Thursday, September 23, 2010

Painful White Spot On Gum

Inspired

thereof I sign after a long pause and again to speak. From the break there is no report of excessive, except that the summer was nice and the beaches of the Dominican Republic are not overvalued. Meanwhile, London has
me again, hopefully for the last winter. And hope dies last known.
Why do I write? Well, I was once again in the cinema, and for once not in a film that everyone knows anyway, "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.". After a comic book series by Brian Lee O'Malley.
You have to have not read the books to understand the movie, you should only know beforehand that cite the books old video games (which you have not played must).
History: Scott Pilgrim, 22, lives in Toronto and plays in a mediocre band. He is romantically involved with a 17 year old when he met one day Ramona Flowers. Er ist hin und weg, doch um mit ihr zusammen sein zu können, muss er ihre sieben bösen Ex-Partner besiegen (wofür er ganz ordentlich Punkte und Münzen bekommt). Und Ramona hat sich in der Auswahl ihrer Partner wirklich nicht mit Ruhm bekleckert. Begleitet/überwacht/angefeuert wird Scott von seinem überschaubaren Freundeskreis aus Bandmitgliedern, schwulem Mitbewohner (mit dem er ein Bett teilt) und kleiner Schwester.
Ich hatte mich schon ewig auf den Film gefreut, deswegen trau ich mir noch nicht einmal ein halbwegs objektives Urteil zu. Ich hatte Spaß. Einige Szenen wirken im Film deutlich besser als im Buch. Viel Hintergrundgeschichte fehlt natürlich, und ein paar Charaktere haben im Buch größere Rollen. Das End is a bit different, but that had bothered me a bit in the book anyway, so I found it all right.
In Germany the film is supposedly out late October. Be sure to look!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Whats The Best Toothpaste

What one can not speak ...


From an aesthetic perspective can be the 20th Century to a head as the "age of mysticism call." Concepts and terminology of Christian mysticism, but also of Kabbalah and Sufism were in a transformed form an integral part of literature, philosophy and aesthetic theory of modernity.

The contributions of this interdisciplinary volume consider the common elements, structural similarities and differences between the mystical and aesthetic experience and language modes such as Paul Celan, Georges Bataille, Harold Bloom, Ernst Cassirer and Michelangelo Antonioni in an attempt to approach the cause of the fascination for the modern aesthetic mysticism in philosophy, literature and visual media.

Cornelia Temesvári, Roberto Sanchiño Martínez (ed.)
"What we can not speak ..."
aesthetics and mysticism in the 20th Century. Philosophy - Literature - Visual Media. June 2010, 210 pages pb,, 23.80 € ISBN
. 978-3-8376-1226-4 Pick It!