your joy is my low

So my pictures from fanmixing yesterday made me think...

Under this cut, I cast five Stephen King books (along with rambles and reasonings). These are dream-castings, obviously, since they will never happen and some of them can't happen (like casting River Phoenix or a younger Jensen Ackles). Also, The Dark Half already has a movie, yes, but I had a wacked-out dream about this casting and it flipped me out and I would kill to see it. It would be THE BEST THING EVER.

LOL, what the shit is this casting Zac Efron twice? Of all people, Zac Efron? XD And if I ended up casting Duma Key as well then I would've casted the whole Winchester family! Hehe~ I can't for the life of me think of anyone for Wireman though. IDEAS, ANYONE?

YAY FOR SEXCELLENT PEOPLE UNDER THE CUT. :O

( Lisey's Story, Bag of Bones, The Long Walk, The Dark Half & Cell )

I think that was bad cause now I want to go reread this hot, hot stuff all over again. Along with Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Needful Things... *continues to ramble off books*


<3333333333333333333333333333 WHAT.

So I'm switching between Needful Things by Stephen King and then his new short story collection Just After Sunset -- I'm absolutely loving both.

"Willa", the first story in JPS, turned me into a mushy little puddle of goo cause it was so gorgeous. It's funny, cause I read that and it was sweet and genuine and adorable and just dude (King admitted he was a romantic -- with "Willa", Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story, I see it and love it)...

Then I turn to Needful Things (which I will admit, was kind of slow for me at first) and two women have just stormed out of their houses, pissed off and in some sort of daze, met on a street corner and hacked each other to death -- one with a cleaver and the other with a knife. The Sheriff, Mister Alan Pangborn (NEEDFUL THINGS AND DARK HALF, REPRESENT), shows up and knows there's something else going on besides just, "LOL that bitch imma kill her" and suddenly I can't put this book down. LELAND GAUNT, YOU CARD.

(Leland would totally have green eyes when I went to see him. And he would probably sell me a first edition of "The Long Walk" or something -- then he would have me pull a prank and I would get killed in no time flat. SORRY, LELAND.)

KING, WHY ARE YOU SO AWESOME?


LOL: "It occurred to me that in the eighties, everything had come with a price tag, that the decade quite literally was the sale of the century. The final items up on the block had been honor, integrity, self-respect, and innocence... I decided to turn the eighties into a small-town curio shop called Needful Things and see what happened."

So, I think next summer see_aphy_be and I are gonna take a vacation to Maine. Why? Because it is pretty. But mostly, because we are nerds. Super duper nerds. You know what else is totally nerdy? We will bring costumes (and by costumes I mean regular clothes that pass as costumes -- cause it's STEPHEN KING). How fucking cool and dorky would it be to get pictures as Peter McVries and Art Baker in front of the WELCOME TO VAN BUREN, MAINE sign, on Route 1, where the Long Walk is started every year? YES. Although, we would have to make non-bloody versions of the costumes. We wouldn't want to flip out the locals. D:

So yeah, then stuff up in Caribou and Presque Isle. Then we would totally hit up Derry Bangor and be like, "LOL STEPHEN KING LIVES AROUND HERE", but we won't stalk cause we're not that bad (really?). But also in Bangor we would putz around the city -- oh oh oh and hit up all the landmarks that are in Stephen King's fictional town of Derry, Maine -- which is his version of Bangor. Like stuff from It and Insomnia. Then we will find a lake and be like, "LOL, Dark Score Lake" and train tracks and be like, "LOL THE BODY." WE CAN EVEN GO TO LUDLOW AND BE LIKE "OH HAY THADDEUS BEAUMONT AND CHURCH THE CAT WUT?"

Then we can go to exactly where Castle Rock should be (Map from King's official site, OH SNAP!) and FIND A FIELD TO CAMP IN. MAYBE WE WILL GET KILLED BY A CLOWN. OR A CAR. OR A DOG. OR GEORGE STARK. <3

We will also have to drive the Acadia Harbors and Heights loop. IT EVEN SAYS SO ON THE MAINE TOURISM WEBSITE.

EFFING EFF LFJDSFKSFJDK: http://www.bettsbooks.com/ -- WE MUST GO.

