Ich bin gerade über folgenden Blogeintrag gestoßen, den ich gerne weitergeben möchte:

Blogeintrag auf 'Grober Unfug'

Beim Blättern durch ein Buchmagazin ist mir das Cover von Wolfgang Hohlbeins "Chronik der Unsterblichen: Glut und Asche" ins Auge gesprungen. Ich hatte zwar die ersten Teile der Chronik der Unsterblichen angelesen, aber sie hatten mir nicht gefallen. Das Cover dieses Buches schafft, was der gesamte Inhalt bei mir nicht schaffen wird: mich begeistern. Wahrscheinlich kommt das aber eher daher, dass hier mit meinem Slash-Herz gespielt wird (Sieht er nicht aus, als könnte er eine männliche Umarmung gebrauchen?). Wer auch immer das Cover gestaltet hat: 100% Trefferquote.

Is it just me or is there really only a short number of fanfics, which are not published on LJ. When I stumbled my way into fandom, there were archives everywhere (maybe that was because of the Harry Potter boom). Well, at least different independent author's homepages existed. In these olden days, if I may be allowed to call them that, fanfic recs led me to archives. These days recs lead me to LJ and LJ again and some more LJ. It's not only that all fics are published there, also the recs are published there.

In a touch of melancholy I want back the old times and I don't know why, because it's not even a bad thing for author's to be able to publish their fanfics easily in their journals. :( Maybe I feel like in archives these fics would be so much safer and easier to find. Something bothers me!

I have to think about this some more ...

I love crazy characters in films and there is not a film with crazier characters than "Cold Comfort Farm". A co-worker recommended the film to me and I watched it on Youtube. It's hilarious!

The main character Flora wants to be a writer like Jane Austen and she decides to learn about real life to put it into books. So she moves to her relatives on Cold Comfort Farm and they are the most absurd people you've ever seen. Judith Starkadder, the mother, sees doom in everything, her son Seth can't control his sex drive, the daughter Elfine runs through the woods in a fairy-like costume and the grandmother Ada Doom doesn't allow anybody to leave the farm, "because there have always been Blackadders on Cold Comfort Farm" and she "did see something nasty in the woodshed" when she was a child (that's her argument throughout the film and it doesn't make a bit of sense).

My favourite character though is Amos Starkadder (played by Ian McKellen), Judith's husband and a preacher. He preaches of hellfire and doom. Here's a quote:

"Damned! Do you ever stop to think what that word means? No, you don't. It means endless, horrifying torment! It means your poor, sinful bodies stretched out on red-hot gridirons, in the nethermost, fiery pit of hell and those demons mocking ye while they waves cooling jellies in front of ye. You know what it's like when you burn your hand, taking a cake out of the oven, or lighting one of them godless cigarettes? And it stings with a fearful pain, aye? And you run to clap a bit of butter on it to take the pain away, aye? Well, I'll tell ye, there'll be no butter in hell!"

Last Saturday I went to Munich because I wanted to visit the Comicfestival 2009. I had asked a bunch of friends to join me, but not one of them had time. So I packed my rucksack and took the train alone. Munich is like another world to me: Crowds of people and tall buildings.

( Adventures in Munich )

I just stumbled over some interesting information. The producers of "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" started an animation project. In cooperation with well-known directors they produced "Batman Gotham Knight", six interwoven short films about the transformation from Bruce Wayne to Batman. Some day I'll invest in the DVDs, I think. By the way, I don't know why I didn't read about this earlier and I guess I have to scold one of my friends, because he has the DVD and didn't tell me about this earlier.

Batman Gotham Knight - Official Trailer


Official Website: http://warnervideo.com/batmangothamknight/

Today one of my co-workers showed me a video of Bill Maher's show "Real Time". I laughed so hard! I hadn't heard of Bill Maher before and that's kind of odd, because he seems to be well-known. Hm! Anyway, now I'd like to watch "Religulous" and I wonder if this movie ever made it to Germany.

( Some videos I liked )

Nachdem ich mein Praktikum endlich erfolgreich abgeschlossen habe und auch die ersten sehr stressigen Wochen der Uni überstanden habe, widme ich mich nun wieder meinen Journals (nun ja, IJ sicher mehr als LJ).

