May 25th, 2009

Translation: Le Mort de Romeo

  • May. 25th, 2009 at 1:26 AM
royalsongstress: (MISC. - Ta da!)
Another song from Roméo et Juliette. This is the song that Romeo sings before killing himself. Well, technically, Death kills him. Which is not quite the same thing, but close. It's sung by Damien Sargue, who is just the most lovesick fool you have ever seen. He's a perfect Romeo.

La Mort de Roméo Romeo's Death
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Song (from the DVD of the show. The woman in white in the start is Death and she's ripping up the letter that Friar Laurence tried to send to Romeo about Juliette, but that never arrived in time. She also kisses Romeo to death, for whatever reason. Maybe they were out of poison in French Mantua.)

Translation )

Stuff and stuff

  • May. 25th, 2009 at 1:29 AM
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I went to see Angels & Demons with Mum today. We had to decide between that, Wolverine and Star Trek. Mum doesn't dig Star Trek so much and I'd already seen Wolverine, plus we'd watched The Davinci Code on TV last week and Mum doesn't have a great memory for plot details, so she thought we should see it while it was fresh. I had read The Davinci Code, and seen the movie, enjoyed both as not great works of literature/cinema, but entertaining enough. I haven't read Angels & Demons. My brother said it was the worst book he's ever read, so, you know, not highly recommended to me. However! I really enjoyed Angels & Demons. It works much better that Davinci Code, because there is a time limit. It's race against the clock and so it's more suspenseful. Plus the consequences are more dire if they fail. It was slightly too long, I could have done with one or two less plot twists, but I would recommend it if you enjoyed Davinci Code and/or enjoy history and symbology and such. Plus, Ewan MacGregor.

In other news, I've started posting in my dreamwidth journal. At moment there are song translations/rambles about Roméo et Juliette, which is a French musical I'm very fond of. The icon I'm using is from there.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and will have a good week!