Still Glorious Blog

Argentine short movie

2011-01-17T16:57:00.001-08:00

Una Ultima Voluntad English subtitles
Hochgeladen von cortosgay. - Klassik TV, Abendsendungen und Nachtsendungen, online.

Random Videos

2010-11-30T15:55:00.000-08:00

Converse Árbol from Sastre on Vimeo.

Vamos!

2010-06-30T17:09:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I'm a bad blogger. One fine day I might be actually updating regularly but at this moment it's too hot and there's too much football. Anyway, still a video can't do any harm, can it ;)

Ryan McGinley

2010-04-09T18:55:00.000-07:00

Everybody knows this is nowhere Exibition.
March 18th - April 17th

Pictures from Coute Que Coute

Happy Valentine's day/week

2010-02-11T16:12:00.000-08:00

I felt romantic;

"Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul."
Meister Eckhart

Arctic Monkeys @Offenbach, 2010

2010-02-10T10:58:00.001-08:00

Alec Turner, Arctic Monkeys - Offenbach, Stadthalle February 9th 2010. Photographed by me :)
Awesome gig and he's just godlike cute. And he doesn't age. If that stays that way he would be the perfect mate.
Fun aside it's an awesome band.
The pictures are in black and white because the stagelight was red. And red sucks. At least for my camera. I'm currently uploading videos to youtube. They'll be available in a few hours.

Beautiful video

2009-12-22T17:28:00.001-08:00

I like the music and the boy but most importantly it's set in L.A.

The Presets - If I know You (director's cut official music video - HD) from Eva Husson on Vimeo.

Just because...

2009-12-10T20:41:00.000-08:00

A long rant about Terminator - Salvation

2009-12-06T17:28:00.000-08:00

Over the weekend I saw a few movies and thought to share my thoughts on them with whoever comes by. However, I’m afraid it will be mostly ranting about Terminator - Salvation as that was one horrible destruction of something I love.

Actually, I think I have to start with ‚Alien’.
When I saw that movie for the first time I was about 11, I think, and yes, perhaps too young but I had an older brother and wasn’t so easily scared. Anyway, I ended up loving that movie. I watched it because I was a huge Fan of Sigourney Weaver even since I had seen her in ‚Ghostbusters’. Since she is inarguably sensational as Ripley I was instantly hooked. I loved her character. It’s still one of my most beloved female character ever written. I eagerly awaited the second movie. I remember that Aliens just came out in the US and back then the waiting progress to see such a movie in Germany was about 6 months to a year. Not to mention that there wasn’t any chance to download it via internet. Somehow my brother got me a tape. It was a filmed up vhs tape in very, very bad quality. Nonetheless I loved it as well. Considering my age and my developing mind, I naturally fell deeply in love with Corporal Hicks aka Michael Biehn.

Because of him, I urged my brother to get me ‚Terminator’ and well, he did. I love my big brother. After watching it for the first time I instantly watched it again and from then on for as long as my obsession lasted I pretty much watched either ‚Aliens’ or ‚Terminator’ on a daily basis. I’ve played them out with my friends. I was Sarah Connor madly in love with Kyle Reese, future mother of the savior of mankind, John Connor. I knew everything about this movie. Soaked up all details. It was without a doubt a brilliant movie. Brilliant because it was an action movie, thrilling and last but certainly not least because of an awesome once-in-a-lifetime love story of epic proportions. There was such drama within the action and Michael Biehn definitely is to credit as he played the character with so much depth.

When the second movie, Terminator - Judgement Day came out I was so sad that the dream sequences with him got cut out but at least he wasn’t forgotten. His character wasn’t and was remembered through his son John Connor, who we finally met in the flesh. Say what you will but I thought Edward Furlong was a good John Connor. Not brilliant but a good John Connor. The movie was more about the action due to the blockbuster mania but there was still the same depth in some scenes.

Mostly Sarah’s scenes were fantastic. Her character had grown so much and it was interesting to see this changed person due to events. Especially in regards to raising a teenager. I loved Linda Hamilton’s performance in both even though after the start of the TV series I think that Lena Heady was the best Sarah Connor. But that brings me to the series and that comes later.

