Busy Doing Nothing

[shanmonster]

The past couple of days have been a flurry of stationary activities. I've been reading, playing stupid video games, and watching videos. I've read a whole wack of some of my favourite poetry, including

• The Flea by John Donne
  
• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
  
• Kubla Khan: or, a Vision in a Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
• Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
  
• the anonymously-penned Sir Patrick Spens
  
• The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
  
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  
• A Satirical Elegy: On the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift
  
• The Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon (aka Lord Byron)
  
• When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
  
• Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

I've also read a few short stories, like

• The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
  
• The Artificial Nigger by Flannery O'Connor
  
• Retaliation by the Marquis de Sade

I hadn't realized the divine Marquis had such a cute sense of humour....

I've also watched several episodes of Firefly, courtesy of Sichemist, lots of first-season Ren and Stimpy, Once Upon a Time in China and America, and Blood: The Last Vampire (which was good, but seemed awfully abbreviated. Were there supposed to be sequels?).

The day after tomorrow, I'm back in school. No more vacation for me. Sigh....

Comments

[ngtmagicks.livejournal.com]

Blood, was soo cut for budget reasons...
I read an interview that said several of the production team cried and were afraid of losing their jobs they were so over budget..

But if it had been fullfilled..damn.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It's too bad. I think there is a lot of potential in the story, but it didn't have any sort of closure. There were far too many dangling threads. Ah well.

You have excellent taste in poetry, Madame

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

You've named off some of my favorites, or at least ones with which I am familiar. I haven't read "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" since college. "Kubla Khan" is one of my all time favorites. There's nothing like a poem with a wild story behind it for interesting. I love "My Last Dutchess," even though it's very dark. "Ozymandias" is also one of my all time favorites too, as is "Jabberwocky." I also like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," and "The Bells," even though those are kind of dark too.

Have you read "Face on the Barroom Floor" by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy? (http://www.mounthoreb.org/Servicefolder/serviceselectionhoboYface%20.html) or "Invictus" by William Ernst Henley? Those are good too.

Re: You have excellent taste in poetry, Madame

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Although I rarely read poetry (most of it irks me), I really like Samuel Coleridge, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, Robert Service, and Dr. Seuss.

I also like dirty limericks.

I just checked out "Face on the Barroom Floor," and it didn't do much for me. It seemed over-the-top in a drunken Poe sort of way. I like "Invictus", though.

Re: You have excellent taste in poetry, Madame

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "Face on the Barroom Floor" is kind of maudlin.