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[art post] PRETTY FAR FROM BROOKLYN // steve/bucky bb / strings of secrets cut the ties that bind me

2014-11-12T15:22:54Z

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COVER ART strings of secrets cut the ties that bind me

FANMIX pretty far from brooklyn

[fanmix] THE TOP OF THE SUN for the social network big bang // fic: homo, fuge

2014-09-23T09:42:16Z

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THE TOP OF THE SUN a fanmix for the social network big bang

The night Eduardo accidentally sells his soul to the devil, he’s drunk, sad, and his jacket is missing. [READ]

1 two atoms in a molecule
so now I look at love like being stabbed in the heart
you torture each other from day to day and then one day you part
most of the time it's misery, but there's some joy at the start

2 this head i hold
guess I'm in love with always feeling down
see the problem was I, I was fully consumed
by all of the petty things that I couldn't do

3 my number
'cause you don't have my number, we don't need each other now
you can't steal my thunder 'cause you don't have my lover's touch

4 someone new
would things be easier if there was a right way
honey there is no right way
and so I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
every day with someone new

5 these white walls
the night is young
I would rather sleep than remember the things I've lost
when I close my eyes
I can hear a ringing in my ears from words you said to me all night

6 nothing to you
but I watched you forget your belongings
and belongings you've got quite a few
I filled up your bag with my longings
and searched through this whole wide city for you

7 drain the blood
oh oh oh I'm really trying
to make it through the night

8 devil in me
I'll drink, I'll drink until you love me
and wake up always thinking of me
you are, you are the devil in me

9 hearts like ours
half awake and almost dead
keeping empty beds elsewhere

10 pinesong
the time has come for giving up
I have lost
I wanted once to become what
I cannot

11 a pulse
and you found the worst years unspoken
the tales of a childhood broken
a void or a fight
the twisted and bruising nights

[LISTEN]

[fanmix] WE WILL MAKE A MAN DISAPPEAR for the social network big bang // fic: he's a riot

2014-09-11T05:09:24Z

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WE WILL MAKE A MAN DISAPPEAR a fanmix for the social network big bang

Ladies and gentlemen--
For our final act tonight--
We will make a man--
disappear.

(Because he can always do one better. Does that adequately answer your condescending question?)

[READ]

1 digital love
sign me off now, sign me on
write me off now before I'm gone
and if I keep plugged in
you keep coming in
and maybe I need something new
I'm an analogue man with a digital case of you

2 if only
oh but I bleed
for someone to believe me
and see what I see

3 fantasy
don't know what you think you saw
you didn't know at all
lost sight of who you are

4 miracle mile
I'd be alright if I could just see you
a miracle mile, where does it lead to?

5 who are you really
now you're moving on and you say you're alone
suspicious that this string is moving your bones

6 battles
only time will tell if we're all just cynics on the run
if we're all just cynics come undone
all just waiting for the gun

7 mirrorage
a flaw in the flat screen of my mind's eye
a hot spot in the dark
mirrorage
how can I trust in you?

8 tightrope
careful now, with my head
I said careful now, what you do to my head

9 tired magician
leaving a mark where you shouldn't have
think I've gone mad

10 coco chitty
I don't need to see you to know how beautiful you are
I don't need to find you to know you're going on so far
I don't need to wait for you to know you're coming home
oh but darling I need to love you 'cause you're my heart and my soul

[LISTEN]

[fanmix] WE CAN GLOW for the social network big bang // fic: a long way back to the light

2014-09-08T13:03:14Z

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WE CAN GLOW a mark&eduardo fanmix for the social network big bang

It's not Eduardo's fault that his memory of meeting Mark is forever tinged with the dim yellow light from the lone light bulb left working in the laundry room, all the others blown out and cold. [READ]

1 i am part of a large family
and we have a lot of work to do
me and you and you and you
out of the morning and into the storm
brothers and sisters are in my arms

2 i thought i was an alien
then you look at me as if i was a freak
but you said you like freaky people
so i thought you might like me a little bit

3 nightcrawlers
it was just the time, it wasn't you
it was just the night, it wasn't you

4 all of the people
is it safe now that winter's gone?
but i think we could use a little memory
to add to the database

5 particles
sticks me in the soil
down below beneath

6 mind games
every falling out brings us back to love
oh what's the fussing all about
you and me, we weren't made for mind games

7 carrying the torch
someone said last night it will be if it's meant to be
the voices in your head, you gotta keep it to yourself
i know you're not talking to me but it takes so long i don't wanna be

8 tonight (young hearts)
with a handful of courage, i don't mean to impose
and faintly i whisper a secret you know
when i caught your love but i didn't catch your name
and i'm wondering why is it wrong if it's right

9 night like this
stars are falling, are we falling too?
dawn is coming, what's this coming to?

