ritas kleine welt

the evening began with me starting to bother birgit with caps from starsky&hutch. she didn't complain. or, if she did, she didn't present a convincing front to the world in general and me in particular. and before you know it, one thing lead to another and we started fiddling around with the stills, tapping into each our creative sides.

buster keaton: not your stereotypical kind of classically handsome man. but, damn!, there was an aura about him that just makes you weep into your morning coffee. certainly not handsome -- but beautiful!!!

shoetossing doesn't stop. not for the die-hards. not even in winter. not in adverse conditions, like snow. so here's the latest sighting of shoefiti in leipzig.

sorry for the lack of colour. it's winter, as i would like to have you know.

five days away from christmas, in christian parley on the fourth sunday in advent, i thought i should finally get into the spirit of the season and make a day of it. so in the order of appearance, here's what i did today.

alley proposed, so who am i to dispose? three guesses who it will be this time. santa? naw! the tooth fairy? nope. (but he's got teeth alright!) the tramp? you're halfway there.

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.

to conclude this series, here is the fourth part from my four-days visit to london last week. there are tons more pictures, of course, but you can only so often look at jude law before you get bored. that's you. not me. i could never get bored with looking at the pretty boy.

and now to the main attractions: hamlet, jude law, hamlet, the wyndham's theatre, jude law, upcoming new actors who look like cute little hobbits, jude law. have i mentioned lately, that we went to london last week in order to see jude law in hamlet -- playing hamlet?

btw. pretty boy may attrackt very low expectations, due to the very common opinion of, 'how often have you seen film actors successfully take the stage?' (::cough:: tom cruise ::cough::) but jude law aced it! and i knew he would because he had played on a stage before. successfully, may i add. he may attrackt loads of negative press and, well, in some of the cases he deserves it! you just don't go around bonking and impregnating everything that's gets in your path. but that certainly doesn't take away the fact that he's a bloody brilliant actor. angry!hamlet was quite a treat. like being dipped in chocolate and then eaten alive.

this morning for something different, but not so unexpected. here are my three chaplin moments during the last week. the first one was meeting little chuckles on leicester square where some nearly 30 years ago they unveiled a sculplure of the little fellow -- which looks nothing like his real-life counterpart, except for the mustache. the second chaplin-moment was finding a poster advert for victoria chaplin and her husband's invisible circus. and the third moment was paying a little visit to the duke of york's theatre in the west end (just around the corner from the wyndham's). here ickle chuckles played billy the page boy in the gillette adaptation of sherlock holmes. -- my three comrades, mary, ellie and alex bore these moments of spontaneous public fangirling like brave soldiers.

it is a bit strange: all those four times i have been to the island so afr, the weather was pretty much constantly splendid. in and out of season. hardly any rain -- and nearly 30°C last week. i even got a slight tan which is something that happens only once every decade. and because we were so extremely lucky, the pictures came out especially well. so, here's the first round of pictures from an extremely sunny london. including pictures from an extremely nocturlan london.

andrea, maria and i are on a brave journey and we are passing through darkness and into the light. in other words, we are reading the order of things by michel foucault. the book holds loads of puzzles and has lead to many moments of wonderment in the past month. but we are not faint of heart, but drudge ahead with full speed.

anna pagnacco toured burma and took a great number of stunningly beautiful. visit her gallery "i dreamt of burma" here. (however, let's not forget: things are plenty tight!)

my dear fellow authors, please, for the future, refrain from using images on this blog when you arenot a hundred and twenty percent sure that getty images doesn't hold the rights. i just don't have the money do pay nearly € 2,000 per image used!

remember i was talking about procrastination yesterday? well, here's one way it can get hold of you. all it takes is photoshop, some brushes and an estimated 5,000 screen shots of m*a*s*h.

you can view the results behind the cut.

ps. ::points at icon to this entry:: -- that one i stole. so i don't rock.

now that all technical difficulties should be out of the way, find pic spam behind the cut. be warned, there are going to be about eighty files. sorry to all those who have dial-up.

and before i forget, Teh Gorgeous is being played by a very young manfred krug. despite his age he was lacking some hair, so they gave him various wigs to sport. seems like the exposure to male wigs at such a young age has left quite an imprint on this innocent child's soul.

::dreams of severus and lucius::