La la la Stayin' up late

Recently finished reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Decided, after seeing the 1963 film adaptation The Haunting, that I had to read it, though I'd kind of had it at the back of my mind for a while. Stephen King referred to it in Danse Macabre, his nonfiction book about horror genre, and I thought it sounded interesting. The main thing that came to mind throughout reading it (and through the film as well) is damn, do I ever identify with Eleanor so much. ... All things considered, this isn't a good thing. But there it is.

On the whole I can't really decide whether I prefer the book or the film. Usually I'd have a firm opinion one way or another, but with this, it's not so defined. I think that in general, the film does certain scenes better than the novel, but the novel also does certain scenes better than the film. :Va

... Uh.

Um.

WELL, I was going to write more in this entry, but then I accidentally spent my entire evening writing porn, and I can't remember what I was originally going to say. BUT, I suppose that doesn't matter, and I'll leave it as-is, because I do know I'd intended to say some stuff about that novel for a while now, so there we go. :Vb

Also, it's thundering and lightning-ing and raining like a mofo outside, and it certainly is not helping me get to sleep, though I suppose the caffeine isn't helping either, and other things as well. It's very likely I'll end up staying up the entire night, resulting in a zombie tomorrow, but... at least I don't have anything important to do.

[Edit Jul. 09 7PM]

Aaaand the Baltic index and the Nordic index have been updated, just as a note.