{look upon my works, ye mighty}

The all-female band that I liked on Saturday is fronted by a chick called Emilie Autumn and her music style is Victorian Industrial, or classics-influenced deathrock according to YouTube comments.

So far, my favorite song of hers is Marry Me. Be warned, the link goes to a YouTube vid which is actually just a still image put there so that the song can be uploaded. I love the lyrics; I think that all of you should go listen to it now.

Also, YouTube viewers work fast. I've only seen 628 videos during the whole time I've been on YouTube, according to my account, but this video I uploaded which is a brief snippet of the Smallville blooper reel where Lex's actor leans in to kiss Lionel's actor has been viewed 428 times at the time that I'm posting this and favorited twice.

So, as many of you know, I watched Velvet Goldmine for the first time a few days ago, then last night, I watched it on DVD with a friend whom I cooked dinner for so that we could watch the movie together. When the song '20th Century Boy' came on, she commented that suddenly, the music had gotten good, and I agreed with her. Today, while working on my Kincaid paper, I decided to YouTube the song so that it could play while I worked and guess what I found out?

It was Placebo who had been responsible for the song and acted in the movie! I hadn't even realized that. XD

The scene with them can be found here -- and if you're thinking the person at the start looks familiar, that's because it's Christian Bale, aka Bruce Wayne from Batman Begins. I'm not actually a Christian Bale fan of when he actually looks older, but he does make one hot teen. Curt Wild was totally my favorite char from Velvet Goldmine, though -- I know he was meant to be a tribute to Iggy Pop, but he makes me think way more of Kurt Cobain, thanks to a combination of the name, the hair and the attitude.

For anyone who hasn't seen Velvet Goldmine but likes pretty boys kissing, in glitter, in eyeliner and in fucked-up-love, I highly recommend that you go watch it now. Bittorrent it, borrow it, perform an animal sacrifice to the gods of glitter if you must, but get the damn movie and watch it. It's worth it for the eye candy alone and the fact that they reference and quote Wilde both. Mmm, Wilde.

The friend who came over said that I seemed like the type to like Wilde because I'm a sarcastic English major, totally leaving aside the issue of the books of his that I have stacked on my shelves, my action figure and the quotations of his I have up on my door. XD That amused me greatly. Wilde fans have a type.

Oh, and if pretty boys kissing and Wilde isn't incentive enough for you (how is that possible?), I'd also like to say that it has some gorgeous lines. And references 1984.

There. Now don't you go want to go see it? Watch! Watch!

*attempts to hypnotize all of you into watching it, then into helping with her evil plans to take over the world*

Edit: Why don't I have a boys kissing icon? Or even a music icon of any type at all? Clearly, once I get my Kincaid paper done, I will treat myself by making either a boys kissing icon or a Velvet Goldmine icon. Maybe even by letting myself read a little Velvet Goldmine slash. Oooooh.