You know what killed vaudeville? The moving picture, that's what.

[3lwap0]

I just watched a fantastic movie, Stranger Than Fiction. I loved it so much, I felt compelled to come straight away and post about it on Live Journal. The desire has no real logic to it, but I needed an outlet. So here I am, clad in my PJ's, yammering away on my keyboard listening to the closing credits. It feels very surreal for a reason I cannot

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[blackbirdshaq]

I wish I could take everyone's reactions to movies, books and music, and bind them together in an anthology. This was a great read first thing in the morning. Thank you for sharing.

I loved Stranger Than Fiction. It's sitting right over there on my bookshelf. I watched it with Kathy (aka Navygrrl), and we both cried and rejoiced. It was a much better time than when we watch Borat with pillows over our faces and screaming.

My Awakening was A Wrinkle In Time by Madelaine L'Engle. I'll never forget how it opened my eyes to the wonder of the universe, not just the world. I was 10 and in the 4th grade, in Miss Palmer's class. I'd always been a little on the nerdy side, what with reading books and having Star Trek Underoos, but this definitely put me on the track to Lifetime Geekdom. Come to think of it, the precepts in that book have shaped my inner life more than I have reckoned

[3lwap0]

Joshua tree! \m/

I'll have too take a gander at some of the books and movies you mentioned. You'll forgive me if I omit Titanic. :)

[smapdi_biotch]

Rudyard Kipling? EEEEWWWWWW! You are so white.

Books are very magical indeed. Read more of them.

[3lwap0]

Well, of course I'm white. So are you : ) Kipling lead me to T.S. Elliot, who lead me to Wordsworth and so on. You could argue that Kipling was the literary embodiment of social Darwinism, but as a narrative voice, I compare him to Orwell in terms of greatness. I don't sign onto his imperialistic undertones, it doesnt mean I can't enjoy his work.

[smapdi_biotch]

First of all, you are far whiter than me. But I won't extrapolate.

Second of all, Eliot isn't much better. Both he and Kipling wrote poetry which entirely ignored different cultures and different literary traditions, and both supported the idea that middle-class Western educated art is the only art worth reading and teaching. My main beef with Kipling is that he wrote propaganda (much like Tennyson), and my problem with Eliot is that he wrote modern verse entirely confined within the boundaries of modernism, which dates him.

I never read any Wordsworth.

You should check out Wallace Stevens and D.H. Lawrence. I think you'd like them.

[3lwap0]

You know squat about my cultural influences. Think wisely before you judge me based solely on my inclination towards a few authors. I wouldn't presume to codify you based upon your preferences, accord me the same courtesy. Let’s just agree to disagree