Succumbing to temptation

[cimorene]

I just picked up Clueless, Labyrinth, Bend It Like Beckham, and Stardust all put together for 32 bucks! I couldn't stop when I saw Stardust in the get-it-for-8-bucks-once-you-spend-18 pile, and srsly - valley girls, David Bowie's traumatising trousers WITH MUPPETS, sweet soccer-playing lesbian Keira Knightley, and Neil Gaiman. Wax is going to frown at me, and maybe mock me, and maybe make pointed remarks, because yesterday I almost didn't let her buy a casserole dish that we really, really needed because I said we were spending too much money. I didn't even go to CDON to buy anything, I went to see if I could find sheet music for Finnish folk tunes (I couldn't, and also I don't know what a folk tune is called in Finnish: feel free to enlighten me, Finnish dudes. I found Femtio Svenska Folkvisor at Adlibris and Akateeminen, however. But I didn't buy them - I was strong. Stronger than I was yesterday when I bought Georgette Heyer's Regency World, and stronger than I was ten minutes later when I bought all the above-mentioned movies).

Comments

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I heartily approve of those DVDs. :D

That Heyer book might come in handy while researching my gender-bending-with-swords Regency idea. I mean, I've tracked down some history books and such, but I kind of flail on where to start, and this might be a good beginning point. Hmmmm.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Being a passionate Heyer addict, I'm lapping it up! It's arranged by categories as that page informs you, so useful for reference. That's the UK edition at the site, by Arrow. They've probably got it in the biographies-of-writers section or the history section of a store somewhere near you, if not your actual bookstore.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

There's also a book on the period based on Austen called Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners or something like that which is much less comprehensive but focuses tightly on, well, manners. Also entertaining.