'Stick with me, Gordie," Chris said in a low, shaky voice. 'Stick with me, man.'
'I'm right here.'
–Quédate conmigo, Gordie -me dijo Chris con voz trémula y baja-. Quédate a mi lado amigo.
–Estoy aquí.
We both dated through high school, but no girl ever came between us. Does that sound like we went faggot? It would have to most of our old friends, Vern and Teddy included. But it was only survival. We were clinging to each other in deep water. I've explained about Chris, I think; my reasons for clinging to him were less definable. His desire to get away from Castle Rock and out of the mill's shadow seemed to me to be my best part, and I could not just leave him to sink or swim on his own. If he had drowned, that part of me would have drowned with him, I think.
Salimos durante todo el bachillerato, pero no hubo jamás una chica entre nosotros. ¿Puede dar eso la impresión de que éramos maricas? Eso habrían pensado casi todos nuestros antiguos amigos, incluidos Vern y Teddy. Pero era sólo cuestión de supervivencia. Ambos estábamos en apuros y nos aferrábamos el uno al otro.
Creo que ya he explicado el caso de Chris; mis motivos para aferrarme a él no eran tan precisos. Su deseo de salir de Castle Rock y de la sombra de la fábrica me parecía que era lo mejor de mí, mi mejor parte, y no podía dejarle flotar o hundirse a su suerte. Si él se hubiera ahogado, creo que aquella parte mía se habría ahogado también con él.
"Suck my fat one"--whoever told you you had a fat one, Lachance?'
'Biggest one in four counties,' I said. I was shaking all over.
We looked at each other warmly for a second, and then, maybe embarrassed by what we were seeing, looked down together.
–«Chúpame la gorda…» ¿Quién te dijo que la tenías gorda, Lachance?
–La más grande de cuatro condados -le dije. Temblaba de pies a cabeza.
Nos miramos un instante con afecto. Luego tal vez avergonzados por lo que veíamos, bajamos la vista a un tiempo.
Texts from the book The Body (El Cuerpo) by Stephen King.
Images from the movie adaptation Stand by Me (Cuenta Conmigo).
Images from the movie adaptation Stand by Me (Cuenta Conmigo).
It is such a pity that Chris Chambers didn't get old both in the story and in real life.
King writes about his tender, luminous smile and he provides in every key scene.
I have recently finished The Body (Cuenta conmigo) and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Cadena Perpetua). I didn't know both belonged to the same collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). Shawshank is mentioned a couple of times in The Body.
I have noticed there is a different number of deaths in both books and movie adaptations. Nobody commits suicide or is killed in Shawshank, and both Teddy and Vern die young and crazy in The Body.
Once again I see that Stephen King has written amazing male friendships, bording queerness sometimes, as he himself describes, but deeply touching and unforgettable. I wonder whether he had one of those himself, or wished hard for it. On Writing, his memoir, focuses more on his wife and family, BUT.
Regarding male friendship and beautiful men, there is another 80's icon that I keep loving like the first day. Actually, nowadays no one dares dress as simple as this on TV and be so happy, do they? There's mostly suits and Sunday dresses and layers of heavy make-up. Unless they are quite lost in a not-so-desert-island or breaking bad.
Nida x Chocoboy!? WHY!? I guess I must read to find out but I don't know if I am brave AND patient enough. It's almost over 90000!!!
My Dearest Holmes, first published by GMP in 1988 and re-published by the author in 2007. MDH excited much controversy when it first appeared, and over twenty years later it continues to provoke fierce debate amongst Sherlock Holmes afficionados. It explores the feelings of Dr Watson for his famous friend, and is set against the background of the criminalisation of male homosexuality in England during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Dr. Watson goes emo and spends time in gay bars. I liked the outcome of the Reichenbach Falls, though. And the way Watson and Mary were just beards to each other. I was convinced this book was post-Sherlock until I learnt it was written in 1988. The author must be having the time of her life with the renewed fandom.
Today, the most recent Sherlock Holmes movie has opened up the debate about the relationship between Holmes and Watson yet again; and this non-explicit romance captures the subtext of the original Doyle stories both delicately and persuasively.
Another SH-related book I read recently was The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, recommended by
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datenshi_blue. That was also an interesting read, and an engaging new case, if only with a very sordid conclusion.
I had only watched Ironman I and hated the guts of Tony Stark, but I admit he was the best damned thing of this movie, together with the script. Robert Downey Jr. (always as himself) reminded me of a mix between Tyrion Lannister and Lost's Sawyer with all those nickname and puns. The script was filled with those random awesome details that make a movie memorable, like in the good old times. I am only familiar with the Young Avengers, so I don't know how much they've butchered these characters, but I liked them all. P.S.: Loki was the cutest. P.S.2: Alien's Brett was there to ask Hulk/Bruce whether he was an Alien.
Since we were at it and tickets are insultingly expensive nowadays, we moved on to the next cinema room to watch:
Battleship
A movie based on the board game, with Aliens. That's pretty much it. Ah, no! Gorgeous Alexander Skarsgard was in it, right after I had watched his father Stellan in the previous movie. Until we learnt that Hopper was his brother, I was sure he had a deep, unrequited crush on him. Rihanna and the red-head were cute too. Andy Roddick's wife was there for the show... of the boy-girl-daddy triangle we had already seen in Armageddon, but unlike Bruce Willis, who gets bloody even in romantic comedies, Liam Neeson seemed to be there just to put his face and name on the cover.
