Wuthering Heights: the 'over the top luverly' mansion

The news about Sienna Miller replacing Natalie Portman as Cathy have only left room in the press for weird stuff today. Such as this article from The Greeley Tribune on 'snoose' where the following is said:

One of the brighter (relative term) guys figured out that if he went into the library and pretended to be reading a book, the teacher who was in charge of the library was so pleased that we were actually reading, she would leave you alone. That was when you could get your hit of snoose. The problem of where to spit was easily solved. [...] The solution was to simply take a book off the shelf, open it, spit into the book, and then put it back on the shelf where it would likely rest undisturbed for at least the next three months. During this time, everything would dry out and the only evidence would be an ugly brown stain that would be heaviest on pages 104 and 105 but would fade out by pages 100 and 109. [...]
There developed a protocol for this procedure. Some books were sacrosanct. Nothing by Zane Grey, McKinley Cantor, Jack London or Robert Ruark could be touched. Other books were fair game. Such titles as "Jane Eyre," "Little Women," "A Tale of Two Cities" and anything by Laura Ingalls-Wilder were common depositories. (Bruce Florquist)

Ever wondered what that stain in that old library copy of Jane Eyre was? Ugh.

And the following comes from a naïve review of a place called Edna's Beach Café that appears on a reader's blog in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Say hi to Heaven on the south side of the Island: Romance Alert! This original moody and mystical turn-of-the-century mansion is over the top luverly. You'll feel like you're walking into, uhm Wuthering Heights or maybe a Merchant/Ivory screenplay. (Kathe Fraga)

As if the mention of a Wuthering Heights by the sea wasn't strange enough - really, can you picture Lockwood saying that Wuthering Heights was 'over the top luverly'?

The Washington Blade presents an upcoming concert of the band Los Campesinos! in Washington like this:

Los Campesinos! at The Black Cat: This Welsh septet is known for playing a mix of punk/ pop that uses co-ed, half sang/half shouted vocals to create ridiculously energetic music. Their English-nerd lyrics reference Jane Eyre and list stationary as a means of arousal. All this, taken together, virtually guarantees a fun show. (The band plays at the Black Cat, 1811 14th St., NW. Doors open at 9, May 16) (Zack Rosen)

More information about the Jane Eyre reference in these previous posts.

Talking about music. Hampton Roads has chosen their 75 best original soundtracks. Wuthering Heights 1939 makes it to numer 74 thanks to Alfred Newman.

On the blogosphere today: Wuthering Expectations continues analyzing Jane Eyre: first there's a post entitled Jane Eyre and Helen Burns - the impalpable principle of light and thought and then another post called Jane Eyre - creativity, revenge and the art of the novel. The first draft of anything is shit... (sic) posts also about Jane Eyre. Littérature audio.com posts an audio version of Jane Eyre in French.

Also in French is this post on Wuthering Heights from Nature et Culture. The A.C.S. Lewis and Inklings Resource blog finds Wuthering Heights similarities in the forthcoming movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Katie has got in touch with us to introduce her blog A Chainless Soul. These two early posts are certainly promising: Disproving "Emily's Journal" and The dodginess of adapting Jane Eyre.

And finally Intempol interviews author Kim Newman, who confesses he's 'a great admirer of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (a spin on Jane Eyre)'.

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