10 we can glow
don't need a destination
don't need to think it through
we're running with the night
you'll be the light i never knew

[LISTEN]

[MENTALIST BIG BANG] scar

2014-06-12T17:30:37Z

author: miss_peg

artist: branquignole

fic: Scar

art: cover art

(click for full size)

[MENTALIST BIG BANG] date night

2014-06-08T08:00:51Z

author: little_firestar

artist: branquignole

fic: Date Night 1 2

art: banner, cover art

[MENTALIST BIG BANG] dead hearts are everywhere

2014-06-03T10:00:49Z

author: lothiriel84

artist: branquignole

fic: Strawberry Red Surprise 1 2

art: fanmix + cover, cover art

download: .zip (mix + full-size art)

we'll build ourselves a home

outta muscle, blood and the broken bones

in the devil town

1. murder in the city (the avett brothers)
2. blood for you (the builders & the butchers)
3. pink city (secret cities)
4. piano song (heartless bastards)
5. dead hearts (stars)
6. 1 john 4:16 (the mountain goats)
7. easy/lucky/free (bright eyes)
8. everything's gonna be undone (band of horses)

[fanmix] then the dreadful night shall break (the mentalist)

2013-11-24T16:00:39Z

then the dreadful night shall break (a the mentalist fanmix)

"We're done. There's nothing more to do here. (...)" - "You're not quitting, I don't believe it."
"No, I'm not quitting; I'm letting go. It's out of our hands for now. (...) I'm sorry. For everything."

1. LISBON, OH - BON IVER
instrumental

2. THE NIGHT PT. I - THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS
the nighttime, it comes crawling in

3. CHAINS - RADICAL FACE
yeah, I'm glad you were my friend
though I may never see you again

4. DEVIL IN THE DETAILS - BRIGHT EYES
well I made amends in the general sense
but the devil's in the details

5. FLY LOW CARRION CROW - TWO GALLANTS
but I warn you now of an end foretold
and a life long waiting for a death below

6. MONUMENT - FOSSIL COLLECTIVE
you've paved the road and watch the final hour
come around, you're comin' round

7. BOARDWALKS - LITTLE MAY
somebody told me you were leaving town
I swear I never thought you'd be the one who'd let me down

8. ARMIES OF YOUR HEART - ELIZAVETA
Tiger, tiger burning bright, running swiftly through the night
hunted down and caught in flight; who will save you now?

listen | download

tsn fanmix: now you love me/now you don't

2013-10-30T11:30:53Z

A/N: a fanmix created for 54dominoes' amazing tsn big bang fic House of Cards, loosely inspired by Now You See Me

link to fic: ao3 // masterpost: here

now you love me / now you don’t (a tsn fanmix)

1. modern mafia / athlete
tell me something I dont know
'cause we've been there ten times before
make it up as we go along
and we’re in so deep it can’t be wrong

it’s obvious that this is modern mafia
they’re scared of us, they’re scared of us

2. friends of mine / adam green
and we brake for passing cars
in the pistol ripping chase
I regret the drugs you lost
so I skipped our second date

we fall in love by accident
a heavenly coincidence

3. worthy / jacob banks
I feel worthy somehow
please I don’t want to go down, down
the new world is calling me now
please don’t let me go down, down

4. despite what you've been told / two gallants
well I'm just a kid of ill repute
but the skin I wear is my only suit
and you you’re just a substitute
for the one that I hold dear

5. flaws / bastille
there's a hole in my soul
I can't fill it, I can't fill it
there's a hole in my soul
can you fill it, can you fill it?

