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About to be initiated
Jul. 14th, 2004 12:50 pmI'm about to be initiated into the FAKE fandom--I just ordered Vol. 1 online. (I tried to find it in a local store, but no luck.) This is all your fault, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vixenette!
I'm having one of those "song stuck in my head" weeks. This time it's "Because the Night." I've been listening to it every chance I get, memorizing it, and going around the house singing it. My kids are getting fully sick of it. "Stop singing, Mommy!" Can anyone tell me the last line? Maybe if I knew that, I could finally stop.
(Who does the song remind me of? Alexander and Bagoas.)
I just borrowed Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox from the library. Apparently, it's the Alexander biography that was used as the primary source for the upcoming movie Alexander. I'm really enjoying it so far. It neither whitewashes Alexander's character (the way narrator-Bagoas does in Renault's novel) nor goes overboard the other direction the way some other biographies do.
A typical bit, he points out that immediately after taking the throne, Alexander had his cousin Amyntas (who had an equal or better claim to the throne) killed, but emphasizes that this was "normal behaviour" and "expected" of him.
vixenette!I'm having one of those "song stuck in my head" weeks. This time it's "Because the Night." I've been listening to it every chance I get, memorizing it, and going around the house singing it. My kids are getting fully sick of it. "Stop singing, Mommy!" Can anyone tell me the last line? Maybe if I knew that, I could finally stop.
(Who does the song remind me of? Alexander and Bagoas.)
I just borrowed Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox from the library. Apparently, it's the Alexander biography that was used as the primary source for the upcoming movie Alexander. I'm really enjoying it so far. It neither whitewashes Alexander's character (the way narrator-Bagoas does in Renault's novel) nor goes overboard the other direction the way some other biographies do.
A typical bit, he points out that immediately after taking the throne, Alexander had his cousin Amyntas (who had an equal or better claim to the throne) killed, but emphasizes that this was "normal behaviour" and "expected" of him.