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intertribal ([personal profile] intertribal) wrote2010-12-26 06:08 pm

it's like I'm, paranoid, looking over my back

I asked for a bulletin board for Christmas.  It's an idea board, really, because I rip pictures out of magazines (Vogue and Harper's, lol), and now it is up opposite my desk in my room and I LOVE IT.  When I was in middle school I covered the walls entirely (and I mean entirely) in pictures of various sizes, and when I lived in the basement of this house for a while I put up pictures down there as well that looked the way I imagined my novel's setting would look.  But I no longer like taping things to walls, and I like to change things, so voila.  It kind of looks like an altar now, but that's fine.


Movies (received as presents because I'm already obsessed with both of them):
  • Candyman (I could write a thesis on how this is the most perfect horror movie evar, but I don't want to end up like Helen)
  • Mulholland Drive (this movie has grown on me considerably since I first watched it when it came out)
Books (paid for partially with present money):
  • The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (already read)
  • We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson (reading now: love it already, but no surprise)
  • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin (don't remember where I saw it first; sold by the Amazon excerpt)
  • A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans (recommended by [livejournal.com profile] handful_ofdust; sold by the Amazon excerpt)
I really want to make it my winter goal to read Gravity's Rainbow.  Is this suicide?

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I have a folder on my desktop full of images (it once resided in my ipod before Lula [that's her name] up and died on me and had to be restored to factory settings.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, I've got one of those too, but I haven't updated it in a while, and I like having solid pictures that are "in the world" for whatever reason. My iPod's name is Nova, by the way. They could be friends!

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha! You and me and Candyman forever!;)

One time, back when I was still a film critic, I was asked to make a list of my top ten films of the 1990s. One of them was Candyman, and I took far more shit from my peers about that than I did about another one being Hard Core Logo.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
LOL! Yeah, I haven't heard the criticisms of Candyman (although I can imagine them), and tbh, really don't care to. :P

[identity profile] rezendi.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am very fond of Gravity's Rainbow - OK, so I haven't read it in a decade, but I have read it three times - and remember it as really quite a fun read.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
It looks like a fun read. Thanks for the rec.

[identity profile] selfavowedgeek.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not an images person but a music person for the association to my creative output. I should look into (hahahaha) trying the tearing-out-pictures thing and see what's up.

Good haul of books there, Nadia. I received one book: Jay-Z's autobio Decoded, and so far it is dope and fresh and smooth.

BTW, Candyman is a solid horror flick.

I have never seen Mulholland Drive.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm actually more a music person too. But I've always been into collaging, which is where the tearing-out-pictures thing comes from.

Yeah, I saw Decoded at Barnes & Noble. It is very fancy-looking.

I only saw Candyman last year, and I immediately was like, "where have you been all my life?" So it's not even sentiment binding me. Mulholland Drive is David Lynch (rabbits!) so you know, if you like that kind of thing... I love it, and I think it's his most "approachable" movie.

[identity profile] selfavowedgeek.livejournal.com 2010-12-27 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a third of the way through Decoded, and it is a pretty book and all. It's also informative in that conversational way some autobiographies have (even ghost-written ones!). The actual notes on some of his songs alone are worth the reading.

Odd that I've never seen MD, but I shall be checking it out.

[identity profile] royinpink.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
That is indeed a very nice bulletin board. The pictures at the bottom I think are what make it so altar-like.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. It's kind of a nice thing to look at while working. Better than the television, anyway.