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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2009-09-13 12:58 pm

Derren Brown/Broken Glass: OTP, Apparently.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT POLL:


Hottest picture I have ever seen. I am not kidding.


This is a picture (courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] lincolnimp) of Derren Brown lying on a great deal of broken glass.


[Poll #1456923]


Something Wicked This Way Comes was the first of Derren Brown's works I saw, and it is still one of my favourites. He hammers a nail up his nose and deprives himself of oxygen and walks on glass and has a man stand on his face and asks an audience member to slap him. I love it for all the wrong reasons.

(I swear I do not usually find pain this attractive. There is just something about Derren Brown injuring himself that is really, really hot.)


To finish on a slightly less horrifying note: here (YouTube link) is an incredibly lovely piece of music from Ōkami. I love that game so much. Its style is so beautiful, and it is so much fun, and, whilst I hesitate to pin down any one videogame as my absolute favourite, Ōkami would almost certainly be in my top three. Let's all listen to the piece and put this glasswalking business behind us.

[identity profile] strangeumbrella.livejournal.com 2009-09-13 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well HELLO. I've not had enough time on the internet etc over the past few days to give all your recent Derren Brown posts all the care and attention they deserve, but here I am on this one. I don't even know what the hell it is about Something Wicked and/or glass and/or whatever the hell else, but I know I have had conversations with more than one person, generally our first discussing him as a shared fandom, in which "That bit where he lay on the glass, was it me or was that hot?" came up fairly quickly. Verdict so far seems to have been unanimously that no, it was hot. I don't even know. Thank god he's back on tv.

I would like to conclude by contributing this picture, which is one of my favourite things [livejournal.com profile] cathamarine has ever made for me, and I think has never been more at home than in this post:
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I think it's the comedy font and bizarrely grainy picture quality that makes it. I seem to remember it was also briefly removed from photobucket for violating their TOS, which is inexplicably hilarious.