The burnt-out ends of smoky days... NEW LAYOUT!

[exsequar]

I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I FINALLY did..

NEW LAYOUT! starsouls1013

I needed something season 2 themed, and as soon as I saw the shot of the boys walking down the road I was like THAT'S IT. And it just spiralled from there :)

The images are thanks to the lovely monkiedude, who kindly put up with my exacting requests and delivered exactly what I needed in hi-res. Textures are from Tre-xtures and oxoniensis.

That text is something I've had lodged in my brain for a while, and I really wanted to use it... it's from T. S. Eliot's "Preludes," a bleak, stark little poem. This is the first stanza:

The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

I think the line fits the boys perfectly, especially considering... well, if you're caught up you know, and the demon's MO.

I changed my journal title accordingly, and the subtitle is "dry bones can harm no one," which is from Eliot's "Waste Land". I also changed the title of my friends page - it's now "a thousand sordid images" (also from Preludes) which I think suits you dirty lot awfully well ;)

So yes. Let me know what you think! :D

Comments

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

By using it as a procrastinatory tactic instead of writing my English paper? ;) Which, funnily enough, was partially ON Eliot's Waste Land, which... hee. But yes. It doesn't require patience for me - I just find it fun :) Thank you so much!

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

Hee. That's right. How's the paper going?

You're very welcome. I'd love to have the time, patience and skillz to do something like that, but..I just get frustrated. *g*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

The paper is DONE and HANDED IN \o/ Now I just have to study for my organic chem midterm...! *headdesk*

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

Eep. Organic Chem. My mantra in Univ for that one was 'avoid, avoid, avoid'.

But if it helps, our Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) students had to take organic chem, and they survived...so I'm sure you'll do just fine. And then, WINCON, you lucky girl!