6. be careful what you wish for / lord cut-glass
you wait for me, it’s half-past three
I’m not coming home
you try my phone, it’s still not on
I’m not coming home

7. I just had a baby / the strumbellas
when I was just a baby, my mother said
‘son, there’s no time in this world to love our man’
hell, so I took a bus out east and wore a cold heart on my sleeve
and every chance I got I turned and ran, ran, ran

8. bright lights / carbon leaf
now all we see is bright lights that show
everything we need, and all there is to know
all there is to know about letting everything go
letting everything go

step inside the lights beyond the shadow of our doubt
and never find our way out

listen / download (+ 5 instrumental bonus tracks)

[fanmix] we've lit torches for you

2013-01-01T19:33:05Z

art post for teenwolf_bb // link to masterpost

author: going_2_hell

artist: branquignole

fic: With the Hush of My Lips, I Wholly Confound the Skeptic (Stiles/Derek)

art: banner x3, fanmix + cover, cover for playlist

notes: This Big Bang was wonderful! I actually think this was my best BB experience so far. It was so much fun, and I love going_2_hell, and even though I totally almost missed claiming time, I still somehow got this amazing fic! I was in a frenzy of OMG DEADLINE WHAT AM I EVEN DOING most of the time, and still ended up with more art than I've ever done for a story before. So... yay?

The playlist was put together by going_2_hell and I decided to make a cover and create a youtube playlist. It's great and fits the mood of the fic really well, so go listen to it! Since going_2_hell had already made such a fab playlist, I tried to make the fanmix a little different, make it follow the story arc instead of having it be a mood mix, and I hope it worked out well. Title for the fanmix is taken from Zoey van Goey's Mountain on Fire because I'm obviously obsessed with them at the moment. Enjoy!

with the hush of my lips, i wholly confound the skeptic

youtube

we've lit torches for you

.zip

1 shake my hand (the jakes)
I'm telling you I'm okay
you're telling me there's no way now

your words evaporate

I'm at home, I'm watching tv

you think you know what I see now

life ain't a silver screen

'cause I'm way down deep in the dirt

but oh, baby, I make the best of the hurt

2 teeth (earlimart)

we'll take the long way

the roads and highways home

fall through the middle

get to where nothing's wrong

3 sweethearts in disguise (zoey van goey)

tell me lies, dazzle me with stories

tell me that our greatest glory's yet to come

4 i'm so afraid (fleetwood mac)
I been alon all the years

so many ways to count the tears

I never change I never will

I'm so afraid the way I feel

5 heavy in your arms (florence + the machine)

and is it worth the wai

all this killing time?

are you strong enough to stand

protecting both your heart and mine?

6 a pound of flesh (radical face)

my feet plow on

from light to dawn

my empty belly in my body aches

ain’t hard to take

next to the weight I carry in my chest

7 asleep (the smiths)
sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I want to go to bed

sing me to sleep, sing me to slee

and then leave me alon

don't try to wake me in the mornin

'cause I will be gon

8 hold on to what you believe (mumford & sons)

and now this land means less and less to me
without you breathing through its trees

at every turn the water runs away from me
and the halo disappears

I'm not whole when you're not near

9 we don't have that kind of bread (zoey van goey)
we don't have that kind of money
we don't have that kind of bread
stay under the covers with me instead

don't leave the house today

on your bicycle

you've got a fragile body

with your veins and your heart and your ventricles

time goes quicker between the two of us

2012-09-18T09:23:17Z

There will soon be an actual update, I swear, but in the meantime... meme-y time, I guess? Stolen from laliandra .

Comment and I will...

1. Tell you why I friended you. If I remember.

2. Associate you with something.

3. Tell you something I like about you.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

5. Associate you with a character/pairing.

6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

7. Tell you my favourite userpic of yours.

8. Tell you that you must post this in your own journal.

[fanmix] we're lovers leaving the dead

2012-07-05T19:41:05Z

art post for the reverse big bang on mentalist_bb // a cho/summer fanmix

artist: branquignole
author: miss_peg

link to masterpost

notes: The fact that this is a reverse big bang was a bit daunting for me at first but working with miss_peg was such a joy, especially since the fic she wrote is just so much more than I could have wished for. <3 Seriously, if you're in any way inclined towards Cho/Summer, go read it! NOW. Also if you're not. I love this fic. I love miss_peg. Here is my feeble attempt at doing her awesomeness justice.

we're lovers leaving the dead(.zip)

i. let the river in (radical face)

