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Ah, House/Wilson.

But it's the second picture at that link that is killing me.

Why has no one made a House video (with lots of Tritter) to "Outsider" by A Perfect Circle?

Or a House/Stacy vid to "Hate This Place" by the Goo Goo Dolls?

Time for catching up on reading. This summer, so far, I've finished Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (and recommend it), As You Like It by Shakespeare (duh), and am just a tiny chapter away from finishing The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. It's a very weird, very cool book.

But, right, so, much of my f-list has been posting this Great Books list, so I thought I'd join in and take note of what I should look at next.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ if you so desire.

( here they are )

I have to give a 15 minute oral report on Sylvia Plath and the ordering of Ariel this Tuesday. I do not feel very confident about it. I'm also not entirely sure how I feel about her work -- I like it and can appreciate it, but it's probably not going to become a favorite of mine. However, here is a piece toward the end of that collection (Ariel) that I like a lot.


The Moon and the Yew Tree

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God,
Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility.
Fumey, spiritous mists inhabit this place
Separated from my house by a row of headstones.
I simply cannot see where there is to get to.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
Twice on Sunday, the bells startle the sky--
Eight great tongues affirming the Resurrection.
At the end, they soberly bong out their names.

The yew tree points up. It has a Gothic shape.
The eyes lift after it and find the moon.
The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
How I would like to believe in tenderness--
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering
Blue and mystical over the face of stars.
Inside the church, the saints will be all blue,
Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews,
Their hands and faces stiff with holiness.
The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild.
And the message of the yew tree is blackness -- blackness and silence.

Everyone's been doing their Roundup Posts, so here's mine, rounding up all the fanvids I made this year.

( 16 more vids! )

Overall, I think the videos I made this year were much more sophisticated than last year's batch. I branched out to other things, wanting to kind of make one summing up video for many of my favorite films, and I think I did most of those justice. The Star Wars vids have been a little weak, maybe, and I've had this mental block about House, but other than that... Yay vidding!

And since there are only two (ish) of them, I might as well round up my fanfics in the same post:

( fics and roleplay games )

You know what? I liked this episode. ( Read more... )

Title: What It Is To Burn
Music Artist: Finch
Size: 11 MB
Description: Anakin's all-consuming passion and how it ends up destroying everything. Padme becomes everything to him, the only one he can relate to and the only thing he really cares about, but eventually he becomes so caught up in his passion that he loses sight even of her, and everything that he's fighting for. (Or: How raging hormones and batshit paranoia brought about the end of the Jedi and the Galactic Republic.)
Characters/Pairs: Anakin/Padme
Length: 3 min 44 sec
links: download link and streamload link

( click to watch the embedded link behind the cut )

For the October Challenge over at sw_fanvids



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Title: Song to Say Goodbye
Artist: Placebo
Size: 15.1 MB
Description: Anakin's fall from Obi-Wan's POV
Characters/Pairs: Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
Length: 3 min 43 sec
links: Stream it at YouTube
or download it from SendSpace
Or watch it here, embedded behind the cut: ( Song to Say Goodbye )

NEW SEASON OF HOUSE!

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