Question from Kris
Jul. 2nd, 2009 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onomatopoetry+ Leave me a comment saying whatever you feel like!
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1. If you could ask Lars Winnerbäck one question, what would it be, and why?
Oh god. Discounting the fact that I'd stutter and faint before I had a chance, I think I's ask how he has resisted the temptation of being a "full on celebrity" what with movie premiers, interviews and public love lives. Because I am generally curious and wouldn't be able to myself.
2. What is your favorite phrase in Swedish, what does it mean, and why is it your favorite?
I'd say it's either one of two words; vemod or tätortstimotej . The former (I've explained to you) means a certain bittersweet nostalgia or sadness; it makes me feel or sunsets or the end of parties. The latter is an invention of LW's, which I've translated before as "city grass", but it's not that easy; tätort an an administrative term that means "densely populated area or area with more than 200 inhabitants and less than 200m between buildings" and timotej means timothy grass; it connotates that feeling of neatly combed nature allowed to exist in near-suburbia, the grass of public parks and playgrounds. I named my Swedish blog it.
3. What's your favorite work by Neil Gaiman, and why?
American Gods. Because I love mythology, because it mixes this harsh, hard boiled, held-back sort of tone of Shadow with the stories of people coming to America, each with their own language, because it's such a roadmovie of a book. That being said, I don't like Gaiman's Loki in any of his books; I am unfound of Snorri's Loki and firm in my belief that he was an amoral trickster rather than a malevolent force.
4. Who would you like to be cast on DW as 12 and/or 13?
I still like the idea of Patterson Joseph. Or perhaps Lalla Ward, that would be a nice mindfuck :)
5. What do you miss most about Sweden?
Food things; mixed bulked candy, rose hip soup, seventeen kinds of crip bread, pizza with kebab sauce and banana. My mother and my friends, true social security (though the current government is undermining it.)
+ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
+ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
+ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
1. If you could ask Lars Winnerbäck one question, what would it be, and why?
Oh god. Discounting the fact that I'd stutter and faint before I had a chance, I think I's ask how he has resisted the temptation of being a "full on celebrity" what with movie premiers, interviews and public love lives. Because I am generally curious and wouldn't be able to myself.
2. What is your favorite phrase in Swedish, what does it mean, and why is it your favorite?
I'd say it's either one of two words; vemod or tätortstimotej . The former (I've explained to you) means a certain bittersweet nostalgia or sadness; it makes me feel or sunsets or the end of parties. The latter is an invention of LW's, which I've translated before as "city grass", but it's not that easy; tätort an an administrative term that means "densely populated area or area with more than 200 inhabitants and less than 200m between buildings" and timotej means timothy grass; it connotates that feeling of neatly combed nature allowed to exist in near-suburbia, the grass of public parks and playgrounds. I named my Swedish blog it.
3. What's your favorite work by Neil Gaiman, and why?
American Gods. Because I love mythology, because it mixes this harsh, hard boiled, held-back sort of tone of Shadow with the stories of people coming to America, each with their own language, because it's such a roadmovie of a book. That being said, I don't like Gaiman's Loki in any of his books; I am unfound of Snorri's Loki and firm in my belief that he was an amoral trickster rather than a malevolent force.
4. Who would you like to be cast on DW as 12 and/or 13?
I still like the idea of Patterson Joseph. Or perhaps Lalla Ward, that would be a nice mindfuck :)
5. What do you miss most about Sweden?
Food things; mixed bulked candy, rose hip soup, seventeen kinds of crip bread, pizza with kebab sauce and banana. My mother and my friends, true social security (though the current government is undermining it.)