I closed my eyes and saw my father's sins
they covered me like a second skin
I peeled them off and sure I bled it in

and now I'm free to sink my own damn ship
I cut the bridge down from my family tree
to start a fire in the middle
now the house is just ash this time, sink or swim

ii. take off that dress for me (micah p. hinson)

sweetness, you can come home with me
against all hope and sense of decency
sweetness, take off that dress for me
against all hope and sense of dignity

iii. rabbit heart (florence + the machine)

and in the spring I shed my skin
and it blows away with the changing wind
the water has turned from blue to red
as towards the sky I offer it

this is a gift, it comes with a price
who is the lamb and who is the knife?

iv. clear spot (the pernice brothers)

once or twice
everything was lined up straight
there's nothing you could ever trust
there's something about you

in a clear spot
did you think that I would call?
'cause sometimes I don't feel like talking at all

v. run with me (keane)

'baby' you said, 'we're not ever gonna go home'
and 'baby, will you run with me wherever I go?'
well maybe those words never really mattered at all
but lately those words run with me wherever I go

vi. left for dead (the strumbellas)

watched the caribou for days
swam across the great lakes
slept around an open fire
chasing demons to the pyre

I broke my home
broke my home
left for dead

vii. bluebird of happiness (mojave 3)

gotta find a way to get home strong
gotta find a way back home
gotta find the light to guide me along
gotta find a way back home

running for your life won't get you so far
running for your life so far
gotta find the road to bring me home slow
gotta find a way back home

viii. not like beatles but stones (thou)

don't hit the ground
'cause it's so hard, hard falling down
just hitting ground
I'm falling

no words can save me
even if I don't know what it means to me

Mini Bang: Art Post

2012-01-24T13:59:16Z

This is an art post for the Mentalist Mini Bang (mentalist_bb).

Author: feralious
Artist: branquignole
Fic: (link coming soon)
Summary: (coming soon)
Art: fanmix + cover art

A/N: Whew. So this is what being on a deadline and having no idea where you're going feels like! But the good news is, I DID IT. Even though feralious and I talked more about Holmes/Watson and all things language in our emails than the actual fucking Mini Bang, and were therefore a little hard-pressed to finish this on time, it was all sorts of fun! Thank you, feralious! I hope you enjoy this. (: (And yes, I annexed Molly Hooper from BBC Sherlock as Jane's wife. :D Sue me.)

teaser:

FANMIX

one shot to kill

i. Mad World (Gary Jules)

all around me are familiar faces

worn out places, worn out faces

bright and early for their daily races

going nowhere, going nowhere

their tears are filling up their glasses

no expression, no expression

hide my head I want to drown my sorrow

no tomorrow, no tomorrow

and I find it kinda funny

I find it kinda sad

the dreams in which I'm dying

are the best I've ever had

ii. Cold Desert (Kings of Leon)

told me you love me, that I'd never die alone

hand over you heart, let's go home

everyone noticed, everyone has seen the signs

I've always been known to cross lines

I've never ever cried when I was feeling down

I've always been scared of the sound

Jesus don't love me, no one ever carried my load

I'm too young to feel this old

iii. Untitled 1 (Keane)

a house on fire

a wall of stone

a door that once was open

an empty face and empty bones

who ate your heart?

you're cold inside

you're not the one I hoped for

I'll see you on the other side

the wind wouldn't blow me home

to lie in your heart of hearts

will I ever see you again

and lie in your heart of hearts

iv. Strawberry Blonde (The Subways)

you're the matador and I'm the bull

you're the brass keyhole I fit into

you're the wind and I am the weathervane

you're the strawberry blonde and I'm the gray

you're the light and I am the firefly

you're the star and I am black as sky

tell me, yeah, sing your song for my lonely soul

v. The Boy With the Thorn in His Side (The Smiths)

the boy with the thorn in his side

behind the hatred there lies

a murderous desire for love

how can they look into my eyes

and still they don't believe me?

how can they hear me say those words

still they don't believe me?

and if they don't believe me now

will they ever believe me?

and if they don't believe me now

will they ever, they ever, believe me?

vi. Blinding (Florence + The Machine)

seems that I have been held in some dreaming state

a tourist in the waking world, never quite awake

no kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber

until I realised that it was you who held me under

felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs

no more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone

no more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden

no more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love

no more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

.zip

Big Bang: All Roads Lead to Nowhere

2012-01-15T19:23:41Z

This is an art post for the Mentalist Big Bang (mentalist_bb).

