I was so young when I was born

[sovay]

Tonight I had dinner at Machu Picchu with two friends who are not on Dreamwidth. There was ceviche and beef heart and papa a la Huancaína and wide-ranging conversation. It was really nice.

1. Courtesy of moon_custafer: Saint Valentine and his army of husbands. Occasionally I wonder if these stories of misapprehension are built up for the internet and then I remember that I always hear the hook of the Rick Springfield song as "I wish that I was Jessie's girl."

2. Courtesy of spatch: James Mason's cats. See also this article. I had no idea James Mason either loved cats or could draw. I am charmed by both.

3. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: Ida Lupino in white tie and tails and Janelle Monáe in several sharp suits. You want to put them in the same movie, I'm fine with that.

4. It's no use longing for a teleporter since I am contracted to spend this weekend in another city, house-sitting for friends' cats, but this year's theme at the Kansas Silent Film Festival is "Women in Silent Film" and the program looks great. Louise Fazenda, Colleen Moore, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber, Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand, Alla Nazimova, female writers, actors, and directors I've never heard of, and genderqueer sky pirates to boot.

5. I cannot remember when or how I found the video for George Harrison's "Crackerbox Palace" (1976), but I'm really fond of it. Also of Harrison's eyebrows, which minus the moustache and with the mop-top grown out really come into their own.

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[thisbluespirit]

1. That is great! (And, yeah, that sort of thing does happen all the time with song lyrics. My Dad, when he was young, was mystified by my Granddad's disapproval of Flowers in the Rain until it turned out that he'd thought the line "throw marigolds on the eiderdown" was "so many girls upon my eiderdown".)


2. Awww! That is also great.


4. Well, i hope it goes well and the cats are worth it, but I suppose it's another list to play with, at least?

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My Dad, when he was young, was mystified by my Granddad's disapproval of Flowers in the Rain until it turned out that he'd thought the line "throw marigolds on the eiderdown" was "so many girls upon my eiderdown".

Hee. That is a little different.

Awww! That is also great.

I type this hearty agreement with Autolycus draped over my hands. I think he also agrees.

Well, i hope it goes well and the cats are worth it, but I suppose it's another list to play with, at least?

It is! I suspect I know less about women in silent film than women in film noir, except that they were actually all over the place.