How I like my men...

Favorite quotes - North and South

"_{I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it’s white, it’s snow-white."}

Daughter - Youth (The Wild Youth EP)

And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones.
'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs.
Setting fire to our insides for fun
collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
the lovers that went wrong.

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"Den Schmerz kann ich ertragen, was mich umbringt ist die Hoffnung..."

~Nick Hornby~

Epic John Green

He's so adorable <3

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Defying Gravity

Something has changed within me, something is not the same

I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game

Too late for second-guessing, too late to go back to sleep

It's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap!

It's time to try defying gravity

I think I'll try defying gravity

And you can't pull me down!

I'm through accepting limits
'cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!

I, Frankenstein - Review

"I, Frankenstein": Direkt nach dem Ende von Mary Shelleys 'Frankenstein' einsetzend, erzählt der Film die Geschichte von 'Frankensteins Monster', Adam, der unversehens in einen seit Jahrhunderten andauernden Krieg zwischen Gut und Böse, zwischen Gargylen und Dämonen verwickelt wird.

Ich hatte wenig erwartet und bin extremst angenehm überrascht worden. Der Film ist bildgewaltig, die Geschichte interessant, die Actionszenen und Kämpfe gut gemacht, der Soundtrack klasse und ich mag wie die Gargylen dargestellt sind (ich mag besonders die 'Übergangsszenen' von Gargyle zu Humanuider Form, sehr stylisch <3).
(Es spricht Bände, dass das einzige das mich 'gestört' hat, eine dramatische Szene mit sehr ohrgängiem Rhythmus war, in der er nicht im Takt zum Rhythmus lief *ggg*)

Man könnte auch sagen, dieser Film ist alles was ich mir damals von 'Van Helsing' so sehr erhofft hatte (wie bitterlich wurde ich enttäuscht...).

Von mir gibts 7,5/10 Zitteraalen für "I, Frankenstein"



(Bechdeltest: 1/3; es gibt drei Frauen mit Namen (die einzigen drei Frauen im kompletten Film), sie sprechen kein einziges Mal miteinander)

Drunken Nerd Stuff ;)

Angry VanGogh rinding Softkitty riding a giant tentacle being followed by a purple tentacle rat.

Any questions?

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I can see it coming from the edge of the room

Creeping in the streetlight

Holding my hand in the pale gloom

Can you see it coming now?

~Florence and the machine - Breaking down~

Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context

Sarah Kay - For My Daughter (Awesome Spoken Word)

"Always apologize when you've done something wrong, but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining..." 

I love this so much <3

Sneakfilm der Woche: 'Non-Stop'

Sneakfilm der Woche: 'Non-Stop' ein Fliegerentführungsfilm mit Liam Neeson und Julianne Moore. Einem Airmarshall wird an Bord eines Transatlantikfluges eine Flugzeugentführung in die Schuhe geschoben und er muss rausfinden, wer der Schuldige ist, bevor dieser mehr Leute tötet.

Hätte man ungefähr 2 Sekunden einer Szene im ersten Drittel des Filmes weggelassen, hätte der Film vielleicht bis zum Ende zumindest etwas spannend sein können, so war es jedoch schnell klar wer der Schuldige ist und es plätscherte dann halt so vor sich hin, im Großen und Ganzen vorhersehbar ohne besondere Überraschungen, dafür mit so mancher Logiklücke durch die ein Flugzeug fliegen kann.

Der Film ist nicht schlecht, er ist aber auch nicht wirklich gut. Wenn einem wirklich wirklich langweilig ist und man tatsächlich nichts besseres zur Alternative hat, kann man ihn schon schauen. Ich würde ihn mir allerdings kein zweites Mal ansehen, wenns nicht unbedingt sein muss.

Von mir gibt es für 'Non-Stop' 6 von 10 Blackboxen (Blackboxes? Blackboxeseses?).



Und hier noch der SneakCast vom Cle zum Film

Why Trust Is Worth It

This is beautiful and amazing in so many ways, it's perfect.
I loved zefrank before, but this new stuff he's doing is SO beautiful and touching. If you like this video, follow him on youtube, there are so much more amazing videos waiting for you!

Favorite quotes: Only lovers left alive

The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare

I just finished reading the fifth book of 'The Mortal Instruments' and here are a few thoughts about them.

'The Mortal Instruments' is a fantasy book-series set in 'our world', but with a few twists. There are so called 'Shadowhunters', humans who have been infused the blood of an angel. They can boost themselves and their abilities by drawing (to be more accurate: burning) angelic runes on their skin. Their purpose is to protect humanity from demons, interdimensional beings which shove into our dimension to 'harvest' human energy and destroy humanity.

There are also the so called 'downworlders': Werewolves and Vampires (humans infected with a demonic disease), Warlocks (immortal offsprings of demons and humans) and Faeries (which have angelic and demonic blood in them). All of them have to answer to the shadowhunters and to follow rules called 'The Accords', protecting the unknowing humans (called 'mundanes'). The 'Mundanes' don't know anything about this shadowworld, Shadowhunters and downworlders alike use magic called 'glamour' to make themselves invisible or normal looking for mundanes.

The story follows 16 year old Clary Fray, a 'normal' teenager whose live suddenly falls apart when she meets three shadowhunters noone but her can see, in a club. Things escalate quickly, her mother disappeares, demons try to kill her and she has to face the bitter truth that apparently her mother lied to her about almost everything in her life...

I read the five books pretty fast, and i like them pretty much. They are easy to read and the story is interesting enough to read on and on. And interesting enough for me to be a little bit pissed that the 6th is published not until may. I also think about buying the 'prequel' series, set up in the same universe, but in victorian times.

But they are not 'great literature' and I don't think it's anything you HAVE to read. It's definitely a young adult novel, the story circles around typical topics for an young adult novel: Who am I? What defines who I am? Who do I want to be? Does he love me? etc.pp.
That's not really bad, but the book doesn't raise big questions like other young adult novels e.g. 'The Hunger Games' or 'The Maze Runner', so it's a quite nice read, but not much more. If you like young adult novels about growing up, discovering and defining who you are and where you belong, finding and losing
love, this is for you. If you demand more message and deeper story from a story, read 'The Hunger Games' or 'The Maze Runner' ;)

Noteworthy things:

• The fae are pretty cool
• There is a homosexual interracial lovestory between a shadowhunter and a warlock and a number of other homosexual relationships.
• The characters are not overly stereotypical, everyone has a 'twist' in their background.
• There is very little 'black' and 'white' in the storyline, although the discription of the world may lead to think there is. 
• The angelic runes are an interesting idea
• I like the idea of demons being parasites from another dimension 

(Some thoughts about the film: as a book adaption, the film does a very very VERY bad job. The story is completly mutilated, whole parts of the plot are twisted and torn out of context and replaced by parts that don't make sense at all. The casting is not very good (besides Jaces, he looks just like he crawled out of the book) and they changed the end of the book completely! I was flabbergasted after reading the first book, I really don't know how they are thinking to turn this around in the second movie, or whatever they thought by doing something like this. But I'm not sure I want to see the second movie...)