Lit Lover: December 2013

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Sacerdotales?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/1004/Narnia-book-The-Silver-Chair-will-be-next-for-a-movie-adaptation

http://acrossculture.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/the-silver-chair-and-middle-english-literature/

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/427981-are-you-not-thirsty-said-the-lion-i-am-dying

http://www.ekklesiaproject.org/blog/2011/03/engaging-jesus/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_of_Life_Discourse

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sacerdotal#French

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"My five-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl."

(from http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/12/18/one-weird-old-trick/)

My faves are...emblematic?

Some things in mind at the end of 2013:

from vetlearn

Dog TV!!!!!! (might to try find some way to acquire this channel...)

They are night zombies... by Sufjan Stevens (revisiting from Halloween-time)

& http://momga.tumblr.com/post/57460745948/evangelion-is-complicated

(b/c of ....https://twitter.com/ashly_burch/status/416289186572812289)

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Blessed be the beach birds (& the birders)

Sanderlings from Javier Salinas Laguna

From beeteedee

More:

http://thedrinkingbirdblog.com/2011/08/12/on-white-sandpipers-and-bird-photography/

http://animalphotographer.blogspot.com/2012/11/birding-as-mental-therapy.html

http://animalphotographer.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-6-birding-on-trip-home.html

http://redandthepeanut.blogspot.com/2010/03/sweet-little-sanderlings-chasing-waves.html

Friday, December 27, 2013

dragee delights

From sassyradish

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/302854

a-n-x-i-e-t=y

in backwards order:

http://threewordphrase.com/anxiety.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/us/fears-multiply-amid-a-surge-in-deportation.html?src=recg

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/books/stossel-family-problems-spelled-out-in-new-releases.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/surviving_anxiety/355741/

(Did not read beyond the headline of "fears multipy..." due to a phobia of passwords.)

Listens to Funny Women

http://www.thevoiceofawoman.com/cine-lumiere/miss-representation-film-screening/

Why I watched Miss Representation last night:

https://twitter.com/ashly_burch/status/416285260611989504

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

"After reading an obscure literary journal published by Lowell textile workers and comparing it to Dickens’s novella, a Boston University professor and student are arguing that some of the most memorable elements of Dickens’s story—the ghosts, the tour through the past, Scrooge’s sudden reconsideration of his life—closely resemble plot points in stories by the city’s 'mill girls' that Dickens read after his visit."

~From Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell’s mill girls?

Monday, December 23, 2013

Feline fix for the currently catless

An Engineer's Guide to Cats 2.0 - The Sequel

Meowykatmiss

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Web-roving in the early a.m.

Girl Games - Hey Ash Whatcha Playin'?

Because of: http://groupthink.jezebel.com/every-misogynistic-argument-youve-ever-heard-about-vid-756662565

Also:
http://observationdeck.io9.com/mark-millar-and-todd-mcfarlane-ladies-comics-arent-f-1095912572

And:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_in_warfare_in_the_postclassical_era

Huldufolk

http://weirdthings.com/2011/07/icelandic-town-under-siege-by-rock-throwing-elves-and-hidden-folk/

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/22/22009310-icelands-hidden-elves-delay-road-projects?lite

http://not-about-books.blogspot.com/2011/12/yule-calendar-18-days-to-go-and-today.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulduf%C3%B3lk

Just waiting for the Yule Lads to show up.

Friday, December 20, 2013

Part Three

Music Magic

http://nprmusic.tumblr.com/post/60284448806/watch-swedish-singer-anna-von-hausswolff-perform-a

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Anna Von Hausswolff Finds A Pipe Organ...

Part One & Two

http://mylittleredgirl.tumblr.com/post/70491862080/i-was-threatened-with-violence-and-rape-and-begged-a

"And all things considered, I’m still very glad I came out for that Anna Von Hausswolff show. She is really special. Her voice is powerful and good and gives me hope. If you like doomy, witchy, ethereal music, you should buy her album Ceremony. It’s gorgeous.

TL;DR — Music heals. Silence is death. Don’t ignore women when they tell you they’re in immediate danger and beg you for help."

http://theremina.tumblr.com/post/70314555185/i-was-threatened-with-violence-and-rape-and-begged-a

Conflicted

So.

