Number One Meme

[velvetpage]

1. Number one comfort food. Chocolate. Or tea with milk and sugar.
2. Number one person you can turn to in times of trouble. Piet.
3. Number one book you read over and over. There are several - Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Restoree by Anne McCaffery - all of these I've reread too often to keep track.
4. Number one movie you can watch over and over. Ever After. I'm a sucker for any kind of Cinderella theme.
5. Number one reason you are doing this meme. I had five minutes to spare. :)

Stolen from jadedcat

Comments

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

It's good to have someone to turn to....

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'm very lucky. Piet made number one, but there are others.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Number One Meme
1. Number one comfort food. Apples, or carrots
2. Number one person you can turn to in times of trouble. Paka
3. Number one book you read over and over. Too many to count. Mythology and folklore mostly, probably Arabian Nights if I had to count.
4. Number one movie you can watch over and over. Disney's The Jungle Book
5. Number one reason you are doing this meme. You hardly ever ask me for anything, so I thought you might like a returned meme.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Cool. You know, I've never read Arabian Nights?

I love the Jungle Book. It's one of the few Disney movies where the lyrics are equally memorable in French and English.

I'm impressed at the health quotient of your comfort food.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

I am amazed anyone lets children read arabian nights . It is full of backstabbings, cheating wives, the punishments of cheating wives, thieves, liers, and all manner of nastiness. My childhood copy barely survived the burst pipe flood and I am very grateful because it had oddly authentic but not authentic illustrations.

Thank you for answering a questions I hadn't gotten to ask yet. When we TV swap in January, I am going to start watching DVDs in French. I was wondering if sometimes the lyrics would be in French too, because songs are so much easier to remember.

I *AM* a californian, even if I am first generation. It isn't that I am trying to be healthy, it is that was what was around when I was growing up. The apples were from the climbing tree in the back yard. I could have easily said cherries, kumquats, apricots, or avocado but I liked the apples best. One of my nicknames was The Salad Kid. And I am not alone. I raid Pearlshadow's tangerine and grapefruit trees for Iceblink and Insomnia. They also get Oranges from Spiderdust. I used to get lemons from Os_Cherub. Sometimes I talk about having a friend who is one of the last free-range, untamed, wild hippies. Her family has been here for generations. Her childhood stories are about hiding out in the fig tree and eating until the corners of her mouth cracked from the residual sap. She and I are both a little reluctant to actually PAY for fruit. And if I can I buy it from fruit stands, preferrably Hispanic.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

They translate anything that makes a difference to the story. In the Jungle Book, the lyrics to my favourite song come out, "Il en faut peu pour etre heureux, vraiment tres peu pour etre heureux. Il faut se satisfaire du necessaire." Can you figure out which song that is?

It never even occurred to me that in California, you pick your candy off the trees. My area of the country is actually a huge fruit-growing region with a well-developed wine industry. Still, this is Canada. Our fruit season starts mid-June and is over by mid-October. And very few people have trees growing in their backyards, unless you happen to live more rural than we do. So all summer long, whenever I'm driving in the country, I stop and buy whatever the roadside stands are selling. My favourite are the freestone apricots, closely followed by the cherries. The associations I have with those fruits are all about driving to St. Catharines to visit my grandmother or my aunt, day trips to Niagara Falls, and never, ever going down to the big highway when there's a country road to take instead. So my summer comfort foods are rather different from the ones I think of this time of year.