R.I.P. Robin Williams (1951-2014)

It's 0:40 a.m. on the 13th of August where I am as I start writing this [it's actually 9:08 p.m. now that I'm finally posting it, as I just couldn't f**king manage to get the "Posterized" part right last night, and finally did go to sleep much too late out of frustration], and I really should be going to sleep, as I have to work tomorrow (well, today, actually), but even if I don't know if anyone reads my blog - and I am still too shy to actually try anything to promote it - I feel it has to be today.

Robin Williams died on August 11th, but due to time lag, it was already August 12th here when I heard it, around 7:30 a.m. when I was driving to work this morning. It is still hard to believe that he is dead, but that will change within a few days.

Whenever a celebrity dies, other celebrities, friends, former co-workers, or just attention whores, will point out what a kind person the deceased was. It's nice though, when they have a little story to tell for evidence.

Yes, No, Maybe So: Maleficent

"Yes, No, Maybe So" is one of the trademark series of my favorite movie-themed blog, "The Film Experience". I don't want to copy it, but "Maleficent" started at theaters last week in my country, and I just have to do it for this movie, especially because I always knew how I would do it, very minimalistically, in very few words:

Yes: Elle Fanning <3

I'm late, but *hush* let's talk about the Illuminati...

One and a half weeks ago, on Friday the 23rd of May, I wished my unsuspecting facebook friends a "happy Illuminati Day". Why is this day the Illuminati Day? Well, one of the first things you have to know about the Illuminati, except the fact that they are incredibly powerful and conspiratorial, is that their codes are the number "23" and its cross sum, the number "5", and that you can detect their involvement - in historical events for example - by means of these codes.

Here are the TOP 3 things to do and not to do (well, actually, the TOP 2 things to do and the TOP 1 thing not to do), i.e. you should have done and should not have done on Illuminati day to honor the Illuminati, or educate yourself about them:

1. Read the "Illuminatus" trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson

But be aware that you are in for a major mindfuck. I so have to write one or more blog entries about these books one day when I have a lot of time on my hands, but I just can't do it right now, I'm sorry.

Happy Birthday, Russell Crowe

Today is the 50th birthday of Academy Award winning actor Russell Crowe. I have only ever seen him in two movies, actually, Í checked using IMDb, namely "L.A. Confidential" and "Gladiator". I thought he was smart casting in "L.A. Confidential", playing the main character as a then virtually unknown, but his character annoyed me. When he - warning: minor spoiler ahead - slaps Kim Basinger near the end, it was relief to me, I like screamed out: Ha, I knew it, you are just a hypocrite. Everyone with such a big mouth has to be!
Gladiator was good, not great, everything about it, but I remember thinking of Joaquin Phoenix's dark, over-the-top villain as the highlight.

Long story short, I have nothing against him, but I'm hardly a big fan. Still, the occasion of the Big Five-O is too great not to take it as an excuse to post something. A few weeks ago, another blog I follow for quite some time now, "SeriousFilm", posted this: http://seriousfilm.blogspot.de/2014/03/youtube-tuesday-fightin-round-world.html, and it made me want to search for something funny and short out of that particular South Park episode. Including the theme song, and "Russell"'s own singing.

So, way to celebrate a man's birthday, making fun of him, I know, but it's just too funny, I could watch it over and over again. Enjoy, in Russell Crowe's honor:

In Memoriam Kurt Cobain 5.4.1994-5.4.2014

20 years ago today, Kurt Cobain died from a self-inflicted gunshot (all conspiracy theories aside) at the age of 27. I should have been a fan back in the day, but unlike my peers I actually didn't even know Nirvana. I was a strange kid. I made up for that in my early twenties, when me and a friend got T-shirts made quoting him with "I hate myself and I want to die". Also stupid. Anyway, to honor Kurt Cobain's legacy on this special day, here is a clip of Nirvana performing one of my favorite songs by them for MTV: