Mar. 25th, 2012

gwynnega: (coffee poisoninjest)
It is Henna Day, and it is raining plentifully in L.A. I'm looking forward to rinsing the wet henna out of my hair. Yesterday I got a superb haircut from my genius hairdresser (so there is far less hair to slather with henna than there's been in awhile).

I'm reading Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand and Susie Bright's memoir Big Sex Little Death (which is available for free Kindle download this weekend in honor of Susie Bright's birthday).

Last night I watched House of Dracula (1945), which [personal profile] handful_ofdust blogged about recently. I think it's the only one of that batch of 1930s-40s Universal monster films I didn't see when I was a kid. An odd movie, in which the kindly scientist (Onslow Stevens) trying to devamp Dracula (John Carradine) via blood transfusions ends up getting his own blood contaminated by Drac-blood and turns, not into a straight-up vampire, but a sort of vampire/Jekyll-Hyde/mad scientist combo. The movie features what was probably the silliest appearance of Frankenstein's monster to date. The scientist only manages to bring the monster (Glenn Strange) back to life near the end of the movie--whereupon the monster lunges at Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), who the scientist had cured of lycanthropy via brain surgery (!) earlier in the film. Talbot sets the lab on fire, and Frankenstein's monster perishes in the flames after only being alive again for maybe five minutes. Heh.

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