- ORIGINAL BACHMAN FIRST EDITONS: THE LONG WALK - US First - NF $125.00
- Lisey's Story - Scribner 2006 US - Proof Unsigned Fine $190.00
- McSWEENEY' ENCHANTED CHAMBER OF ASTONISHING STORIES - King short story. "Lisey and the Madman" - In stock $13.95

JKFSKSFJLW(aUY@*(9390485ie WHAT. Okay. Okay. OKAY. The actual magazine with the short story in it, I could so afford that and want DO WANT DO WANT because LISEY LISEY LISEY FIRST APPEARANCE (it's really an excerpt from the book awhile before it came out -- but it was the first HURRAH of Scott and Lisey -- and you know how much I adore them). But that first edition of the Long Walk. Holy SKHUIHIAJDSK:DK. IF IT'S THIS ONE AND IT'S STILL THERE WHEN WE GO THEN SOMEONE BETTER HIDE IT. D:


SWEET SHIT LOOK AT MARVEL'S NEW COVER ART AND GROSS GROSS ART FOR THE STAND COMICS. JDFJKSJDF FANGASM. NICK ANDROS PLZ. (Frannie actually looks really cute! Yay for getting Molly Ringwald's silly hair and whiny whine taste out of my mouth!)

ALSO, Finally, there is a third King adaptation we are working on with Samuel L. Jackson...but we can't say much about this for another couple months.

WHAT WHAT WHAT? TEEHEHEHEHE~

Allllright, this is bad. You know how much I love me some Jacen Solo and Peter McVries. As far as characters from books go these two always take the cake. But on this readthrough of Lisey's Story, Scott Landon is looking more and more perfect and amazing.

In the case of Peter, we get background on him, sure (not enough jafksfjd). And it's all interesting and his snarky quotes and just everything about him is all kinds of YES. He has his flaws, he has is strengths. And then he's gone.

Jacen Solo, on the other hand, has had so many author's fingers all over him that he's gone from one end of the spectrum to the other and seems like a completely different character at different points in his life. So while I <3 him, he doesn't seem to evoke the same emotion from me that he did in his real years where he was questioning Every Single Thing and being unlike Every Other Jedi out there (kdjakfjaksfjdsd Traitor <3).

Then we get to Scott Landon. With Peter, there wasn't enough and with Jacen there was too much. Scott is like the little bear's junk and I'm Goldilocks and he's just right. He's human. His flaws make sense (*cough* Take note Jacen Solo).

And every little thing wrong with him makes him that much more endearing. The fact that we get to see it all through the eyes of someone who loves him so much despite his flaws (kjfksjfd I love Lisey <3) makes it even better. Sure, Scott cuts the shit out of his hand one night and swears they don't need to go to the emergency room, then he wakes Lisey up at four in the morning talking about, "WE NEED TO BUY A HOUSE. NO WAIT, THAT'S BACKWARDS. LET'S GET MARRIED." Sure, his hair's getting a little too long and he gnaws on his nails like a rat when he's reading and his teeth are a little crooked and he doesn't shut up when he gets to talking.

But he's a mean fry cook, he's had a shitty childhood that he shares with the one person he loves (as well as sharing a trip to that place), and he takes all of Lisey's words to heart. Families suck -- he tells her this as he wraps his bloody arm around her and kisses her temple.

This is the shit I LOVE reading about a character. Little odd things that make them more human.

If there was more Peter, I think Peter would take it all in this race. He's tragically and perfectly shaped and fleshed out, but there's not enough of him. Jacen, if LotF never happened, might take this spot as well -- in fact he has for awhile. But now he has this depressingly bitter aftertaste thing going (which makes me sad).

On this readthrough of Lisey's Story I think LITTLE SCOOT Scott is doing some complete pwnage. D:

I want my own Scott Landon.

Except you know, without the pneumonia eating of the fruit after sunset.

(It was tuned to the 50's on 5, and Lisey wasn't exactly surprised to hear "Sh-boom." Not The Chords, though; this was the cover version, recorded by a quartet Scott had insisted on calling The Four White Boys. Except when he was drunk. Then he called them The Four Cleancut Honkies.)

STEPHEN KING, WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME? <3 XD

LOL, I love people (who call themselves Stephen King "fans") complaining about Lisey's Story. There were some choice ones on IMDB today. Hahaha~

"UGH. THE LANGUAGE IN THIS BOOK. AND IT WAS SO ANNOYING THE WAY IT JUMPED FROM FLASHBACK TO FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK AND OMG THIS BOOK SUCKS SO HARD IT HAS NO STORYLINE. WHAT THE HELL IS A BOOL? WHAT WAS KING THINKING WHEN HE RELEASED THIS?!?"

