Old Ones vs. Humans

I was planning on posting this yesterday, but was sick as a dog and couldn't crawl to my computer, much less type. This was a shame, as it came right after a really nice night at the Young Friends of Film tribute to Ethan Hawke where I was helping hand out tickets and such. I've always liked EH but my opinion of him was definitely raised by this event. He just seemed like a really nice guy, genuinely enthusiastic about his work and very polite (and very cute in person). Plus, he's got great friends. Can you believe Robert Sean Leonard actually came after finishing his performance of Long Day's Journey Into Night?? He was even wearing his little LDJIN jacket. He must have been exhausted-what a pal! Anyway, it was a generally excellent night and the good feelings even made up for my having to sit through possibly the most excruciating film clip ever, Ted Danson talking about being a bad father in Dad. The dry heaving that followed the event was only marginally worse than this scene.

Oh, and here I am at the party, from the back. The point of the picture is the dress. (The picture is the thumbnail that says it's from 06/04/03.)

Anyway, this is what I was going to post but didn't get to finish. It's totally unrelated and it's about The Dark is Rising.

The other night I was reading truepenny's excellently-done analysis of the series. I agreed with a lot of it, but was more interested in the parts I disagreed with, which mostly had to do with Will (of course!) and more importantly on the relationship between Old Ones and Mortals. ( I'm going to off on that now, if nobody minds.... )