In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about!
One of the things you might not know [...]
Posts filed in Hallucinations
This category was created in October 2006, while I was writing a paper for economic history, and I started getting hallucinations where I mixed up “the restoration of the gold standard” and “The Restoration of Erathia”. Later that same night, I wrote the intro to a short story about a gnome, whose name consisted of the last names of the two historians who wrote the book I based most of my paper on.
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
Slaughterhouse-5, by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaugtherhouse-5, or the Children’s Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death.
By Kurt Vonnegut.
156 pages, Torstein Bugge Høverstad’s Norwegian translation from 1970.
First published in English in 1969.
How to describe Slaughterhouse-5? Some other random site that had a review of it simply raved on about it being the brilliant ramblings of a madman on LSD, but I feel that [...]
Ullr, the onion of war!
From Wikipedia’s kenning article:
Bárum Ullr, of alla
ímunlauks, á hauka
fjöllum Fyrisvalla
fræ Hákonar ævi;
nú hefr fólkstríðir Fróða
fáglýjaðra þýja
meldr í móður holdi
mellu dolgs of folginn
Simply based on meaning, i.e. without kennings, the passage runs: “Accursed King Harald! We carried gold in our arms during all of Hakon’s life; now the enemy of the people has hidden gold in [...]
Concerning Harry Potter…
You know you’ve read too much Harry Potter in too short a time when you one night dream that you, brandishing a fucking huge two-handed sword (originally belonging to one Godric Gryffindor, I seem to remember), kill one of your flat-mates, because, apparently, he’s Voldemort.
A silent prayer of thanks to the patriarchate and all male chauvinists
Oh, patriarchal social structure!
Oh, male chauvinists of the past!
I praise thee!
While thy general wisdom might leave something to be desired, and while I dislike thee quite strongly, thee have done me — and in fact the whole nation — a great service!
And while thy rancid ignorance and silly prejudices have also done us all great [...]
Solaris
Me and one of my flat mates also watched “Solaris” tonight. And we both kinda wish we hadn’t.
Because this was uninteresting and boring. I won’t even try to describe the plot, except that it took place on a space station in orbit around the planet Solaris, and that strange things had happened. George Clooney’s [...]
Trainspotting
“Trainspotting” is a movie with many deeply disturbing scenes. Its theme is drug abuse and the consequences this has on a person’s life. It’s set in what must be the ugliest parts of Edinburgh, a city I’ve never heard praised for its beauty. There’s truly meaningless, accidental death; HIV; overdoses; the nastiest toilet in Scotland; [...]
The Fountain
Just came back home from a quick visit to the movies; my sister and I thought we’d check “The Fountain” out, and I am glad we did. Because it was a rather nice movie. Kinda peculiar, and almost impossible to do justice to in a short synopsis, since revealing even the smallest detail could diminish [...]
… And The Infinite Sadness — AS5×12 You’re Welcome
This is almost too much. Every single one of the four Angelsodes (doesn’t sound as good as “Buffysodes”, does it? ) I’ve watched tonight, have been fucking masterpieces. They’ve been thrilling, they’ve been emotional, they’ve been funny — everything the best of Whedonverse episodes always are.
This one falls into that wonderful category by merit, of [...]
2007-03-09 — Quote of the Day
“Life’s a crock o’ shit.”
- Kilgore Trout
Religion? No, thank you. Marx? Yes, please.
I was just reading “The Right Nation“, a book about the rise of the American Right, and I came to a passage which said that American conservatives such as Ronald Reagan see the United States as a nation favored by God because of its democratic virtue, and those kinds of things, and that this is [...]
VM2×22
That has got to be the most traumatic season finale I’ve ever seen. This one is a dangerous rival to BS5 and AS5, and I doubt I’ll get much sleep in the three hours remaining before I have class.
Damn, I gotta start downloading season 3 soon.
One month in the life or death of Donnie Darko
Bloody. Hell. Bloody Hell. This movie was awesome.
I don’t really know if I’ll be able to describe this in a manner doing it justice, because this is complex, intelligent, emotional stuff. Basically, it’s a movie about a high school kid with psychic problems, and his hallucination-induced search for a method of time travel. There’s also [...]
Randomness — BSG and Douglas Adams
I was just brushing my teeth, and my mind was springing from thought to thought as I did so. They jumped from Battlestar Galactica and Gaius Baltar’s Cylon problem to lechery, from lechery to Marilyn Manson, back to lechery and Battlestar Galactica, via some other, less well defined areas of though.
And suddenly it struck me: [...]
Back again…
I’d almost forgotten all about how much it hurts to get a partially frozen, horisontally flying snowflake driven into one’s eye with the force of a fresh breeze. So thank you for returning and reminding me, dearest King Winter.
Anyway, I’m going away for a couple of days, so there won’t be any new posts here [...]
The Restoration Of What? The Gold Standard, or Erathia?
Maximum fourteen pages left to read before I can begin writing, and I’m dizzier than ever.
In fact, I am so dizzy that I have started to hallucinate. Whenever I read the phrase “the restoration of the gold standard”, the letters begin floating outwards, transforming themselves into the words “The Restoration of Erathia”, and I can [...]
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