"if i only could / i'd make a deal with god / get him to swap our places"

[larryhammer]

Visions and revisions which another will reverse:

Disney princesses as Marvel heroines. SOLD. (via)

Adding selfies to Western art. (via)

Placebo's awesome cover of "Running Up That Hill." Though now I want a cover with an explicitly trans reading. (via) (link fixed)

Join Aikin speculates at length on how Jane Austen might have revised Northanger Abbey if she hadn't shelved the project because of her final illness -- starting with much insightful commentary on Austen's art and methods. (via?)

---L.

Subject quote from "Running Up That Hill," Kate Bush.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That cover is indeed awesome. (The link is wrong, though, I think. Try this: http://youtu.be/DzI0thK61Dc.) A trans reading is pretty much there for the taking.

[larryhammer]

Whoops -- dropped a letter in the link. Thanks!

Available, yes. I want a more explicit one.

---L.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the Joan Aiken article. Indirectly she explains why I don't care for most of Austen: her heroines have enormous heartache, unlike say Georgette Heyer's.

I haven't tried Northanger Abbey -- I shall add it to my stack.

[larryhammer]

Heh. You're welcome.

---L.

[(Anonymous)]

I read a great comment somewhere by someone who pointed out that when you compare the portrait tradition in Western art to the selfie tradition today, you get "rich people dressing up in their finest clothes and then posting next to their most luxurious tapestry for hours and hours while a painter captured the scene in a painting they would then give pride of place in their residence" vs "regular people taking 30 seconds in the bathroom before work to share an ephemeral snapshot of their outfit with friends" -- makes it a lot harder to sustain the whole "most narcissistic generation in history" thing. --Matt

[larryhammer]

Exactly.

---L.

[sovay]

Placebo's awesome cover of "Running Up That Hill."

Thank you; I've been listening to that version for years, but I've never seen the video. That's excellent.

[larryhammer]

Innit?

---L.