar that I don't feel terrible about not discovering them in the early '90's despite knowing perfectly well who Hole were, but I still wish I had. I feel like I might have to start exploring used music stores, which I usually don't on account of timesink and broke. (That's a Tom Waits title. Sorry about that.)

Wish we could get your immune system into assertiveness training . . .

Oh, I wish. Or self-defense classes.

time sink.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Never mind a Tom Waits title, don't you SEE?! It's also an awesome science fiction concept. Maybe too tongue in cheek. But maybe NOT. Gonna wash that man not out of my life, but out of my whole timeline. Oh the potential. Timeline murder mystery.


This morning will be when I check out Daisy Chainsaw--I was too tired last night to do anything but admire the title. band name.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

I hope you feel better soon.

a short film adaptation of Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love." It's the video for Daisy Chainsaw's "Hope Your Dreams Come True" (1992).

WUT?

OH.

OH!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Also, while there is very little Daisy Chainsaw to be had (at least in original form), I think I have it all. Care package coming soon.

[sovay]

I think I have it all. Care package coming soon.

You are magnificent.

[sovay]

OH!

I LIKE THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR MOVIEMAKING SENSIBILITIES.