I've been asked to make a study of a strange sickness

[sovay]

1. My essay "I Can Hardly Believe It Happened: Terence Fisher's The Brides of Dracula," in which I realize more fully a bunch of my thoughts on this splendidly strange film, is now online at Weird Fiction Review. Slowly, my nonfiction creeps through the world.

2. handful_ofdust has supplied me with another Turing song: Andrew Bird's "Not a Robot, But a Ghost."

I hear the clockwork in your core
Time strips the gears
Till you forget what they were for
I push the numbers through your pores
I crack the codes
I crack the codes that end the war

3. Good news: Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner (2014) is getting a U.S. release. Bad news: I have to wait until December?

Dentist today. Lots of work. Yesterday was still totally worth it.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

1. Huzzah! Weird Fiction Review is wise to engage you.

2. I hear the clockwork in your core... Oh yes.

3. Huzzah! Wait ... December?

Nine

[gwynnega]

1. Yay! I look forward to reading it.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me to wonder: have you been watching Penny Dreadful? I think you need access to Showtime's streaming in order to see it, but presumably it will be more widely available after the first season ends, and I think you would dig the hell out of it -- mostly for Eva Green, who just owns that show. The other actors are perfectly good, and their characters have interesting stories (which are a collage of familiar Victorian supernatural horror tales, Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey and Sir Malcolm Murray hunting for his daughter Mina), but they just can't compete with the awesomeness that is Eva Green's character Vanessa Ives. :-P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That essay is excellent--is it an expansion on the one you wrote earlier in LJ?

he knows the rules of both worlds and belongs to neither. Was that line in the original essay? I love that quick, sure statement about the liminality of the magician.

[sovay]

Huzzah! Weird Fiction Review is wise to engage you.

Thank you!

Huzzah! Wait ... December?

See? The UK only has to wait till October!

[sovay]

Yay! I look forward to reading it.

I hope you enjoy!

[sovay]

That essay is excellent--is it an expansion on the one you wrote earlier in LJ?

It is. I like its final form.

I love that quick, sure statement about the liminality of the magician.

Thank you! (I think there was an earlier draft.)

[sovay]

The other actors are perfectly good, and their characters have interesting stories (which are a collage of familiar Victorian supernatural horror tales, Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey and Sir Malcolm Murray hunting for his daughter Mina), but they just can't compete with the awesomeness that is Eva Green's character Vanessa Ives.

This is the impression I have been getting from handful_ofdust's Tumblr. I haven't seen any of the show, but the stills (and occasional gifsets) look fantastic. I'll give it a try when I don't need Showtime!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

1. That's such a great essay.

2. This is a great song.

3. I didn't even *know* about this film until a couple of days ago! Thanks for the heads-up.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Blech dentists! Blech!

I hope that work went as well as it possibly could.

Fondly,

your friend with two new 3D-printed teeth, which I guess is cool but still BLECH!

[sovay]

That's such a great essay.

Thank you! I'm really glad it has a home.

This is a great song.

I'd never heard it. My knowledge of Andrew Bird extends as far as his song "Sovay" (because everybody sent it to me) and the half-dozen mostly instrumental tracks that ended up on the director's mix for Theatre@First's The Lady's Not for Burning (because I ripped the CD from derspatchel in 2012). Apparently I should pay more attention to him.

I didn't even *know* about this film until a couple of days ago! Thanks for the heads-up.

You're very welcome! You'll see it sooner than me, so please report!

[sovay]

your friend with two new 3D-printed teeth, which I guess is cool but still BLECH!

It's technologically amazing, but what?

*hugs*

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

They took images of my teeth, printed them in a 3D printer using some kind of ceramic medium that, when cooked, is tooth-colored. Takes about 2 hours to print and cook, and then they have to grind off the sprue. The resulting crown looks almost exactly like the tooth it replaces.

Comes with a lifetime warranty. Science fiction times, man! We live in them.

I hope your teeth are behaving today.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the essay! I hope to see much more of your nonfiction out in the world.

I'm glad that day was worth it, and I wish you many more of them.

ETA: Mr. Turner sounds brilliant. Pity about the wait. I hope it shows up in places convenient for all of us who'd like to see it.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the essay! I hope to see much more of your nonfiction out in the world.

Thank you!