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Thursday, March 4. 2010  youtube is a great thing. it's a treasure trove for rare interviews, such as lita grey talking about her life and her marriage to charles chaplin. their relationship always fascinated me. they were such a completely different pair that their marriage always appeared as doomed from the start. especially, since she was twenty years younger and just short of 16 years old when she got pregnant for the first time. a shotgun wedding and two children later, the pair were throwing muck at each other and the world was left to wonder whatever they had seen in each other. whatever it was, there must have been love, too.
Continue reading "lita grey in her own words" Tuesday, March 2. 2010  kindly invented by david starsky.what if... Continue reading "the 'what-if'-game: politics" Sunday, February 7. 2010
listed below are the top 100 books of some 250.000 watchers of ZDF (channel 2 in germany). bolded are the ones i read. (in brackets are, as usual, my redundant comments.) Continue reading "insomnia strikes" Sunday, February 7. 2010  birgit and major. what have you done to me? this starsky and hutch fandom is lethal -- a complete wackjob. i tell ya!!! though, i have to admit, i was already into the show some 17 years ago when it was still aired on german telly. proud member of team starsky then. proud member of team starsky now! hey, i gotta stick to my beuteschema... (and, no!, that's not dubya on the right, but roland totheroh!!!)browsing the web today, i found an insane trivia page listing all the strangest occurances on the show. like 'starsky touches hutch', 'hutch touches starsky', 'they touch each other' and 'other body contact'. not to speak of the categories 'body count', 'what time is it?' or 'booze', 'drugs' and 'literacy'. honestly! and i thought i had too much spare time in my spare time. see for yourselves. edit: now complete with major's torino. Continue reading "are they?" Thursday, January 28. 2010  if you can't depend on anything, you can still depend on two things: godwin's law and the ignorance of people.
Continue reading "meaningful idiocy" Saturday, January 23. 2010
SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 70 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list and paste this on your Journal. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun. Continue reading "blame it on a lazy saturday" Saturday, January 9. 2010
2) elvis lives 3) god is a dj Tuesday, December 29. 2009 in the 1910s, the chaplin-mania took off like a rocket. firmly and steadily, his fame soared to the sky. and strongly ignoring all sorts of copy-right and cashing in on the phenomenon, there were numerous songs composed in honour of the little fellow with the baggy pants. so, here are some examples of period adoration of a global phenomenon. harry potter had nothing on the tramp!
Continue reading "charlie songs" Tuesday, December 29. 2009  one year ago, by complete coincidence, stephen weissman left a comment on one of my entries. that's how we came into contact. since then we have been mailing each other sporadically and i had offered my help to translate some of the german reviews for him. some three weeks ago, the german translation of steve's chaplin: a life was released for the german readership. (in german: Chaplin: Eine Biographie). ilja richter wrote a somewhat unusual review for Die Berliner Morgenpost as he was very much taken in by the book. Continue reading "attempts at translations" Monday, December 28. 2009
i have just spent some four hours on the phone with friends and we were mutually at our whits' end and we three kept repeating the same phrases over and over again. 'i am lost for words! i can't form a coherent thought!' a quick search query on deviantART with the words 'cute nazi' returned a staggering number of 1,365 hits. that is discounting an unchecked number of nazis and fascists on there promoting their 'art' and helping deviantART fill their own pockets by passively lending a platform to these people. they seem to fall into two categories: dumb girls between the age of 14 and 18 who truly think that mengele was as cute as a button and göbbels just your average kind of misunderstood adorable sweetums of a guy. and then there are the hardcore, die-hard, true neo-nazis who wank to american history x and send their love to deary adolf. yeah, the last time i visited a concentration camp i smiled with glee. especially when i remembered that spread in country&style and suddenly realised that good german oak makes for a hell of a good barrack for outings over the weekend. most of all i am disappointed and disgusted by the owners of deviantART, though, for supporting antisemitism on the web by lending these people webspace for free!!! i had once thought of opening an account there. not so much now. i won't stoop so low and associate with such people who piss on the millions of graves filled on account of nazis cheerully wanking over human suffering in the most painful, most dreadful way unimaginable. deviantART, you truly have revealed yourselves as the sad bastards of this passing year! Tuesday, December 8. 2009 Sunday, December 6. 2009  this afternoon, i watched my first ever d.w. griffith film, broken blossoms from 1919. i can see the appeal of this film, but, boy!, have i been spoilt by chaplin and keaton so far! the setting was fab. the story was kinda sweet-ish. lillian gish ripped my heart into pieces, but sadly, sadly, ... the film dragged on and on and on.
Continue reading "review: broken blossoms (1919)" Saturday, December 5. 2009 gray from over at livejournal started it. and i am the willing copy-cat. naturally this post is about chaplin and, most definitely, it's anything but dial-up friendly.
Continue reading "celebrity pic spam meme" Tuesday, December 1. 2009  it's been proven countless times already: life has a sarcastic streak to it. yesterday morning, was just another example. this time on the subject of language, though.
Continue reading "as heard on the street" Friday, November 27. 2009  andrea totally is to blame for it. and the beatles. of course. nobody forced them to make such good music. ok. and perhaps i have a hand in it, too. somewhere. remotely. anyway, listening to the white album, i couldn't help notice some similarities with two more recent songs. first there are the scissor sisters and then there is jet. and both probably have someone to blame, too.
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before i return to watching starsky & hutch, i just wanted to share the latest meme with you:
a few years back on QI, stephen fry quipped, 'sometimes there's just not enough vomit in the world.'
