Quickly, between sneezes
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krazykarot: "Could you put something up about the national suicide hotline in danger of being shut down? It's the largest suicide hotline in the nation and is extremely important to many people, not just those who call; it helps connect smaller hotlines and services across the country. Thanks!"
Here you go: an interview that should be on the V for Vendetta DVD but ain't. (Note: the terrifying beard was for the play Weaving was doing with Cate Blanchett at the time.) Although apparently Natalie Portman rapping is--it's an easter egg somewhere on the second disc, but I haven't looked for it yet.
Also, I forgot to mention: watching the movie the other night, I was reminded that the laugh-out-loud funniest part is right after Sutler's all like, "WE HAVE TO REMIND THEM WHY! THEY! NEED! US!," and we see a montage of news reports on things that the government has cooked up to scare people--shortages, riots, diseases, what have you. It's easy to miss if you zone out for a moment, but there's a shot of a news anchor saying something about "avian flu," and the graphic on the screen behind him is... a flaming chicken. Like, seriously. A rooster, in front of a stock clip-art fireball. I'm trying to find a screencap of it, because it makes me laugh every single time I see it.
(Although I also laugh every time Stephen Rea has his big monologue about how He Saw How Everything Fit Together--which is nifty in no small part because it shows things that haven't even happened yet as well--and Rupert Graves is like, "So you know what's going to happen?," and Stephen Rea's like, "... No.")
Chaucer hath Snakes on a Blog:
Therwithal Kyng Edichim sente thre of his knightes to Sir Seanes lodging for to slayen hym for he had sene hys foule deede. And thus cam aftir vespers Sir Stuntman Number Oon and Sir Stuntman Number Two, son of Expendable Extra who had done manye deedes in the dayes of Uther Pendragon, and wyth hem Sir Stuntman Number Thre.
And so the miscreant knightes wolde break ope the doore of Sir Seanes room and slaye him foullie, but that SIR NEVILLE DE FLYNN cam and seyde to Sir Sean, ‘Sir Knight, if thou shalt do my biddynge than thou shalt scape wyth thy lyf,’ and bad Sir Sean to hye hym from that place. And then Sir Neville made hym redy, wyth one spere he smote hem downe al thre over ther horses croups. This kynde of thynge was ful yn his style, for hys verye wallet hath ‘bad motherswyvere’ on it ywrit.
.... And Kyng Edichim bethoghte hymself how Sir Neville was a man of muche power and coud nat be bestede by knightes; and so Edichim turnede hym to trecherie and sorcerie. Withinne the hulle of the shipe he had privilye yputte manye a caske fulle of serpentes and wormes and foul addres, and therto he put aboute the boate a philtre ycleped Far-Amoun by the Arabes, the which maketh serpentes to freke the helle oute and starte juste bitinge eny oon thei see.
Not sure what today's topic of research is going to be--not that I have to have a new one each day, but generally, I've answered my question within a few hours. I may still be on legends and ghost stories--the kind that are so old that they've been told for centuries, in different guises, but they're basically the same storylines. I was surprised to find out that the Vanishing Hitchhiker story goes back to at least the 1600s, for example. D.L. Ashliman's archive of folk/myth texts is invaluable if you're looking at legends in terms of types (and an old favorite of mine), but I don't think it has a search function (other than Google or Yahoo's Search This Site), so I might be there a while. Plus, it's less ghost-oriented anyway, but I've already been through Snopes, so... I think it's one of those things where I'll only know what I'm looking for after I find it.
ETA: Speaking of Weird NJ/US: AHHHH WTF DEAD IN MAINE. Warning: picture of... thing, dead. Not that bad, just be expecting it.
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Date: 2006-08-21 04:47 pm (UTC)If you haven't read the graphic novel, Stephen Rea's character in that literally gets high to see those hallucinations. So it's fitting that he "sees" the future without knowing if it'll come true.
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Date: 2006-08-21 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:03 pm (UTC)During Stephen Rea's speech speech, when he's talking about everything that will happen and they show a clip of Evey putting down a vase of flowers, he's in the reflection in the mirror. Finch + Evey = AWWWWWW!
Although completely out of the blue. I just finished the book so... uhh. But I finally get the "so you dropped acid" line. Bravo.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:06 pm (UTC)I love V. There is something so poignant about it in this current political climate. I brought it to my parents house that weekend after the terrorist plot was foiled and my dad made some heated remark about sending spies out to slitting the throats of all of these people, like they did during the Cold War. (I was livid, as you might imagine.) We watched V that night and when the Finger blackbagged Evie's mom, I just looked at him and said, "and this is why we don't slit people's throats, regardless of the perceived threat."
