I was supposed to write something about my name, so…”hello, my name is Nicola” and “hello, my name could have been Benjamin”. Knowing the name your parents would have given you if you’d turned out a different gender is really cool. You go “oh, we have the same name!” in your head, when you meet someone with that name, even though it really isn’t yours. It’s a really fun thing to know.

And then I’m kinda obsessed with Michael Emerson and his character Ben Linus right now. Obsessed, no shit, I even went on Youtube. I NEVER go on Youtube (not because I hate it or anything, I just never do). To illustrate my reasons: This, this, this and this~

also there was this one with the hamsters:
John: Where did you get electricity?
Ben: We have two giant hamsters running in a massive wheel in our secret underground lair.

So yeah, he’s kinda awesome, not just because he’s funny, he’s just a really great character and Michael Emerson did a great job playing him. I totally cried for like ten minutes after that scene.

I hope Michael Emerson won’t go and do comedy now, since he said he wants to do something different. I mean, he would be awesome at it, but I just don’t really like comedy shows and sitcoms. The only show in that genre I like is The Big Bang Theory. But anyway, whatever he’s gonna do next I’m going to watch, cause he’s awesome. (I know more adjectives than awesome, but it’s the most fitting )

Ok, I’ll go worship him some more and will continue to hope the weekend will come soon (those two are not really related though…)

I bought more Lost dvds last week, I’m too lazy to download. You know what I like about Lost? I lik Ben. Ben is really cool. I want my own Ben.

I don’t have anything to say, so I’ll just post a picture of the last money I spent:

Lost Season 1, Fringe Season 1, Terminator: S.C.C. Season 2

I’m going out to buy stuff later today, so in a few hours it won’t be the last I bought anymore…but then again, that’s not really the point, is it?

The Fringe Box is kinda awesome btw…

I love it when I watch a movie and, as the ending credits roll, I have the mixed feelings of left-over emotions from the film, combined with the knowledge of having just watched something amazing.

So what movie am I talking about? Obviously it’s called Lost Dream, as seen on the left.

I didn’t check the release date before watching, so I had some trouble placing it at the beginning (it’s from 2009). The way it is filmed actually made me wonder, if it was made in the late 90ies or around 2000 in some parts, but that’s what low budget movies look like anyway. It fit the atmosphere.

The plot summary frankly sounds horrible, even more than that, but I gave it a chance and I’m glad I did.

The son of a corrupt Congressman, Perry, has lost faith in all the things he held true - his family, girlfriend, and the American Dream. He finds himself emotionally bereft and depressed. In search of self-discovery, Perry meets Giovanni, an art student with an unrealized gift, Giovanni is Perry’s polar opposite. Raised by abusive parents and placed into a series of foster homes, Giovanni is brooding and nihilistic. He lives in an altered state full of drugs and sex, capped by a deadly game with a gun and a single bullet! Perry sees Gio as a free spirit, incorruptible and impervious to the pressures of society. Gio believes Perry to be a spoiled rich boy dabbling in existential angst. Perry needs Gio to believe that his pain is real, while Giovanni implores Perry to play his game of Russian roulette to prove the validity of his suffering. As Perry and Gio’s relationship changes, and drug-fueled emotions churn, their fates linger at the tip of a revolver with a single bullet. (form imdb)

Personally I think the story sounds like something I’d like to dislike, but it worked out, at least for me it did. It’s not completely realistic, but it’s also not completely wrong.

There is a lot of similarity in the character Perry (Michael Welch, who was apparently in some Twilight movie…?) and the “modern adolescent”. I felt that he desperately tried to find fault in everything and having a need to be at odds with the world, thus harbouring some kind of angsty depression.
I liked the idea of putting someone like that in front of someone with real issues. You can’t completely dismiss Perry’s troubles, but Gio (Shaun Sipos, for whom I wish that Melrose Place gets cancelled, seeing how he can actually act) certainly had more to deal with in his life.

Strangely enough I can’t really say what made me like this movie. Thinking about it, there are a lot of halves: the story is good, but not really; the actors and their characters carry the story, but not to the full extend either. I guess you could say the balance made this movie, it had the right amount of character, story, drama and realism.

All in all, you could say the ending was to be expected but it still left you a little shocked. I think that’s what the whole movie is: you know what’s going to happen, but you still can’t stop yourself from watching, wondering and hoping that maybe you’d be wrong.

The latest episode of Breaking Bad was amazing! Aaron Paul was amazing! Breaking Bad is one of those rare shows where you can actually see that the actors have real talent. They manage to carry a scene, the story and emotion so extremely well, that you really sit in front of your TV speechless at what you’ve just seen.

