February Overview

As the month draws to a close, I thought I would take another look at what I've covered so far particularly to hunt out any unintentional connections between different blog posts.

Peter Pan, Jackson and the Phantom

The Peter Pan theme connects with the concept of Shadow Selves as discussed in Beauty and the Beast and Golden Shadows as for a time, in the story, Peter Pan is literally separated from his shadow.

Peter Pan also became connected with my Devil theme through the god Pan.

Marilyn Monroe was weirdly compared to the Phantom of the Opera in my last summary. But there is also a bit of a link between the Michael Jackson/Peter Pan topic and the Phantom of the Opera. People compare him to the Phantom quite a lot.

As this blogger writes: "There are legends. There are icons. And then there is Michael Jackson. Mention his name today and you probably think of pop music’s Phantom of the Opera – upturned rodent nose, albino skin, dangling his child from a hotel balcony."

I remember Michael Crawford talking in an interview about how he met Jackson after performing in The Phantom of the Opera. Apparently Jackson was mesmerised by Crawford's performance and kept saying,"Your hands...I loved your hands..." (?!?)

Unintentional Links

Hitchcock has been creeping into my posts a bit too through my brief Psycho-Analysis and my mention of The Birds in the End of the World and Six Degrees of Peter Pan.

Jude Law popped up as a "ghost whisperer" in Haunted Hotels then as a serial killer in The Curse of the Divided Self and then as the victim of a serial killer of sorts in The Curse of the Divided Self - Part II.

As for where the blog is going over the next few weeks, pretty much in the same vein, I think. Plus I feel a bit of an Elizabethan theme coming on...("William Shakespeare didn't exist")

It's probably better if I don't know what's coming.