ghost ([info]twitchycat) wrote,
@ 2002-08-21 10:18:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Current mood: blah

bulletins from bedlam
Cleaned the house yesterday, and listened to the "Phantom" soundtrack the entire time as Dad borrowed my car to get the brakes checked and all my good cds were in there. I love the Phantom's laugh. It makes me go all smiley for some reason. During the performance of "Il Muto", for example, when he makes Carlotta's voice turn into that of a toad...immediatly after, he just sniggers, and it's so weird and happy-sounding and insane. I love it.

I mean, it's not his fault that he's utterly bugfuck. And he sounds so cute when he laughs. I want to pat him on his little scarred head. Which is not weird at all. Nope.

Hm, my hair is being weird today. When I woke up this morning, it was defying all known laws of physics and sticking straight up. It's cooperating now, but I've got my eye on it. You never know when it may do something crazy.

Speaking of crazy...I've become fascinated by the socio-political constructs surrounding treatment of the mentally ill during the Victorian era. It's interesting in a disturbing, car-accident sort of way, and now I want to go and visit all these old insane asylums and read medical records about their patients.

That is all.




(Post a new comment)

Did you know that Carry Grant had a very thick cockneye accent before he became a big movie star?
[info]blaze_o_glory
2002-08-21 05:35 pm UTC (link)
I'm so glad that you are interested in Victorian-age treatment of the mentally ill because I have a question.

I read Carry Grant's biography a few weeks ago (for no good reason), and apparently his father sent his mother away to a mental institution. She suffered from depression, or bi-polar, or something like that, whatever it was it didn't warrant her being institutionalized. Turns out the father just wanted to get rid of her so he could marry his mistress. So, my question is: Is that the sort of thing that happened back in the Victorian-age?

(Reply to this)

(Reply from suspended user)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…