JESSE: What happens now? I’ll tell you what happens now. Your scumbag brother in law is finished. Done. You understand? I will own him. When this is over, every cent he earns, every cent his wife earns, is mine. Any place he goes, anywhere he turns, I’m gonna be there, grabbing my share. He’ll be scrubbing toilets in Tijuana for pennies and I’ll be standing over him, taking my cut. He’ll see me when he wakes up in the morning and when he crawls to sleep in whatever rathole’s left for him, after I shred his house down. I will haunt his crusty ass, forever, until the day he sticks a gun up his mouth and pulls the trigger just to get me out of his head. That’s what happens next.

Breaking Bad 3.07 - “One Minute”

I just watched A Single Man and I’m so glad that it was as good as I hoped it would be.

I don’t need to say anything about the story since I loved the book. Tom Ford did a great job at adapting it for the screen. He changed some stuff, left some out, but everything blends very well.

The cinematography is amazing. Every scene is worth a thousand pictures. Colors, contrast, angles, everything was just right and extremely beautiful. There is a lot that needs to be conveyed through the pictures and that worked really well here.

The actors were great, too. Colin Firth, brilliant. Then there was Nick Hoult with an american accent. I never heard it before, since everything I’ve seen him in were british productions. I can’t judge but I think he did ok? Anyway, he was great, too, and everyone else, too.

My favorite part of the book was when George (that would be Colin Firth) was in class and a student asked him if the author of the book they were reading was an anti-semite. That was the first time I actually agreed with a book, mostly I just read without getting entangled in opinions.

The language, structure, speech used in the book, thus in the movie, is just amazing. It’s just…to know someone like George, to talk to someone like him, to get into is head would be, for lack of a better word, amazing.

So, to finish this off, I loved both book and movie, and if you get the change you should definitely take a look!

I’m pretty sure half the world (or at least the five people who read this) know by now that I’m currently reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon and for whatever reason, I thought I might watch Wonder Boys (which is based on a novel by Michale Chabon) today.

I’ve seen it before but I never really watched it, if you know what I mean. It’s really fun though, which is why I decided to make Wonder Boys the next book I’m reading. Going to order it tomorrow~

The movie had the kind of humor I like, you know, the smart kind, the non- American Pie crap? I hate American Pie and Scary Movie, I loath them, with a passion! Smart dialogue and witty conversations, love them.

And how cute was James Leer (Tobey Maguire)??? How he was reciting those movie/actor suicides (in alphabetical order) or always asking for permission to ask something?

I loved the conversations Prof. Tripp (Michael Douglas) and his publisher Crabtree (Robert Downey Jr.) had about James, too. Btw, awesome choice of names in both cases. Well for example…

Grady Tripp: Besides, I’m not sure if he’s, uh…
Terry Crabtree: He is, I’m sure, take my word for it. I see myself in him.
Grady Tripp: Oh, I’m sure you do.

I’m not sure you’ll get it without having seen it…but that’s the kind of crap I come up with, I feel connected XD

I probably have at least one million posts with the title new layout but it’s always true.

It uses a different header than the one I posted a part of in the last entry. I’m thinking of using alternating headers though. It’s only about five lines in php, so it’s not a big effort to write. And the way the layout is structured it’s just asking for something like that, right?

The layout looks rather livejournal-ish, but I wanted something simple, without a real sidebar and lots of space, so that’s what I made

The screenshot is from Life on Mars, which is (as I’ve probably mentioned at least a hundred times) my all time favourite TV show. I wish John Simm was back on TV, he’s not going to be on Doctor Who for a while either At least I still have Philip Glenister in Ashes to Ashes (which is also pretty cool).

Like I said in the last post, I read The Great Gatsby over the weekend. Strangely enough I didn’t get that I liked it a lot until this morning.

Usually if I don’t like something, it’s like watching a romantic comedy. You watch it and then you go on doing whatever you do. You don’t think about it, it’s just really whatever in every sense of the word.

Well, I was still kinda pissy about Daisys actions this morning, so I liked it.

I watched the movie earlier. The 1974 version with Robert Redford. I watched it because I really couldn’t imagine Robert Redford pulling off love sick Gatsby. I was wrong, he did and looked damn well while doing so.

Go me for liking all those men who are older than my parents and at least three times my age. I’m sorry but all those new-ish actors are all just so…I don’t know, I can’t describe it, they just don’t do it for me…

Anyway, The Great Gatsby, great book and the 1974 movie isn’t half bad either.

And I really don’t like people like Daisy and Tom who live without consequences. So I’m going to leave you with a quote because what Nick says at the end of the book is really what I think, too.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
 

I will eventually write a proper post, weekend maybe… For now just something to look at. (Finally got the latest Southland episode and it was awesome!)