Author: tromana
Artist: branquignole
Fic: All Roads Lead to Nowhere
Summary: After O'Laughlin's death, she thought it would eventually get easier. Seems Van Pelt's family has other ideas...
Art: banner, fanmix + cover art, translation

A/N: Hi hi! This is my very first Big Bang (so much fretting omg), and I was incredibly lucky to get such an awesome author on the first go. I'd really like to thank tromana for writing fabulous Van Pelt-centric, post-O'Laughlin fic, and for being generally excited and making this loads of fun! <3 Also, thank you and apologies to anyone I may have whined or capslocked at (or a combination of both) in both my enthusiasm and occasional despair. :D?

As for the art: graphics aren't my strong suit, this is my very first fanmix, and I'm probably the first person who did a translation for a Big Bang as 'art'. The translation is not a translation of the entire fic but rather one of a few selected scenes that inspired my song choices. I think that's all I have to say for now? I really enjoyed this, and I hope you guys (especially you, tromana) enjoy it too!

FANMIX

dine with the cannibals

intro. Friend of the Night (Mogwai)
instrumental

i. Cannibal's Hymn (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

I will sit like a bird on a fence
sing you songs with a happy ending
swoop down and tell you that it don't make sense
to attack the very thing you're defending

didn't I just buy that dress for you?
that pink paper pinafore you keep mending

well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals
sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten

ii. Samson (Regina Spektor)

Samson came to my bed
told me that my hair was red
told me I was beautiful and came into my bed

oh I cut his hair myself one night
a pair of dull scissors in the yellow light

iii. See the World (The Kooks)

I remember how we used to be
without the world upon our tv
well let it lie or you can take it back
wrap your life around evil's trap

but there you are, you're sailing away
and you know you never come away

iv. Rolling Home (Fool's Garden)

it's long ago when freddie came to kiss her
sometimes he's coming back into her mind

yeah yeah, yeah yeah-eah
just like a fallen tear in the sun
yeah yeah, yeah yeah-eah
we're all addicted to rolling home

v. We Might as Well Be Strangers (Keane)

I don't know your thoughts these days
we're strangers in an empty space
I don't understand your heart
it's easier to be apart

vi. A Forest (The Cure)

I'm lost in a forest
all alone
the girl was never there
it's always the same

vii. Child Psychology (Black Box Recorder)

Life is unfair
kill yourself or get over it

viii. What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths)

I can surely rely on you
and yet you start to recoil
heavy words are so lightly thrown
but still I'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you

so what difference does it make?

ix. Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)

We're on a ride to nowhere
come on inside
takin' that ride to nowhere
we'll take that ride

I'm feelin' okay this mornin'
and you know
we're on the road to paradise
here we go, here we go

.zip

TRANSLATION

Open publication - Free publishing

.pdf

first I'm perfect, then I'm lazy

2012-01-01T15:24:30Z

Everybody who knows me also knows that I really love me a list. I make lots and lots of them - so have some to sum up 2011!

