Percey Bysshe Shelley says "Forget about it!"

I stumbled upon a weird little bit of information while reading The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, and I can't seem to move past it. Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most quintessentially English of the Romantic poets and husband of Mary Shelley, has roots in Jersey! His great-grandfather came to America to make his fortune. He settled in New Jersey and had kids while here, including Percy Shelley's grandfather. Through the death of his older brothers, Percy Shelley's grandpa inherited the estate in England and moved to the motherland. Thank goodness for rampant illness and the misfortune of those older brothers! One cannot imagine such words as ''Death is the veil which those who live call life" being read in the voice of Tony Soprano.

Frankenweenie equals Frankentastic!

It has been far too long since I've blogged, but thankfully October rolled around to inspire my inner adorable goth. Let's talk Frankenweenie! This movie has Tim Burton doing what he does best, using his old live action short as the basis for this film, but I also see his first stop motion animation film, Vincent, in here as well. Take a peek...

The new Frankenweenie has the look, the story and the originality of all the best of Tim Burton. One could say it's expected, but one could also say that this is exactly what we want from him. We go to Jane Austen for regency romance and we go to Tim Burton to make our Edward Gorey fantasies come to life. Now if we can only get him to do Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.