To dilly-dally is divine.
Recent events have made me feel like I'm restarting life from the pages of a book already written. Hence, some of my favourite retellings of fairy tales and fables.
- "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman in his Smoke and Mirrors short-story collection. Unravels the reasons for Snow White's pale complexion and blood-red lips. This is how one artist imagined Gaiman's Snow White.
- Fables the comic book series by Bill Willingham especially Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers. Like Shrek but only with loads more politics and sex. Some of the huffing and puffing the Big Bad Wolf does is with (the formerly-Little) Red Riding Hood.
Wish I could also catch this LA exhibition called Remixing the Magic, where 50 artists reinterpret Disney classics. I like the centre piece, which shows a more tortured Pinocchio.
The next book I'm going to get is Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, about the Land of Oz's misunderstood green teen. It's now a hit Broadway musical (below).
Back to real life. This second time round, with warning bells already in position, hope things go "swimmingly".
- "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman in his Smoke and Mirrors short-story collection. Unravels the reasons for Snow White's pale complexion and blood-red lips. This is how one artist imagined Gaiman's Snow White.
- Fables the comic book series by Bill Willingham especially Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers. Like Shrek but only with loads more politics and sex. Some of the huffing and puffing the Big Bad Wolf does is with (the formerly-Little) Red Riding Hood.
Wish I could also catch this LA exhibition called Remixing the Magic, where 50 artists reinterpret Disney classics. I like the centre piece, which shows a more tortured Pinocchio.
The next book I'm going to get is Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, about the Land of Oz's misunderstood green teen. It's now a hit Broadway musical (below).
Back to real life. This second time round, with warning bells already in position, hope things go "swimmingly".
I once wrote a story (ok i never finished it) where the coyote finally catches and eats the road-runner, but falls into a deep depression after that because his only purpose in life is gone. It takes place in a pyschiatrists office where after much soul-searching the coyote realised he was actually in love with the road runner.
Pray tell, what is the book that is already written? I'm much interested...
PS: I've moved to my own domain name! http://lingamp.com. Steady hor?
sorry tootsies! i suck at this blogging thing... no stamina. and too distracted.
ah pek: sounds good, finish the story lah! on a slightly different tangent: did u hear about the coyote who terrorised some joggers in New York's Central Park last week? "For a coyote to get to midtown, he has to be a very adventurous coyote," one official said. Ha ha.
lingam: the book we spake of? have returned to where we all once toiled (on the same 7th floor some more!) in the heart of the industrial wasteland that is genting lane. quite fun.
Try Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber for more feminist retellings of fairy tales. She has a version of Bluebeard where the mother turns out to be the hero.