Since we were talking about guilty pleasures the other day I feel obliged to disclose my YouTube guilty pleasure: European Parliament videos. I could watch them for hours, they are just too exciting. That's why I was bound to love The Iron Lady and include Margaret Thatcher videos on my Youtube playlist. The latter definitely happen, the first is... uncertain. I mean, how would liberal Hollywood...
For the longest time I was against guilty pleasure reading. But it wasn't always like this. I used to be an avid detective novel reader. One day a guy asked me what I was reading and I answered “A detective novel”. He rolled his eyes and said: “No, seriously. That’s not reading.” It’s sad to say but that was when I stopped reading detective novels....
Autumn Rhythm (number 30) by Jackson Pollock, 1950 Surrealist painter René Magritte once wrote in a letter to André Bosmans that: “All the abstract paintings reveal only abstract painting, and absolutely nothing else. (…) I cannot share an interest in what abstract painting is able to say, which was summed up once and for all by the first abstract painting.”1 Well, if it isn't...
A while back Fernando from Committed to Celluloid posted his favorite actors that were born on the same year as him. I thought this was very interesting and looked for actors who share my birthday. Unfortunately, I didn't find many actors I like that were born in 1986. Though some very popular names appeared such as Twilight's Robert Pattison, Gossip Girls' Leighton Meister and...
I have to be honest here: Macbeth scared the hell out of me. The witches, the ghosts, the brutal murders, the madness, the blood... Visualizing the three witches saying "Fair is foul and foul is fair" gave me goosebumps. I'm not sure which is more horrifying, the witches or the doublespeak. Now, many of Shakespeare's plays have violence. Othello strangles Desdemona, Cornwall plucks out Gloucester's eyes in King...
Waiting in the hotel room by James Hart Dyke Even though I am a sucker for all things James Bond, I am less than excited about the new Bond movie, Skyfall. (True story: today I eagerly checked Youtube for Skyfall's trailer just to realize I had already seen it weeks before - talk about lasting impression). Meeting an agent by James Hart Dyke This...