BALE! ~ The Peterson Farm Bros

Much.

Sail! - AWOLNATION by Nanalew

Hotness.

Chore Roar

More poor.

Chore ~ The Peterson Farm Bros.

Clean the floor.

Caller: I sent in my application several days ago but I don't have a status update yet.

Call Rep.: Since your income is >15k, you automatically qualify for the state insurance. Those applications take 45 days to process. So that means...February.

Caller: But I was trying to sign up before the Dec. 23rd deadline to get covered on Jan. 1st.

Call Rep.: If you get sick, just tell the county.

Caller: I knew I qualified for the state health insurance this year, but I wanted to compare that with what I might pay for a Bronze Plan with a subsidy.

Call Rep.: You can cancel it and sign up for a private plan, but there will be no subsidy.

Caller: Why can't I get a subsidy?

Call Rep: Because of your income.

Caller: So since I make less than 15k, my income is too low for a plan with a subsidy?

Call Rep.: If you make over 15k, you can get a subsidy.

Things that don't get spelled out for you 'til you talk to someone.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Treepose

http://www.lowdensitylifestyle.com/health-is-the-greatest-wealth-part-2/

Enrollment snafus

Application for health insurance was filed through CA's website on Sunday. Meant to do it sooner, but then funerals and finals came into my life. I have been waiting for a status update since Sunday. Today I experienced a thirty-minute queue for online chat support that culminated in being told "no rep. is available." Quite the letdown after a half hour of watching the countdown (300-200-100-84-57-14-4!!! Then "Please try again later.") I was given the option of e-mailing them my question. The message I immediately received: "We'll get back to you in 2 days." Now I am on hold; it's been about 20 minutes. The first time I dialed the number I was told to "Press one to talk to hot guys!" I have no idea why. I checked the number and it was dialed correctly. The second time the number led me to elevator music paradise...

The character Ms. Perry plays in the "Roar" video would not take this lying down. I am heartened. Our hands have touched the same bamboo canes! Filmed in the arboretum that is not far from where I live.

Behold

http://lauralovescakes.blogspot.com/2012/12/3d-cookie-christmas-tree.html

"The ridiculousness of a cupcake sprinkle being officially banned..."

http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2009/06/cakewalk-silver-dragee-strikes-again.html

Sunday, December 15, 2013

How 'bout I visualize visualizing you visualizing Part II

http://www.johnennis.tv/blog/alec-monopoly-strikes-again/

My idea of Monopoly dude's internal dialogue:

"If I find that there are certain quirky person(s) who occasionally interest me but know that I can't offer immediate assistance (such as a job) to such person(s), at the very least I could, from my heart and soul, send my very best wishes and also envision such person(s) finding themselves in the ideal circumstances to encounter people who can in some way assist them..."

Elvis ~ Mama Liked The Roses

How 'bout I visualize visualizing you visualizing

http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com/2010/09/successful-woman.html

Nighttime car tunes...

http://wallpaperscraft.com/wallpaper/skier_ski_jump_fly_sky_sun_mountains_76610

Packing and shopping for traveling can be a chore, but enjoyed this tune (and several before it: "Frozen Bubbles" and some of "Winter") in the car:

Sskii Jjumpp

The names and also the color scheme of the tracklist kind of went with the three songs!

KCRW, Nine Forty, Listening to "Maskenko Nights"...

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And...to the end

Crybaby from "Hair"
&
Fascination

Much ado about

movies never seen, books not yet read.

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2006/02/a-quirky-cowboy-classic/

"Tommy Lee Jones wrote his Harvard thesis on Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor. At the time it no doubt seemed like a subject with little relevance to the craft of filmmaking, but, in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, it serves him remarkably well. Jones himself has admitted that the spirit of O'Connor looms heavy on his directorial debut...He clearly views the world through a pair of O'Connor shaded glasses—he views humanity as twisted and ridiculously monstrous creatures that seem hell-bent on their own destruction. Maybe he's being too cynical, or maybe he's read the first chapter of Romans. Either way, Jones doesn't let his fiendish, freakish cast of characters turn his movie into a downer—like O'Connor, he mines the darkness and finds in it a gleaming sense of the absurd. Is it dark? Heck yeah. But it's also sharply funny, even when it cuts so close to the bone it makes us feel more than a little uncomfortable."