Now, I know that some people didn’t like the third part but Terminator – Rise of the machines had quite an impact on me. I loved Nick Stahl as John Connor. He reminded me of Kyle Reese actually in his act. I loved that judgment day never came and he’s still cautious, still detached from life and so wonderfully broken. A hero who didn’t have the chance to be a hero. I thought that was an interesting turn. I also loved the fact that no matter what you do you can’t prevent Judgment day. That it would take place later. As for the action I thought a female Terminator a brilliant idea and who would not want to have the ability to change the size of boobs on cue. I was wholeheartedly shocked about Sarah’s death and not all too keen to hear about John Connor’s wife. Not only because I don’t like Claire Danes as an actress all that much but because of all we know I’d expected John Connor to be quite alone and not happily married. Still, I like the movie in generally a lot. Oh, my god that last scene where John Connor takes the microphone...
And you got to love the movie solely for the quote ‚fuck my destiny’ because haven’t you all wondered? I wondered for soooo many countless nights back in my obsession days how fucked up it must be for John Connor. It was insane with Sarah as she was dragged out of her ordinary life into an ‚unwritten’ future but John? He never got a chance. It was ,welcome son and by the way you have to safe mankind.’ Not to mention the whole ordeal about the ultimate question, Will he sent his father to the past?’

Time Travel. Oh, you know what I love about Time Travel? Everyone can have their own theories. Trust me I’ve rambled up a dozen or so. Of course nowadays everyone always goes with the parallel universe as it’s the easiest.

If he doesn’t sent him he never gets born but thinking about that already has him in the position, therefore already born, right? Or maybe if he doesn’t sent him in this time frame none of it would happen as the chip and the skeleton fragment would have never made it into the past. Yet, then Skynet started the whole abortion before conception idea. You can argue about this countless hours and that’s part of the reason why I love those movies. And the series for that matter.

Because not only did they cast the fabulous, wonderful Lena Heady as Sarah Connor and let her fantastic acting bring life to the idea of Sarah as a mother they also cast Thomas Dekker as John Connor. Oh, bless them. He was a great John Connor. Because that is what happens when you are raised by a mother filled with nightmares and scars and were told that you are the most important human in the world. You become a teenager with emo issues, a slight Oedipus complex and fall in love with a machine. Being hunted by machines, forced to fight machines, saved and cursed by them – who you fall in love with? Right. In a beautiful way the ultimate submission ;)
It was a TV series and it had it’s flaws but it stayed truth to the atmosphere. Summer Glau was truly wonderful and I didn’t even hate Brian Austin Green as much as I thought I would. In the beginning I was more, WHAT? REESE? BROTHER? But they had some wonderful scenes put in there that made me like him a lot. I wasn’t too keen on the actors they cast as young Kyle but they made the world look pretty gruesome even for TV. I loved Cromartie and Weaver and the first episode of the second season has the most fantastic Song-used-in-a-Sequence scene. Listening to Shirley Manson singing while Cameron goes mental...absolute fantastic.

What all these had was a certain aspect. Even though I wasn’t expecting TV and Movies to be in Sync, they were all Terminator. Come with me if you wanna live.

Terminator Salvation sucked.
I was so disappointed even though I didn’t expected much after I heard that they had cast Christian Bale for the part of John Connor. Wooden actor of the year. Ever see the Movie Equilibrium? It’s a brilliant piece and Bale was great in it. Yet, he somehow stopped evolving and plays the same character ever since.
The John Connor in this movie is the John we basically know from the first and second one. At least that’s what I assumed from him listening to the tapes. Wouldn’t he know about Terminators looking like humans? Okay, let’s be fair and assume that this John Connor is the one that only knows Sarah’s tapes. The second movie hasn’t happened. Therefore he doesn’t know that Terminators can be good, too. Otherwise he wouldn’t have reacted to a hybrid that hateful. But wait? Hybrid? What the fuck? Marcus who? Who the hell is he and why should I even care? If you bring in a new character who ought to be careful. It doesn’t even make sense why would Skynet even bother? That’s what I hated most about this movie. Skynet was always such a big and scary thread because it was a computer system that wants to wipe out the human race. When Kyle Reese in the first movie says:

"There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah."

