Clubbing with PMS

angstfully, emo-ly,
I ask you please don't worry, not for me
don't turn your back
even though this album is fucking twee*

but I know where this is leading
someplace really fucking twee**

The set was saved by following this with "Shut Up and Swallow". :P

*No, I really can't explain my virulent hatred for this album. Other albums have disappointed me, others have even been worse***, but Future Perfect makes me want to beat the guilty parties to death with a fish. I couldn't hate this album more if it ran over my dog and stole my lunch money.

**At least it wasn't "Beloved".

***Body Census, I am looking at you. But I still don't want to murder Rudy with sea-life.

Bookkeeping

( Read in 2007 )

38. The Rest Falls Away - Colleen Gleason

This is a romance novel, shelved in the romance section and everything, but since it's the first in a series it doesn't have the obligatory HEA, which is a plus for me. It's unabashedly Buffy in 19th-century London, and it's cute and prettily written and not dumb. My only real complaint is with the vampires, which are boring. For the love of god, people. When you're writing about monsters or the undead or whatever, don't make them dull! Roll around in the creepy! Also, they dust like Buffy vamps, clothes and all, which looks cool in post-production, but is making things way too easy on your slayers narratively speaking.

But the book is fun, and I may well pick up the next one.

39. Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill.

Oh. Oh, this is a lovely lovely book, which just happens to live in my squids. This is what a horror novel should be. Creepy and awful and bruisingly sad, but all the while beautiful and veined with enough hope to keep you going. This book aches under my sternum.

And I think that's it for the year. One of these years I'll make it to fifty.

And in the land of things less good, I seem to have post-vacation crud. Boo.