This pic is epic!

There's nothing more to say! :-)

Jackie and the Rains of Castamere

Isn't it great, when two things that you both love, but seemingly have nothing to do with each other, come together and the outcome is perfect. Don't you love it? Like, say, the great singing voice of the wonderful, talented, innocent Jackie Evancho, and something that comes from the great, dirty-sex-and-intrigues-filled TV series "Game of Thrones"?

The red lion of House Reyne confronts the golden lion of House Lannister. This image represents the events that the song "The Rains of Castamere" is about.

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 Birthdays

It won't be all birthday posts as I hopefully continue this, but today is the birthday of not one, not two but at least four prominent people that I absolutely want to take the opportunity to mention, congratulate and write down some thoughts about.

Usually, it's ladies first, but today I'll go gents first, if only because it allows me to save the best for the last spot IMHO. I could also apply a saying we have in Germany, "Alter vor Schönheit", which translates to "age before beauty".

Here we go:

Dennis Quaid (60)

Sixty is a big birthday for sure. It also means he has a big career behind him, and hopefully also some ahead of him. But I won't discuss his whole filmography now, nor will I say anything about his marriage to Meg Ryan in the 90's, or remind anyone how it ended... I won't even state which of his performances is the best. I will only say for which role I will always remember him most, and I may be alone here. This clip is the closest I could find in a rather short time to my favorite quote from the 1989 movie "Great Balls of Fire":

By the way, Dennis Quaid was 35 when he played that role, but Jerry Lee Lewis is actually "only" 21 throughout most of the movie, as that is the age he was when he married Myra. Not that this makes it okay...

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:

Belated birthday post for Alyson Hannigan

I actually wanted to post this a lot earlier, but didn't manage to come along. Still the occasion is too great to just skip it. Alyson Hannigan, pictured below, not exactly an unknown, but not really a big star either, who more and more became one of my favorite actresses during the last years, celebrated her 40th birthday on March 24th. If I had posted it on the big day itself, I would have titled the post "To Alyson on her 40th birthday", alluding to a 90's movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer that I have actually never seen, but almost two weeks later this seems ridiculous.