Don't bash it because you're too DUH DUH WHAT? to follow it. Sure, the timeline jumps around a little. But it's not like it's that hard to follow.

Here is Lisey Landon in 2006. Here is Lisey thinking about something that happened in the past -- which is Scott telling her about something that happened in his past. It's not that fucking difficult.

Just because there's no clown or dog or car after the main character's blood doesn't mean the BOOK IS HOLY CRAP HORRENDOUSLY HORRIBLE.

GROW A BRAIN. And the next time you call a friend or a loved one by a nickname I will be sure to say, "UGH YOU ARE HORRIBLE AND YOU SUCK. WHAT WAS YOUR MOTHER THINKING WHEN SHE HAD YOU? YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE YOUR OWN WAY OF SPEAKING TO PEOPLE YOU'RE CLOSE TO. YOU'RE A CRAPPY HUMAN."

:|


SPOILERS FOR LISEY'S STORY BELOW, HUR HUR.






(Also, in defense of Scott Landon and his deteriorating poise and grammar in his speech about the Landon family, I'd like you to talk normally to your wife when you tell her about your thirteen-year-old brother going insane and your father shooting him in the head -- and then your father trying to kill you with a pickaxe -- and then later taking that same pickaxe to your father's skull while he's sleeping -- and all this happening while you're ten years old. I DARE YOU TO TALK NORMAL. D:)

If there's one thing that can get my mind off of anything and everything, it's a good book.

And this is me professing my love to Stephen King's brain again. I finished Duma Key at 5 this morning. All I can bring myself to say is Wow. Actually, make that WOW.

(When Edgar when back to Big Pink alone right near the end and found who what he expected, duuuuuude. ;-;)

You know The Long Walk is my favorite King book ever -- but Duma Key, Lisey's Story and Bag of Bones are all trying to claw it out of the top spot. D: These three books are holycrapsomuchawesome and I love his books that are like this. The ones where there's no actual super-serious immediate visual threat (such as dog/dead pet/car/crazy ass possessed husband/clown/randall flagg/guns/alter-ego killing machine/etc., not that I don't love those, but you know what I mean) -- any immediate visual threat (such as John Dooley/"Zack McCool" or Max Devore) are by far nowhere near the worst thing that the main protagonist (Edgar Freemantle/Lisey Landon/Mike Noonan) has to face (although I would argue for Lisey and the... can opener).

The protagonists are effing incredible, but it's also the life he puts in the main supporters -- like Jerome Wireman, Scott Landon and Mattie Devore -- that absolutely kill me. Jerome and the gun and the fruit -- plus Jesus-Krispies ("Wireman, did you just say Jesus-Krispies?" -- "Don't change the subject.") -- Scott and his bools, his bloody hand, his new underwear promise and Boo'ya Moon. Mattie and little Kyra, and how damn optimistic she could be even after all the shit Max (and that hole of a town) put her through. sdjfjadkfjaskfjdsdaf MY GOODNESS.

Not to mention Elizabeth Eastlake (her family), Perse (*shudder*), Ilse (._. <333333), Jack Cantori ("Jack Cantori ripped the seat of his pants. Now shut up a minute."), Amanda Debusher (Southwind), Paul Landon (oh my gawd the GROWLING), Jo (what was in her purse D:), Sara Tidwell (her fate) -- I could go on and on forever about this TRIPTYCH OF AMAZING.

But the bottom line is this. If you've read two of them, finish out the three. If you've only read one, pick up the others. If you haven't read any, go for it. They're heartwrenching and haunting and absolutely gorgeous.

("I like you, Edgar. You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass."

"Beautiful. I may cry. Listen, Wireman..." <3)



And oh my crap yo -- SK: "I think that both The Mist and 1408 from last year are really good movies and both are based on shorter works. When you get a long book it’s kinda like trying to stuff everything into a suitcase and that can be very difficult. Duma Key has been optioned for movies and it may actually become a movie but I was surprised that it happened because it’s a story that has so much plot in it, it would really have to be simplified. Lisey’s Story on the other hand would make a great TV miniseries if it was done in the right way." I would absolutely die of happy.

( George Stark is a mighty fine BEEYATCH -- and he gets the best quote in The Dark Half, which is under this cut. )

Oh, King. <3

Also, Lisey's Story fanmix tomorrow. XD

And The Mist trailer! YAY PEOPLE TURNING AGAINST EACH OTHER (Mrs. Carmody is such a bitch). AND I LOVES ME SOME FRANK DARABONT. I can't wait till he gets to the Long Walk movie. zomomomomgomgogmg guh.