~ From Josh Hurst at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/februaryweb-only/threeburials.html

http://www.journeybyframe.com/2010/11/19/the-three-burials-of-melquiades-estrada-tommy-lee-jones-2005/

Desert America ~ R. Martinez

Wanda The Wonderful

Desert America ~ R.Martinez

http://blog.nola.com/levees/2010/01/what_is_leveesorg.html

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Hallelujah by & by

Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch ~ I'll Fly Away

To the bookslot, soon

Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West by Ruben Martinez:

"I find myself liking Lawrence...I read about him baking bread at the cabin in San Cristobal every day, and soon afterward I am at Walmart buying flour and yeast. I knead dough for the first time..."

(page 54 "Mornings In New Mexico")

http://labonnebouffonnerie.blogspot.com/2011/01/wet-kneading-sourdough-in-bowl.html

http://rudimentarian.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/snowstorm-sourdough-in-which-i-learn-air-kneading-and-humility/

"The Land of Enchantment is often represented as a land of three cultures in a sexy menage, but it is a rare day when Hispanos, Native Americans, and gringos sit down for a friendly beer at the casino."

(page 116 "In The Shadow of the Black Mesa")

http://donalupeskitchen.com/2011/12/celebrating-the-virgen-de-guadalupe/

"The new conversation was about recognizing that the acequia irrigation system was Moorish in origin and that the Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico's Catholic patroness, was a composite of Spanish and Moorish and Amerindian dieties."

(page 117 "In The Shadow of the Black Mesa")

http://www.daralislam.org/programs/retreats/womens-retreat/womens-retreat-gallery.aspx

"She picked up a bit from Carlos Castenada, a bit from Gloria Steinem, and some from Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo. She read A Course in Miracles and loved The Da Vinci Code and went to a church that Angela thought smacked of Scientology but Wilma insisted it wasn't, and what if it was?"

(page 209 "A Walk In The Woods")

http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/why-thoreau-wouldnt-drive-a-prius/

To be continued....

Ha ha December

December 14 & 13 were kinda funny on... http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/69991358525/i-do-not-recall-lobbying-for-anything-as-a-boy-as

http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/69981057007/it-seems-to-me-that-the-desire-to-make-art

http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/69979691226/im-tired-from-blazing-saddles-madeleine-kahn

http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/69938857251/amandapalmer-oh-my-fucking-god-go-to-google

PLUS...

Monday, December 09, 2013

Alten Melodien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDlKb2cBAqU

http://vimeo.com/37314857

Sunday, December 01, 2013

Gatos meditando

http://www.metatube.com/es/videos/182294/Gatos-meditando/

http://www.tohiena.com/2010/05/gato-meditando-no-frio.html

Domestic distractions while drying laundry

http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/02/05/neko-nabe-cats-in-pots/

~ http://amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/68737234456/i-broke-a-lightbulb-on-the-kitchen-floor-on#notes

~ Bev Lee Harling: Introducing Barefoot In Your Kitchen

http://kitchencat.com/760/

http://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2013/03/saint-getrudes-day.html

http://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2013/07/sun-worshipper.html

http://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2013/08/butterfly-kisses.html

http://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2013/11/fiddleheads.html

http://www.bridgetzinn.com/blog/?p=123

Garden Hymn

(Loretta Lynn version)

In The Garden ~ a hymn greatly appreciated by both my grandmothers in this life. If they had a favorite singer, it is not known to me.

Also known as

http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/HFLC1974/398

Laundromat laundry

http://www.fulcrumgallery.com/Becca-Barton/Angel-Laundry_73956.htm

is what you do when the neighbors are using the machines...is there some kind of meaning to shuteye dreaming that you're talking to a film director in your grandmother's house ~a very pleasant, cozy dream~ & then the next day you get the sad but not surprising news, and have to make slightly nerve-wracking travel plans to catch a redeye flight later in the week, but thinking, well at least none of them involve mulholland drive (weirdly, that site has a song about driving to LAX set to clips from the movie...)