kaniggits

May. 30th, 2007 10:37 am
gwyn: (supposably iconomicon)
[personal profile] gwyn
OK, class, for the last time:

It's Nights in White Satin, not Knights in White Satin. Since the Moody Blues were talking about nights ... never reaching the end, as in, you know, endless nights, I'm pretty sure they didn't have in mind a bunch of fabric-draped members of the order of the British Empire kneeling before the queen to receive their honorific title for acting or singing pop songs, or medieval guys in armor jousting at each other through silky sheets. (OTOH, it was the psychedelic '60s and '70s, so who knows.)

And it's Keira Knightley, not Nightly or Nightley, although lord knows she is appearing nightly at your local gargantuplex in the new Pirates movie. There's a big fat K in front of her name that's kind of hard to miss at 20 feet high.

[And the slashy old dance movie from the '80s with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines? White Nights. NOT White Knights. Because 1) it's not about a couple of white guys acting chivalric and heroic, since, you know, Gregory Hines was black; and 2) it's referring to those ... white nights (doh!) they get in the far north near the Arctic circle in summer, when sun doesn't set. Those nights that never reach the end. You know. Like the song says.]

It's not that hard! /end word rant

Date: 2007-05-30 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kassrachel.livejournal.com
Your icon makes me giggle a lot.

Now I kind of want to see a story called "Knights in White Satin" -- some kind of alarming disco version of the King Arthur story, perhaps? :-)

Date: 2007-05-30 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Oh man. That would be great. Now I'm thinking of some kind of vid treatment -- like, it could be called Knights in White Satin, and we could use some of the song, and then we could vid King Arthur (because, you know, Clive), and maybe even lay a disco track under it...

Date: 2007-05-30 06:02 pm (UTC)
sandrine: (typographical error (TRoA))
From: [personal profile] sandrine
But "Knights in White Satin" sounds very intriguing! :P

Date: 2007-05-30 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
That could be the gay porno version!

Date: 2007-05-30 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carose59.livejournal.com
As a WG fan, let me thank you profusely for this. Not that Vinnie & Sonny wouldn't look cute as knights, but that slashy bit toward the end of the Steelgrave arc is not about that! And--

Oh, wait. You did that rant, & far more eloquently than I could have. *g*

Date: 2007-05-30 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
As I've seen people discover WG lately, I see that come up so often, and now She of the Squint is back in theatres, so it's just been building up a lot...

I owe you an email, long overdue, but I have been trying to dig my way out of this depression and failing miserably. I know you know what I'm talking about, though.

Date: 2007-05-30 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carose59.livejournal.com
I do know exactly what you're talking about, and don't let an overdue email to me weigh on you.

I've actually been feeling quite good for the last few weeks, & I think it's because I've been taking 1200mg of omega-3/omega-6 with each meal. It's supposed to be good for depression, so I figured I'd give it a try. I don't know if it's really working, or if it's placebo effect, or what, but I feel like my base mood has risen from "anxious" to "happy." Anyway, it's something to consider.

Date: 2007-05-30 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ixchel55.livejournal.com
*sporfle*

Date: 2007-05-30 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smithereen.livejournal.com
Icon love! I totally need to forward that to EVERYONE I WORK WITH. :)

Date: 2007-05-30 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sol-se.livejournal.com
Sorry, you don't know me at all, but your icon just made me shriek with joy. I was *just* talking to someone about Infernal Affairs, so your icon caught me off guard. And I ADORE it SO MUCH!

Date: 2007-05-30 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smithereen.livejournal.com
Yay! As soon as I saw that scene I knew I had to make caps cause the post-its, they call to me. Hooray for obscure movie icons! *G*

Date: 2007-05-30 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
The sad part is that it's supposed to be animated, and the second page says "But supposedly is," but for some reason, when I imported it, it wouldn't stay animated. Still, I like it as is, so I haven't tried to fix it, but I should.

Ummm...

Date: 2007-05-30 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Shouldn't that be spelled kaniggets? (The gospel according to Google.)

Jay

Re: Ummm...

Date: 2007-05-30 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Google, schmoogle! It's not a word but a phonetic representation, so I can spell it any way I like! So there!

Date: 2007-05-30 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mystic-savage.livejournal.com
Damn. I was so sure it was Knights in White Satin, which I had conflated with Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale so that when either song plays the mental image I get is of 15 vestal virgins in a room with Knights in white satin. And these knights have arousal problems, thus they "never reach the end".

Date: 2007-05-30 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
I'm tellin' ya, too much acid!

Date: 2007-05-30 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sol-se.livejournal.com
or medieval guys in armor jousting at each other through silky sheets.

Best image ever.

Date: 2007-05-30 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Seriously, I totally think it should be the title of the gay porn movie. If it hasn't already been done, anyway. ;-)

Date: 2007-05-30 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] falzalot.livejournal.com
Hey - I do SCA, and I would love to see a bunch of knights running around in white satin!!! :->

Date: 2007-05-31 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Only if they're HOT knights! Some of the guys I've known in SCA were not people I'd want to see only in white satin...

Date: 2007-05-30 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadymae.livejournal.com
And since we're on the topic and it's small hobby horse of mine: it's Spider-Man. Capital S hyphen capital M. Spider-Man

Not Spiderman, Spider-man, SpiderMan.

Thank you.

Date: 2007-05-31 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Did you ever watch Friends? There was a wonderful scene in one of the older episodes where Phoebe asked Chandler why it wasn't spiderman, like you'd say Goldman or Weisman (or something like that), and Chandler was very indignant and said, "Because he's a spider man. It's not a name" and then Phoebe gets all excited about the prospect of a Gold-man. I loved that -- and with the new movie, I can't even count how many times I've had to add that hyphen.

Date: 2007-05-30 11:56 pm (UTC)
ext_6749: (Default)
From: [identity profile] kirbyfest.livejournal.com
Hey! There you are!

Date: 2007-05-31 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Yeah... I have been really battling the depress-o-rama and just have not been posting... I feel like I owe people an explanation but I can't seem to make myself do anything. It took me three days just to force myself to post this. I guess everyone's upset and adrenaline on the Strikethrough campaign kind of boosted my energy for a brief moment...

Date: 2007-05-31 03:49 am (UTC)
ext_15084: (knight)
From: [identity profile] mackiemesser.livejournal.com
So this is where my peeve about these things went. Nice to know you're taking good care of it!

Date: 2007-05-31 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
I feel like I should make a Crusade joke, but I can't come up with anything good!

Date: 2007-05-31 06:14 pm (UTC)
ext_15084: (Default)
From: [identity profile] mackiemesser.livejournal.com
Just so long as there's not a coat of arms for the Knights in White Satin...

"Our army is composed of Templars, Hospitallers, Teutonic knights, and a bunch of guys in bedsheets--victory is ours!"

June 2025

S M T W T F S
123 4567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 12th, 2025 05:20 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios