silly mythy
I’ve been thinking waaaaaay too hard and way too much lately, and I am tired and not a little sick, so today you get mythy media links!
- First up: a new upcoming TNA wrestling star named Andromeda! This is possibly the most ridiculous thing related to mythology on the web, and I tried to close the tab on my browser and save you from the knowing of it. I tried *really* hard. But you know, sharing dilutes the pain.
- You can now get the entire Watchmen comic book on DVD. I thought this was really intriguing. It’s a limited motion technique done on every single Watchmen panel, narrated by “Tom Stechschulte’s gin-soaked, film-noir voice.” This sounded rather intriguing to me. I’ve not read the comic (yet) nor have I seen the movie (yet), but I hear there is no little bit of Greek myth roots to be found in them. Though to be frank, the link I find more interesting for the curious advancement of printed media onto screen.
- This article is fantastico: Italian Peplums & Fusto Films: Muscleman Adventure/Fantasy Overview Part 3. The reviewer gets into Richard Harrison films and the entire genre of low-budget B-movie mythology re-hacks galore. It’ll have you dusting off your copy of Clash of the Titans and throwing it in the VCR…..
- An interesting book review about a forthcoming novel that is a re-telling of the Persephone tale: Radient Darkness. It sounds interesting, and the psychology behind it is sound. The entire maiden-queen-crone triple-goddess theme behind Persephone is a tricky one, and from a psychological point of view, modern readings of Persephone symbolizing the need for the young girl to assert her independence from her mother (i.e., Persephone didn’t get carried off against her will, she was really just flirting with the Bad Boy) is perfectly valid. The validation hangs on those six pomegranate seeds. If Persephone knew the no-eating-food-in-the-Underworld rule (and clearly she did, or she would have eaten anything she wanted to eat), why eat the seeds? Author Emily Whitman contends that it was out of rebellion…..
And two last links that are thinky. I tried not to go here, but these posts were so interesting….
An article claiming that science and religion need to stop throwing themselves at each other’s throats. I couldn’t agree more, but for slightly different reasons than stated in CJ’s article. I posted as such, so go check it out…he does have some interesting things to say.
Okay, and this post on literature, history, and literary criticism is really well done and I really want to have important things to say about it, but this evening my brain can’t coherent its way to a response that would be nearly erudite enough to make my point. But it makes fascinating food for thought so I didn’t want to let it slip by. I’ll try again with it tomorrow.