Und heute morgen hat sich mir auch ein wunderbares Thema für einen aktuellen Post geboten. Ich habe die Angewohnheit als allererstes in der Frühe das Radio anzuschalten. Da demnächst die Europawahlen (07.06.2009) anstehen, habe ich so auch gleich den Werbespot der Christlichen Mitte (CM) hören dürfen. Da ich auf Kraftausdrücke an dieser Stelle verzichten möchte, sage ich nur kurz und knapp, dass dieser Werbespot mich durchaus überzeugt hat, die CM nicht zu wählen und sollte ich eines Tages Nachfahren haben, werde ich ihnen verbieten die CM zu wählen.

( Und schlimm fand ich ... )

Poll #3351
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What do you think?

What else could it be?

Do you know this: You sit a your bus stop and look at those extremely huge posters for five or ten minutes until your bus arrives. What now, if there is an add, which makes you think so hard that you can't forget it and have to solve the problem. This happened to me and maybe one of you can enlighten me.

My problem is this add: Natural Healing (Watch it with the greatest zoom factor, because I already said, at bus stop adds are like super huge!)

And now you maybe can tell me what bodypart this one at the left border is. I guess it should be an arm, but a.) try to make that pose in exactly the same way and don't dislocate your shoulder b.) why does she have arm hairs on her right arm, but not on the left.

My flatmate and I came to different conclusions:

- There's a man standing in front of her. (It's his arm.)
- She is rubber woman and will save the world with her "Elasty Power".
- It's her knee, pulled up so high, we see her hairy legs.
- It's not a bodypart at all, it's soil for those beautiful flowers (which by the way break their natural growing pattern at her chin).

(Edit: Ticky boxes won't work in this post for whatever reason. If you feel the need to vote, you can follow this link.)

Wah, I haven't updated for over a month? Shame on me! Well, at least I have a good excuse. When semester was over, I was so happy to have survived the stressful time, but now I am looking forward to the end of my internship. Although I have only done it for one month, I am totally disappointed. The big problem is, I have to be there almost 9 hours a day and they don't really have work for me. Boring and tiring! Also my superior is a class one asshole and I have to sit in the same room with him. :( My great shimmer of hope is to reach April, because then he'll be away on vacation.

Although I couldn't follow my fandoms well lately, I've found some things I have to share. Do you all remeber the anime series "Cat's Eye"? It's about those three sisters who steal art objects, because they want to find a clue where their father, a European artist, is. Cat's Eye takes me back to my childhood. :)
I always liked the German intro, but lately I searched for the Japanese one and then I found some very funny related stuff.

( Introtastic! )

Nachdem ich am Mittwoch in meinem Medienpsychologie-Seminar einen Vortrag über Computerspiele, deren Nutzen und Gefahren gehört habe und die Referentin uns über World of Warcraft erzählte, wo sie selber mitspielt, wollte ich das endlich auch mal ausprobieren.

Also zuerst mal auf die Seite geschaut (http://www.wow-europe.com/de/index.xml). Ist ja alles schön und gut da, aber allein um mir den Guide für Neueinsteiger stellenweise durchzulesen hab ich über eine Stunde gebraucht (nicht zuletzt dadurch, dass mein Firefox mit dieser riesigen Seite nicht ganz klar kam). Jedenfalls klang es dann doch ganz interessant. Hat mich ein bisschen an die Grundzüge von Diablo 2 erinnert, was ich früher sehr mochte. Also hab ich mir die 10-Tage-Probeversion runtergeladen.

( Der Einstieg ins Spiel )

I just realized, I am so not up to date. A friend sent me a link to some news article about anime live-action adaptations. I was shocked, because ...

( This should not happen to Akira, Cowboy Bebop and Dragon Ball )

I just checked my news rss feed and the first info was: Long finger makes a successful equity trader. Made sense to me, because in German "long finger" (Langfinger) does also mean pickpocket. I was curious. The news told me in huge words, that men have a greater chance of success in equity trading, if their ringfinger is longer than their index finger. Good to know, eh?

