media trivia
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cerusee--"Bluer" off of Over the Rhine's album Drunkard's Prayer is rapidly becoming my favorite song, or at least it would if "Drunkard's Prayer" and "Born" didn't already hold exalted status in my mind. But.
Bluer than the blue devil
Bluer than this pale blue angel
Bluer than all my troubles
Are we gonna part as strangers?
And, "love is never far from danger"--never a truer word was sung.
--Apparently, Tramps Like Us nee Kimi wa Petto is a josei manga, which would explain a lot about the tone and the subject matter. It's not an unusually mature shoujo manga; it's meant for people my age.
On a related note, maybe I should not go directly from reading Tramps to W Juliet, because doing so really highlights the inadequacy of the latter's art. Tramps has a style that I do not find especially attractive, but which is nevertheless deeply soulful and affecting. Juliet's facial expressions look flat and cartoony in comparison--like little smiley faces, not at all adequate to convey the emotional expressiveness that is one of shoujo manga's two great strengths.The other is of course the form's total lack of conscience or inhibition when it comes to concept. Juliet's pretty much flying by on cute and wacky anyway--but one volume in, I'm feeling like it'll never be more than that, which is kind of a letdown.
--Even cranky, old, manga-hating, comic book geek/god-like repository of book trivia Bill encouraged my tentatively-voiced plan to read Memoirs of a Geisha--first non-grouchy word we got out of him all day, actually; Bill really likes selling books--seeing as we have about three hundred copies of the store in anticipation of the already-critically-acclaimed movie release, people always ask "have you read this?" as if that mattered, and I've been a Japanophile since the age of five anyway (i.e., stick a paper fan in it somewhere, and I'm probably willing to read it). I did buy the non-movie-cover edition, and I feel that there is some small virtue in that, even though there isn't.
--Reading Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry is weird. There is this incredible resonance, because she was the poet I've always wanted to be--her style and subject matter are so like mine, except in all ways better. She's fantastic at writing a line that I read once and find myself reciting for a week.
Bluer than the blue devil
Bluer than this pale blue angel
Bluer than all my troubles
Are we gonna part as strangers?
And, "love is never far from danger"--never a truer word was sung.
--Apparently, Tramps Like Us nee Kimi wa Petto is a josei manga, which would explain a lot about the tone and the subject matter. It's not an unusually mature shoujo manga; it's meant for people my age.
On a related note, maybe I should not go directly from reading Tramps to W Juliet, because doing so really highlights the inadequacy of the latter's art. Tramps has a style that I do not find especially attractive, but which is nevertheless deeply soulful and affecting. Juliet's facial expressions look flat and cartoony in comparison--like little smiley faces, not at all adequate to convey the emotional expressiveness that is one of shoujo manga's two great strengths.
--Even cranky, old, manga-hating, comic book geek/god-like repository of book trivia Bill encouraged my tentatively-voiced plan to read Memoirs of a Geisha--first non-grouchy word we got out of him all day, actually; Bill really likes selling books--seeing as we have about three hundred copies of the store in anticipation of the already-critically-acclaimed movie release, people always ask "have you read this?" as if that mattered, and I've been a Japanophile since the age of five anyway (i.e., stick a paper fan in it somewhere, and I'm probably willing to read it). I did buy the non-movie-cover edition, and I feel that there is some small virtue in that, even though there isn't.
--Reading Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry is weird. There is this incredible resonance, because she was the poet I've always wanted to be--her style and subject matter are so like mine, except in all ways better. She's fantastic at writing a line that I read once and find myself reciting for a week.