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Whoever he was.
The man ain't got no culture.
Center Stage is doing "Sweeney Todd" next month. I'm so tempted to go but at the same time, that play is so damn freaky. Wonder if I could get free tickets thru the radio station since we're advertising it.
I was listening to my Last Unicorn CD today in the car and started thinking how much I enjoyed that book. It was so right for Beagle to write the Unicorn with no emotion, because if you were immortal, what good would all the emotions be? No reason to be afraid, you're immortal! Feeling any sort of attatchment to anything beyond a place (like her forest) is a bad idea, since creatures you might love will die and you'll have to live on. The only emotion the unicorn feels is pride really, like when the one man mistakes her for a mare and doesn't see her horn. She gets very upset about that. But not really angry, just sort of shocked that he wouldn't recognize her.
That book is so great because of the way it sort of pokes fun at our myths yet at the same time, shows us how important they are to us. The scene that comes to mind is of the princess waiting in the woods for the unicorn to come to her. In normal fairy tales, its this big ritual she must do to get married and she's sweet and innocent and waiting patiently for her unicorn to come. In the book, it's like that point in history where those rituals are slowly going away and "modern" thought is taking over, so the girl complains about having to wait for the stupid animal and how muc longer and it's amusing yet sad. Like when Molly Grue lashes out at the Unicorn the first time she meets her, yelling at her for showing up now, when she is no longer an innocent maiden, but an adult who knows too much of the real world.
I love fairy tales. Watching my "Jim Henson's The Storyteller" DVD, you have to wonder how we survive today with so little stories to tell. Television was the storyteller for awhile, but I fell with all this "reality TV" the storytellers are being shut out. And we're not going to miss the myths until it's too late. Joss Whedon knew that, when he wrote Buffy, he talked about wanting to create a cultural icon. He knew what he was doing, he knew how to craft a tale so that people like me would be sucked in no matter how silly the premise might sound. Are there other writers out there who can do this? And will television give them a chance? yes, it's all the same myth, the hero story, the coming of age tale, but each generation needs their story.
Speaking of the heroes journey, I'm *this* close to beating "Ocarina of Time". I think I shall go eat cookies and fight Ganandorf's henchmen.
The man ain't got no culture.
Center Stage is doing "Sweeney Todd" next month. I'm so tempted to go but at the same time, that play is so damn freaky. Wonder if I could get free tickets thru the radio station since we're advertising it.
I was listening to my Last Unicorn CD today in the car and started thinking how much I enjoyed that book. It was so right for Beagle to write the Unicorn with no emotion, because if you were immortal, what good would all the emotions be? No reason to be afraid, you're immortal! Feeling any sort of attatchment to anything beyond a place (like her forest) is a bad idea, since creatures you might love will die and you'll have to live on. The only emotion the unicorn feels is pride really, like when the one man mistakes her for a mare and doesn't see her horn. She gets very upset about that. But not really angry, just sort of shocked that he wouldn't recognize her.
That book is so great because of the way it sort of pokes fun at our myths yet at the same time, shows us how important they are to us. The scene that comes to mind is of the princess waiting in the woods for the unicorn to come to her. In normal fairy tales, its this big ritual she must do to get married and she's sweet and innocent and waiting patiently for her unicorn to come. In the book, it's like that point in history where those rituals are slowly going away and "modern" thought is taking over, so the girl complains about having to wait for the stupid animal and how muc longer and it's amusing yet sad. Like when Molly Grue lashes out at the Unicorn the first time she meets her, yelling at her for showing up now, when she is no longer an innocent maiden, but an adult who knows too much of the real world.
I love fairy tales. Watching my "Jim Henson's The Storyteller" DVD, you have to wonder how we survive today with so little stories to tell. Television was the storyteller for awhile, but I fell with all this "reality TV" the storytellers are being shut out. And we're not going to miss the myths until it's too late. Joss Whedon knew that, when he wrote Buffy, he talked about wanting to create a cultural icon. He knew what he was doing, he knew how to craft a tale so that people like me would be sucked in no matter how silly the premise might sound. Are there other writers out there who can do this? And will television give them a chance? yes, it's all the same myth, the hero story, the coming of age tale, but each generation needs their story.
Speaking of the heroes journey, I'm *this* close to beating "Ocarina of Time". I think I shall go eat cookies and fight Ganandorf's henchmen.