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Este finde fui a ver sesión doble by the face. Los Vengadores me encantó, Battleship... se dejó ver y punto, ahí lo dejo. En cuanto a la primera, detestaba a Tony Stark hasta que Robert Downey Jr. se puso en plan mezcla de Tyrion Lannister y Sawyer, el mote-ador de Perdidos, y me convenció. Además, había buena química, cuando no hostias, entre los personajes, y el guión es de esos a la antigua que meten pullas y detalles por doquier, como debe ser. La recomiendo ver en cine.
From Amazon:
Through letters, notes, report cards, matchbook covers, and telegrams, a novel set in the 1940s follows the sometimes underhanded efforts of Joey Margolis, a fatherless twelve year old, to persuade New York Giants third baseman Charlie Banks to be his role model.
This book has made my week, in spite of the headaches due to the lack of sleep. I couldn't put it down, I was laughing in bed way past midnight. The brat is an endearing bastard, and the style is completely addictive. Humorous even at the onset of WWII with all its consequences. I recommend it to you all for an awesome reading time.
Thanks to
mahoshi for discovering this author for me. I am currently hooked to Almost Like Being in Love, which is more of the same, only gay-themed in the Percy-Oliver fashion: the jock and the nerd. I'm lovin' it.[ES]
Me ha encantado este libro. Me he reído muchísimo. Si podéis encontrarlo, os lo recomiendo sinceramente. El niño cabrón se las trae, y el estilo en cartas, notas de prensa y mensajes, está muy bien montado para no perderte detalle. Esta semana he perdido sueño y ganado dolores de cabeza por leerlo en la cama, ¡pero ha merecido la pena!
UPDATES as of April 26th
- Organized fandoms alphabetically- Updated the codes for the zips and posts
- Added the following files:
-- Eyeshield21
♥ Golden Liner (Shin x Sena, gag)
♥ Kurikomu Bomber (Kurita & Komusubi)
--Harry Potter
♥ Long Vacation (Twins x Percy)
♥ Mahou-tsukai no Diamond (Bill x Charlie)
--Prince of Tennis
Yoko Fujitani
♥ Please Sey (Ryokai)
♥ Congratulations (PiyoGaku)
Showko Kanegae
♥ Kuma no Daigoro ga nekoronda nowa? aka Furry Shuusuke (FujiKiku)
Various
♥ Hyoutei Gasshuku Midnight
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It's the first time I use zippyshare, so tell me if there is any problem, please!
Ya la he visto dos veces, una en español ("¡Píta-mela!") y otra en V.O.
( A mí me ha encantado. )
¿A vosotros qué os ha parecido?
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Did you like The Hunger Games movie?
( I did. )
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source: 9gag.com
That pic is so wrong and yet so funny.
Recently, I re-watched the four Alien movies with some friends, and one pointed out to me that in Alien 3 (1993) Ellen Ripley sleeps with a young Tywin Lannister.
I still don't like that movie, but it was a nice surprise. In Resurrection, after losing both man and kid (girl) and throwing herself to the fire, Ripley is reborn/cloned to become a mother of Aliens. Funny how GRRM is an Alien fan who was so pissed about the sequels he refused to watch them, and we know that thanks to a certain post against fanfiction and how sad he was about the turn of events between the second and third movie: (emphasis added)
F'rinstance, I have never seen the third ALIENS movie. I loved ALIEN and ALIENS, but when I read the early reviews of ALIENS 3, and learned that the new movie was going to open by killing Newt and... what was his name, the Michael Biehn character?...[HICKS] well, I was f*cking outraged. I never went to the film because I did not want that sh*t in my head. I had come to love Newt in the preceding movie, the whole damn film was about Ripley rescuing her, the end was deeply satisfying... and now some asshole was going to come along and piss all over that just to be shocking. I have never seen the subsequent Aliens films either, since they are all part of a fictional "reality" that I refuse to embrace. Not even the film with Ron Perlman in it, and Ron is a both a friend and an actor I greatly admire.
Thing is, it hasn't worked. Though I've avoided seeing the films, the reviews I read still poisoned the well. I know too much about what happens in ALIENS 3. I know Newt dies. And just that little bit of knowledge has seriously crimped my ability to enjoy ALIENS itself. It's still a fine, exciting film, but now when I get to the end, when Newt is climbing into the tube and asking Ripley if she'll dream, instead of the frisson of emotional satisfaction that I used to get, the little teardrop at the corner of my eye, I remember, "F*ck, Newt has an alien inside her, she's going to die," and I get pissed off and sour all over again.
Funny too how he talks about "just to be shocking", when he practices such shocks galore, but well, unlike the Alien movies, which are noticeably the work of different people, his books are his alone to play and shock with.
I now wonder if Arya takes after Newt in some way...
The real point here is that I wholeheartedly agree with him in several things of the above. I think, though, that Resurrection is a very cool movie, and General Perez has always been my personal image of Stannis Baratheon. But it will always come at the price of having Hicks and Newt killed, which sucks unbearably. They were such a lovable improptu family. They even had their pet cyborg Bishop... T_T
