Our boys are back!!! And with the the Spirit of the Summer '06! Those were the days ...

Can I just say: I love how the Germans and the Portugese play together. I know, I know, technically, they are playing against each other, but don't you just have to love the matches that occur when those two teams meet. They simply totally agree! ... Okay, so it ( Read more... )

I went to see the new Indiana Jones yesterday. Yay! It was really, really great. To tell the truth, I was quite sceptical going in there; I thought "No way it can be as good and as fun as The Last Crusade". I even feared they might totally bugger it up. Oh, how utterly wrong I was! You can feel how much fun everybody had making the movie. It really ( Read more... )

I am currently researching the great epic poet John Milton and stumbled upon the following description of the young poetic genius:

His short but well-formed body, long auburn hair, blue eyes, and fair skin enhanced his intellectual vivacity and graceful manners.

Uhm ... Sound like a certain bloody awful poet we all know? 

Yesterday, I watched The Raiders of the Lost Ark, as I am planning to see the fourth Indiana Jones Movie and wanted to refresh my memory concerning the previous films. So, I borrowed the DVDs from my flatmate, which means, I watched the movie in English for the first time, thus realizing that the first  Indiana Jones Movie is  the Raiders of the ( Read more... )

Something ... interesting happened to me yesterday. I met with some old school friends who I don't see as regularly anymore as I'd like. The whole evening, we were busy catching up, and for a couple of years now that involves - quite naturally and yet frighteningly - mainly talking about work. I told them about the Milton-translation I'm currently ( Read more... )

Okay, here is the one and only pure Angel-poem I ever wrote. It contains no real spoilers, only if you don't know the series at all, and in that case, I don't think the poem will do anything for you anyways.

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Angels

Violets, Darling,
grinning wolfs
and golden rings
to swallow the sun
and be happy
perfectly happy.

Give me ( Read more... )

Okay, another thing: Yesterday evening, during channel-surfing, I stumbled upon an age-old episode of Columbo. While watching, it suddenly occured to me that Columbo just might be the great-great-grandfather of Agent Seeley Booth - in an intertextual way, of course. I admit, the similarities are few and far between, and they are quite different ( Read more... )

I just noticed, again, that a lot of people don't like Eve from AtS Season 5. I am most definitely one of them, and I idly wondered, why that is. I came to the conclusion, the problem for me is not so much the character itself - actually, I find the idea of Eve pretty cool; the problem is the way they casted her.  Again, I don't want to say ( Read more... )

That's a mightily interesting question. Curiously enough, I tend to sympathize and empathize mostly with male characters (more often than not the dark and tormented ones). The only female character I related as strongly to, even identified with her (and that's a rare occasion) was, at one point, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Which is awfully strange ( Read more... )