WE CUT HEADS, a reading guide to yah yah's sweeney todd retelling
Some books I've read/will be reading to help me write We Cut Heads! I definitely expect this this will grow, but these are the ones on my mind right now. The ones I've read already are italicized!
THOSE BONES ARE NOT MY CHILD by Toni Cade Bambara
WE REAL COOL: BLACK MEN AND MASCULINTY by bell hooks
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS by Franz Fanon
AFROPESSIMISM by Frank B. Wilderson III
TENDER IS THE FLESH by Agustina Bazterrica
NO LONGER HUMAN by Osamu Dazai
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
SONG OF SOLOMON by Toni Morrison
THE DELECTABLE NEGRO: HUMAN CONSUMPTION AND HOMO-EROTICISM WITHIN U.S. SLAVE CULTURE by Vincent Woodard
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TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! ♥ My last year in my twenties... Pray for me that I won't spotaneously get wrinkles now that 30 is so close?
Anyway, for my birthday, I decided you get cowboy Alex and Henry!
From take me back to San Francisco, coming soon:
They’re not the only ones who chose an early morning ride, and their group stops frequently when their tour guide points out views and spots they otherwise would have missed by concentrating on keeping their horses in line. It’s clear that Alex has some experience in riding horses as well, because he steers his horse to the side easily and waits until Henry catches up with him, before he turns to send him a boyish grin.
“This was a really good idea,” he says, bending forward to pet his horse’s neck. “I haven’t ridden in so long, I forgot how much I love it.”
Henry laughs softly, watching Alex squirm happily in his saddle. “How come?”
Alex shrugs. “Not much opportunity for it in New York,” he explains. “I grew up in Austin, though. My grandfather used to own a ranch and June and I would go every weekend to help him clean out the stables and lunge the horses.”
It isn’t hard to picture a young Alex working himself into a sweat in the stables and out in the fields. Henry hopes they’ll have enough time for Alex to share more childhood memories with him, before he has to leave. He wants to know everything about the man; wants to be able to play out his stories behind closed eyelids when all he has left is the memory of Alex, forever engraved in his mind.
“Tell me more?” Henry suggests when their group starts moving again, and Alex does. By the end of the ride, all Henry can do is kiss him, their cowboy hats knocking together.
Ding ding ding, wake up Once-ler Fandom we are being fed!
I was so shocked that this hasn't been circulating around here yet, it is really cool to get this early look and see some unfinished animation that didn't make it into the final movie. I especially love the unfinished shots of the Once-ler in the river!