Le fabuleux destin de'kohakou...

Feeling of the Day...

2015-06-15T11:11:00.000+02:00

Feeling of the Day....

2014-11-24T09:18:00.000+01:00

Sound Garden...

2014-11-18T11:20:00.001+01:00

It's sooo beautiful. It's one of their slower pieces but you gotta check out what these 2 awesome musicians are capable of...

Wise Words...

2014-11-10T09:11:00.002+01:00

[ via Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The Hobbit: Barrel Fight Scene

2014-11-04T09:25:00.002+01:00

This will always be my favourite Middl Earth fight scene (even though I never like the book of "The Hobbit" so much), toegether with the epic battle in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"... The choreography is just awesome. Oh, and the making of is kinda fun too...

Happy Halloween!

2014-10-31T14:28:00.000+01:00

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On the Big Screen...

2014-10-30T08:59:00.001+01:00

One of my most beloved painters. I've always adored his paintings. And the trailer looks superb... One more week 'til it'll be in the cinemas here...

Feeling of the Day...

2014-10-28T15:28:00.002+01:00

[via Change of Heart Pit Bull Rescue ]

Feeling of the Day...

2014-10-20T11:03:00.000+02:00

[ via priceless existence ]

Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.

-Hal Borland

On the Big Screen...

2014-10-20T10:55:00.001+02:00

I finally managed to watch PARADE'S END, an HBO/BBC drama mini series starring Benedict Cumberbatch (among others in an amazing cast) based on the same-called novel by Ford Madox Ford from 1924-28. Loved it. Constantly on the verge of tears, I have to confess. It's such a sad story most of the time (don't worry, there is a Happy Ending), also because it's mostly dealing with the effects of WW I on British society in general and certain characters in particular. It's beautifully written, the set décor is very apt, the music was great and then of course acting - brilliant! (Still no fan of blonde BC but it was suitable for the role!). There's drama and love and tragedy and costumes... What more do I need?! I know there's a lot of movies, documentaries, books etc. dealing with WW I this year since it's the 100 Year Anniversary (sadly enough).This has been a turning point in history, Austria included. That's basically what the series is about - how people struggled with the situation and how it changed them. Absolutely worth watching, I'd say!

I stole a few quotes on the book (but they work with the movie adaption as well) here that perfectly sum it up:

"...by no means a simple warning as to what modern warfare is like...[but] something complex and baffling [to many contemporary readers]. There was a love story with no passionate scenes; there were trenches but no battles; there was a tragedy without a denouement."

-Robie Macauley

"This is what the late war was like: this is how modern fighting of the organized, scientific type affects the mind.^"

^{-Ford Madox Ford, introduction of "Man Could Stand Up"}

On Stage: Frankenstein

2014-10-16T00:26:00.000+02:00

[ via TNL ]

Just back hom from the amazing National Theatre Live's encore screening of Danny Boyle's Frankenstein. I loved every bit of it, and not just because of Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller (it did help, though). Tonight we had Benedict as The Creature - I didn't know which version it would be when I got the tickets and it would have been great either way.

I'm usually not a fan of modern productions/settings but here everything was convincing. The cast, the stage set, the music, the lighting... I have to confess I think it was much more of an experience to watch on screen because the camera (angles) were amazing and added to the fantastic overall feeling.

The cinema was packed. 98% of the audience were (teenage) Cumberbitches (the fandom among my readers will understand) and the remaing 2% were passionate theatre loving retirees, slightly distracted by the sheer mass of excited females all round them... I even spotted 3 or 4 guys in the audience who were being dragged along by the girlfriends, from the looks of it... I've never seen so many people in the small English Cinema Haydn (my favourite English cinema by the way) here in Vienna, not even at the Coriolanus screening with Tom Hiddleston earlier this year. Back then, the majority of the audience (giggling schoolgirls mostly) came unprepared for the play and looked rather confused and disappointed (they probably should have read the play before).

Tonight, people certainly knew what they were about to see. Still, everyone was amazed at the end. It was even better than imagined. I was captivated. And I wasn't the only one. Up to this point, the best play I've seen so far (from the overall impression and the quality of the cast) has been The Master and Magarita (based on M. Bulgakov's novel, production with Simon McBurney's Complicite theatre group) at the Wiener Festwochen (read review here) - and that's not any easy one (especially since it was more than 3 hours). Tonight I added another one to that list. (And next's year's HAMLET in London with BC will definitely get there, too. Yeah, I got tickets!)

Feeling of the Day...

2014-10-10T14:31:00.000+02:00

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Feeling of the Day...

2014-10-07T11:48:00.002+02:00

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Wise Words...

2014-10-07T11:43:00.002+02:00

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Feeling of the Day...

2014-10-03T13:06:00.003+02:00

[ a sky full of winter stars ]

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

- Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Sound Garden...

2014-10-01T13:16:00.001+02:00

I love this one! Always been a favourite of mine. Just heard it on the radio again this morning...

On the Big Screen...

2014-09-30T22:17:00.002+02:00

That one was my fav book of Cecilia Ahern. It constantly made me laugh and cry. I loved it. Let's see if the movie can capture that magic I found in between the lines back then... Time for a re-read, I guess...

Feeling of the Day...

2014-09-30T13:11:00.003+02:00

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Feeling of the Day...

2014-09-29T12:33:00.004+02:00

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I thank you God for this most amazing day,

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,

and for the blue dream of sky

and for everything which is natural,

which is infinite,

which is yes.

- E. E. Cummings

Feeling of the Day...

2014-09-26T14:17:00.001+02:00

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The autumn wind is a pirate.
Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song
he sweeps along swaggering boisterously.
His face is weather beaten,
he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head...
The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

- Steve Sabol

Le Inspiration...

2014-09-24T21:57:00.002+02:00

Wow, these are absolutely beautiful! Fantastic flowerworks by Love, Limzy
I'd love to wear a dress like that, made of flowers...

Lim Zhi Wei, who goes by the nickname Limzy, is a Malaysian artist based in Singapore. Limzy's works are curated on Instagram herself as she treats it as a gallery of its own and a place that conveys happiness through art for everyone to enjoy. It is indeed life changing. Her works have been featured by both local and overseas media including Instagram homepage, Mayhem Magazine Australia, Elements Magazine Malaysia, Push Culture and Uncertain Magazine Singapore.

For year 2014, Limzy will be expanding her series of Flowerworks and #wearflowersinstead. Her artworks are currently represented by Art Xchange Gallery Singapore.

You can find more of her awesome creations on

her blog at www.lovelimzy.blogspot.com

her Instagram at www.instagram.com/lovelimzy

Wise Words...

2014-09-24T21:41:00.004+02:00

[ via Sun Gazing ]

Feeling of the Day...

2014-09-24T09:31:00.001+02:00

[ via we ♥ it ]

When ideas float in our mind
without any reflection or regard of the understanding,
it is that which the French call revery,
our language has scarce a name for it.
- John Locke

Wise Words...

2014-09-23T11:47:00.002+02:00

[ via Books Rock My World ]

Le Inspiration...

2014-09-23T11:45:00.002+02:00

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