Invaginate adj.
a. Inserted or received into a sheath; sheathed.
b. Turned into a sheath.
c. Introverted.
Vaginate
adj. Enclosed in a sheath or vagina; invaginate.
v. To sheathe

"This transformation which is 'outside' the film is in fact mirrored 'inside' the film in the metamorphosis of Avenant into the Beast, for Avenant resembles the Prince. In a sense, through this segment, the story is invaginated... Avenant arrives to fill a gap in the story. By incorporating the absent part, the film appears to be not just a chronological story but virtually a mirror of all times." (Caroline Sheaffer-Jones: Fixing The Gaze: Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete)
Hahahahahahahahahahaha I love academia, and glorious academic double entendres.
If I could, I would write my paper on how much phallic imagery there is in this movie.



Jens Lekman is officially the most adorable Swede musician. He has tied Sondre Lerche at the top of the larger Cutest Male Nordic Musician category. (Mr. Lerche has long topped that category because when I saw him live his grasp of English was slightly shaky, and he was really sweet when I met him after the show.)
Yeah. Jens is... adorable. And a resoundingly good showman. His show last night... Wow! So much music and joy! He used a lot of looping effects featuring himself singing backup, and hand-claps. I don't think I've ever seen an audience get so hand-clap crazy. There were a lot of very happy people in the audience. Singing along... he waved his microphone, on its stand, over the crowd while we sang "Black Cab." And towards the end of the set he put down his guitar and started doing this amazing indie-lounge-singer dance that completely sealed my love for him. And at the end of the show there were balloons! And two encores. And he played my favorite song off his new album ("Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo"). And there was birthday cake and the Swedish birthday song! And, and...... *deep breath*
In other words, it was a good show. By far the best concert I've seen at Wesleyan, both in terms of the performance and in terms of how well it went off. (I like to dream I was part of that, since I was working the door... but really it was all Jesse, the organizer. He rocks.)


I've been sick all week. I'm feeling a lot better today, but am still sort of headachey.
Things I need to update about: maybe more about the concert (social interaction stuff), acoustic of Montreal performance and interviews that rocked my world a few days ago. Maybe some other stuff?
My mom is coming tomorrow! My apartment is a disaster! I have a paper to write!

ALSO!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

I need to get dressed for trick-or-treating! (Yeah, my campus has trick-or-treating for all us university students who refuse to pretend to be "adult." Because really, where's the fun in that?

Joy!

My newest obsession:
The dance Jarvis does at about 3:04 in the video for "Common People."

My newest entertainment? Dancing along.

I just learned how to embed movies!!! woot.

A list of Halloween Costumes I saw last night:
-A robot viking
-The Morton Salt girl
-Ophelia
-Another Ophelia
-A river (that Ophelia drowned in)
-Shrodinger's cat
-Sunshine
-Sid Vicious (who was thrilled I recognized his costume. It was very good - a little TOO good. Self-mutilating is going too far for realism, in my book.)
-A German in a mask (my German friend had never done Halloween before... we can forgive him for just wrapping some fabric with eye holes cut in it around his face, now can't we?)
-A children's TV host
-Artie: The Strongest Man... in the World! (one of the best for in-character behavior I've ever seen)
-Someone that looked like the guy from The Monkees who always wore a hat. That person wasn't in costume, though, he just happens to look like that when he wears a hat. It gives me so much joy it got to be on the list anyway.

I was Queen Elizabeth II.
This costume proved, again, that the people I know in real life live in a totally different cultural milieu than I do. All my costume ideas would not have made sense to them. Queen Elizabeth was a middle ground! (Other ideas included Patrick Wolf and Rose Tyler.)
I figured that with "The Queen" coming out and all it would make sense. *sigh* Only my British-parented friend and someone who seemed aware of "The Queen" understood. Meh.
People not understanding my costumes is the story of my life. Really, it's quite amusing. It was just the confrontation of it ("You don't look like the Queen!") that got to me.


I saw "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari" with live organ accompaniment, it was SWEET.


I love the junk e-mails that are oddly titled and read like poems, they are a new sort of art, strange and wonderful and frightening:

About your health

The ancient allegiance at
the Sid Morgan rail
and grover of notebooks
the shadow slide
directly to confessor
capasity in the terraces
plus and multiple to withdrawing

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

It's kinda crazy how much I like this holiday.

There's costumes!

And running amok!

And CANDY!

And cheerful adaptions of very scary things!!!

*freaks out*

I had one costume on Saturday (I wasn't planning on even getting dressed up... but then I was Hamlet, and my friend was Ophelia, and we were running about being Shakeperean), and I'll have another tonight.

This holiday is so amusingly tacky and macrabe and glorious.

Nothing is better than fawning about in a random, middle-of-campus graveyard in the middle of the night with a plastic skull and a copy of Hamlet.

Other than maybe what I'm being tonight. But I'm not telling yet, I want to see how it turns out.