That was gripping. His flashes of the future dark and desperate. Later on he explains:

"This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies into dumpsters and incinerators. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah, your unborn son."

In Terminator Salvation however most of this was completely disregarded.
How come the humans have a military base with high-tech weapons and frickin’ helicopters? How come everything is Mad Maxishly bright? How come Skynet built oversized humanoid terminators? Why is John Connor a chicken who gets ordered around and seems entirely clueless most of the time? Who the fuck is Marcus again?

There is, though one small good thing. Kyle Reese. Anton Yelchin did a good job with what he was given. He wouldn’t be my choice look-wise but he was damn adorable and I cannot even explain my fangirlish reaction that, come with me if you wanna live’ was originally created by Kyle Reese. Those were about the only scenes that I enjoyed and that’s why I can even remember parts of the Marcus storyline.

Still, that wasn’t enough. It was bad enough that the music was missing; the lighting was horrible; the action sequences overdone and the director stole from Scott’s ‚Aliens’ so much that it became quite ridiculous at some point. All in all a giant mess. One that makes me angry because I wanted so badly to like it. I was so excited when I heard they were making it and that it would be set in the future. Finally we’d see John Connor and eventually we will get to that one point that had me up dreaming wildly in my childhood years. That moment where John Connor will meet Kyle Reese. That was all I could think about for weeks back then. After, mind I remind you, I’ve seen the first one in around 1985/1986. How John would meet his FATHER knowing that he would have to sent him to this death. (and to fuck his mother. We should never forget that). I thought they would take Nick Stahl again. And then Bale came along and ruined it with his stale acting and his voice. What the hell is wrong with his voice? Does he know he isn’t Batman anymore but John Connor now?

I know Terminator movies are action movie. They are expected to make a big buck and nowadays that means everything for the eyes, little for the soul. In the other three ones made before there was soul. Not much but enough to keep the story behind the action alive. In Terminator Salvation I’m not even sure what the story is anymore. That is not John Connor, that is not the future Kyle Reese talked about, that is not how it was supposed to be.

It reminded me of the Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith where you are eagerly awaiting that moment where Anakin becomes Darth Vader. The only reason why you tolerated all that was wrong with the prequels and then puff, ruined.

It doesn’t have to be that way. You could stay true to a story and still put your own marker on it. Look at the Alien movies. The third one wasn’t what I expected. Reason, funnily enough again, Michael Biehn by the way. Hicks survived. He was supposed to be with Ripley and then the plane crashes. Still, the movie was so gripping, so well acted and had such a unique style, while still being Alien. The forth, oh, god that had some flaws in it. Definitely. However, due to Sigourney Weaver’s dark play it was once again unique and Alien. If one disregards the strange ending with that strange offspring. You see, I can overlook flaws if there’s still something. I can even live with bad sequels and prequels. I’m quite tolerant but Terminator – Salvation could not be tolerated. It needed to be ripped apart and if only because so many people like it. That makes me furious. I mean come on the heart transplant scene in the end?

Marcus Wright:
What is it that makes us human? It's not something you can program. You can't put it into a chip. It's the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines.

Ehm, not it’s not. There are a lot of differences and who came up with the idiotic plot that John Connor has a weak heart? I fear this is a built up so that in the next movie John will have superpowers due to his superstrong heart. What the hell? Heart transplantation? In the desert, in a medical tent fully equipped to do that. And didn’t it strangely look like a war movie placed in Iraq? And Skynet showing itself in form of many faces one the screen while communicating to Marcus. Deep Space nine much? And exactly what kind of a judgment day was that? Hell, even the Cylons cleaned the planet up better than Skynet did in Terminator Salvation.

So, to qualm myself I’ve decided to blog about it and here now one possible John Connor. An Actor who, if not Nick Stahl, would have done a better job.Tahmoh Penikett. Certainly good for actions sequences, dashing enough for the ladies and the far, far better actor than Bale.

Forgive me my rant but it needed to be done.

