Today is San Juan, which is also my saints day. Of course I never tell anybody that my name translates into Juana, otherwise they might start calling me Juanita. Instead they call me Choun, Shwan, Chan…
sunday song – everyone knows juanita
24 Sunday Jun 2018
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I rather uncharacteristically decided to watch that film last week. (I don’t do Disney as a rule, I just don’t have time in my life for candified kid stuff, but I read an article in the New Yorker about it that fetched me a bit.) It wasn’t great, but not bad enough to turn off, and the best part was the music itself. That, and the big neon spirit world panther that manifests in living reality as a regular alley cat. There’s something to be said for Disney making an effort to represent another culture with some level of authenticity. Alas, representing families as actually caring and coming together is a level of fiction that defies any attempt to suspend disbelief.
I have a special fondness for John’s Eve because of Salome.
Now there was a young one called Salome,
A divil to dance and to sing
And she took a great liking to Saint John
And she went to her father, the king,
“If I dance, will you give me a present?”
Says she, and the old lad agrees,
So she started to dance like an angel
And the king sitting back at his ease.
“Very nice,” says your man, when she’s winded,
“Very nice, and now what will you have?”
“Oh daddy,” says she, “give me Saint John,
That lovely young man for my slave.”
“Fair enough,” says the king, “you can have him.”
But Saint John, being a saint, said “No fear.”
So Salome was mad, and her father
Said “Right, you can cut off his ear.”
“No, No,” says Salome, “his head please!”
So she danced with the head round the Court,
And bonfires on John’s Eve remind us
That dancing is dangerous sport.
(Donagh MacDonagh, who did not discuss the parallel dangers of music)
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I haven’t actually seen this film, just this bit about Juanita.
Thanks for Salome. 🙂
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