Smell that fresh smell? New blog smell! Now available in a handy whatsit that you can hang from your rearview mirror to smell up your car! (And who doesn't want a car that smells of New Blog? I mean, really.)
This blog is intended to be the sibling-of-dubious-nature to my LiveJournal, and as such, be slightly more informative, as opposed to the colorful mess of fandom and life that LJ consists of. Why, one might as, in the maelstrom of my life, would I want another blog? Since, after all, I am pitifully addicted to LiveJournal and having another blogosphere to be fascinated with will probably cause the downfall of all academic studies whatsoever. That's definitely something to look forward to.
Well, folks, it's a class assignment. These things do happen; I am told, in times of war and great upheaval, cannibalism can be... oops, wrong topic. Um. *distracts you all with a dance and something shiny*
But no, for all my griping and whinging, I'm quite satisfied with an assignment like this. After all, I do spend half my mental time composing blog entries that I only sometimes write. They're fabulous, I assure you, these blog entries in my head. (As for the other half of my mental time, it's divided pretty evenly between fanfiction-pondering and gibbering panic at the pile of insensibility that is my life.)
Deciding on a subject for this blog = definitely one of the more challenging aspects of my day. After all, so many choices! Steampunk things! Victoriana! Books! TV Shows! Scottish Nationalism!
So for a while, a long dark period in history (more than three minutes, I swear) while I glumly perused the poll results that all my friends thought would be good ideas (making it how very obviously my friendslist is weighted towards Doctor Who) it looked like the theme might come down to Random Shit Katie Finds Interesting. I wondered if that was viable, and sent off a desperate email questioning class assignments and life in general to discover if it was.
And then I decided to Take Charge Of My Life.
I took a look at my choices, and realized that what I'm really interested in, in all of this dazzlingly confusing mess, is stories. Myth, narrative, whatever you want to call it. I care about writing and reading and analyzing, and finding how that works in terms of Story (which is a pretentious and outrageously ambiguous declaration with doubtful meaning and we should all take it for what it's worth.) I care about that when I'm watching a television show and admire the writing or the way it's filmed. I appreciate that when I'm reading a book- fiction or otherwise. I have the idea of a narrative and an overall story in mind when I'm looking at Steampunk fashion- after all, it's building an aesthetic out of the story of a culture that never existed.
So yes, this is going to be a Random Shit Katie Finds Interesting blog. But it does have a focus, albeit a very broad one that will depend on how I'm feeling the day I post.
Like today! This makes me want to know French just so I can understand what this beautifully tragic love story is all about, but it's almost better for not knowing- it just makes it all so otherworldly and achingly lovely.
Tais-toi mon coeur - Dionysos
Uploaded by Dionysos
More information on the narrative can be found here. It seems that Dionysos has focussed their latest album around the story of a boy who was born with a frozen heart that the midwife replaced with clockwork, and his clockwork heart worked until he fell in love. If there is a way to read or watch the rest of this story in English, I will find it somehow. But in the meantime, we have this beautiful music video, replete with gorgeous Victorian imagery and A PARASOL OMG.
Welcome, my friends, to the Narrative Cafe!
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That was a beautiful video! Brilliant. I can't wait to see what else you post.
-Mandy
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