Strictly visual this time

2009-12-03T16:27:00.000-08:00

All pictures found at http://coutequecoute.blogspot.com. Go visit and check out the credits. There are more enjoyable pictures there ;)

All of this needed to be said

2009-12-03T03:26:00.000-08:00

Health Issues
Anger release:

I finally decided it's time to be rather verbal than visual. I'm currently at home with a cold. It's not the flue, it's a cold. Quite common, and yet People seem to be inexplicitly consternated.
Which is oddly wonderful considering you have a seat alone in the train. However, I couldn't help but feeling the urge to loudly blame every customer for my current health situation. Because, even though it's in the media, and even if you don't entirely buy the whole panic in regards to the swine flue - don't cough into my face. Seriously. What the hell is wrong with people today?

I can tell you exactly how I got the cold. I remember it nightmarishly graphic.

A lady came into the store asking for thrilling crime books.
You ought to be careful with those.

The conception of what would count as "thrilling crime" between her and me could be wildly differ. Therefore, I asked her about her favorites. She mentioned the usual suspects; Karen Slaughter, Jillian Hoffman, Tess Gerittsen. So far so good. Some of those books are indeed quite thrilling, some not so much. I chose to recommend Chelsea Cain. Mainly because even though, she writes in the same manner as those authors above, very procedural, she's still different. She created Gretchen Lowell. In her first book 'Heartsick' she introduced the reader to a female serial killer. Well, actually went a little 'Silence of the lambs' with it as Gretchen Lowell is in jail. The detective she had tormented for 10 days starts working again. The case in itself is quite boring but it serves the purpose of building the two important characters up. The 'man' had never fully recovered and visits Gretchen due to an agreement once a week. Therefore he is constantly reminded of what she had done to him, and he suffers. Suffers badly. He’s quite frankly a poor soul. And Gretchen is spectacularly awesome. She's gorgeous and insane. She's all woman and all fantasy. It really doesn't matter that 'Heartsick' is far fetched fiction. It's just fun to read and not at all badly written. I recommend it and it worked.

...and the reason why I'm sick is that I spent recommending various books all the while she's coughing and sneezing and in between laughingly says, “it's not the swine flu, don't worry it's just a common cold".
Well, excuse me but I don't want to catch that either. Has the common cold become that tolerable all of the sudden?
"Oh, great I just have a common cold and not the swine flu. Lucky me!"

This is just one example. Don't even get me started on people coughing in their hands - HOLDING - the cash and then handing it over. Ewww, really?

Everyone wants to get their injection and/or masks. How about not spitting out your germs into other people’s faces? Maybe, if we would begin to be little more sensible to our environment instead of worrying about the big fat Damocles sword (Swine flu insanity), we'd all be a little safer?

This being sick, sadly, has initiated rather time consuming mindless obsessions. Facebook applications. What a blast. Funnily enough for 'Cafe World' I've seen a ton of manly men asking for neighbors. Isn't that something adorable? I have admit I love that game. Also Vampire wars, Mafia wars and that stupid Farmville. (How come everybody rather has countless animals and cluttered stuff on their farm instead of a Manor? I'm happy to announce that I have a pond now.). It's absolutely worthless but has the psychological strike of making a player inexplicably happy over a level up or a new member in your clan, mafia - whatever. Oh, before you say anything, yes, facebook applications are evil and they transfer all your data etc. etc. I don't want to hear about it and rather enjoy. It's fairly easy and quite addictive.

The downside of the Applications fun is that I have become entirely unproductive regarding everything else. Oh, well I, once again, chose not to care. I'm sick which is universally unfair therefore I shall enjoy my new drug wholeheartedly.

Look at that. At least I was able to write this post here. I have a feeling it might be all a little bit confusing and I deeply apologize. However, I’m sick. And I hate that. Hence, ranting was necessary.

Be healthy people!

Pictures found at thefashionisto blog.

Devil in the midnight mass

2009-11-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

Because I've just seen Billy Talent live and still can't get over the fact of how great the concert was I felt inspired to do a lyric post;

A devil in a midnight mass,
He prayed behind stained glass
A memory of Sunday class
Resurrected from the past

Hold your breath and count to four
Pinky swears don't work no more
Footsteps down the hallway floor
Getting closer to my door
I was alive but now I'm singing

A devil in a midnight mass,
killed the boy inside the man
The holy water in his hands
Can never wash away his sins

Hold your breath and count to four
Pinky swears don't work no more
Put my trust in God that day
Not the man that taught his way
I was alive but now I'm singing

Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent night for the rest of my life
Violent knight cutting into your life
"Forgive me Father!" won't make it right
Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent knight cutting into your life
You're Guilty!

