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