BOOKS

January

1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

3. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

4. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

5. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

6. Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

7. Die Wellenläufer by Kai Meyer

8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

9. Die Jungfrau von Orléans by Friedrich von Schiller

February

10. Woyzeck by Georg Büchner

11. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

12. Frühlings Erwachen by Frank Wedekind

13. Knife by R. J. Anderson

14. Rebel by R. J. Anderson

15. Arrow by R. J. Anderson

16. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

17. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

18. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

19. Love, Ellen – A Mother/Daughter Journey by Betty DeGeneres

March

20. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

21. Eine Woche voller Samstage by Paul Maar

22. Am Samstag kam das Sams zurück by Paul Maar

23. Sams in Gefahr by Paul Maar

24. Onkel Alwin und das Sams by Paul Maar

25. Neue Punkte für das Sams by Paul Maar

26. Ein Sams für Martin Taschenbier by Paul Maar

27. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

28. Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf

29. Ash by Malinda Lo

30. An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley

April

31. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

32. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

May

33. Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

34. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

35. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

June

36. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

37. Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane

38. The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

39. The Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan

40. The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan

July

41. Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson

42. Papertowns by John Green

43. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

44. White Cat by Holly Black

45. Red Glove by Holly Black

August

46. Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich von Schiller

47. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

48. Looking for Alaska by John Green

49. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

September

50. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

51. The Girl Who Was On Fire by Leah Wilson (Editor)

52. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

53. Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka

October

54. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

55. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

56. Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald by Ödön von Horváth

57. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

58. L'étranger by Albert Camus

59. Wallensteins Lager/Die Piccolomini by Friedrich von Schiller

60. Wallensteins Tod by Friedrich von Schiller

November

61. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

62. Awful End by Philip Ardagh

63. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

64. Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain

65. Just Don't Fall by Josh Sundquist

66. A Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls

67. Fabian by Erich Kästner

68. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

December

69. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

70. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

71. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

72. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

73. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

74. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

75. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by Joanne K. Rowling

76. Dreadful Acts by Philip Ardagh

FILMS

1. Inception

2. L'élégance de Madame Michel

3. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

4. Percy Jackson – The Lightning Thief

5. 3-Day Weekend

6. (500) Days of Summer

7. Watercolors

8. The King's Speech

9. Pirates of the Carribean 2

10. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

11. Sommersturm

12. I Am Number Four

13. Beastly

14. Laputa – Castle in the Sky

15. The Social Network

16. Sense and Sensibility

17. The Book of Eli

18. Thor

19. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

20. Howl's Moving Castle

21. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

22. A Midsummer Night's Dream

23. Easy A

24. Kung Fu Panda 2

25. Princess Mononoke

26. Mulan

27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2

28. Despicable Me

29. Jumper

30. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

31. Paprika
32. Spider-Man

33. Spider-Man 2

34. Spider-Man 3

35. The Fall

36. Zombieland

37. Juno

38. Ratatouille

39. Get Him to the Greek

40. The Shipping News

41. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

42. Water for Elephants

43. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

44. Whip It

45. À bout de souffle

46. Saint-Jacques... La Mecque

47. Tokyo Godfathers

48. Spirited Away

49. Sherlock Holmes

50. Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows

This list isn't very precise due to the fact that I got lazy in July and stopped keeping track of what films I watched, so this might not be complete, but after wracking my brains and not being able to think of anything else, I'm just going to assume this is everything. :D In the course of the year, I rewatched The Social Network (several times ;___;), Inception, (500) Days of Summer, Easy A, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Jumper, Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, and Despicable Me.

I also rediscovered my love for tv shows and watched tons and tons of them. HOW DID I EVER LIVE WITHOUT TV SHOWS I ASK YOU. I don't think I could cope without them anymore; they're my ultimate comfort. I didn't make a list, but I easily watched about 15 seasons of all sorts of things.

MUSICALS & CONCERTS

Spring Awakening 2x

Jekyll & Hyde

Die letzten fünf Jahre

Hair 2x

Sweeney Todd

Glee live

Jesus Christ Superstar
The Sound of Music

I travelled rather a lot this year; I went to Paris twice, I finally got to visit London, I was in Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, and York, and I travelled on a ferry for the first time in my life, which was really exciting (even in spite of the seasickness). All in all, it was a great year, even though I was in a bad spot every now and then, but I tackled some of my problems, and 2012 will be the year of coming to grips with them. It's also going to be a year of adventures! I'm going to finish school and move out (for the second time, but this time on my own), and I seriously cannot wait to start uni. Inbetween, I hope I'll be able to go to London (for funtimes and marmfishery!) and Paris (for work). I don't know whether everything will work out, but I'm certainly determined to try. OPTIMISM FTW.

Thank you all for being fabulous friends and for making my life all the time. <3 Here's to 2012!

Music Meme!

2011-06-11T19:27:38Z

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) 10 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

veradee did this a while back and gave me the letter L.

#1 Later from Ciske de Rat

#2 La Vie Bohème from RENT

#3 Leaving so Soon by Keane

#4 Left Behind from Spring Awakening

(My favourite version is actually the one from Frankfurt, but I couldn't find it on youtube.)

#5 Lege Stoelen, Lege Tafels from Les Misérables

(I used to have such a stage crush on this pretty boy...)

#6 Le Monde Est Stone from Starmania

#7 Let the Sunshine In from Hair

#8 Liever Verliefd dan Wijs from Sunset Boulevard

(Couldn't find an actual video, sorry.)

