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Got my license in my early twenties too. I never bothered to get a car or couldn't and can't afford one. Thankfully I can usually get where I need to go. Jus maybe not where I want too.
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St. Louis has to have a pretty adequate bus service, right?
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The city proper does. But neither Panella nor I would live within range of it since we don't live in the city itself. [:(]
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I bus just about anywhere that isn't within walking distance... and walking distance is a lot further when I'd rather save the bus fare for an iced tea or something... It's been so hot out though, I've barely been able to go anywhere without feeling like I'm going to be sick. T_T
Even the air conditioning is struggling with it, I swear... It's blowing right on me and I'm still feeling manky. |
Ello everyone. They let me have a day off. Spending not doing what I need to,
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Hey long, what's shaking?
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I am so slow to keep up with threads, I should be dragged out and pelted with muffins.
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That's how I spend my days off too. [lol] I always start off like "oh boy, a day off! I can finally get all that stuff done! I'm going to clean the shower and organize the attic and scrub the floors on my hands and knees and dust everything and wash every piece of fabric in the house and..." and them promptly spend the rest of the day browsing tumblr. [lol]
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Can we talk about this movie? It made some changes, some of them a bit silly (like the tattoo), but I was actually quite pleased with it. It kept so much of the original text and definitely retained the spirit of the play. Ernest is my favorite play, for what it's worth. |
I don't think I've seen it. Is that Rupert Everett?
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I had to look him up, but yes! Apparently he was also in Shakespeare in Love as Christopher Marlowe. I didn't recognize him in that! His credits also include A Midsummer Night's Dream and... a few Shrek movies. [lol]
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Hot damn. He was the lead in one my favorite Holmes adaptions, The Case of the Silk Stocking. I think we've talked about it before, it has a realism to it as far as the drawbacks of a mind like that. Better than the realism BBC Sherlock claims to have. Plus it is less clever/fanciful in its storyline, and deals with the realties of criminal impulse, while still being very Victorian. Much kudos from me all around.
Earnest is really great all around, but I must give some props to Lady Windermere's Fan for giving us some of my favorite Wilde quotes. The production of Earnest that I have seen was the live broadcast Broadway version. I think I have talked about that too. I posted the Jersey goes Wilde videos on here before, yeah? |
Ah, what a wonderful play. I'd have totally stalked Oscar Wilde, even if he wouldn't have been interested...
I rather liked the old movie, Salome's Last Dance, I used to want to be her... that sensuous, evil thing! The girl who played Salome went blind like two weeks before they started production or something, and played the whole role out anyway. I never knew that until recently, and it blew me away. You can barely find anything of her on the internet, but she's sort of a personal heroine of mine. |
Oh, what's her name?
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From IMDB:
"Imogen Millais-Scott is an actress, known for Salome's Last Dance (1988), Little Dorrit (1988) and Theatre Night (1985)." The movie is a sort of play within a movie. It's Oscar and friends trying to put on the performance, and worrying about being raided and all for obscenity, and Wilde trying to make it with a young actor, etc., all very true to the play and to the spirit of his works. I do warn you though; although Salome is played by a girl, at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils, they switch her out, and you get a nice shot of a flapping willy. XD It was so true to the spirit of his works, indeed! |
That is some hardcore acting right there.
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I went back and re-watched it (no, not for the willy shot), and knowing she was blind made a slight difference, but if anything, it made her performance more powerful, in my opinion.
There's something sort of otherworldly about her, either way, and she's the very model of the wicked seductress I longed to be when I first saw it. LOL, I was like twelve or something, but you know what I mean. The archetype she portrayed spoke to me on a personal level, and influenced me as a person. |
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It sounds amazing. I really love the actress' name, A+ artistic choice. It reminds be of a short story in a compendium I have, which I think you might like - the short story that is. Here's a google book version of it: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases ... - Google Books the story begins on 209 [yes] |
I just re-watched The Importance of Being Earnest about a week ago. I was laughing most of it, and forgotten how clever and exciting it was. I wasn't aware it was a play, or in a written form; that's great to know!
And I especially loved that scene, and the one just prior to it where the girls decide they aren't going to talk to them. You've reminded me of the movie The Triumph of Love from describing all the plays. |
Oh my, that's an awsome link...
I might have to read the whole thing... *reads* "...one of the first True Mutants..." XD Awesome! |
Alright, I've finally gotten around to uploading my photos from my trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden. I can't be bothered to upload them to multiple places, so I just made the facebook album public. Purdy flowers. This one was taken specifically for Biggles:
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I want very much to lie on it but I would crush the precious, tender leaves. You are lucky you are so far away fernlets.
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You could lie just up against the edge of the bed. Nestle your head within the ferns so that it's like you're in a tiny jungle and can look up through the fronds at the sky.
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Spoon the ferns.
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