Natalie Portman

Noomi Rapace

Anthony Mackie

Cloud Atlas - The Cloud Atlas Sextet, by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil

Babel - Bibo No Aozroa | Endless Flight, by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Inception - Time, by Hans Zimmer

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) - A Thousand Years, by Christina Perri

Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave?
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?
But watching you stand alone,
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.

One step closer

I have died every day waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this

One step closer

I have died every day waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

One step closer
One step closer

I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

A Thousand Years, by Christina Perri

Wicker Park - The Scientist, by Coldplay

Come up to meet you
Tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart1

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles; coming up tails
Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart
Questions of science; science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start

The Scientist, by Coldplay

Before Sunset - A Waltz for a Night, by Julie Delpy

Let me sing you a waltz
Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts
Let me sing you a waltz
About this one night stand

You were for me that night
Everything I always dreamt of in life
But now you're gone
You are far gone
All the way to your island of rain

It was for you just a one night thing
But you were much more to me
Just so you know

I hear rumors about you
About all the bad things you do
But when we were together alone
You didn't seem like a player at all

I don't care what they say
I know what you meant for me that day
I just wanted another try
I just wanted another night
Even if it doesn't seem quite right
You meant for me much more
Than anyone I've met before

One single night with you little Jesse
Is worth a thousand with anybody

I have no bitterness, my sweet
I'll never forget this one night thing
Even tomorrow, another arms
My heart will stay yours until I die

Let me sing you a waltz
Out of nowhere, out of my blues
Let me sing you a waltz
About this lovely one night stand

A Waltz for a Night, by Julie Delpy

Creepy good music video {3} 9 Crimes, by Damien Rice

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you

Creepy good music video {2} The Fear, by Lily Allen

I don't know what's right and what's real any more
I don't know how I'm meant to feel any more
When do you think it will all become clear?
'Cause I'm being taken over by the fear

Creepy good music video {1} Chasing Pavements, by Adele

I build myself up
And fly around in circles
Waitin' as my heart drops
And my back begins to tingle

Way out of my league ...

She's a high 9, and you're barely a 4!  She's way out of your league, man.

~AJ's friend | second geek

2 + 2 = 5

A totalitarian state does not tolerate anything other than obedience and conformity.

One-Minute Time Machine

Every time the beautiful Regina rejects his advances, James pushes a red button and tries again, all the while unaware of the reality and consequences of his actions.

On the bright side, you're the first successful multiple suicide. That's pretty cool.

~Erinn Hayes

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [3] Leviticus

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One thread in the complex storyline of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the link between verses from the Book of Leviticus and gruesome murders of women. Leviticus is the 3rd book of the Hebrew Bible and also of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This novel and film are set in Sweden, where there is no longer an officially recognized church. While Swedes still identify as Christians, the majority of them don't believe in God. It is in this context that the storyline of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo unfolds: For 40 years, no one could solve the mystery of a young girl's disappearance, because even the most dogged detective, distraught great uncle, and curious townspeople thought one of the girl's journal entries was phone numbers - instead of references to the Leviticus. It took the investigative journalist's daughter to notice, offhandedly, that the entry pointed to Biblical verses. 

Reference: Levitical Extremism in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2] premier

Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, David Fincher - French premiere of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [1] enthralling

I've watched this David Fincher adaptation (2011) of the Stieg Larsson novel quite a few times now, and I remain enthralled. It's my 4th all-time favorite film - after The Matrix, Cloud Atlas, and V for Vendetta. This film is superb in so many ways: e.g. cinematography, storyline, character, soundtrack. Most of all, I remain enthralled with Rooney Mara's tour de force performance as the troubled but brilliant Lisbeth Salander. Daniel Craig is also superb as the embattled investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

Acting in the Cottesloe Theatre

Its adaptability gives directors and designers a lot of choice in how they mount the play. ~Roger Allam

Acting in the Lyttlelton Theatre

The Lyttelton always feels like a cinema, really... So you present a picture to the audience. ~Simon Russell Beale

Acting in the Olivier Theatre

It's just nicely curved around you, so you feel that they're embracing you a bit. It's rather nice. ~Lesley Manville

[6] Danny Boyle and Nick Dear on "Frankenstein"

[5] Cruelty, Violence and the Creature

Dr. Gwen Adshead, forensic psychotherapist:  "It seems to me to be much more about the capacity for cruelty in each of us and how that's created."

