About to be initiated

[mysid]

I'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, 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.

Comments

[jadis31.livejournal.com]

here (http://www.absolutelyric.com/a/view/10,000_Maniacs/Because_The_Night/) are the lyrics. I don't know that I've ever heard that song, but it sounded a lot like my dear little Bagoas to me. It's strange how well I like him sometimes, and how much I want to slap him most of the time... then again, I do feel much the same way about Alexander.

I haven't read Robin's Alexander, but I heard some really positive things about it... and I am so looking forward to her new Xenophon book. Like, I am drooling waiting for it. My fingers are twitching a little. It's not good.

You know I support your Fake accusition. Selfish bugger, aren't I? ;P

Love and Anticipation,
Jo

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I'd found the lyrics elsewhere, but the last line wasn't what I was hearing. The other site matched better in a few other lines though.

I'm glad someone else thought it sounded like our "Love me or I shall die" eunuch friend.

[vixenette.livejournal.com]

I'm about to be initiated into the FAKE fandom

OMG, if you read it and get sucked into the void like it, then we can squeal together over the Remus-y/Sirius-y Ryo/Dee hotness! Yay! :D

If you write some FAKE fiction? I would love you forever. (Oh, wait...I already do.)

allisonblair is supposed to be sending all of my volumes 1-7 and my anime movie sometime soon. If you read volume one and I get those back, I could send you all the rest and the movie to watch if you'd like. Anything to feed you to the FAKE void get you hooked rot your brain with manga characters get all excited over NC-17 rated two-dimensional male/male smut help you out, my dear! :D

*sorry, I had to delete my first post due to stupid error on my part*