Planets

[squirmelia]

Killing time in rain-splotched London until Tony Takitani, I remembered that Adam suggested that if I found myself without anything to do, I should shop for moonbeams.

I found lunar globes, adorned with the moon's pretty names of maria, such as the Sea That Has Become Known, the Lake of Time, the Sea of Rains. I found books filled with many pictures of the moon at different stages and postcards of night skies with bright stars, but there seemed to be no moonbeams or guides to where I could purchase moonbeams. I did find a £94 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names though, which described why the minor planets were named as they were, but not how I could actually get to any of those planets. Linux, Tea, Nostalgia, Beer, ASCII, Cheshirecat, Wisdom, London, NOT. I imagine these planets would be the kind of places that would appear at the top of the Faraway Tree. Have you ever been to any of these planets?

Comments

[bearro.livejournal.com]

Ah you finally saw it - was it good?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I think it was actually Tony Takitani that we saw this time, as opposed to The Devil and Daniel Johnston, although when we first went to the cinema, there was a magic lamp outside and we walked into the magic lamp, to try to get into the cinema, but it was closed, and then we turned into genies. Due to the lamp-like nature of the cinema, we thought we'd know we had returned to the right one, but it was gone! No lamp to be seen. But err.. yes, the film. Not as weird as some Murakami stories, unfortunately, and a bit depressing. I tend to like the weirder ones.

[notbbcnews24.livejournal.com]

my favourite moon sea has to be the sea of crises, a good book title if ever there was one...

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Is the sea choppy this time of year?

[notbbcnews24.livejournal.com]

it has been for me recently...

but i guess the shipping forecast for the sea of crises is never going to be favourable...

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

According to the Cobralingus (http://www.codexbooks.co.uk/sample.html), the forecast:

Crisis:

Cyclonic 4 or 5 backing vapour 5 to 7 in bay of heats. Moderate becoming good.

[tsuki-chama.livejournal.com]

> Linux, Tea, Nostalgia, Beer, ASCII, Cheshirecat, Wisdom, London, NOT.
I'd certainly like to give most of those planets a visit... *climbs Faraway Tree*

...maybe not the planet of NOT, though. I'm not sure I like the idea of being inverted.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Best to leave the planet NOT before it moves away from the Faraway Tree and you are stuck there, inverted, forever.

The faraway tree

[lost-species.livejournal.com]

The faraway tree, they used to be some of my favourite'st books *ever* when I was little.

They had completely snuck out of my mind..

Thanks for returning some treasured memories.

[shw8634.livejournal.com]

you have icon-age of EERIE INDIANA!
Woo you!
that show rocked... i may have to see if it's downloadable from anywhere.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I think I cut the picture of Omri Katz out of Smash Hits or some such similar magazine. :)

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

i have/had (it's in Dad's attic) a moon globe. And at least one song called Moonbeam.