OH AND 1408 COMES OUT ON DVD ON OCTOBER 2ND MUST BUY FDI JKFDJ FKS so good.

I finished the book in the car in the parking lot today on my lunch break. Dude.

FJKHDhajkhsdjfhasjdfh j hajsdfh THIS BOOK.

Here is my spoiler-free gush of Stephen King's Lisey's Story! Just for you! And you all know how much I love spoilers for everything, so that is how bad I want anyone and everyone to pick this book up -- I'm keeping spoilers away! NO WAI!!111 XD

First off, here is your spoiler-free summary that is more professional than my gushing (maybe cause it's a publisher's summary, hurrr)! Just so you know what the book is actually about. ;D

Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey knew there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.

Book = Wow. I don't really know what else to say. D:

All the shit that Scott Landon went through and all the ways he shared it with Lisey and the actual Lisey's Story, I can't even fangasm enough. They way everything fit together and meshed was great. I also love all the little tidbits here and there on the words they use to/for each other and the little idioms Scott and Lisey had (SOWISA, Scott's hair, "Reality is Ralph!", the "african" blanket, bool!, etc.) -- at first you're like, "What the shit...?" And I know a lot of people couldn't get over all the things like that thrown in because they must not know how to immerse themselves in a book. :P I love the fact that Scott got Lisey saying "smuck/smucking/smuck this" in place of "fuck/fucking/fuck this" -- I find myself using "smuck" now.

Also, the way Lisey calls back to all these moments in their lives. Germany where "anything and everything that could go wrong went wrong", Nashville where Deep Space Cowboy GAC pulled a gun on Scott (not a spoiler! XD), the childhood recollections from Pennsylvania, and I don't even want to get into Kentucky. ;-; Then the trips to Boo'ya Moon. Holy crap. Gorgeous. Don't even get me started on the insanity that is the Debusher sisters either. Lisey, Amanda, Darla and Cantata (and even Jodi XD) are like the epitome of sister. It is perfect. XD

And this wouldn't be Stephen King without blood and the crazy, yes? Yes! (Which is why we love! <333) Let's just say there is Lisey, a fucker smucker "named" "Zack McCool" and a can opener. I could totally feel her pain just by reading about it. kdfjl;asklfjdaksjdf It still makes me hurt. And it fits in with the story, yessssss. Pain. D:

Of course, it also wouldn't be Stephen King without all the crazy, raw human emotion -- much like that found in The Body (which later was adapted to become Stand By Me. LEECHES!) and The Long Walk, which is another reason I'm in love with this book. It's about love, loss and the beauty of the human imagination. Stephen King's version of a love story. And GOOD LORD what a story it is. LOOOOOOOOVE.

(OMG and when you get to that flashback, the one you know is coming throughout the whole book and you're dreading it and dreading it but you still want to know how it happened... damn. I felt like stupid Whiny Amber from Big Brother cause I was bawling, yo. I was reading the book in bed laying down, and there was like a puddle of tears pooling at my collarbone. D: I WAS ALL WIBBLY. And then of course, the next day I go to work with huge ["Puffickly huh-yooge" -- as Scott Landon would say] puffy eyes and all the while I'm thinking, "MOOOOORE. I WANT TO READ MOOOOOOOOORE. GIVE ME THE BOOOOOOOOOK~")

So yeah, when I get back from D*C, expect a fanmix for this book -- as well as the one for The Long Walk. The songs are all finished for both, I just need all my quotes from Lisey's Story. And to finish all the covers. The Long Walk cover only needs 19 more boys! 19! I have 81 on there and it's taking fucking smucking FOREVER. BUT... LOVE. XD

SCOTT + LISEY = OTP, AMIRITE. They are the definition, yo. And again, husband like Scott, plz.

P.S. I am totally getting married on November 19th. And since the first Saturday that is November 19th is in 2011, that will be my wedding day. OKAY. SET. (I totally feel like Elliot from Scrubs with all her wedding plans a billion years before she needs them. XD)

P.S.S. The reason Scott and Lisey wouldn't have kids made me cry like a bitch. D:

OKAY SERIOUSLY I'M SPENT. I HIGHLY RECCCCCOOOOMMMMMEND THIS BOOOOOK LIEK WOOT. Yo.

(P.S.S.S. Everything the same. I love you. OMG ;-;!)