Some Number of Random Things Make a Post

[akirlu]

One: Our internets have been blowing goats again. Seriously. On those rare occasions when I see our internets slouching by, with its hoodie pulled up, trying to look inconspicuous, it has goat on its breath and doesn't want to talk about it. It may be time to boot this insolent internets of ours and find one that doesn't have such a penchant for goat blowing. Or at least knows how to use mouthwash. Meanwhile e-mail, LJ, and flickr posting may be spotty and infrequent.

Two: Lilacs! Not ours, mind you, which still isn't quite blooming, but practically everywhere else in the neighborhood, so the whole block smells of them. I have some from the next-door's bushes in a vase on the mantel, and they look wonderfully old-fashioned and droopy there, and the perfume fills the whole house. Pity any poor souls with pollen allergies.

Three: Decluttering. Managed to make a run up to Two Big Blondes to drop of some clothes and shoes to consign. Also resisted the fringed black suede jacket that fit just right and would have cost something like $22.50. I don't actually need a fringed suede jacket, and the whole point is clear stuff out of the coat closet. I barely even felt a pang, actually.

Four: Watching the Swedish-language miniseries, Tre kärlekar. I really wish this were available with English subtitles or dubbing. It's such a fetchingly different take on ordinary life during WWII that it would make a lovely book-end for Foyle's War, if only it were the least bit accessible to Anglophone audiences. And I love, love, love the way they have painstakingly replicated the look of Sweden in the 1940s -- this is roughly when my grandparents would first have been married, and so it's almost like a window into the kinds of lives they would have led.

Five: Pie! Mixed berry, with a lazy lattice crust. Hope it sets up okay. Smells pretty good, tho.

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

There are SO many wonderful Swedish films I wish at least had English subtitles but don't. And it really kills the film to watch it with a non-Swedish speaker and having to be giving a running commentary so they know what's going on.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Ya, makes me wonder how hard/expensive it would be to ad subtitles digitally after the fact. I mean, I know the market would be small, relative to even American independent films, but it seems like it wouldn't take that much of an investment and might well at least pay for itself.

My coworker Susanna is Swedish and buys film and TV DVDs whenever she's visiting home, so I am slowly working my way through her collection. But it periodically makes me crazy when I can't share. Because, as you say, running translation kills the thing deadly.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Have you seen "Vingar av glas"? It's such a wonderful film on so many levels and I have so many girlfriends I think would appreciate it, none of which speak Swedish.