#9 Lily's Eyes from The Secret Garden

#10 Lingering Still by She & Him

Has my love for all things musical and all things Dutch become apparent yet? *ducks*

31 Books in 31 Days Masterpost

2010-07-15T10:37:09Z

31 Books in 31 Days

Day 1: The book you are reading at the moment. - Magic Bleeds
Day 2: The book you are going to read next. - Jan, mein Freund
Day 3: Your favourite book. - Torture the Artist
Day 4: A book you hate. - The Wave
Day 5: A book you could read again and again. - Tintenherz
Day 6: A book that you couldn't read more than once. - Wicked
Day 7: A book that reminds you of someone. - A Tale of Two Cities
Day 8: A book that reminds you of a specific place. - The Magicians' Guild
Day 9: The first book you read. - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Day 10: A book by your favourite author. - Warbreaker
Day 11: A book you used to love but have come to hate. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Day 12: A book that was recommended to you. - Die Eleganz des Igels
Day 13: A book that makes you laugh. - Bartimaeus
Day 14: A book from your childhood. - Der Summstein
Day 15: Fourth book from the right on your shelf. - Good-bye and Keep Cold
Day 16: Ninth book from the left on your shelf. - The Demon's Covenant
Day 17: Close your eyes and choose a book from your shelf at random. - The Chronicles of Narnia
Day 18: The book with the most beautiful cover you own. - His Dark Materials
Day 19: A book you have been wanting to read forever. - The Bible
Day 20: The best book you read for school. - Emilia Galotti
Day 21: The worst book you read for school. - Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Day 22: The book on your shelf with the most pages. - The Lord of the Rings
Day 23: The book on your shelf with the least pages. - Oedipus Rex
Day 24: A book noone would think you would read/would have read. - Treasure Island
Day 25: A book's protagonist who really resembles you. - Shrinking Violet
Day 26: A book you would read to your kids. - The Wind in the Willows
Day 27: A book's protagonist who is your ideal. - Knife
Day 28: Fortunately, this book was adapted to the screen! - Das Parfum
Day 29: Why the hell was this book adapted to the screen? - Eragon
Day 30: The book you are reading at the moment. - The Amber Spyglass
Day 31: The book you are going to read next. - My To Be Read Pile

Day 31: The book you are going to read next.

2010-07-15T09:45:55Z

I'm just going to tell you which books I packed for my holiday since I don't really know which I am going to read next, and I'm also going to read them a bit simultaneously too because I don't want to read all 1500 of Sherlock Holmes in one go, or the Bible either.

So, what did I take with me?

Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller
The Bible
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel
Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm really looking forward to reading all of this stuff, and even if I'm probably going to blog a bit more irregularly again, I will keep you updated about how I liked it!

Oooh, and I also have a books icon now! Isn't it pretty?

Day 30: The book you're reading at the moment.

2010-07-14T10:28:32Z

That would be the third part of His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.

I just love this book. It contains the scene I've been waiting to read during the whole of the trilogy (still not there), and it has an intriguing and suspenseful atmosphere. What I love above all are the Mary Malone chapters and the mulefa. It's an awesome book, and it shows once more my love for fantasy where the religious authority is questioned, and maybe conquered in the end.

Day 29: Why the hell was this book adapted to the screen?

2010-07-13T11:42:41Z

I very rarely read books that I don't like, and if I don't like them and there's a corresponding movie, I will probably not go and see that either. There are some books I really like I do not want to see as a movie at any price because the movie just wouldn't convey the atmosphere and the inner conflicts of the characters, but I can't for the life of me recall one at the moment. There is also a trilogy I read for my guilty pleasure, and I think the world would be better of without its screen adaptation.

I let myself be lured into thinking the books were good judging them by their pretty German covers, but realised pretty quickly that Eragon was just a badly written Lord of the Rings where some things had been left out and some minor things were added. I thought the resemblance was pretty striking: in the names of the characters, in Paolini's attempt at creating new languages, in some plot points and in the relationship between characters and peoples. I haven't seen the movie, but I think that such a rip-off does not deserve that kind of attention, and when I saw the trailer, I decided I definitely wouldn't go and see that film.

Day 28: Fortunately, this book was adapted to the screen!

2010-07-12T10:38:30Z

So, I'm sitting here in Normandy, the sun shining on my nose, a light breeze playing in my... uh, too-short hair. It's really nice over here, the weather is perfect (in my opinion at least; I don't like it too hot), we've already been to the beach once and we're going once again later, to look for sea shells. Germany came in third at the World Cup, the world's a nice place... ah. :) Oh, by the way; would anyone like to get a postcard? If so, just drop me your address!

