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captainsblogSo. There was an amusing discussion on a Friend's journal a couple of weeks ago, which originated on her Facebook page. Somehow, a discussion of the Jane Eyre musical got a lit-tle silly, and before long, Lindsay was Winning A Thousand Internets with her amazing rendition of Jane Erye With Zombies!
I'd rather burn in hell
Damning my soul to dwell
Lost in my paaaaain
Than to live here on earth...
Without! my! BRAAAAAAAINS!
By the time the riff got over to LJ, I was at the ready with my own zombie pieces. Not, um, taken from the actual book of the Jane Eyre musical.
The sun will come out, oh bother!
Now I gotta get back in my coffin, before dawn.
But first I'll go up, and slaughter
That crazy old bitch in the North Tower, om nom nom!
Tomorrow! I'll make her! A zombie tomorrow!
It's only a sunsettttt....a.....wayyyyyy!
What, you want Cats?
::thinks::♫He comes rapidly in on his horse,
With his scruffy dog fast at his heels
He's emotionally stifled, of course,
And you never know quite what he feels
He's particularly good at accounts,
Giving perfect financial advice,
(But he isn't that good when he counts
If he's been married just once or twice)
But at midnight our Master lets go of those reigns,
He'll come into your chamber and eat out your brains!
(And we all say)
Oh! Well I never! Was there ever
A Zombie better than our Mister Magical Rochester!
We had our laughs and got on with it all. Until today, that is.
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Catching up on this past weekend's Wait Wait podcast, I got to the Bluff the Listener segment, which promised to present an actual true story of classic literature being improved. The entire bit is here (click the Bluff the Listener link), and it offered a delicious choice- as I prayed oh so hard for it to be true- of an updating of a classic English work, adapting the entire Austenian text of Pride and Prejudice but adding some bitchin' action scenes with BRAAAAAINNNNNNS!
My prayers were answered. It's twue, its twuuuuuuuue:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.
I figure 10 percent of the gross and full participation in the musical adaptation rights would be about fair.
I'd rather burn in hell
Damning my soul to dwell
Lost in my paaaaain
Than to live here on earth...
Without! my! BRAAAAAAAINS!
By the time the riff got over to LJ, I was at the ready with my own zombie pieces. Not, um, taken from the actual book of the Jane Eyre musical.
The sun will come out, oh bother!
Now I gotta get back in my coffin, before dawn.
But first I'll go up, and slaughter
That crazy old bitch in the North Tower, om nom nom!
Tomorrow! I'll make her! A zombie tomorrow!
It's only a sunsettttt....a.....wayyyyyy!
What, you want Cats?
::thinks::♫He comes rapidly in on his horse,
With his scruffy dog fast at his heels
He's emotionally stifled, of course,
And you never know quite what he feels
He's particularly good at accounts,
Giving perfect financial advice,
(But he isn't that good when he counts
If he's been married just once or twice)
But at midnight our Master lets go of those reigns,
He'll come into your chamber and eat out your brains!
(And we all say)
Oh! Well I never! Was there ever
A Zombie better than our Mister Magical Rochester!
We had our laughs and got on with it all. Until today, that is.
----
Catching up on this past weekend's Wait Wait podcast, I got to the Bluff the Listener segment, which promised to present an actual true story of classic literature being improved. The entire bit is here (click the Bluff the Listener link), and it offered a delicious choice- as I prayed oh so hard for it to be true- of an updating of a classic English work, adapting the entire Austenian text of Pride and Prejudice but adding some bitchin' action scenes with BRAAAAAINNNNNNS!
My prayers were answered. It's twue, its twuuuuuuuue:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.
I figure 10 percent of the gross and full participation in the musical adaptation rights would be about fair.
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Date: 2009-02-11 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 12:43 am (UTC)Your zombies are better than his zombies anyway.