"...Еліза в ліс везе свою валізу...

[christabel_daae]

...свою валізу в ліс везе Еліза"
(This is a line from Ukrainian production of 'My Fair Lady', should be sung to the melody of 'The Rain in Spain')

So... this is the second day of Sasha's packing her luggage to the long-waited fortnight in Munich. By now I've chosen and copied to my Walkman all the music I am going to need. I've also chosen the books I'm taking with me. Yeah, I'm a fan of making lists. Here they all are:

Music

Two albums of Frank Sinatra (ah, Frank...) - 'NIce 'n' Easy' and 'Songs for Young Lovers'

Frank Wildhorn - 'Rudolf, the Last Kiss' - that nice A-bootleg with Janza Kata I was talking about

Frank Wildhorn - 'Jekyll and Hyde - the complete work' (the best recording of it ever!)

Avantasia - 'The Metal Opera', both parts - nice power metal albums with inner plot.

Мельница (The Mill) - albums "Дорога сна" ('The Road of Dream') and "Перевал" ('The Pass') and some songs from "Зов крови" ('The Call of Blood')

Several Hungarian Dances by Brahms - nearly five or six, unfortunately I don't have all of them. Adore this style in classical music!

"No Fear", a nice fanmix dedicated to my favourite couple from anime 'Hellsing', Alucard and lady Integra Hellsing. A most wonderful compilation of songs. Created by this prodigious lady - http://sir-hellsing.livejournal.com/362960.html I'm sharing it for ru_hellsing community (two songs are missing, unfortunately); still its two parts are here: http://ifolder.ru/7465241
and http://ifolder.ru/7466413

Miscellaneous - mostly nice songs performed by baritone singers, though there are exceptions. This folder features:
-Everything from 'Starmania' with Bruno Pelletier
-'Ce soir on Danse a Naziland' by Garou
-Everything with Thomas Borchert from 'Dracula'
-Szabó P. Szilveszter - Útvesztő minden út
-'Schatten' from Essen recording of 'Elisabeth'
-Some songs from Mogador 'Les Miserables'
-Three songs from 'Jane Eyre' on Broadway, all performed by James Barbour
-Jenseits der Nacht - Yeah, with Uwe
-Final of the first act, 'Gier' and 'Tanzsaal' performed by Egyházi Géza from guess what musical and what recording
-'Pe o margine de lume' - Romanian song on this year Eurovision contest, I love it so much!

Books

Emily Bronte 'Wuthering Heights', paperback, Penguin Classics Edition. The only "real" book I am taking

Baroness Orczy - 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'

Andrzej Sapkowski - 'The Lady of the Lake'

Baron Olshevry Jr. - 'Vampires of Kardy Castle'

Sunset - 'Phantom Story'

Lucy Maud Montgomery - 'Anne of Green Gables' - the only e-book in this list to be in English (for other are either originally written in Russian or translated into it)

Well, now I am really feeling accomplished;)

Comments

[margo-sant-just.livejournal.com]

How long will you stay in Munich? While reading the list I guess that at least one month

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

Half of that: just a fortnight. You see, I usually read too quickly... It's always better to take more books with you - and e-books don't occupy any place at all. Same to music...
I was even going to take more music, Wagner's 'Der Fliegende Hollaender' had been long considered... and finally I thought that it would be exactly like carrying coal to Newcastle.

[moe-almanthea.livejournal.com]

Have a nice time in Munich! And enjoy Sapkowski's "The Lady Of The Lake", this is really good book. I'm Sapkowski fan, and I like especially his "Wiedźmin" (I suppose it calls "Witcher" in English) books are one of my favourite :)

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adore Sapkowski. I put him almost as high as Tolkien - and from me that's a great praise:)
I should say that this is my second or third (I even can't remember properly) reread of it. However, the last time was some three years ago, so I now can recall only the general idea and outcome.

[soldaja.livejournal.com]

с тебя жж-отчет и фото
хорошего и интересного тебе путешествия)
привези мне, плиз, магнит на холодильник, а то у меня Германия в ближайшие планы не входит)))

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

Всенепременнейше!

[b-a-n-s-h-e-e.livejournal.com]

Awesome music and books :) I'm sure you're going to have tons of fun.

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I hope so much... for so far I am having only great anxiousness

[moe-almanthea.livejournal.com]

I have the same situation - I have read "Wiedźmin" two or three times, but now remember only the general idea ;) Definitely it's time to read this again.
I like Tolkien too, but I have one problem with his books - I always get lost in the names, they are to similar to each other for me ;)

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

*a bit offtop*
You image is great!!! Where did you get it?
And who is there in it? Looks like Thomas Borchert, but I'm not quite sure.

[moe-almanthea.livejournal.com]

I found it at auctrix_icons, some time ago :) I have no idea who are the actors, I would like to know it too ;) Judging from their poses it is "Carpe Noctem" scene from TdV, but I don't know any production in which Black Vampire wears such shirt. Maybe it is not "Tanz der Vampire" at all... Now when you said it, this guy looks like Thomas, but I'm also not sure.

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

I see:) I adore auctrix_icons, it seems that all the icons there were made especially for me, so much I like them. But unfortunately several older icons disappeared - and I wanted so much a Dracula icon (with Borchert and Liechty - or probably Vasicek)...

[moe-almanthea.livejournal.com]

Maybe I can help you - I've saved some icons from "Dracula" I found on auctrix_icons on my computer. Would you like me to upload them somewhere? :)

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

That would be very kind of you... But I will only be able to use them when I'm back in Kyiv.

[moe-almanthea.livejournal.com]

Here they are (in .rar file): http://www.megaupload.com/pl/?d=9UY2W378

[chantfleuri.livejournal.com]

Baron Olshevry Jr. - 'Vampires of Kardy Castle'

Sunset - 'Phantom Story'

Great choice! I love these authors :)

Do you think you''ll have enough time to read it all?

[christabel-daae.livejournal.com]

I hope much so! At least Iäve already covered five chapters of "Wuthering Heights" and four chapters of "Phantom story".