Whisper, whisper, don't make a sound
your bed is made it's in the ground

Commerical

2009-11-17T22:12:00.000-08:00

Guten morgen! What an nice way to wake up. Found add the coute que coute fashion blog.

EY! MAGATEEN 5 from Luis Venegas on Vimeo.

Random

2009-11-15T15:45:00.000-08:00

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two headed boy part 2

Daddy please hear this song that I sing
In your heart there's a spark that just screams
For a lover to bring a child to your chest that could lay as you sleep
And love all you have left like your boy used to be
Long ago wrapped in sheets warm and wet

Blister please with those wings in your spine
Love to be with a brother of mine
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep wrapped in boxes so tight
Sounding only at night as you sleep

Brother see we are one in the same
And you left with your head filled with flames
And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth
Push the pieces in place
Make your smile sweet to see
Don't you take this away
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek

And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place where some holy spectacle lies
And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

Two headed boy she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave

Football mom

2009-11-15T06:42:00.000-08:00

Feral Terror - Short movie

2009-11-14T20:07:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen this short movie called "feral terror" but stumbled across the picture and ehm, well it's certainly something;

Silversun pickups Weekend

2009-11-13T15:29:00.000-08:00

Since I'm going to see them on monday and since they are one of the greatest bands EVER I felt the strong urge to post my favorite video of them:

Leash for life

2009-11-12T15:48:00.000-08:00

Quite the nice fashion shoot. I found this in some old folders :)

The beauty of male submission - Graphic intense

2009-11-08T17:28:00.000-08:00

"Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise."

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von (Lemberg, 1836-95, Lindheim)

I thought to make a post solely about one of my favorite subject. The beauty that is male submission. Here are a few random pictures taken from deviantart, malesubmission.net and various other sources. Some of those are rather old or from fashion blogs so forgive me that i can't credit them all. Instead simply enjoy.

Here we have a fashion photoshot by Steven Klein for W Magazine. This, my friends, is the dream :)

The rest is all from malesubmissionart.com. Unfortunately there aren't many boy submission pictures out there. However a few pictures still felt worth posting:

Now, if Tait Hugh Geiijer could do such a photoshot, I'd be the happiest person in the world.

Kent

2009-10-31T11:25:00.000-07:00

Kent - Dom Som Försvann

Strange&Beautiful Video.

Happy Halloween

P.s A shoutout to Jonathan who provided me with more Kent Music than I can even handle. Thank you!

It's all random

2009-10-07T18:58:00.001-07:00

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us ... we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. - Kafka

current favorite Album - The deer Tracks 'Aurora'

It's almost tragic

2009-10-03T18:50:00.000-07:00

...but I've decided to get a blog. Mostly because I keep stumbling on rather great ones and needed a space to follow them properly, rather than adding them all to some lists that might get lost. I know, I know - everybody has a blog and mostly nothing to say. Although, this might be true there is nobody forcing you to read this. Hence, it's more my personal waste of time or entertainment. Should you still decide on following me, don't expect much. I'm not planning on marvelous blog post that take days to write. I'm planning on being rather random. Filling this with thoughts and obessions. A picture here and there, some lyrics, a link maybe. I want to use this as something relaxing and therefore don't plan on ranting even though I might critique certain things. Nothing here is to be taken seriously or lightly. Nothing here means anything or everything. Which ever, you decide as I'm only filling it and wouldn't dare to be the judge of it's content.

I think I should start with a picture and some lyrics that caught my attention at some point:

Lyrics:
Delaware - Crevice

How can you sleep at night?
You don`t know when the snake will bite
Withdrawing friends
You are placed behind the fence

A different world inside your head
Your simple act will turn to led
You are placed behind the fence
Are you aware of the consequence?

How do you make believe?
Your arrogant way can`t keep you clean
And after all Judging me

Is not what I hoped for?
A different world inside your head
Your simple act will turn to led
You are placed behind the fence
Are you aware of common sense?