Hello, it’s me!
Hey there, Discoverylover!
It’s me, Skyring. Yes, I know we send emails and twitters and comments on blogs and facebook pages and stuff. All the time.
This is different. This is so we can put all the good stuff in one place.
And there is so much good stuff. You have enriched my life in so many ways. The books you recommend, the movies you’ve seen, the songs you listen to. I might not like them all, but you have a higher “hit rate” than anyone I know, and that includes my wife, my children, my siblings, my parents. Nobody does it better.
Would my mother have belted me over the top of the head and said, “Go watch Mister Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, RIGHT NOW, numbskull!”?
No, she would not.
But you did. And I LOVED it!
On the flip side, we differ in so many ways. I’m a guy. You’re a girl. I love root beer. You don’t. You live in New Zealand. I’m an Aussie. You’re the same age as my daughter.
This shared blog is a compendium of wonders. I’m not going to tell you what I’m doing day by day. That’s what Twitter is for. If I like a song, read a book in one sitting, see a movie, watch a sunrise or eat a hot dog and it touches that wonder place in my heart, then I’m going to tell you about it.
And maybe there might be others with the same sort of goofy, romantic, quirky, impractical souls who like what we like. With the possible exception of root beer. How can anyone not love root beer? The nectar of the gods themselves.
We are so many things. Old, young, tubby, blonde, this, that. But deep inside, we are not these things. We are sparks of spirit looking out at the wonders of the world. We don’t have to be young or black or gay or anything to appreciate the beauty of a sunset. We don’t learn it, we love it.
Yours aye,
Skyring
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In the category ‘Go watch this now, numbskull’, I bring you: ‘Stardust’, the much overlooked fantasy film with a fantastic Robert de Niro as Captain Shakespeare, the inimitable Dead Brothers and I haven’t even mentioned it’s ever so funny. Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, and in my opinion, better, but I saw the movie first, and it’s got a slightly different storyline.
If you have seen it, I wonder how you liked it, if you haven’t… get to it, numbskull
And one of my favourite songs, too!
I love that movie! Captain Shakespeare is one of my favourite characters, and I was a little disappointed that he wasn’t fleshed out as much in the book, I love that movie! Captain Shakespeare is one of my favourite characters, and I was a little disappointed that he wasn’t fleshed out as much in the book, which I just read
(although the book was still fantastic!)
I’d suggest watching the movie first too (thats the order I did it in and I’m glad I did – it’s like Slumdog millionaire, the book and the film are both great in their own respects, but different, and if I’d read the book first I would have been disappointed in the movie.)
I know that Discoverylover is registered as Neil Gaiman‘s number one fan, so I’m not surprised.
OK. Two lovely ladies with the minds of the elegant kind have told me of their deep love for this movie
. I am powerless to resist!
LOL I’m not quite his number one fan! (Apparently one fan asked him to sign on her body somewhere and then went and got it tattood over!)
But yes, you should watch and read!
I watched Stardust. My daughter had a genuine fake copy she got in China, and it skipped and stopped here and there, but I got the gist of it.
I can’t say I loved it. It was alright, but not brilliant. Should I make it into a “Like” post? Seeing as how I liked it but didn’t love it?