Besides this absolutely life-saving information, the best part was the writing itself. I wouldn't have dreamed of someone calling a university (Cambridge) "the spearhead of finger studies".

link to the news: http://www.tagesschau.de/schlusslicht/ringfinger100.html

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Highlight of my day: Today at university I waited for my next course to start, when a friend passed by. He asked me if I wanted to watch the movie "Perceval" with him in the uni cinema. Because I hadn't heard about the film I wanted to know from when it is and at what time it would begin. He didn't know, but suddenly a girl, who sat next to me, answered in his stead. And then she went on: "The film has something to do with the dark age. I think it's about the holy grail, you know?" My friend and I had to hold back the laughter and a lot of eyerolling. I wanted to tell her: "No really? Perceval and dark age? No way! He is a knight! Dark age, no way! And a grail? What incident! It so happens that Perceval is THE knight of the holy grail. I highly doubt the film is about it." *headdesk*

First of all: Happy New Year to all of you! I hope your wishes for this year come true! I am just glad I survived Christmas with my parents and grandparents. It's the same every year. My mother cooks, is stressed, my grandparents mostly are the cause of this stress, my father doesn't care for any stress, my brother ... is my brother (his second name should be chaos) and I just want Christmas to end.

New Year's Eve was fun though. Thanks, Satine! And give Dina a hug from me (I am getting used to her)!

Ah, I also read a book mllesatine gave me: "A Companion to Wolves" by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear.
( Some thoughts on the book )

Heute schreib ich mal wieder schnell auf Deutsch. In letzter Zeit bin ich viel unterwegs und habe mehrere Projekte am Laufen, weshalb es sein kann, dass ich in größeren Zeitabständen schreibe, aber ich habe mein Journal nicht vergessen.

Ich dachte mir auch, dass ein bisschen Abwechslung für mein IJ auch ganz gut wäre und hab deshalb das Layout verändert. Das alte hatte mir auch gut gefallen, aber man soll sich ja nicht zu sehr an die Dinge binden.

Ganz anderes Thema: Vorhin habe ich festgestellt, dass in "Batman: The Dark Knight" die deutsche Synchro total beschissen klingt. Ich mochte eigentlich immer die Synchronstimme von Heath Ledger, aber diesmal klingt alles unnatürlich. Und warum um alles in der Welt hat man "Hit me!" mit "Zeig's mir!" übersetzt? Ich sollte Filme nur noch im Original schauen.

Real life is the weirdest thing. Today I did a little shopping and when I was on my way back home, I passed a bakery near the tram. This bakery just got delivery and the empty plastic boxes, in which the fresh rolls had been delivered, still stood in front of the bakery. I read the text on the boxes and was surprised to say the least. The text said: "stolen from bakery xy". No, today we don't say "property of bakery xy", we assume the worst case scenario. I hope the delivery man does not feel like a thief all the time.

I've got a cold again and I feel like a really fat sumo ringer played basketball with me. I hate it! The worst part is, I only get ill when I have a free day. The whole week I worked and went from one place to the other, I presented a paper, I met some friends, I had a compact course and today I wanted to do nothing. Bham! Scene cold!

Anyway, at least I can surf the internet from my bed. On boingboing I found this supercute video, which I want to share:

It's a baby pygmy hippo




I also did some crocheting today. This may sound weird, but it's not. On Wednesday I found a book about Amigurumi in my local bookstore and I was instantly in love and wanted to create something like this. So I use the late or early hours of the day to crochet a penguin. I already finished the head and body. Now I only need the wings and feet. ^-^

I know what you think, when you read the title of this post. Shame on you! You have only one thing in mind, really! "Strip around the world" is not an order to get naked, but the name of a project. I'll post the summary, so you know, what's behind the slogan:

"ALL THE ARTISTS AND FRIENDS OF COMICS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CAN MEET HERE AND CREATE A UNIQUE PIECE OF ART: THE LARGEST AND LONGEST COLLABORATIVE COMIC THAT HAS EVER EXISTED – IT IS SUPPOSED TO REACH AROUND THE WORLD ONCE AND BRING PEOPLE AND NATIONS TOGETHER! BE A PART OF IT"

Don't you think this is interesting? The longest collaborative comic strip in the world. If I find some time, I'd like to contribute. Some works are already uploaded on the site. Unfortunately the navigation is horrible. I wanted to be able to scroll the whole strip comfortably, but the tool to do this is a tiny little paperclip on the top. The pics just fly by, because I am not very well coordinated. T-T