Does your record player still have a broken needle?

[sovay]

It's bad enough that I just looked at a calendar to check my age—which for obvious reasons it didn't tell me—but the fact that it occurred in the middle of discussing what turned out to be thirty-seven years of affinity for the character of Schmendrick the Magician just feels overloaded.

Comments

[selkie]

a) younger than me, as usual
b) At least you turned into a good poet with dreams.

[sovay]

a) younger than me, as usual

Six months unless the calendar accordions itself which I don't know if we should rule out given how time has been going lately! (Would be inconvenient. I like the intervening seasons.)

b) At least you turned into a good poet with dreams.

*hugs*

[batdina]

I did not know that Schmendrik was a magician. All of these years ...

Otherwise, what selkie said.

[sovay]

I did not know that Schmendrik was a magician. All of these years ...

Finding out that the name riffs on Mandrake the Magician blew my mind. I read that book far too young to realize any of it was weird, which in hindsight actually feels fine.

Otherwise, what selkie said.

*hugs*

[sholio]

I'm sure it will shock you disproportionately to find out that Schmendrick the Magician was also my favorite. (I read the book a long, long time ago, I think as a library book when I was a teen or tween. I'm not sure if I've ever seen the movie.)

[sovay]

I'm sure it will shock you disproportionately to find out that Schmendrick the Magician was also my favorite.

SHOCKED. SHOCKED.

(I read the book a long, long time ago, I think as a library book when I was a teen or tween. I'm not sure if I've ever seen the movie.)

I was shown the movie for the first and only time that I can remember in college, by a high school friend, but we can prove that I glanced off it in childhood because despite direct textual contradiction I associated Schmendrick for years with the color blue. It has a fabulous voice cast, a distinctive animation style, is remarkably close to the novel thanks to Beagle doing the screenplay, and I really imprinted on the book.

[thomasyan]

Apparently I think Naomi Watts has been stuck in a time loop ever since Mulholland Drive, since I was startled to see headlines about her giving a talk on menopause and aging in Hollywood. Google tells me actually we are close in age.

[sovay]

Apparently I think Naomi Watts has been stuck in a time loop ever since Mulholland Drive, since I was startled to see headlines about her giving a talk on menopause and aging in Hollywood. Google tells me actually we are close in age.

That makes sense when it happens with actors! All that time frozen on screen. Especially revisiting media that I encountered when younger, realizing that I am now older than the characters/actors is a trip.

[sporky_rat]

Schmendrick the Magician is a delight. He and the Cat were always my favorites.

(Well, I was rather fond of King Haggard as well, but that's because of the voice that showed up in the movie. It's hard to not find Christopher Lee's voice compelling and stick in your head when you reread the book.)

[sovay]

Schmendrick the Magician is a delight. He and the Cat were always my favorites.

The cat is a most excellent cat.

(Well, I was rather fond of King Haggard as well, but that's because of the voice that showed up in the movie. It's hard to not find Christopher Lee's voice compelling and stick in your head when you reread the book.)

Partly as a factor of my relationship with books and movies, none of the voices ever did stick with me, but I am glad they became an enhancing—I started to type enchanting—part of the experience for you!

[sporky_rat]

Only Christopher Lee's voice stuck, and I think it was because he and Haggard looked the same in my head, and so Haggard was merely stepping into his own role.

I enjoyed the other voices, but they didn't really stick. (Every now and again I'll watch something with Angela Lansbury and Mommy Fortuna will show up, but it's not often.)

[nineweaving]

My dear BBW gave me my old Ballantine copy, dated "Almost the first day of spring, 1973." I was 21, also a good age to encounter Beagle.

Nine

[sovay]

My dear BBW gave me my old Ballantine copy, dated "Almost the first day of spring, 1973." I was 21, also a good age to encounter Beagle.

Nice! If the Ballantine copy was this one, it's the edition I own, although not I believe the edition I read first, which came from the Cambridge Public Library.

[nineweaving]

That's the one!

Nine

[vass]

...Thirty-seven years on the planet, or thirty-seven years since you first read or watched The Last Unicorn? If the former, huh: I had it in my head that we were within about a year of each other, and I'm 44.

[sovay]

...Thirty-seven years on the planet, or thirty-seven years since you first read or watched The Last Unicorn?

Thirty-seven years since first reading it. I was six at the time.

[asakiyume]

That's thirty-seven of your years well spent--regardless of anything else!

[sovay]

That's thirty-seven of your years well spent--regardless of anything else!

Thank you!