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The Name Game: Crazy, Fun Asylum Dancing

June 2, 2013 by scarletdarkwood

If you’ve read the works I’ve been creating, the scenes either take place in an asylum, or the character is leaving the asylum to return home. Though I try to hint at the time period without coming right out and saying it, the stories are set anywhere in the 1920’s and 1930’s, a time where anyone could be dumped off at the local “crazy house” and left there to stay–forever until death did they part.

You’d think when Asylum came on, I’d have watched that show like a hawk. But like I’ve said in other posts, I didn’t faithfully watch American Horror Story: Asylum, though I did catch a few episodes. If you read Pleasure House and Dance of Desire, you’ll notice that I include dancing as part of my work. When I present Master Of The House, you’ll still read scenes with dancing.

Why this intrigue with dance? Because it’s not only fun to watch, it’s fun to do. Dancing has been around since the creation of time, used in ritual and ceremony, including the ceremony of wooing someone of the opposite sex. Dancing is healthy, but it’s also sexy, alluring, and guaranteed to get the lust boiling, if performed a certain way.

From dancing in the buff to sparkling, flowing costumes, a dancer can express an array of emotions to happiness to sadness, to “come hither if you dare.” In Asylum, the creators added in the dance scene with Jessica Lange performing “The Name Game”–which she performed herself, if you hadn’t guessed already. I love this scene, not only because it’s dancing, but I like the way the creators of Asylum showed the craziness of the human mind, and how we all can free associate in an instant, with only a few words spoken or the vision of an item as a small hint to get the mind rolling in all kinds of directions. I’ve included a link to that Name Game scene performed by Jessica Lange. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Name Game: Asylum: American Horror Story

Filed Under: My Worlds Tagged With: American Horror Story, asylum, dance, Dance of Desire, dancing, house, Jessica Lange, lust, Name Game, pleasure

Baby Needs Colostrum

November 26, 2012 by scarletdarkwood

Surprising as this may seem, I have NOT been watching American Horror Story: Asylum. Since Pleasure House takes place in an asylum, you might be wondering why on earth I would not watch a new show featuring such a place. Honestly, I have no answer except, perhaps, this one: After watching the first of the Friday the 13th series, I swore off horror movies. And that was a LONG time ago, folks!

I have actually watched a couple of shows of Asylum, and I must admit I still love Jessica Lange. I love to see the older stars used in the entertainment industry, even though they have to play the roles of older characters. They’re still fantastic at entertaining, not to mention convincing in their roles.

In Pleasure House, there are no clergy, oddly enough (oh, well, that could be used in a future book, no?), and Dr. Arden (James Cromwell) is nowhere near the personality of Dr. James, the House physician. Dr. James is too lusty and willing to use sex as a teaching tool whenever possible. But I’m sure he has a way of making someone scream, if you know what I mean (oh, that’s in the second book! Yes, I’m writing a companion novel to Pleasure House–just so you know).

But when I heard the line from Dr. Thredson to Lana: “Baby needs colostrum,” I nearly fell out of my chair. Instead of being bemused, I was actually amused. Why? Because Pleasure House does feature lactating women. Actually there are whole erotica books focusing on this one condition: a lactating woman offering her substance to any horny person (man or woman) who’ll try it. Okay, I’m probably being cruel here. Not everyone who tries breast milk is horny; maybe they’re just curious, that’s all. *wink* 

Anyway, that scene with Dr. Thredson and Lana was far from erotic, unless you get off on something like that, and I know you people are out there. Don’t think I don’t! But really, I think the scene would have been much more enhanced if Lana would have just reached down and grabbed Dr. Thredson’s crotch and went on from there. But then, my version of the scene would have rendered a completely different reaction. And if my memory serves me correctly, wasn’t Lana’s hands cuffed to the bed? I think so. Ha! Another similarity to Pleasure House. Nothing better than cuffing your charge to the bed, or other places for that matter. The House has all sorts of places where one can be tied up, and the attendants there will see to that!

So what do you readers think about American Horror Story: Asylum? Does it stimulate the senses, gross you out, confuse you with the editing style? Whatever you think, I’d love to hear it!

Filed Under: My Worlds Tagged With: American Horror Story, asylum, Baby Needs Colostrum, Dr. Arden, Dr. Thredson, erotic, Friday The 13th, James Cromwell, Jessica Lange, lactating women, Lana, Pleasure House

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