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Bram Stoker: Dracula / Bilingual book review

Thursday, 1. January 2009, 19:16:50

Bram Stoker, Dracula, English posts, books ...

Bram Stoker: Dracula
Buchbesprechung auf Deutsch

Ich habe die englische, bei Penguin Books erschienene, Ausgabe gelesen. Was die englische Sprache betrifft, merkt man doch, dass "Dracula" aus dem Jahr 1897 ist. Hinzu kommt, dass hin und wieder Dialekte vorkommen. Alles in allem lohnt sich aber die Mühe, den Roman auf englisch zu lesen.

Die oben genannte Ausgabe beinhaltet außerdem noch eine Einleitung, eine Literaturliste, Anmerkungen, einen Briefwechsel zwischen Bram Stoker und Walt Whitman, einen Brief von Charlotte Stoker an ihren Sohn Bram Stoker, einen Essay von Stoker über Zensur und ein Interview Stokers, das er mit Winston Churchill geführt hat.

Das Besondere an "Dracula" ist, dass die Geschichte aus immer wieder unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in Form von Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Briefen, Zeitungsartikeln und dergleichen erzählt wird. Dieses "Original" der Vampirgeschichten geht weit über eine Gruselgeschichte hinaus. "Dracula" bringt den Leser zum Nachdenken über die Natur von Wirklichkeit und Traum. Identität, Traumwelt, Geisteskrankheit, Sexualtrieb und die Liebe sind weitere Dreh- und Angelpunkte dieser Geschichte. | © Elmar Driver

Bram Stoker: Dracula
Book review in English

I've read the English book that was published by Penguin Books. If you aren't a native speaker you might have some problems while reading this text from the year 1897. From time to time there are also parts containing British dialects. But all in all it's worth reading the original English edition, of course.

This Penguin book has an introduction, a book list, notes, and some letters as well that were written between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman. You'll also find a letter from Charlotte Stoker to her son Bram Stoker, an essay by Stoker about censorship and an interview that Stoker did with Winston Churchill.

The interesting thing about this text is that the story is told from different points of view, be it in diaries, letters, newspaper articles and so on. This first vampire story is far more than a spine-chiller. It makes us think about the nature of reality and dream. It's about identity, dream world, insanity, sexual desire and love. | © Elmar Driver

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Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound / Movie tip

Thursday, 6. December 2007, 16:12:16

Salvador Dali, very best filmmakers, English posts, movies ...

"Spellbound" by Alfred Hitchcock with Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, ... USA 1945

Plot

The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards. | © Col Needham

Biography of Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock's successful screen thrillers earned him the nickname "Master of Suspense," but he is also considered one of the greatest film directors in the history of cinema. He started out in British productions as a title and set designer, working his way up to the position of screenwriter and director by the mid-1920s. His notable early movies include The Lodger (1926), Blackmail (1929, the first British feature to use synchronous sound) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

He had commercial and critical success while still in Britain, and thrillers such as The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) solidified his reputation for combining mystery and suspense with dashes of humor.

In the '40s Hitchcock began making movies in the United States, hits such as Rebecca (1940), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Spellbound (1945, featuring a memorable dream sequence by Salvador Dali) as well as less successful but still technically daring films like Lifeboat (1944) and Rope (1948). He was in top form in the 1950s, and his movies from the era are still popular, including Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954, with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly), Vertigo (1958), and North by Northwest (1959, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint).

His other films include Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) and Frenzy (1972). Hitchcock was one of the most recognized directors in history by appearance as well as by name, thanks to his cameo roles in his movies and to his TV shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-65). Hitchcock was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1980, shortly before his death. | © answers.com

Dream scene / excerpt from "Spellbound", designed by S. Dalí

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Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont Neuf (Movie tip)

Friday, 29. December 2006, 09:13:37

love, movies, France, Juliette Binoche ...

