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Sep. 21st, 2005 03:08 am
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I'm back from a couple days off. I tried to rent Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret and Grand Hotel, but neither of the rental places in town had them... At all. (They're trying to KILL me! Why, oh why must I live in a cultural abyss????) So, I'm going to have to buy them when I get the chance.

To console myself, I rented Lawrence of Arabia, and was quietly blown away. Wonderful film, and another that I'm going to have to buy, without question.

Today was a beautiful day. The sky was that shade of gray that just makes the green seem that much greener. We drove up to Columbus and on the way up we passed by a little pond and saw a flock of what I think were snowy egrets resting there. There were at least half a dozen...

Once we got there, we rescued Raney from the kids for a while, and went to Hobby Lobby (I would live there if I could!) to get some jewelry-making supplies, only to find that all of it was half off. I did a happy dance right in the middle of the store, then promptly grabbed up moonstone, labradorite, dichrotic glass, swarovski crystal... shiney Shiney SHINEY!!! *swoons*

Raney says all a person would have to do if they wanted me to follow them would be to dangle shiney things in front of me. I suppose, to an extent, that's true... To an extent... I can be a materialistic beast. /:-P

From there we went to Spencer's and I baught myself a new pair of horns. (They were shiney too...)

After that we went to Raney's and hung out for a while, picked on Josh, played with the kids, watched some TV. All in all, a good day. :-)

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

Date: 2005-09-22 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aureantes.livejournal.com
You're part-right--I haven't got Nosferatu, though I'm quite fond of it. But the Cabinet of Dr Caligari that I have seems to be a cheaply-edited copy (there are a lot of subtitle and style discrepancies in translation), so I'd like to see if yours is better. I also have The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Lon Chaney) and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (John Barrymore)--that's the spidery one--so far as the silents go.

Full rundown coming up.....lol

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

Date: 2005-09-22 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] litharriel.livejournal.com
Happy to bring 'em, then :-) I'd be interested in seeing both Hunchback and Jekyll & Hyde. Chaney is a favorite. Have you seen He Who Gets Slapped? So far as I know it's not available on DVD yet, but once it is, I'll be snatching it up! Something about it just sticks with me...

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

Date: 2005-09-22 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aureantes.livejournal.com
I haven't, actually, and I'd love to. I did, however, read the *play*--by Leonid Andreyev--that it is based on. There is a beautiful line in there on the madness and forgetfulness of the gods on earth....

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

Date: 2005-09-22 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] litharriel.livejournal.com
Well, I'd say keep a look out on TCM but it doesn't seem to be scheduled for this year :-/
Great movie though... Haunting and faintly disturbing--always a good combination.
I'm developing quite a list of literature I need to find! :-)

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