nat king cole

i just realised that without that guy we would be short of amazing songs, such as "nature boy", "let there be love", "there will never be another you", "fly me to the moon". can you imagine a world without those songs?

the fish are a-jumping and the cotton is hi-igh

summertime

on repeat

i went to ray lamontagne´s concert on saturday and he did a merle haggard song which lead me to dig up and old favourite of mine, "sing me back home", done by no other than mr keith richards aka the pirate king. love the song and the man. enjoy!

my weekly watch - american edition

hi,
so actually this is not what i watched last week it´s more what i watched since i´ve come to the states.
i want to keep track of my own moviewatching experiences, os if this is not making any sense or is just plain boring i´m sorry.

i went to a lot of movies i wouldn´t normally see (i´m such an arrogant "only indie movies for me" type of girl ;) but i was surprised by some and disappointed by others that i thought i would like.

so first movie i saw was arthur and though i was thoroughly amused by helen mirrens performance of the typical british nanny i was also toroughly annoyed by russell what´s his name´s way to talk. and his teeth.

 hannah was weird. i kinda liked it but thought the story was a little weak. great acting, great shots, but still: a movie where everybody is dead except the main character is not my cup of tea. though it was kind of fitting. or maybe not. i´m confused.

now that one totally surprised me. i laughed and laughed and laughed and fell in love with chris o´dowd, who i already loved before because i was in radio rock revolution. now i want to dance for a cop to proove i´m not drunk. i went twice.

 

i went because i love the 30s and i love the flair of circusses, but while i got all happy because of all the costumes and of course the elephant, i was not a fan of the storytelling and the acting. reese was great doing her circus act but didn´t seem to be that into her character. christopher was alright, robert was robert, only tai the elephant was oscar worthy. the ending was plain schmalzy and not in a good "the notebook" way. started out nice, stalled in the middle, ended bad and boring.

 

now that´s more my taste. i love both main actors and i love them together. i will love ryan´s character forever, because i know guys like dean and feel sorry for them because they want to make it work so badly and girls like cindy (i relate completely here too) are just even more annoyed by that. 

also i was intrigued by the way this movie was made and the journey had to take to be done. i wanna be derek gianfrance and put my actors up to play house for a month. i have to say it worked!

i´m thrilled to have finally seen that masterpiece by one of my heros, terry gilliam. i think he laughs at people who worship him for stuff he did such a long time ago (like time bandits) but i am one of those people and will continue worshipping him for the rest of my life. even moreso after the imaginarium. i´ll have to revisit soon, because that film simply overwhelmed me. of course it also stands as last unfinished movie in heath ledger´s legacy, a guy who puzzled me with his talent and made me suddenly mature in a movie theatre seat during brokeback mountain and who always have my heart out for him because of his struggles. 

last but not least i naturally saw the new pirates of the caribbean. who didn´t? johnny depp is always worth a watch. he´s again brilliant as captain jack. the movie though was everything you except from a movie that was a hilarious idea for the first movie that got dragged out to make four (or more). i´m going to start 21 jump street to enjoy some more johnny depp. that is what came from watching stranger tides.

i also watched young victoria, the duchess and the illusionist, because i love period pictures and all of them have some kind of historical event that the story is based on. aahhh all the hours i spent researching the actual events and historical figures :D time well spent!