First and Last and Always

[rivkat]

The funniest thing about this parody is the Google ads it triggers. But I like the parody pretty well too.

I went to the Sisters of Mercy concert and got home in time to feed the baby -- a short set. Decent concert, neither the worst nor the best I've been to, with high points at Alice and Vision Thing. It's always fun to be in a packed crowd of people who know all the words. Best image of the night: the woman in front of me, in a pinstriped suit, who carefully pinned up her hair, revealing the elaborate tattoo curling around her neck and shoulders.

I just read this anecdote: Near the end of his life, Theodore Dreiser occasionally grew confused. One night he woke and searched for his wife Helen, but he didn't recognize her, and they had the following exchange:

Helen Dreiser: I am Helen.
Theodore Dreiser: Everyone thinks she's Helen.

So true, isn't it?

Comments

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

thank you for the link! i enjoyed the poem, especially this, which is oddly lovely:

>I should’ve been a pair of worn-out cleats
Stumbling across turf in empty fields.

good quote from dreiser. it reminds me a bit of one i read from chesterton, who wired his wife from a train station thus: "Am at Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?"

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I started to read the poem without much expectation, and found myself surprisingly interested.

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

no content to this comment, just:

omgsoMUCHiconlove!!!!!!!

(Miss Piggy has always been *such* a dom...)

[zeldadestry.livejournal.com]

Ooh, love the Dreiser bit. Strangely enough, given the similarities in their names, it reminds me of a story I once heard from a film professor about the Danish director Carl Thedore Dreyer. Sometimes, in the middle of making a film, he would become frantic and start asking 'Who am I? What's happening?' and everyone would gather round and tell him 'You're Carl Dreyer, you're a director, we're all making a film' etc. And then he would feel better and get on with it!

[postcardsfrom.livejournal.com]

What a clever poem! More of an homage than a parody. It follows the theme in modern idiom. What won't you kids think of next?

[tuftedpuffin.livejournal.com]

I noticed that you have The Collector listed as an interest (and am assuming/hoping you are referring to the TV show). I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but the series was cancelled last week.

HOWEVER, there is a fan movement to get the show back, either on CHUM or onto another network. Details on what you can do to help (including signing the two petitions we have going!) can be found at http://www.morgansapartment.ca/savethecollector

And sorry for bothering you, but I was searching for other fans to alert to this and your name popped up.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I'm completely happy to try to do something to save the show. I love it.

It's official

[(Anonymous)]

All the cool kids have gone to see the Sisters tour. Montreal was a glorious madhouse, though you weren't so much "seeing" the Sisters as "being reasonably crtain you were breathing the same smoke."

hi from Khyber, who refuses to register for LJ...

"We are the light at the end of your sorry little tunnel." - A. Eldritch