You did a V parody? I must not have read it because of spoilers. Would you please point me in the right direction? Merci.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:14 pm (UTC)The thing I keep thinking about is how this movie could not have been released in 2002. Everyone involved would have been kicked out of the country. But just enough time has passed that--well, John Hurt can say on the making-of featurette, "I think *all* kinds of warfare are atrocious, so why is just one kind [i.e., terrorism] suddenly not on?" and not be stoned in the street.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:24 pm (UTC)That's the bluest dog I've ever seen.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:26 pm (UTC)You know, they say it's a "hybrid mutant of something" and that it's "half-rodent, half-dog". I've seen two or three pics now, and I still think it looks like a mutt. I'm missing the inherent evil, I guess.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:49 pm (UTC)--
Cleo, the classic source for urban legends are Jan Brunvand's The Vanishing Hitchhiker (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393951693/104-4199087-6290350?v=glance&n=283155) and its many sequels. Brunvand was one of the founders of the study of urban legends, and his prose can be less than stimulating. He does categorize things pretty thoroughly.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:40 pm (UTC)I'm trying to understand how "teenage suicide" could be a leading cause of death for 20-24 year olds.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:41 pm (UTC)(I don't know, man. Good catch.)
Folk stories archive
Date: 2006-08-21 05:48 pm (UTC)Anyway, the books themselves aren't online, but if you pop over to the Library of Congress, click into American Memory, and then under "Culture, Folklife", there is a series of collections, which seems to be searchable, and which has all variety of things, including ghost stories. Some of the stories are audio (and linked on the site; weird to listen to them from their tellers), some are available in text on the site. It's hit and miss; some are very fragmentary, but it might be worth poking around on.
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Date: 2006-08-21 05:51 pm (UTC)*dies*
Folk/myth texts OMG. Thanks for the link! I love doing Net research.
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Date: 2006-08-21 06:46 pm (UTC)You don't say...
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Date: 2006-08-21 06:56 pm (UTC)And I verilye I am laughing ryght wel at Chaucer's blog.
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-21 08:20 pm (UTC)...I can't even go read the rest of that. The funny would just kill me.
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Date: 2006-08-21 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-21 08:51 pm (UTC)I was curious, so I went looking...
Date: 2006-08-21 08:52 pm (UTC)That makes me think of KFC more than 'impending death and disaster.'
I'm gonna go with 'liar.' *g*
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Date: 2006-08-21 08:55 pm (UTC)They have Fire Swamps in Maine?
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:55 pm (UTC)// Really, though, re: deadwhatthefuckthing, I find it all a bit suspicious.
"Wildlife officials and animal control officers declined to go to Turner to examine the remains. By Tuesday, the carcass had been picked clean by vultures and there was not much left of the dead animal."
... How convenient.
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:08 pm (UTC)My vote is that it's feral dog of some kind!
Or possibly el chupacabra, as someone else already mentioned.
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:22 pm (UTC)Yarha, Fakingeronomous
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:21 pm (UTC)Looks fake. If you read various articles on it, it was 'devoured by vultures' before people could examine it. All they have are the photos, as the carcass was 'unrecognizable'. All reports are generated only from the photos. What, nobody could get a part of it into a freezer? Please.
Wildlife officials declined to come over and view the body. Hmmm.
Yarha, Fake, Fake..
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:00 pm (UTC)Very true, though. How hard can it be to manufacture some close-up photos and uncited testimonials?
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 12:38 am (UTC)the terrifying beard
hahaha When they first showed him, I was like, "Holy crap, what's on his face?!" But then I realized it was a beard, and not a giant caterpillar, as I had first thought.
I never noticed the flaming chicken! I'll have to watch for that next time.
Although I also laugh every time Stephen Rea has his big monologue about how He Saw How Everything Fit Together--which is nifty in no small part because it shows things that haven't even happened yet as well--and Rupert Graves is like, "So you know what's going to happen?," and Stephen Rea's like, "... No."
I love that part. I honestly thought he was going to be like, "Yeah, as a matter of fact I do know what's going to happen!" But, then he was just like, "...No." And I laughed out loud.
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Date: 2006-08-22 01:03 am (UTC)signs
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