Oh boy has it been long or what?
I had some pesky real life stuff to deal with. I'll hide that behind the cut to avoid boring you.

( RL stuff  )

Now to my reason for reappearing in LJ-land: I just had to share :-). I have caught myself a new addiction :-).
German TV has shown about 3 recent Bollywood movies in the last couple of months. The last one was on about 2 weeks ago and I caught the tail end of it and liked it enough to tape the re-run the next day.
Then I sat down last Sunday, being bored and decided I should go watch the tape....and as they say the rest is history.
I became addicted. Boy that movie is fun!!!

It's a typical Bollywood masala being that it mixes a handful of plot pieces. It has action, a love story, drama (inside a family and otherwise) and a sprinkle of a social message. And it doesn't take itself the least bit seriously.
It's called Main Hoon Na and stars Bollywoods biggest star of the last decade, Shah Rukh Khan.
He plays Ram, an Army Major who is sent undercover to a college to protect his CO's daughter from a terrorist and also meets his long lost half-brother while on the mission.

Go here for a more detailed description.

The music that is an integral part of all of Bollywoods productions is really very much of the "feel good"- variety here.
And there's eyecandy up the wazoo. (Shah Rukh, Zhayed Khan who plays his half brother Lucky, and both guys love interests are nice to look at too.)
Which definitely is one of the reasons I have been watching my tape at least once a day since last weekend. Yes I'm shallow, why do you ask? ;-)

I love how Ram does a Neo to avoid the spittle a teacher has been sending his way. I love how he can't help but break into song everytime he sees his love interest. I love love love the music! I dare anybody to not at least twitch at hearing it. You just want to jump up and sing and dance along.
And I have a sneaking suspicion the last fight with the bad guy might just be a copy (at least in parts) of the fight between Neo and Morpheus in Matrix after Neo said "I know Kung Fu." SRKs stance at the beginning of that scene sure looks a lot like Neo.

So if anyone knows of any good source for SRK-icons, let me know okay?

Soo I went out and got me a copy of the Soundtrack which since then has been playing pretty much non stop. And I bid and won on ebay for DVDs of two of Shah Rukh's other films and am waiting anxiously to get them delivered.
Am seriously considering learing Hindi to better appreciate it all....well we'll see.

That's it from me for now, I'll try to be around more in the future.

Oh, and elfbert? Consider yourself nagged about that DK autograph :-).

Grabbed from alyburns
(Hope it works.)

You scored as Musical/Rhythmic. You are sensitive to sounds in your environment, enjoy music and prefer listening to music when you study or read. You learn best through melody and music. People like you include singers, conductors, composers, and others who appreciate the various elements of music. </td> Musical/Rhythmic 79% Verbal/Linguistic 64% Intrapersonal 57% Visual/Spatial 54% Bodily/Kinesthetic 50% Interpersonal 43% Logical/Mathematical 32% The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences created with QuizFarm.com

Well they did definitely get the "listening to music while studying or reading"- part right. I can't stand total silence when I do either of those.

Got this from alyburns


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Hehe, yup thats about right. Though I don't own the DVDs (can't afford them or I would). I just looooove all those little quizzes.

The other stuff:
Two weeks ago I saw the CD release concert of my favourite band.(They are called Chamber and their music is a goood mix of pop, rock, folk and gothic. In case you're interested (and if you're a Highlander fan you've probably seen the singer before *eg*) here's their homepage http://www.chamber-online.de and they also have little clippies of their music there so you can hear for yourself what they sound like.)
That was my fourth release party with them and I have to admit they rarely had more problems sound wise than this time :-(.
Us regular visitors are used to the occasional "ooops what was the next line of text" or "sorry did I just miss something? oh right I should have started singing already" and that's part of the fun. But usually the guys and girls managed to sound better than this time.

But and that is a BIG plus: the atmosphere was as good as always. And Max (that's the singer had us fans eating out of his hand as always. And there were lots and lots of funny moments. All in all: I know whenever I'll have another chance to see them I'll be there. It's just waaaay tooo much fun to miss.

After two years of only reading Stargate fanfic I finally managed to write one.
Since it can't go where I had intended it to go and I don't have a website I decided to share it here.
I guess I should probably warn you that it deals with the events of Meridian.

( Go here if you want to read it :-) )

Okay now I only have to convince the Daniel-muse Jack brought along on his second visit that it's okay to tell me the rest of the other story Jack decided to share. Wish me luck ;-).

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Well for lack of anything to say I decided to do another quiz.
Still thinking about putting up what little fanfic my so called muses have graced me with inspiring (all Highlander). (Though I find myself playing sounding board and throwing out ideas to a friend who writes Sentinel, so far inspiration didn't strike there or in SG-1 or ENT.)
Trouble is: it's all in German.
Sooo anybody tell me: Do you wanna read it?

You seem older than your years, like a wise sage.
Your head always either buried in a book, or
discussing what you have learned with others,
you are Thoth. The creator of writting, and
language, you are full of wisdom. When you
talk, people listen, knowing they will learn
something new.


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Friday I went shopping.
And what do I come across?
The 2 DVD Edition of X-Men 2.
Whats so special about that you ask?

Well it had Peter Wingfield on the big screen for one.
Peter in a really big blockbuster production. Way cool.
His first appearance is of the "blink and you'll miss him"- variety it but it gets better.
He even has the whole screen to his very gorgeous (if you don't mind me saying so) self.
And it was at a very good discount (almost half of the last price I'd seen it at).

Sooooo, even though I don't really have the money I had to have it.

Now I only need the time to actually view it.

Gahhhh.
The stupid bitch who just about made me wanna puke with her presentation of the red carpet at this years Oscars (Hi I'm Anke from Germany we met before (yeah sure _once_ for a couple of minutes god knows how long ago) do you remember me huh huh huh? ) is going to get her own effing LateNight Talkshow.
Yuck!!

And this from the station that once claimed the unofficial title Star Trek station. And then made us wait for the first season of Enterprise until the US was already almost finished with season 2.
Oh and, finishing a season? What is that? Do we really have to? Wouldn't it be way more fun for you viewers if we stopped 8 eps before the end of the season and started a full rerun of season 1 instead? Oh and of course we are not going to give you even a hint of when the hell we are planning on showing the rest of season 2 much less when / if we ever show you season 3.

Gaaaahh. Makes you wanna go out and torture the ones responsible for such decisions with 24/7 of StarSearch and daily talk of the lowest level (and that would be mild).