shakespeare meets wainwright meets wilson

this has been by far the most enjoyable night at a theater in quite a while – the words of the bard combined with rufus wainwright’s music and robert wilson’s perfect ability to create a mood on stage through lightning, directing and choosing perfect actors for perfect parts – two and a half hours slipped by and i never noticed, i was enraptured by the music, the dancing, the acting and the undying words of shakespeare – there can be no better way to celebrate 400 years sonnets than that

shadows, large, small, loud, bright, silent, just a whisper, then loud and overwhelming – saucy fool, majestic queen, a dark lady, a light youth, a great poet, a nasty rival, a little (or not so much so) love-good – a whirlwind of emotions created through references to different music through the ages – so suddenly you feel directly plunged into brecht’s threepenny opera, the world of french chansons, baroque finery, swoony-cheesy love ballads or pop-art musicals – every lover of good music and shakespeare will be as ardently in love with it as me – i would watch it again and again and again until i have no more tears left to shed, no more laughs left to laugh and all my energy is spent – a gripping experience for all senses – a feast for body, mind and soul

and in the end this is all that can be said (or sung)

short magister story

i stumbled across my magister thesis the other day and was thrilled by the sheer size of it – i started reading and was amazed that i had managed to write something as interesting and good as that – i don’t want to be gushing myself with praise, i am not that great, but i am pretty damn proud of having accomplished someting like that – and here’s the very, very shortest version of my thesis – enjoy!

ps: my thesis is on the dynamics of mexican-american self-perception in prison in california – tough choice, but very rewarding in a strange way

*sigh*

wait … what?

oh dear, so dashing in stripes and so … undefinable in a checkered suit

i can’t help myself – it just keeps on looking like an old, worn grandfather armchair to me – and look here, she’s wearing the curtains to his chair

sorry, either my sense of fashion just horribly failed me or your sense of taste deserted you – i’d expected more, oh so much more dashing and dazzling, as suits a red carpet and an epic movie

happy halloween!

happy birthday

not only one, but two quite important birthdays today – in my world at least

1. the internet is forty today – without the internet, no wordpress, without wordpress, no teacaro-blog, without teacaro-blog the world would be a sadder place – definitely for me
2. asterix is fifty today – without asterix, many a lonely teenage hour would have been disastrously boring and sad – according to three different quizzes in three different communities, i would either be miraculix, asterix or idefix – i’ll agree to the last

Du bist klein, süß und meistens auch sehr lustig. Aber wenn du jemanden siehst den du nicht magst, wirst du zum Berserker oder einer Wilden Kampfmaschine.

so, here’s to asterix and the internet – a very happy birthday and many more fantastic years

more darcy & co

ah, what more does a girl want then a good swoon over dashing period drama heroes – this one also makes me chuckle uncontrollably – the song is really obnoxious at first, but after watching it a couple of times, it grows on you – so, hey mickey, darcy and all you others – man, i do feel girly today

short, short story

read this, of you’re either too lazy to read the whole book (which i do not recommend because it’s really a very nice book indeed) or if you are a fan of the book and like a good laugh

which book? – oh, the book, of course – the one and only perfect love story of all times – jane austen’s “pride and prejudice”

follow the link and be surprised – it’s austen facebook style – http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/

and well, just for those of us, who like to drool – here’s all the darcys you could ever want

who – are – YOU?

seriously, i had an average of 40-50 people visiting my blog each day in the past week – who are you? – if you read this, whether if it is your first time coming across this little nonsensical blog of mine or you are a regular, please leave me a comment and tell me how you’ve come to be here and read what i have to tell

any comment will do, just let me know, why you’re here – if it makes me laugh, well, that would add an extra bit fo flavour, but just a regular hello and where you’re located would be very much appreciated – i so much want to know who you are and what you think – and please, i do take orders! – if you want me to post on something special, just say the word and i’ll consider what i can do – or look at the menu and choose a category you think i’ve been neglecting and i’ll be happy to come up with something

but thank you for reading anyways!

a day to remember

today has been an awesome day – full of sunshine in every way – and this is to remember it by – sunshine, funshine, sunshine

good to be a star

o.my.god.

