A Happy List for Friday

[eldritchhobbit]

Hi everyone! Apologies for being quiet of late. Lots and lots of work to do... But I just had to post about a few really wonderful things that make me happy and share them with you:

1. The new full cast media conference for 2012's The Hobbit: Part 1. See it here.

2. A new clip for 2011's Jane Eyre. See it here.

3. Here's a message from our girl Virginia, courtesy of my better half.

4. I thoroughly enjoyed Jana Oliver's new book The Demon Trapper's Daughter.

5. I am once again rereading (I've lost count of how many times I've done this) one of the seminal texts a) in world literature, b) in the Gothic and science fiction traditions, and c) in my personal life, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, in anticipation of seeing this next month:



6. From Slice of Scifi, "Everything You Needed to Know about Doctor Who in One Poster":




Holmes looked at me thoughtfully and shook his head.
"I never get your limits, Watson," said he. "There are unexplored possibilities about you."
- from Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"

Comments

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Why must your torture me with more news of the Frankenstein broadcast?! Now showings have been announced two hours away, so I am strongly considering a trip to see it... But honestly, the country's third-largest city should really have a showing. Just sayin'. That poster is glorious.

Also, I saw a new play last year called Hideous Progeny, about the writing of Frankenstein, and I have new appreciation for the badass that is Mary Shelley.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Mary Shelley is badassness. Badassity? Badassdom? A badass. I'd've loved to see that play. I bet it was fantastic.

I can't figure out much rhyme or reason to the US theaters carrying the live showing. We live right next to the second largest city in the whole South, and none of its theaters are showing it, but a theater in a little rural town that's not close to any major city is. Strange! I'm pretty sure it will be worth a drive, though.

So, have you found a way to crossover Sherlock and The Pretender yet? Because I think that would be kind of brilliant. ;)

I also think I need a Mary Shelley icon.