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desert-bluffs-and-me · 1 year

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WTNV quick rundown - 60 - Water Failure

Featuring the voices of Erica Livingston as Maggie Penebaker, Christopher Loar as Donald Penebaker (they are the voices of the phone tree when Cecil makes his call) and Flor De Liz Perez as the voice of Lacy.

See some evil. Hear some evil. Speak some evil. Welcome to Night Vale.

The water in the radio station has been turned off and eventually the pipes start to release a gas that smells like French Toast. This causes the people in the station, including Cecil, to become light-headed and lose their senses of sight, touch and longing.

It turns out that because of the sun multiplying over NV, the water departments computers messed up and started to release carbon monoxide into the building as they do whenever anyone is more that 60 days behind on their payments (which the station is not). It smells like French Toast because they wanted to make the unpleasant thing a bit more pleasant. This is explained to us by a person called Lacy, over the phone, who doesn't hang up all the way until Cecil is signing off. She also tells Cecil that he's not the only one who cares about 'her' and 'I know who you are' and 'thanks' without clarifying.

Oh yes the sun was multiplying over NV today. Citizens shot down the three extra suns, leaving just one. This sun sets in the north though.

[The weather is instead a Hold song when Cecil is on the phone] "Just Like My Heart" by Fault Lines wearefaultlines.com

Michael Sandero both lost and won his national championship game. His team was fighting a copy of his team. The winning version was carried off by starlings after partying all night. The losing one seems confused as to where he is and who is he.

Cecil submits a special form to request days off from Station Management so he can go and see Carlos in the desert otherworld. This includes an exactly 2500 word essay on what he will be doing with his time away from work, then genuflecting in front of the office door whilst reciting the pleadge of employee fealty which is several minutes long (he does this whilst blocking the only route to the kitchen at lunch time so everyone else is pretty annoyed at him). He then submits the form into the drop box which glows red and puffs out black smoke. When he returns to his booth, all his possessions are gone and replaced with a bottomless pit when means they received the request.

Chevrolet are trying to claim that the electricity in everyone's house is in fact actually a car so you should either return it or pay them for it.

Local television station channel 6 comes under fire for their decision to start broadcasting into viewer's homes whether viewers want to watch Channel 6 or not. People argue this is a violation of privacy. The City Council argues that it's important they are able to tell people anything they want, important or not, whenever they want, through their TV's.

You can call the water department if you no longer believe in water (Cecil has his doubts), or if you are Illuminati. You can also call if you tried to call about an emergency, only to find yourself serving a prison sentence for misuse of emergency services and you want to argue the semantics of 'emergency'.

NV phones have an 'Not An Emergency' button.

Cecil: Stay tuned next for time moving faster, faster than it seems, faster and faster until it disintegrates into stardust. Lacy: Oh, that actually sounds fun! Cecil: Good night, Lacy. And good night, Night Vale. Good Night. Lacy: Good night!

Proverb: The reason we say "bless you" after someone sneezes is because we know they will die some day.

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murdocksassassin · 7 years

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I LIKE BOOKS MORE THAN I LIKE PEOPLE

tagged by: @jayhsis /tagging: @edourado @rayxahlia @significantowl @asherlevinia and anyone else who wants to do this.

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest? I have had at least one copy each of The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, and The Hobbit on my shelf for like twenty years.

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?

Current read: Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week by Galde Curtis MD... Pretty much the title says it all on this.

Last read: Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Drucker About the differing parenting philosphies between French and American parents as told by an American ex-pat. It’s actually more interesting than it sounds.

Next Read: Not 100% sure yet. probably another parenting or baby book... that shit has taken over my life.

3. Which book does everyone like and you hated? Anything by Stephen King. I can’t get into his style and the whole horror genre isn’t my thing in general... Also A Song of Fire and Ice Series.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t? Pride and Prejudice I like Jane Austen but I have seen about three versions of this story in movie format by now and never read the book. I feel like I SHOULD read it but just never have.

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?” Don’t really save books for things. I have been known to read my plane reading before the flight if I don’t buy it like about 10 minutes before.

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end? Definitely wait. I hate spoilers

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside? i rarely ever read them.

8. Which book character would you switch places with? Honestly, don’t know. Probably some quirky romance character who finds true love and complete happiness--because fuck drama and suspense. I am too old for that shit.

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)? The Iliad. My cousin who is like 20 years older than me gave me a copy when I was 12 because I was complaining about how stupid and immature most of the books in the YA section were and I wanted to read something “harder.” I don’t think he ever expected me to finish it but I did in like two weeks and we have been book buddies ever since. (He also gave me my first copy of The Great Gatsby)

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way. I had a random lady on my bus give me a copy Stardust by Neil Gaiman because I told her I liked that particular cover of the book. It was really funny because she had literally just finished it as I made the comment and said she hated the book--even though it is a favorite of mine--and just handed it to me.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person? I only give books (specifically) novels to friends and family that are really close to me. Books are almost like friends themselves so when I give away a book that I like it is usually because I love that person.

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?

Probably my beat to shit copy of Jane Eyre. I have moved probably a dozen times and it always makes the box of keepers when I pack.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?. Not really. I mostly hate the same books now that I did then. The Scarlet Letter is still shit.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book? A coupon for Taster’s Choice Coffee from 1976. It was a voucher that my grandma had gotten from the company in the mail and never used that she stuck in one of her cookbooks. We got a good laugh when we found it.