got style? – yes, i do! – last night’s episode of desperate housewives featured katherine mayfair wearing the ocean-blue oscar de la renta dress, i’ve had my eye on for quite a while now – and it has recently been reduced from € 3,176.21 to € 2,223.34 – it’s a bargain, just another couple of years of hard work at that job of mine and i’ll be able to afford it

going to my second home

just two days and partly for work, but – berlin, berlin, berlin – here i come – sigh, i feel very cosmopolitan, i’ll grap a latte on my way to the station, hop on the train and be back tomorrow – so long

looking up

don’t be sad now, there’s always something to look up for

whether ’tis the bright and beautiful autumn sun or the colorful plenitude of the leaves above, the endless twinkling of the stars or a stormy wilderness of clouds about to spill rain or thunder, snow or hail, there’s always something there for you

barnyad boogie

it ain’t getting no better than this

lazing on a sunday afternoon

I go out to work on a Monday morning
Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
I’ll be back again before it’s time for Sunny-down,
I’ll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo
I come from London town, I’m just an ordinary guy,
Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
I’m bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes again)
I’ll be lazing on a Sunday (oooo)
lazing on a Sunday (ooooo)
lazing on a Sunday Afternoon.

elizabethtown

this has got to be my most favourite movie of all times and right now i please want an all night phone-conversation and a crazy family and not a crappy stressed life – success really is debatable

sunny afternoon

i think it is about time for another update of life – if it were just as easy as updating your computer, that would be nice – well, my life is not as easy as that, my life is a rollercoaster (gee, gotta stop speaking in song titles, that is so annoying) – anyways, my life at the moment consists of juggling two jobs, theater (where i always do more than originally planned), a phd and being kind of still sick

being sick is getting better, but there are days when i lack all efficiency and all energy to get up and go about my chores – and then there’s days where i jump out of bed and do the duracell bunny without stopping until i hop back into bed – that’s somehow unnerving because it’s neither here nor there

then there’s the two jobs – seriously, needing money is such a drag – but four months of not earing any money, traveling in england and living in berlin, left a black hole in my finances and so i am trying to get that filled in – it is a dreary task – but at least one job includes a trip to berlin next week (plus one more later this months or next) and is fabulously paid – and the other – as much as i’d love to say, same old, same old because it sounds cool, it is also pretty exciting to say it’s not same old, same old

it’s much better new, much better new – i am not so much bothered anymore by things that have bothered me before and there is loads of cake to go around whenever i work and, to tell the truth, it is not the cake i baked, but cake others provide for me – lovely – still not my long over-due birthday-chocolate-delight, but cake nevertheless – i am just not sure if the motto “carola’s flowers grow at cron & lanz” (http://www.cronundlanz.de/) is something i really like getting around – it seems rather presumptuous, doesn’t it? – but then, i do like cake

and i also like red clover schnaps, which we had yesterday – self-picked and self-distilled red clover schnaps – it sounds fancy, but it tastes very much exactly like it did when you sucked the little bit of sweet honey-stuff out of the clover flowers when you were a kid, which i am sure you did – we all did!

result of red clover schnaps was my being very happy indeed and going ’round hugging and kissing everyone, even at the theater – it really was a blast, as no one usually gets that much cuddling from me, usually only special people, not just everyone – but yesterday – yesterday i loved everyone

and i am getting married – or not and still have a fabulous party? – well, that is another story and shall be told another time – for now, let us enjoy the sunny afternoon

©2009 =Leonidafremov

muppets anew

SoBe knows

SoBe is a brand of drinks i know from my stays in sweet california – i’ve gotten to love them not only for their great taste, but also for their caps, in which you find little bits of odd wisdom – i aspired to collect as many as possible and make it a daily happening to open my bottle and find my personal message from the lizards – an all time favourite being “i deserve this!” or “ever danced with a lizard in the pale moonlight” – it’s simply a state of mind you need for understanding the meaning of that – and if you drink your daily SoBe, you know and you never want to stop

here’s some cap examples i found on the internet: