Monkeys aren't donkeys, stop messing with my head!

[thehefner]

I've heard brilliant things about THE KING OF KONG (which now has the subtitle, A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS), and the trailer looks exceedingly promising too:

Absolutely a must-see for me, and hopefully its "limited release" this Friday will include DC.

Meanwhile, any further reading into AMBER and HOUSE OF LEAVES has been preempted by the fact that I finally found a Peter Lawford biography. I'm just 43 pages into the book, and Peter's only about eight, and I already kind of want to kill myself. As the author is quick to point out, he absolutely and totally was the male Marilyn Monroe, except no one cared when he died.

After seeing the HBO RAT PACK movie, I now very much want to see an entire Peter Lawford biopic starring Angus Macfayden.

Comments

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

How come the "house" in "House of Leaves" is always blue? What is "House of Leaves"?

Peter Lawford should maybe have let sidewalk vents blow up his skirt more often in pictures. That would have showed 'em! (in oh so many ways!)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I was hoping someone would ask that. Actually, I was hoping one of the people who read the book would yell at me for freaking them out by doing that.

Others who've actually read the book can better explain it. In fact, hell, just check out the wikipedia entry (but watch out for plot spoilers, as I think you might get a kick outta reading this book):

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

I started to read my library copy, but it was falling apart, so I didn't get far. I went ahead and bought it via amazon.com, to find that they one they sent me was an even BETTER edition than the library's: "The Remastered Full Color Edition." I think, but do not yet know, that my edition even has braille.

As for Peter Lawford, well, his mother dressed him as a girl until he was 11, so... yeah, I don't think we'd need to see his skirt up at that point. Then again, I know lots of girls interested in seeing young English upper crust boys naked...

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's the cover. I see.
Full colour? Braille? Convoluted narrative style? Is this book like the "Tristram Shandy" of not the eighteenth century?

I don't know about "upper crust", necessarily, and 11 is about ten years too young, but otherwise we might negotiate...

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Not just the cover, as the word house appears in that blue all throughout the book. And it's a subtle shade of blue, so that it kinda sneaks up on you until you're just about upon it.

More like TRISTRAM SHANDY by way of Borges, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, and several others I've never heard of.

Hmm, I suppose Harry Potter isn't exactly upper crust... still, English schoolboys snogging and all, that's just what I meant.

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

I was wondering why you did that earlier! I was all, "I bet he's reading House of Leaves..."

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

And I was wondering why it took this long for someone who's actually READ it to comment! I was anticipating a whole flood of browncoating comments, ready to overhype the whole thing just as I'd started! And I have only gotten a couple pages in, as I needed a break from the upper pathetic cesspit of fame that was Peter Lawford's life. The poor, poor fuck.

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

Heh, I read it in high school. I feel the same way about it as I do AS I LAY DYING and CATCHER IN THE RYE (although, I did find AS I LAY DYING genuinely amusing, not that my teacher appreciated my creative analysis. "Lol, his mother is a horse! He's a fish! ROFL!"), but HOUSE was darker and cooler. I don't like to talk about it in general because it brings out the creepy nerd in otherwise sane human beings, and also because even the back flap synopsis of the book over hypes it. Like, it was really good but it didn't scar me for life or anything.