vampires suck

[cornerofmadness]

or do they? I shall find out because on a wild hair I signed up for the vampire special studies one of the English profs is offering. I don't have enough to do so I decided to go back to school for fun and no profit. It should be interesting. I've read everything that's been assigned so far including one of the critical texts (well my friend WROTE it). However the book store didn't get the books in (big shocker) but I do own Stoker's Dracula andthe woman who rode away is online.

Why the hell do I NOT teach a class that entails us sitting on our asses and watching an episode of Buffy? Sadly the one chosen for today was Buffy vs Dracula and I don't like that one.

Still this shall be interesting in that 80% of our grade is divided up into a) a creative writing project (40%) and b) a theoretical/intreprative paper (40%). Okay dude, I could just pull out an old undone vampire thing and say here you go but I haven't done a theoretical English paper since Star TreK the Next Generation was on TV and it was first run!

So, since you might be seeing bits of my paper online with the big help me PLEASE whine, what might COM write about? I was thinking of a) Western vampire legends interpreted thru Japanese Manga/anime or b) SF twist on the vampire legends...something she knows nothing about, either of them. I did learn she hates the scientific twist on vampires so that is out. (or else i would have done the medical aspects of the vampire legend)

speaking of which, name me off some anime/manga vampires. I know vampire knight, blood+ lament of the lamb, millenium snow, the one with Father Nightroad (my brain just locked on the title) and it can be the energy vampire or even relationship vampirism. Thanks

And much like wildrider I think my creative writing will come from one of my vampire novel universes, i.e. MachiavelliMooon but I have to double check if the pop culture vampire is okay or do i have to have some deep hidden reveal in this.

Kanda is SO GLAD i'm home. OMG YOU LEFT ME ALL DAY. And I did since I taught for 3 hours straight, had a 3 hour break than took the 3 hour at night vampire course.

I'm tired (in a good way) and have a migraine (there is never good there). I see the pain doctor on thursday and I'm taking Ginko to the vet on Saturday (Mom- oh god, there goes my daughter AGAIN)

ETA - I know how Moon Phase,Vampire Princess Miyu, Nightwalker, Hellsing and Vampire D on the list (how i forgot the last two...)

Comments

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

Trinity Blood is the one with Abel Nightroad.

I will be very very happy to read and help. :)

And option A seems the most interesting to me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That's it. I knew it was Trinity something.

thanks. Are you on my original fiction filter since the story would be going up there? the nonfiction wouldn't be

well it would interest me too since I've been thinking about that for a couple years now (figures, now that one manga is gone...)

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

I am on the original fiction filter.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ok then you'll get to see it all in its whiney glory

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Vampire anime: How could you leave off Vampire Hunter D? Or Vampire Princess Miyu?

There are the D novels, as well.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

because my brain is fried. I'm not sure i ever saw much of Miyu.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I only saw the Miyu OVA but lordgloria might still know something about it (as we watched it together at DragonCon).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ah okay. knowing this day and age its up on you tube

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I see CAGD came up with quite a few of them for you in her comment to The Cauldron.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

she did. most of the non-manga stuff she suggested is actually required reading/viewing

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking my Big Book o' Vampire Stories has most of the required reading for your class (and I've had it since the '80's, I think).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it probably does. if i had MY books all here I'd have it too

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*nod nod nod* Though I never could get into reading Dracula. After the excerpt I'd read, I was bored to tears.

Maybe I"ll watch the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror when they spoofed Dracula with Mr. Burns as The Evil One.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Dracula IS pretty boring. luckily we're only reading bits

hahah that was good. Vampires as spoofs...there's a topic

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That could be fun!

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a pretty awesome class.

The only "vampire" anime I've seen is Vampire Hunter D and Hellsing, neither of which were all that good (well, they're pretty, at least); and I have seen some Chinese vampire movies, which are a hoot to a western audience, and of course my own vampires, which borrow heavily from both the modern media and legend...

I'm not sure what I'd do for a theoretical paper. It's interesting, anyway. I suppose they chose "Buffy v. Dracula" as a way to show how the legends can be (awkwardly) combined with the modern media versions of vampires.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I hope it'll be an awesome class.

Yes I should have remembered both D and Hellsing

She really wanted us to see how that Buffy was really an homage to Bela Lugosi's Dracula but in typical Rio style they didn't leave us a controller for the DVD player and she couldn't really get to scenes easily so we skipped that until next week

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all sure about Buffy being an homage to Dracula, any version (although in many ways it was closer to Oldman's than to Lugosi's)... except, of course, the uncompromising "vampires are evil" take.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well yes. she was looking mostly at Xander's take on Renfield. (then again she thinks S6 is the best of them and I'm like uh....)

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, S6 is somewhat better than S7, but that's not saying very much...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well no argument there. She was talking about how for her Buffy shouldhave ended with the psychiatric hospitalization one and I'm thinking for me, Buffy ended with the gift...

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to go up to Tabula Rasa, because of OMWF, but after that it was a long, slow, painful crash-and-burn...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I could go along with that too

[chiharu-octavia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I liked the manga Blood Lone, but that didn't have much to do with vampirism, even though the main little girl was a vampire. ^_^; She had a crush on her "handler", a handsome young man. I also read Nightstalkers, an American comic, which featured Hannibal King who was a kind of vampire. And I think there's a recent manga/anime called Rosario Vampire...? I didn't much care for the amount of fan service in it, so I dunno how good it gets after the first ep. ^_^;;

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. Actually i've seen some of Blood Lone. I've not seen Nightstalkers (I've seen Blade and a few other American comic ones though)

I've seen Rosario Vampire on the shelves but it's never enticed me to pick it up

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I've tried to get you to read Blood Alone. I have three of the manga.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i read your three or maybe just two

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Could be. I thought I'd given it to you to look at, at least.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you did

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, good.

[emptynight]

There's always the 'how vampirism in fiction and pop culture has changed since Dracula' idea, and tying it into what is (and isn't) a social more, or what is and isn't taboo, what people fear, or a whole lot of stuff in that vein. But that might be old hat. I think it's a fascinating topic, but so often falls flat because people don't take it much farther than "sexual liberation".

But that sounds like a really fun class.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

what you just proposed is part of what I think this entire class is supposed to be about.

it should be a fun class

[hierath.livejournal.com]

I think you should do the amine one, that's so you! :D

What about Blood, The Last Vampire?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i think that's related to Blood +. But if not, I'll add it to the list.

I'm not sure she'll go for the anime one but I think i'll pitch it

[enemytosleep]

Father Nightroad was Trinity Blood I think.

And they are doing that Twilight spoof movie called Vampires Suck, which is what I thought this entry was about before I read it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I knew it was Tirinity. it was the blood i couldn't recall.

I just mentioned to ELD that doing a vampire spoof paper woudl be fun but i'm not sure the prof would appreciate it

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a really fun class.

Good luck with the vet.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks on both accounts. it should be a fun class