"Les Amants du Pont-Neuf"
("The Lovers on the Bridge")
by Leos Carax
with Juliette Binoche,
Denis Lavant,
Klaus-Michael Gruber,
Daniel Buain,
Edith Scob,
...
France 1991

Plot

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind. The film portrays the harsh existence of the homeless as Alex, Michele and Hans, an older vagrant survive on the streets with their wits.

As they both slowly get their lives back together, Michele becomes increasingly dependent on Alex as her vision deteriorates further. Fearing that Michele will leave him if she receives a new medical treatment Alex attempts to keep Michele practically a prisoner. The streets, skies and waterways of Paris are used as a backdrop to the story in a series of stunning visuals which dominate the film. | © IMDb

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Julie Taymor: Frida (A movie recommendation)

Wednesday, 27. December 2006, 10:04:52

USA, Salma Hayek, English posts, Diego Rivera ...

"Frida" by Julie Taymor
with Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina,
Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, ...
(USA 2002)

Plot

"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm.

From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. | © IMDb

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Listen here to the song "Sway" by Dean Martin

Saturday, 16. September 2006, 15:15:41

music, Dean Martin, USA, lyrics ...

Artist: Dean Martin
Released as a single on Capitol records
Title: Sway
Year: 1954

Lyrics

When the rumba rhythm start to play
Dance with me, make me sway.
Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more.

Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease.
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me.

Other dancers maybe on the floor
Dear but my eyes will see only you.
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I grow weak.

I can hear the sound of violins
Long before it begins.
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now.

Other dancers maybe on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I grow weak.
I can hear the songs of violins
Long before it begins.
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
You know how,
Sway me smooth, sway me now.

To listen to this song please click here: Sway

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Listen to "There is a light that never goes out"

Sunday, 20. August 2006, 08:53:58

music, love, The Smiths, lyrics ...

Artist: The Smiths
Title: There is a light that never goes out
Year: 1987

Lyrics

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought oh god, my chance has come at last
(but then a strange fear gripped me and i
Just couldn't ask)

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
...

To listen to this song please click here:
There is a light that never goes out

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Listen to "Time After Time" by Cassandra Wilson

Monday, 31. July 2006, 07:11:46

music, Cassandra Wilson, English posts, USA ...

Artist: Cassandra Wilson
Album: Traveling Miles
Title: Time After Time
Year: 1999

Lyrics

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And I think of you
Caught up in circles
Confusion is nothing new
Flashback warm nights
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories
Time after
Sometimes you picture me
And I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me, and I can't hear
What you've said
Then you say go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you're lost you can look, you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after

My picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows you're wondering
If I'm OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time

If you're lost you can look, you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after time
Mmm...

To listen to this song please click here: Time After Time

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Watch "The Denial Twist" by The White Stripes

Wednesday, 19. July 2006, 23:04:54

video clips, The White Stripes, USA, English posts ...

Artist: The White Stripes
Album: Get Behind Me Satan
Title: The Denial Twist
Year: 2005

Lyrics

If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
If you think holding hands is all in the fingers
Grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers and
Make sure to never do it with the singer
'Cause he'll tell everyone in the world

What he was thinking about the girl
Ya, what he's thinking about the girl, oh

A lot of people get confused and they bruise
Real easy when it comes to love
They start putting on their shoes and walking out
And singing "boy, I think I had enough"

Just because she makes a big rumpus
She don't mean to be mean or hurt you on purpose, boy
Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole

Just by playing a different role
Ya, by playing a different role, oh

The boat ya you know she's rockin' it
And the truth well ya know there's no stoppin' it

The boat ya you know she's still rockin' it
The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it

So what, somebody left you in a rut
And wants to be the one who's in control
But the feeling that you're under can really make you wonder
How the hell she can be so cold

So now you're mad, denying the truth
And it's hidden in the wisdom in the back of your tooth
Ya need ta spit it out, in a telephone booth
While ya call everyone that you know, and ask 'em

Where do you think she goes
Oh ya, where d'ya suppose she goes, oh

The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it
And the boat well ya know she's still rockin' it