Now on to my meme! This time, it wasn't difficult to think of something at all. There are a few screen adaptations I really love, such as The Lord of the Rings, and Inkheart, and The Shipping News, although I watched that a long time ago and I haven't read the book either. That is something that happens rather rarely. Usually, I read the book first and then watch the movie. But there is one other book where it was the other way round, and where I love both the book and the film. But the film even a little more than the book. It's The Perfume by Patrick Süskind.

I am incredibly fascinated by the idea of someone who can smell practically anything. The things Grenouille does are kind of morbid, but he does them in a rather poetic way, and I think that his actions have a weird beauty to them. The film conveys this so well it's crazy. Ben Whishaw is just brilliant as Grenouille, the right mixture of revolting and fascinating, and the cast also features two other of my favourite actors, Corinna Harfouch and Alan Rickman. That is of course not the sole reason for which I love this film, but it plays into it. I know my father doesn't like it that they left out so much, but I think that they left out what was not really vital to the plot, tightening it up so that the necessary parts are still there, turning it into something even more beautiful than it is on paper.

Day 27: A book's protagonist who is your ideal.

2010-07-11T09:42:01Z

It's getting really difficult because I don't want to post about any book twice. And then there's the fact that a person is seldom ideal, and if a book character is, it is rarely a well-written one. I like courageous and loving characters that have flaws nonetheless, but who are confident with their bodies and aware of the effect they have on others (or starting to be aware of it). Mae from the Demon's Covenant is someone like that, Lyra from His Dark Materials is becoming someone like that; and Knife - Knife is kind of like that, and yet somehow different.

First of all, Knife is pretty small. And pretty brave. As a faery that fits into a human fist, she battles crows and protects her people. At the beginning, she is just a stubborn child, but in the course of the book she evolves into someone who can be reasonable at times, and who is willing to sacrifice things. And in the next book where the focus doesn't lie on her anymore, she still evolves, becoming someone more responsible, and grown-up, but the wild and brave Knife is still lying underneath. This mix is what I like about her.

Day 26: A book you would read to your kids.

2010-07-10T21:19:29Z

I can't really decide because there are so many awesome books I would want to read to my kids! There's all the books by Astrid Lindgren which are just lovely, there's The House of Arden by Edith Nesbit which I read as a kid and loved to bits. (I have been wanting to reread it for a long time, but I can't seem to find it anywhere in English.) And then there's also Tuck Everlasting, which is immensely cute - and so is The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

It's about the rat and the mole who go on adventures together; it's written in a nice and simple style and all the animals/characters are just so... alive. I like that about children's books. There was once an animated series based on the book, and I only remember the part where the toad had to be rescued or something, and had to wear a frock. Anyway, I read the book way after having seen this, and it brought back all the fond memories, so that's why I chose it today.

Day 25: A book's protagonist who really resembles you.

2010-07-09T11:09:08Z

I decided to go for Shrinking Violet by Danielle Joseph (daniellejoseph ), although it kind of stretches the definition of "really resembling".

It's the story of Tere, an insanely shy teenage girl who finds her voice by being a DJ at a radio station. I used to be really shy too, to the point that I wouldn't even want to ask strangers for the way when I was badly lost. I didn't want to go into a shop and buy something by myself. I didn't want to speak in front of the class. (Some of that is still there; I get incredibly nervous when I have to talk in front of my class and start speaking so quickly I sometimes forget to breathe.) But I'm over that most of the time now. Sometimes the shyness still hits, for example if I'd have to say something in a language I'm not that comfortable in, stuff like that. So, although I'm a lot more self-confident now (the internet helped, and acting did too), I can still identify with Tere pretty well.

Day 24: A book noone would think you would read/would have read.

2010-07-08T13:49:44Z

I really thought I wouldn't have an answer to today's question, mainly because people don't come up to me saying, "man, I'd never have though that you read this!" Much of the fantasy I read might not seem to be something I'd read, because of all the blood and warfare, but I think that most people realise rather quickly that I am an avid reader of fantasy books. But then something came to my mind!

I do also read classics, but I think that Treasure Island is slightly different, since it mostly consists of pirates and pistol shots. It might be that people wouldn't think that this is a book I'd read, but then again I didn't like it that much.