Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

I'm not calling you a liar just don't lie to me I'm not calling you a thief just don't steal from me I'm not calling you a ghost just stop haunting me and I love you so much I'm going to let you kill me

oh and i quite like haemon it's just i don't like saying his name because i'm unsure of how to pronounce it and usually end up saying 'he-man' which evokes this:


rather than something a bit more serious, like this:



Lyrics: i'm not calling you a liar / florence and the machine

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more no more no more no more

we've moved on from the emperors in classics to revising greek tragedy and i forgot how dickish some mythological figures could be..i mean, anyone with the name 'creon' is just destined to be a prick who makes the wrong decisions, let's face it, and medea's beyond being a bitch (you know being a child killer and everything)

the only one i actually like is 'hippolytus' and that's probably because i have a weird crush thingy on hippolytus himself it's like drusus/narcissus all over again only this time hippolytus himself was this virgin obsessed with artemis who thought all women were evil manipulative whores

but in his defence his stepmother did kill herself and accuse him of rape
Lyrics: hit the road jack / ray charles

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Sleight of hand and twist of fate on a bed of nails she makes me wait

Although I thought we'd be watching detective dramas tonight apparently dancing on ice is much more interesting.

I don't like it.

I'm researching Celtic mythology again, trying to avoid welsh mythology haha..is already not going well considering I've pulled out my copy of 'ghosts and legends of Wales'...

Lyrics: with or without you / u2

Saturday, 7 January 2012

She will kiss you till your lips bleed but she will not take her dress off, americana, tropicana

Did I mention I have a new idea for a story? To be written after the star books have been finished of course... They'd focus on Celtic mythology. Haha the thing that inspired it, though, was Irish/Scottish, but my natural instinct is to use Welsh mythology (I love Wales, just saying, and I think that their mythology is greatly undervalued). Let's see how this works out! I have a title, anyway.

Gonna go to sleep now :) Going out for a family meal tomorrow with my grandfather so we'll be up early then it's back to college and work on Monday. Haha I have my first exam on the 11th it's only a resit but I haven't reread any of the texts..you know I'm not even sure what poems we studied? It was Keats and Tennyson that's the extent of my knowledge. I think that The Lady of Shalott is involved in there somewhere...

I'm so going to fail that exam but who cares? I didn't want to resit English Literature anyway, I got an A last year and my teacher forced me into it. He's a sweetie though, he looks like voldemort when he shaves his head.


Lyrics: Sailor Song / Regina Spektor