The boat ya you know she's still rockin' it
And the truth ya you know there's no stoppin' it

You recognize with your back in the back?
That it's colder when she rocks the boat
But it's the cause hittin on the Cardinal Laws?
'bout the proper place to hang her coat

So to you, the truth is still hidden
And the soul plays the role of a lost little kitten but
You should know that the doctors weren't kiddin?
She's been singing it all along

But you were hearin' a different song
Ya you were hearin' a different song
But you were hearin' a different song

To watch this video please click here: The Denial Twist

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Katze im Sack / Let the Cat Out of the Bag (Movie tip)

Saturday, 8. July 2006, 08:02:18

Christoph Bach, English posts, Florian Schwarz, Germany ...

"Katze im Sack"
("Let the Cat Out of the Bag")
by Florian Schwarz
with Christoph Bach,
Jule Böwe,
Walter Kreye,
David Scheller,
...
(Germany 2005)

Plot

24 hours in Leipzig on a winter day. Karl the drifter meets Doris the waitress. Doris is in a voyeuristic relationship with the security specialist Brockmann, who sings off-key love songs in the karaoke bar where she works. Fleeing their pasts, and avoiding their futures, the characters are nonetheless unable to escape the labyrinth of their emotions through the night. | © german films

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Listen to "Blue Moon Revisited" by the Cowboy Junkies

Sunday, 2. July 2006, 08:22:38

music, lyrics, love, English posts ...

Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Album: The Trinity Session
Title: Blue Moon Revisited (based on "Blue Moon" by Rogers & Hart)
Year: 1988

Lyrics

I only want to say
That if there is a way
I want my baby back with me
'cause he's my true love
my only one don't you see?

And on that fateful day
Perhaps in the new sun of May
My baby walks back into my arms
I'll keep him beside me
forever from harm

You see I was afraid
to let my baby stray
I kept him too tightly by my side
and then one sad day
he went away and he died

Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
without a dream in my heart
without a love of my own
Blue Moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
someone I really could care for

I only want to say
That if there is a way
I want my baby back with me
'cause he's my true love
my only one don't you see?

To listen to this song please click here:
Blue Moon Revisited (live at Mountain Winery on 2004-08-14)

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Listen to "Sweet Jane" by the Cowboy Junkies

Wednesday, 28. June 2006, 00:00:00

lyrics, love, Lou Reed, English posts ...

Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Album: The Trinity Session
Title: Sweet Jane
Year: 1988

Lyrics by Lou Reed

Anyone who's ever had a heart
Wouldn't turn around and break it
and anyone who's ever played a part
Wouldn't turn around and hate it
Sweet Jane, sweet Jane
Sweet, sweet Jane

You're waiting for Jimmy down in the alley
Waiting there for him to come back home
Waiting down on the corner
and thinking of ways to get back home
Sweet Jane, sweet Jane
Sweet, sweet Jane

Anyone who's ever had a dream
Anyone who's ever played a part
Anyone who's ever been lonely
and anyone who's ever split apart
Sweet Jane, sweet Jane
Sweet, sweet Jane

Heavenly widened roses
seem to whisper to me when you smile
Heavenly widened roses
seem to whisper to me when you smile

La la la la, la la la, etc...

Sweet Jane
Sweet, sweet Jane

To listen to this song please click here: Sweet Jane

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Listen to "Silly, But I Loved You (Kenickies Disco Mix)"

Sunday, 25. June 2006, 07:54:31

Client, English posts, Great Britain, music ...

Artist: Client
Title: Silly, But I Loved You (Kenickies Disco Mix)

About Client

The original band members were formerly known only anonymously as Client A and Client B. It has since been revealed that they are Kate Holmes, formerly of Frazier Chorus and Technique, and Sarah Blackwood, lead singer of Dubstar.

