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HAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAAAA.

Am watching Bram Stoker's Dracula for class tomorrow. So far we have:

Gratuitous vandalism of religious statuary.
Keanu Reeves with a horrible British accent.
Old!Dracula with a hairdo that looks like a butt from the back.
Gratuitous uses of circles in transitions.
Random acts of orgy.
Random acts of lesbianism.
Random acts of bestiality.
Gratuitous moaning of a sexual nature (even when not involved in a sexual situation, though really what in this movie is not at least a metaphor for a sexual situation).
And Cary Elwes in a pornstache.

I haven't stopped laughing in the hour I've been watching this movie.

ETA: Second half of the movie, we also have Young!Dracula (a.k.a. Gary Oldman) looking like a pimp out of the 70's with

the John Lennon sunglasses
the long wavy hair
the too-huge-to-be-real hat
aaaand the pornstache.

ETA2: That Southern accent is too horrible to be real. What is with this movie?

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Handlebars, still. Worse since I keep trying to hum/rap it under my breath.

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Continuing with Dracula, it seems to get less scary and more interesting the more I read.

Also, the more I read, the more weirded out by the many incarnations of Van Helsing I become. WTF Hollywood. WTF, Japan. The Van Helsing of this novel is one of the nicest and coolest Fictional Old Dudes I've ever encountered. He ranks up there with Dumbledore and Wilfred Mott. He is a fucking Yoda, complete with ominous speeches about being ready or not to know the truth/fight the baddie spoken in distinctively broken English. He possibly owns my soul. Is it just because his name sounds so badass that his character gets all these crazy reimaginings?

Also, for the same class (VicLit), I have the proposal for my final paper due tomorrow and I do not know what to write about. Mostly I want to write about the pop culture carry-over/staying power of so many of the books we've read, but no matter how I word it, it comes out sounding extremely unacademic, particularly for this srs bznz Literature class. Think think think. If anyone wants to prompt me (hahaha, academic paper prompts)... Right now Dracula is the focus of my hopes since it's grabbed so much of my attention, but I could have sworn I had mountains to say on many of the other books we've read at other times.

Bother, bother, bother. Think, think, think. :/ :< :(

Current Mood: scared

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This is why I can't have scary things.

Stayed up reading first third of Dracula for class. Was a mistake. Cannot turn off reading light. Afraid to try to sleep. Know am being idiot. Gave self fright going to the bathroom. Know will laugh at self in morning. Off to sooth away with yet more Janto.

P.S. Was tagging and noticed irony of my "stayed up late" tag.