Godhead, Jonathan Davis, Howl's Moving Castle, and Doctor Who porn

[rusty_halo]

I went to see Godhead unplugged last night (opening up for Jonathan Davis unplugged). Unfortunately I got there late and only caught their last two songs. Grrr. But they sounded awesome, so if you have a chance to see them, I recommend going.

Seeing Godhead gives me all kind of flashbacks to the olden days, following bands around with Steff and Chrissy and April and various others who came into and out of our circle. I had so much fun back then. I wish I could recapture the inherent thrill of SEEING LIVE MUSIC OMG!!! I mean, I still enjoy really good live music, but mostly I've gotten pretty cynical about everything else... the crappy opening bands and the gross venues and the annoying groupies....

Jonathan Davis was okay. I recognized the final three (non-cover) songs as Korn songs, and I'm pretty sure that the (fairly pathetic) reason I knew them was from watching Total Request Live back in the day. (Ah, Carson Daly, how I do not miss you.) Which is kind of depressing because I really liked the first Korn album, and kind of liked the second album, but then I decided that they were just repeating themselves in increasingly dull circles.

Um, the performance was good, though. Oh, and he played one of his songs from "Queen of the Damned" and bitched that the song was about stuff in the book that was cut from the movie, and how he doesn't understand movie producers. Dude, I don't think anyone who had the misfortune to see "Queen of the Damned" can claim to understand movie producers. Also it occurred to me that he was basically paid to write a bunch of Anne Rice filk for that movie--and his contribution was the most artistically sound aspect of the entire film (it certainly wasn't the writing, directing, or acting!).

And then these stupid frat boys decided to start a mosh pit during an ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE, so I had to duck out of the way and huddle over on the side--and still got slammed into! Today, my neck hurts. Ugh.

What else? Oh yeah, I read the book "Howl's Moving Castle" and then watched the movie. This is one of those rare occasions where I liked the movie better than the book! I think the movie started with some of the more interesting aspects of the book and then went completely off in its own direction with the anti-war themes and the Howl transforming into a bird thing. Plus the movie seemed less traditional and more morally ambiguous (like the Witch not being so bad), although I was a little annoyed that it left out the whole connection to the real world. Overall, the book was a decent read but I'll forget it next week; the movie will stick in my mind much longer. Plus Miyazaki's images are just so vivid and gorgeous.

Meanwhile I'm still re-reading "Queen's Play." Lymond just met the Dame de Doubtance, and the whole thing makes so much more sense now. It's really weird to read a story that you can't fully understand until you've read it already.

Oh, and um, the totally awesome jaydk (who *really* needs to update her LiveJournal) sent me tons of links to Doctor Who fanfiction. I never though I'd say this, but I spent a good amount of time today reading hot Doctor Who porn. I love fandom.

[Cross-posted to InsaneJournal]

Comments

[chase820.livejournal.com]

I wish I had time to write some 10/M porn, because I love this pairing, too. Alas, my Whomojo got spent on 10/Rose, and now I'm too busy to write. *Sigh*

Oh well. There's always next semester.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

I'm an idiot. You wrote DW fic! And I didn't notice, because my brain completely skims over anything not in my fandoms.

I checked your memories and I see "Belle de Jour"--is that what I should read? It says mustangsally78 wrote a related fic, is that something I should read first, or can I just proceed with yours?

(Yay, Chase fic in a fandom that's new to me!)

[chase820.livejournal.com]

Nope, you can go ahead and read "Belle de Jour" on its own. Sal's fic is great (though unfinished) but I almost think the story works better if you read BDJ first and then her stuff.

[wisemack.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile I'm still re-reading "Queen's Play." Lymond just met the Dame de Doubtance, and the whole thing makes so much more sense now. It's really weird to read a story that you can't fully understand until you've read it already.

Oh, hon, you're just beginning the "re-read Dunnett" experience! LOL!

I got hooked on GOK back in 1961 and I'm STILL re-reading it periodically - and usually catching something I've never noticed before. Not surprising, since Lady Dunnett said (in Edinburgh in 2000) that some interesting tid-bits of information have escaped the notice of even her most avid readers. Which of course just makes me want to re-read every book again!

At least you have all six books right there in front of you. I started reading the Lymond books when I was 14, and read Checkmate when my first child had just been born! Talk about suspense... waiting for that last book had me gnawing my nails!

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

LOL, the "re-read Dunnett" experience... an entirely different animal from the original "read Dunnett" experience. Not that I don't enjoy the complexity--it's great that there's so much to take in. (One benefit to delving into the Lymond Chronicles--everything else I pick up is a breeze in comparison.)

Dude, that must've been insane, waiting so long between books! I think I devoured the whole series in something like two or three weeks. Of course, you had years in between to re-read each book, so you probably had a much deeper understanding after you first completed the entire series! I definitely lost something in my OMG WHAT HAPPENS NEXT??? reading... which is why I'm getting so much out of the re-read.

[wisemack.livejournal.com]

One benefit to delving into the Lymond Chronicles--everything else I pick up is a breeze in comparison.

So true! I find myself comparing most things I read - especially historical novels - to Dunnett, and most of 'em don't measure up. Don't even come close, actually.

And insane? You bet! Although I had no idea there was even a sequel to GOK - just kept re-reading it every few months until I was a junior in college! It was on a trip to New Orleans (Christmas, 1968, if my memory is working right) and my parents and I were walking through the book department in the D.H. Holmes department store on Canal Street, on our way to the elevator. A paperback on display caught my eye, and I screeched to my dad to hold on while I bought it! This was Queen's Play and I think I read it all the way home to Vicksburg! Then I went to the library and asked if there were MORE books by DD, and the librarian produced The Disorderly Knights, which I devoured in one day!

A few years later, we were on a vacation trip in the Ozarks, camping (my parents were into RVs by then) on the White River at Bull Shoals dam, and went in to this tiny little town to buy something at the drugstore, and I found Pawn in Frankincense on one of those revolving wire racks of paperbacks! I definitely remember doing a little dance of joy!

I found out that The Ringed Castle had been published when an actual real bookstore opened in Starkville and the owner agreed to order it for me! YAY! And then I wrote an actual letter - on paper, with a stamp and everything! - to G.P.Putnam & Sons, asking when the final volume would be forthcoming and THEY WROTE ME BACK! I told the bookstore folks that the very first copy of that book off the presses had BETTER be on its way to Mississippi, or else! (That was before I realized that my first baby and the book would be arriving at almost exactly the same time. Sheesh.)

So I was in the hospital, and then back home with my baby girl, and three weeks later, my [then] husband FINALLY remembered that the bookstore had called and the book was in. AAAARGH! I called the store and they were about to send it back to the publisher 'cause they didn't think I was interested (!!!!!) so I apologized profusely to some friends who had come to visit, bearing baby gifts, took off to get my book, and when I got home, informed all (the friends) and sundry (the hubs) that I was retiring to read and was NOT to be bothered by anyone for anything. Oh, and the hubs could get his own damn supper!

I then read straight through from 5 in the afternoon to 4 in the morning, ended in floods of happy over-wrought tears and immediately started re-reading.

And that's the story of me and Francis Crawford. *very large grin*