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Nov. 19th, 2010 05:42 pmDid end up staying home from work today, which I think has been very beneficial. I have done nothing but sit quietly and not eat things today and I feel much better. So that's good.
During the aforementioned sitting quietly, I have been reading Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff which, thus far, is pretty fun. I am still in the '30's, so we're still talking about almost entirely films I know, which is lovely. (Except Island of Lost Souls which I still haven't gotten around to seeing. Is that really not available on dvd? That's just unacceptable.)
Mostly, though, the book has filled me with an overwhelming desire to rewatch The Black Cat. Because I think I have only seen it once and it has both Mr Lugosi and Mr Karloff being wonderful in it. And glorious set design. And all sorts of marvelously subtly implied off-stage Hays Code freakiness. And "Even the phone's dead, Vitus," which is still pretty hilarious.
It's in my closet somewhere. I'll have to dig it out.
During the aforementioned sitting quietly, I have been reading Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff which, thus far, is pretty fun. I am still in the '30's, so we're still talking about almost entirely films I know, which is lovely. (Except Island of Lost Souls which I still haven't gotten around to seeing. Is that really not available on dvd? That's just unacceptable.)
Mostly, though, the book has filled me with an overwhelming desire to rewatch The Black Cat. Because I think I have only seen it once and it has both Mr Lugosi and Mr Karloff being wonderful in it. And glorious set design. And all sorts of marvelously subtly implied off-stage Hays Code freakiness. And "Even the phone's dead, Vitus," which is still pretty hilarious.
It's in my closet somewhere. I'll have to dig it out.