[4] Doubling Victor Frankenstein and the Creature

Danny Boyle, director: "We thought we could enhance that theatrically [i.e. bond between the creator and the created] by getting a couple of great actors to swap the parts.

[3] Character Study of the Creature

Nick Dear, playwright:  "What does it mean to be human?  How do we define ourselves as human?"

[2] Character Study of Victor Frankenstein

Johnny Lee Miller, as Victor Frankenstein:  "Can a man be a god?"

[1] Directing "Frankenstein"

Danny Boyle, director:  "We were going to make it a complete body... that he's literally been internally rebuilt, not a body assembled from different external parts."

My Top Most Recent Science Fiction: Avatar (2009)

Zoe Saldana, as Neytiri

My Top Most Recent Science Fiction: Her (2013)

Joaquin Phoenix, as Theodore Twombly

My Top Most Recent Science Fiction: Transcendence (2014)

Johnny Depp, as Dr. Will Caster

My Top Most Recent Science Fiction: Lucy (2014)

Scarlett Johansson, as Lucy

My Top Most Recent Science Fiction: Ex Machina (2015)

Alicia Vikander, as Ava

Con Air - How Do I Live?

How do I get through one night without you
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be
Oh and I, I need you in my arms
Need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life

Without you there'd be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
And I, baby I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything real in my life
And tell me now

How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breathe without you
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive
How do I, how do I
Oh, how do I live

If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything
Need you with me
Baby, 'cause you know that you're everything good in my life
And tell me now

How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breathe without you
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive
How do I, how do I
Oh, how do I live
How do I live
Without you baby

How Do I Live? by Trisha Yearwood

Vanilla Sky - Vanilla Sky

The chef prepares a special menu
For your delight, oh my.
Tonight you fly, so high up
In the Vanilla Sky

Your life is fine
It's sweet and sour
Unbearable great
You've got to learn
Every hour, you must appreciate.

This is your time,
This is your day.
You've got it all.
Don't blow it away.

The chef prepares a special menu
For your delight, oh my.
Tonight you fly, so high up
In the Vanilla Sky.

Melted tin beads,
Cast you fortune
In a glass of wine.

Snail or fish,
Balloon or dolphin
See your silver shine.

This is your time,
This is your day.
You've got it all,
Don't blow it away.

The chef prepares a special menu
For your delight, oh my.
Tonight you fly, so high up
In the Vanilla Sky
In the vanilla, uh, in the vanilla, oh, in the vanilla sky.
In the vanilla, ah, in the vanilla, uh, in the vanilla sky.
Mmmm in the Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky, Paul McCartney

The Lake House - This Never Happened Before

I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before

Now I see, this is the way it's supposed to be
I met you and now I see
This is the way it should be
is the way it should be, for lovers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own
This
So come to me, now we can be what we want to be
I love you and now I see
This is the way it should be
This is the way it should be

This is the way it should be, for lovers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own

I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before

This Never Happened Before, by Paul McCartney

Entropy

Speaking of entropy, here is a short animation film where entropy is a metaphor for longing and loneliness.

Harmony is a young girl living on a cold and desolate Earth, alone and longing for friendship. While trying to tune into a station on her home radio one night, she picks up a melody that leads her to the moon.

Entropy is an emotional and dreamlike short that articulates feelings of loneliness, hope, and love.

From "13 Conversations" to "Our Lives' Entropy" [5]

From "13 Conversations" to "Our Lives' Entropy" [4]

Then I wrote this poem ...