In late 2005 a new member, Client E, joined the group. This is Emily Mann who was a contestant on the Five TV reality show Make Me a Supermodel and is also a Stuckist artist. Client was the first act signed to Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher's record label, Toast Hawaii. They have toured with the likes of Depeche Mode and have been described as a combination of "The Pet Shop Boys at their most commercial and The Human League at their most obscure" | © Wikipedia

To listen to this track please click here: Silly, But I Loved You

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Around The World In Eighty Days / Review in German

Wednesday, 7. June 2006, 23:59:19

Around The World In Eighty Days, books, France, German posts ...

Jules Verne: Around The World In Eighty Days

Dieses Buch, erschienen bei Penguin Books, war meine Lektüre für das First Certificate In English. Das Original ist natürlich auf französisch geschrieben. Jules Verne (1828-1905) veröffentlichte diesen Abenteuerroman im Jahr 1873. Die Handlung des Romans fällt in das Jahr 1872.

Phileas Fogg wettet mit ein paar Mitgliedern aus dem vornehmen London Reform Club, dass er die Erde innerhalb von 80 Tagen umrunden werde. Begleitet von seinem treuen Diener, dem Franzosen Passepartout, macht er sich sofort auf die Reise ...

Das Buch ist spannend und humorvoll geschrieben sowie natürlich auch Zeugnis einer längst vergangenen Epoche. Der Leser wird quasi mitgenommen auf diese Reise, die, ausgehend von England, über Frankreich, Italien, Ägypten, Indien, China, Japan und die USA wieder zurück nach England führt. | © Elmar Driver

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Watch "Fell In Love With A Girl" by The White Stripes

Saturday, 3. June 2006, 10:00:25

video clips, USA, The White Stripes, lyrics ...

Artist: The White Stripes
Album: White Blood Cells
Title: Fell In Love With A Girl
Year: 2003

Lyrics

Fell in love with a girl
fell in love once and almost completely
she's in love with the world
but sometimes these feelings
can be so misleading
she turns and says "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating"
She says "come and kiss me by the riverside,
bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating"

Red hair with a curl
mellow roll for the flavor
and the eyes for peeping
can't keep away from the girl
these two sides of my brain
need to have a meeting
can't think of anything to do
my left brain knows that
all love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
and I said it once before
but it bears repeating

To watch the video please click here:
Fell In Love With A Girl / Real Player

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Watch the music video "O' Sailor" by Fiona Apple

Friday, 19. May 2006, 23:49:59

English posts, Fiona Apple, USA, video clips ...

Artist: Fiona Apple
Album: Extraordinary Machine
Title: O' Sailor
Year: 2005

Lyrics

I'm undecided about you again
Mightn't be right that you're not here
It's double-sided, cause I ruined it all
- But also saved myself, by never believing you, Dear

Everything good, I deem too good to be true
Everything else is just a bore
Everything I have to look forward to
Has a pretty painful and very imposing before

O' Sailor, why'd you do it
What'd you do that for
Saying there's nothing to it
And then letting it go by the boards

O' Sailor, why'd you do it
What'd you do that for
Saying there's nothing to it
And then letting it go by the boards

I have too been playing with fifty-two cards
- Just cause I play so far from my vest
Whatever I've got, I've got no reason to guard
What could I do, but spend my best

O' Sailor, why'd you do it
What'd you do that for
Saying there's nothing to it
And then letting it go by the boards

O' Sailor, why'd you do it
What'd you do that for
Saying there's nothing to it
And then letting it go by the boards

And after waiting, fighting patiently on my knees
All the other stuff tired itself out first, not me
And in its wake, appeared the touch and call
Of a different breed
One who set to get me wise, and got me there
And then, got me

And what a thing, to know what could be instead
Oh, what a blessed curse; to see
It took the agenda from its place in my bed
Made a merry paramour of me

O' Sailor, why'd you do it
What'd you do that for
Saying there's nothing to it
And then letting it go by the boards
O' sailor, why'd you do it
What'd you do that for
Giving me eyes to view it
As it goes by the boards

To watch the video please click here: O' Sailor

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