Top 3 meme, part 3
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24: Top 3 comics/webcomics
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson. (With Berke Breathed’s Bloom County as a very close four.)
25: Top 3 series/movies/books from my childhood
Tove Jansson’s Moomin-books. Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The Narnia-books.
26: Top 3 obscure series/movies/books I recommend
Margot Benary-Isbert’s The Wicked Enchantment Why this book isn’t considered a fantasy classic I shall never understand. It takes place in the little town of Vogelsang, a lovely fictitious town known for it’s Medieval cathedral and it’s many song birds. But the new Mayor has started a reign of terror, snaring the birds and forbidding many beloved customs. And the girl Anemone has her own reign of terror since her father has taken a new housekeeper who seems to be intent of becoming Anemone’s step-mother. She runs away from home to her Aunt Gundula, who may be a witch, and gets entangled with all of the mysterious things that happens in Vogelsang. It’s a lovely book with really great illustrations.
Faunen (The Faun) by Anna-Karin Palm. I think it’s a real pity that this book isn’t translated to English, but you can find it in German, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, Polish and Icelandic. It’s a book with three separate plotlines, all written in different styles, but all revolving around a faun. There is a contemporary diary of a young Swedish woman who has moved to London and get’s fascinated by a painting of a faun and a sleeping, or dead, woman at The National Gallery. She also writes about her best friend and her own feelings of having betrayed her friend. Then there is the story of Amelia, writer of romantic fiction in Victorian London. One day she encounters a faun in her living room who declares he is very vexed with her. The reason; Amelia is writing a Medieval romance and the faun claims she are getting the story all wrong. And the last plotline is the “true” story the faun tells Amelia, about Eleanor’s meeting with the faun. When I first read it, at twenty, I felt this was a book written especially for me. And I still love it very much.
Carmen (1983). This is a Spanish movie, directed by Carlos Saura. A dance company is making a production of Carmen and the director and lead dancer has very specific ideas about the woman who are to play Carmen. When he finally finds her he quickly falls in love with her, becoming more and more obsessed as the rehearsals proceeds, ultimately playing out the plot in reality. I have a huge fondness for Spanish dance and there are some great dance numbers as well and I love the way the plot waves in and out from dance to the character's lives.
27: Top 3 musicals or plays
Hmm, I’m not much for musicals… I’ll go for movies here music is an integral part, if that’s ok. The Commitments. I love that movie and I often re-watch it when I feel a need an energy injection. It’s also a bit odd to watch as when I first saw it I was the same age as the people in it, and now I’m one generation older… Singin’ In the Rain and Cabaret are big favourites too.
28: Top 3 songs from musicals
Easier, even if musicals still isn’t high on my list of favourite music. I'll Be Waiting from Kristina From Duvemåla. Kristina sings it when she is dying, telling her husband to not grieve over her as she’ll be waiting for him. A friend of my sister sang it at my maternal grandmother’s funeral and though it’s very beautiful, listening to it also makes me cry. I like the Swedish original title better though I gott bevar which means “In good keep”. My grandmother was, her whole life, afraid to die, but the last time I saw her she had lost all her fear and the last thing she said to me was to not be sad, so I think you can understand why the first verse in this song resonates so deeply with me:
Once I was afraid of darkness
Of the demons of the night
Now that fear seems to matter so little
As I face towards the light
Don't cry, my dearest friend
For this is not the end
Jesus Christ Superstar and Cabaret from the musicals with the same names.
24: Top 3 comics/webcomics
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson. (With Berke Breathed’s Bloom County as a very close four.)
25: Top 3 series/movies/books from my childhood
Tove Jansson’s Moomin-books. Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The Narnia-books.
26: Top 3 obscure series/movies/books I recommend
Margot Benary-Isbert’s The Wicked Enchantment Why this book isn’t considered a fantasy classic I shall never understand. It takes place in the little town of Vogelsang, a lovely fictitious town known for it’s Medieval cathedral and it’s many song birds. But the new Mayor has started a reign of terror, snaring the birds and forbidding many beloved customs. And the girl Anemone has her own reign of terror since her father has taken a new housekeeper who seems to be intent of becoming Anemone’s step-mother. She runs away from home to her Aunt Gundula, who may be a witch, and gets entangled with all of the mysterious things that happens in Vogelsang. It’s a lovely book with really great illustrations.
Faunen (The Faun) by Anna-Karin Palm. I think it’s a real pity that this book isn’t translated to English, but you can find it in German, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, Polish and Icelandic. It’s a book with three separate plotlines, all written in different styles, but all revolving around a faun. There is a contemporary diary of a young Swedish woman who has moved to London and get’s fascinated by a painting of a faun and a sleeping, or dead, woman at The National Gallery. She also writes about her best friend and her own feelings of having betrayed her friend. Then there is the story of Amelia, writer of romantic fiction in Victorian London. One day she encounters a faun in her living room who declares he is very vexed with her. The reason; Amelia is writing a Medieval romance and the faun claims she are getting the story all wrong. And the last plotline is the “true” story the faun tells Amelia, about Eleanor’s meeting with the faun. When I first read it, at twenty, I felt this was a book written especially for me. And I still love it very much.
Carmen (1983). This is a Spanish movie, directed by Carlos Saura. A dance company is making a production of Carmen and the director and lead dancer has very specific ideas about the woman who are to play Carmen. When he finally finds her he quickly falls in love with her, becoming more and more obsessed as the rehearsals proceeds, ultimately playing out the plot in reality. I have a huge fondness for Spanish dance and there are some great dance numbers as well and I love the way the plot waves in and out from dance to the character's lives.
27: Top 3 musicals or plays
Hmm, I’m not much for musicals… I’ll go for movies here music is an integral part, if that’s ok. The Commitments. I love that movie and I often re-watch it when I feel a need an energy injection. It’s also a bit odd to watch as when I first saw it I was the same age as the people in it, and now I’m one generation older… Singin’ In the Rain and Cabaret are big favourites too.
28: Top 3 songs from musicals
Easier, even if musicals still isn’t high on my list of favourite music. I'll Be Waiting from Kristina From Duvemåla. Kristina sings it when she is dying, telling her husband to not grieve over her as she’ll be waiting for him. A friend of my sister sang it at my maternal grandmother’s funeral and though it’s very beautiful, listening to it also makes me cry. I like the Swedish original title better though I gott bevar which means “In good keep”. My grandmother was, her whole life, afraid to die, but the last time I saw her she had lost all her fear and the last thing she said to me was to not be sad, so I think you can understand why the first verse in this song resonates so deeply with me:
Once I was afraid of darkness
Of the demons of the night
Now that fear seems to matter so little
As I face towards the light
Don't cry, my dearest friend
For this is not the end
Jesus Christ Superstar and Cabaret from the musicals with the same names.
