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pinksonia ([personal profile] pinksonia) wrote2012-08-14 06:08 pm
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I don't know how well known this youtube video is outside of New Orleans.



It was doing the rounds here about a year ago because we have all shopped at that Walmart (it's the Tchoupitoulas street if anyone cares).

Anyway, my co-historic analyst likes to look at the NOPD crime reports during lunch. Today they reported that the "singer" in that video was in a multi-hour standoff with the police yesterday after threatening to kill his neighbor. That lead us of a youtube search to see if he had any other songs which ultimately resulted in this, an acoustic version of Wally World. We we cracking up for a good 10 minutes.



I can even.


Wuthering Heights - There are all sorts of reasons I should like it. It's from my favorite time period. The setting has some gothic sensibilities - which I tend to love. I am all about Charlotte Bronte's works (had I not picked Letter From New York yesterday I would have picked Jane Eyre and I like Villette almost as much) and people tend to act like her sister is similar. But I don't like it. Not even a little bit. I feel like all the characters in it are such vile humans that I spend the entire novel wanting to slap some sense into people (and I rarely say that I want to hit people even in jest). Ugh. Really, the only reason that I have read all of this book is that it was the only thing I brought will me on a plane trip to Europe. I literally had nothing else to do if I put it down. Grumble.

[identity profile] pinksonia.livejournal.com 2012-08-14 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
If it helps everyone I work with hates Jane Eyre and thinks it is the worst book ever, so I sort of know the experience of everyone hating a book you love. I also will admit that I read Wuthering Heights right after I graduated from high school, so it might benefit from a re-read and older viewpoint. On the other hand, I still think I need someone to be redeemable.

[identity profile] rougebaiser.livejournal.com 2012-08-15 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Well they're fools, Jane Eyre is wonderful. I just re-read a week ago, and it's still brilliant.

I will say the first time I read WH I hated it, but then on a re-read, I couldn't stop.