nicole @nicole@myna.social

I’ve been reading Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry by Brad Leithauser.

It’s my mid-life attempt to compensate for having dropped out of my freshman #poetry course (and thereby aborted my English degree). I dropped out because I couldn’t “hear” syllable stress the way the other students could; scansion might as well have been foreign magic for how much difficulty it caused me.

This is a fun book. I’ve consumed it slowly, and I’ve learned a lot. Unfortunately, one of the things I’ve learned is that I really don’t seem to hear these things the same way that others do. Oh well. At least I now know why the only volume of poetry I own was a gift. 🤷‍♀️📚

Oh my, a whole list of #bakeneko (demon/ghost cat) films.

https://letterboxd.com/threepenny/list/bakeneko-or-ghost-cat-viewing-list/

This is why I love #Letterboxd so much: every #film is a gateway to hand-curated lists of conceptually-related films—genealogies along every imaginable vector.

@semidetached I love the idea of this person being me tonight!

@revoluciana And now so too are we! 🎶

@marcin too much sense. 😅

@tillybridges 😂 Nicely played.

@bradknowles@hachyderm.io @Cdespinosa You’re actually dead on: the original sketch was done by Foss for Jodorowsky’s Dune (a spice hauler, I believe). Foss recycled the design for an early draft of the Alien script, when the Nostromo was still called the Leviathan.

So, what we’re looking at is Dune prepro manifested as Alien prepro, which makes it all the more special to me. 👫

@vickyinglis13 this is literally all I’ve asked for every Christmas from childhood to today. 😂

I’m surprised how calm I kept myself as the gentleman cut away the old frame and used a razor blade to scrape the masking tape off of a 45 year-old piece of tracing paper.

When I first showed it to him, he asked, “is that from #Alien!?” I was honestly caught off guard: I thought this was about as deep a cut as someone could make, but a stranger got it in one.

I ultimately went with a reddish gold shadow box with the artifact floating slightly over a light cream matte.

Exiting, the gentlemen who’d helped me told me, “one of the joys in this business is when something like this comes through—getting to see this up close makes my December.”

Nicely played. 😘

@e_er1n @rooster This. Increasingly, rapidly accelerating _this_.