15. Used or brand new? Either. I like used to be eco and budget friendly but sometimes that’s not possible.

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses? MEH! I get the appeal, but he’s not for me. I like the ideas in his books but not the execution.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book? The Cider House Rules and Legends of the Fall

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid? The House of Sand and Fog....

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question? YES! I can’t remember the title right now but there was a part of a book that I read not too long ago where the main character was making chocolate chip cookies and my pregnant ass got a serious craving from it.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take? The same cousin who gave me The Iliad. We have been swapping books for over twenty years now. We don’t always like the same ones but we always have a good chat about them after.

#books #tag games

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lemonvampire · 7 years

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La Belle et la Bete (2014) Review

In a few weeks Disney will release its new live-action remake of its 1991 classic, Beauty and the Beast. Being a highly anticipated blockbuster film based on a classic, public domain fairytale, it should come as a surprise to no one to discover hastily produced films of the same title at your local Wal-Mart, a cynical maneuver to attempt to trick unsuspecting grandparents into an uninformed purchase. There are entire studios dedicated to producing these so-called “mockbusters,” and I have no doubt that if they hadn’t recently found their niche in the so-bad-it’s-good series of Sharknado movies, the Asylum would already have one on shelves. Given that, you may be inclined to assume that, spotting a copy of Christophe Gans’ Beauty and the Beast in the new release section of your local video store, this was nothing more than the aforementioned cynical cash grab. But in this particular case you would be mistaken. Originally released in 2014, La Belle et la Bete, directed by Christophe Gans and starring Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, is a remake of the classic 1946 film of the same name, as much as it just another adaptation of the classic French fairytale. Since its release in Europe the film has taken three years to see distribution in the US, finally reaching a deal for video release through notable curator and purveyor of cult and genre cinema, Shout Factory, in time to coincide with the impending premier of Disney’s own remake, a move undoubtedly planned to boost sales by association. Nevertheless, this is far from the kind of cheap, hasty, disposable production usually cobbled together for the sake of cashing in on another film’s popularity, and if your grandmother does accidentally pick this movie up for your birthday thinking she’s somehow getting an early release of the Disney film, you can count yourself lucky. You may not find singing candlesticks, or lavish musical numbers, or Emma Watson in this film, but what you will find is top shelf special effects, unparalleled production design, and a take on the classic story that is both more faithfully traditional to the original, while also adding its own refreshingly original spin. The film stars Lea Seydoux as Belle, the daughter of a wealthy French merchant who loses all of his wealth when he loses some important shipments at sea. The merchant and his family are forced to move to a small house in the country, a life that, unlike in the Disney version, Belle seems to actually prefer, while her sisters and brothers anguish and lament their predicament. When one of the ships is found however, the merchant returns to the city to try to recover their wealth, promising his elder daughters that he will come back with dresses and jewelry, and promising to bring back a rose for Belle. Unfortunately his trip turns out to be less profitable than expected, and his return trip nearly costs him his life, until he happens upon an enchanted castle in the forest, where the mysterious unseen occupant feeds him gifts him all the treasures he’d promised to his daughters. But when the merchant stops to pluck a rose while leaving he crosses a line and the Beast (Vincent Cassel) reveals himself. Angered that the merchant took advantage of his hospitality in taking the one thing that was actually precious to him, the Beast promises to kill the merchant, telling him that a life is the price of the rose. He allows the man to go home and say goodbye to his family, promising that if he doesn’t return, the Beast will track him and kill all of them. Upon hearing the story from her father, Belle steals his horse and rushes off to take his place, as she feels responsible for him taking the rose that would cost his life. I won’t go into the details of the second and third act, but the film doesn’t play out entirely the same as the version most people are familiar with. The Beast is given a more fantastical and elaborate backstory in this version, one that’s much more tragic and would make him much more of a sympathetic figure, if he weren’t portrayed by Vincent Cassel, who is a talented actor that acquits himself quite well when he’s the Beast, but in his scenes that tell his tragic backstory he seems always to exude a sleazy leeriness, whether intentionally or not. Opposite Cassel is Lea Seydoux as Belle, who comes off much better in her performance as a more capable, more commanding, more determined portrayal of the character. However, she’s also given some scenes where her reactions seem curiously to be unreasonably hostile toward the Beast, before inexplicably being in love with him in the very next scene. The film’s biggest drawback is the pacing of its love story, which appears to take place over a brief period of only three nights, with Belle going from fearful of the Beast in the first, to randomly hurling insults at him the next, to fleeing in terror from him the third. And then she’s in love with him. There doesn’t really seem to be a turning point in the relationship. We do see her uncovering his origin slowly throughout the film in visions given to her in her dreams, which maybe softens her heart toward him, but there’s just not enough actual interaction between them to show a romance develop, especially over so short a period. However, that unusual pacing is the only major flaw in what is otherwise a stunning work of art. Where this film truly excels are its visuals, which are nothing short of breathtaking. Every moment of screen time, every frame weaves a tapestry of vivid colors, spectacularly ornate design, and thrilling visual effects, from beautiful shots of fantastical landscapes and architectural masterpieces, to whimsical dream sequences and exciting set pieces involving the Beast battling interlopers astride a gigantic walking marble statue. This is a fantasy romance to rival the likes of The Princess Bride or Stardust. Far from a knockoff meant to cash in on the upcoming Disney film, this is the film that sets the bar for Disney to try and reach. If you’re at all excited for a live action Beauty and the Beast, this is the one to see.

#beauty and the beast #vincent cassel #lea seydoux #la belle et la bete #movie review

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