Jul. 24th, 2009

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Debauchery (Ars Amatoria): From Love Potions A sinful, licentious scent: self-indulgent and luxurious. Mingled heady civet and red Egyptian musk, thickened with opium.

Vial: musky perfume, a cat tinge to it

Wet: Chemically and catlike, musk as well.

Drydown
: sweetening into a nicer musk. Something sharp underneath it still. I'm not sure I like this so well. Kind of incense-y and opium den smelling. Gets nicer from a few inches away. Up close, there's still a soapy sharpness.

Dry: Mmm, better. The sharpness has mellowed. It's a really rich and exotic smelling perfume. This is for days I need to dress up some.

Winner!

Jul. 24th, 2009 08:05 pm
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[profile] desiarcyis one of three who answered all the questions correctly. The random number generator said it went to number 2. Congratulations. Drop me your e-mail and I'll send your copy along. My e-mail is my username at yahoo.

I'm just copying her comment post verbatim:
1) What actor played the same Merry Man in three different films, one a silent?
Alan Hale played Little John in "Robin Hood" (1922), "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) and "Rogues of Sherwood Forest" (1950).

2) Ben Burtt is a sound director who so loves the sound of Robin's arrow from the 1938 that he has included it in an entire series of movies. Which series?
Star Wars.

3) Which Robin Hood does not speak with an English accent?
Kevin Costner, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

4) Maid Marion's horse, called Golden Cloud, went on to fame with a western star. What did the new owner rename this palomino?
Trigger.

5) In which Robin Hood does Little John whistle “Sumer is i-cumen in” before his fight with Robin?
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938).

6) What actor--the oldest ever in the role--played an explicitly illiterate Robin?
Sean Connery, in "Robin and Marian" (1976).

7) Which Robin Hood film uses two famous college fight songs: "Fight on" and "On Wisconsin" in its score?
"Robin Hood" (1973), i.e. the Disney animated version.

8) Although Basil Rathbone played Sir Guy of Gisbourne as a natty dresser, the legendary Guy of Gisbourne wore what?
Capull-hyde (i.e. horsehide), a sword, and a dagger.

9) We all saw Men in Tights. But what was Mel Brooks' TV parody of Robin Hood called?
When Things Were Rotten

10) In the legends, Robin fights many men: Little John, Will Scarlet, Much the Miller's Son, and even Maid Marian who is disguised as a boy. Does he ever win these fights?
No, he actually loses those fights.

(Naomi refers to these as the "Robin, here's your ass...again" moments)
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XII. The Howler by H.P. Lovecraft

(first pub. Driftwind, 7, no. 3 (November 1932), 100.)


They told me not to take the Briggs' Hill path
That used to be the highroad through to Zoar,
For Goody Watkins, hanged in seventeen-four,
Had left a certain monstrous aftermath.
Yet when I disobeyed, and had in view
The vine-hung cottage by the great rock slope,
I could not think of elms or hempen rope,
But wondered why the house still seemed so new.

Stopping a while to watch the fading day,
I heard faint howls, as from a room upstairs,
When through the ivied panes one sunset ray
Struck in, and caught the howler unawares.
I glimpsed - and ran in frenzy from the place,
And from a four-pawed thing with human face.

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