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marshtide1. Wot I Watched On My Holidays:
Fucking Åmål is a really great film. I only just got around to seeing it; I'm extremely bad at films, but it's been on my list for ages.
It is:
a. lesbian! hoorah!
&
b. a remarkably convincing depiction of being a teenager in a way which is uncomfortable but which I could still actually watch. God, aren't you glad you're not 14 any more?
Huset silfverkronas gåta is an old Swedish children's TV series made of socialism and also socialism. I really liked it. It is about time travel and hidden treasure also the oppression of the working classes. Bless it. It's really strangely structured - all the really dramatic things tend to happen off-stage and it breaks for recap or commentary pretty often. But it manages to make this a feature rather than a bug. Not completely sure how, but it ended up feeling unusual in a good rather than an annoying way.
The treasure, naturally, can only be recovered when SOCIALISM. No socialism, no treasure.
The actors they had for the children in the series were really good, and their interaction with adults was the most natural I've seen on TV in ages.
Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton is a christmas story, naturally. Or, uh, kind of. We sat down and watched this one on christmas eve... I thought it was hilarious and I have absolutely no idea how to describe it. But it's basically the best christmas story evah. Based on a short story by Tage Danielsson (naturally renowned for being a very serious man and not one to parody anything).
2. Wot I read:
Hagio Moto's A drunken dream and other stories is the most noteworthy. I'm really impressed with it, both as an actual volume and as stories - even though I don't think she gets the thing she's after every time she often gets something really interesting, even if only as a glimpse. A few stories feel more conventional but most push buttons in one way or another. Iguana Girl was probably my favourite story, but there was one about cojoined twins that I thought worked really well too, and one about three art students... I can't remember their titles offhand. But it has a lot of very good stuff in, basically. And it's beautiful.
I also read a book on Moominvalley, Familjen i dalen (the family in the valley) by Boel Westin. I think that since I have the books really fresh in my mind there was a bit too much recapping of the stories for me, but when she had points to make they were good, and I'm sure if it'd been longer since I'd read the books I'd have appreciated the recapping more as well (as it was, I skimmed it, except for when it was about the very first moomin book which isn't really around any more/got written out of moomin canon by Tove Jansson).
3. I had a pretty good if occasionally surreal christmas. I'm re-training myself, basically, since it's a whole other set of traditions, which is an odd feeling (though not a bad one). Valborg injured herself, in a way which just serious enough to add drama to the day but just unserious enough to avoid a hospital visit. Presents were had; most of them were books; and it was good!
It will take some more work before I am completely comfortable with the texture of pickled herring, though.
Fucking Åmål is a really great film. I only just got around to seeing it; I'm extremely bad at films, but it's been on my list for ages.
It is:
a. lesbian! hoorah!
&
b. a remarkably convincing depiction of being a teenager in a way which is uncomfortable but which I could still actually watch. God, aren't you glad you're not 14 any more?
Huset silfverkronas gåta is an old Swedish children's TV series made of socialism and also socialism. I really liked it. It is about time travel and hidden treasure also the oppression of the working classes. Bless it. It's really strangely structured - all the really dramatic things tend to happen off-stage and it breaks for recap or commentary pretty often. But it manages to make this a feature rather than a bug. Not completely sure how, but it ended up feeling unusual in a good rather than an annoying way.
The treasure, naturally, can only be recovered when SOCIALISM. No socialism, no treasure.
The actors they had for the children in the series were really good, and their interaction with adults was the most natural I've seen on TV in ages.
Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton is a christmas story, naturally. Or, uh, kind of. We sat down and watched this one on christmas eve... I thought it was hilarious and I have absolutely no idea how to describe it. But it's basically the best christmas story evah. Based on a short story by Tage Danielsson (naturally renowned for being a very serious man and not one to parody anything).
2. Wot I read:
Hagio Moto's A drunken dream and other stories is the most noteworthy. I'm really impressed with it, both as an actual volume and as stories - even though I don't think she gets the thing she's after every time she often gets something really interesting, even if only as a glimpse. A few stories feel more conventional but most push buttons in one way or another. Iguana Girl was probably my favourite story, but there was one about cojoined twins that I thought worked really well too, and one about three art students... I can't remember their titles offhand. But it has a lot of very good stuff in, basically. And it's beautiful.
I also read a book on Moominvalley, Familjen i dalen (the family in the valley) by Boel Westin. I think that since I have the books really fresh in my mind there was a bit too much recapping of the stories for me, but when she had points to make they were good, and I'm sure if it'd been longer since I'd read the books I'd have appreciated the recapping more as well (as it was, I skimmed it, except for when it was about the very first moomin book which isn't really around any more/got written out of moomin canon by Tove Jansson).
3. I had a pretty good if occasionally surreal christmas. I'm re-training myself, basically, since it's a whole other set of traditions, which is an odd feeling (though not a bad one). Valborg injured herself, in a way which just serious enough to add drama to the day but just unserious enough to avoid a hospital visit. Presents were had; most of them were books; and it was good!
It will take some more work before I am completely comfortable with the texture of pickled herring, though.
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