postcrossing (3)

Wow! Received four more cards yesterday! :-)
From Japan (great nightview of Shibuya, Tokyo), USA (fascinating Air Force Academy with the star-spangled banner and the Thunderbirds), Italy (overwhelming nightview of Venice with the Palazzo Ducale and the Torre dell'Orologio) and China (great nightview of Pudong, Shanghai).
Wonderfull pictures again!

Note: To prevent this blog from too many single posts I will post the next cards once a week, so please be patient for updates to come.



Websites: Postcrossing, MC @ postcrossing

postcrossing (2)

Yesterday I received three more cards.
From Singapore (great nightview of the Singapore Nightflyer), USA (fantastic night-multiview of fabulous Las Vegas) and Canada (futuristic nightview of Toronto's skyline).
It's really cool to get cards from all over the world! :-)



Websites: Postcrossing, MC @ postcrossing

The X-Files: I Want To Believe

Seen on Friday.

To be honest, I had expected a lot more.

It's a great thriller with suspence a action, but it's just not 'The X-Files'.

I stopped watching the TV series when the whole story started to become to complicated inside the FBI; I loved the older episodes with lots of mystery and aliens and other supernatural stuff.

Can't really remember the first movie - but I don't think it was so special either, when I can't remember anything.

This time there is to much about Scully's and Mulder's past - don't even know if they really had a common past with a deeper relation or if the just put it in to make the movie a bit more interesting.
Only mystical thing is that there's a priest - a sentenced pedophile - who has visions of kidnapped women, because of his spiritual connection to one of his past victims.

If you want to see a thriller, it's a great movie.

If you want 'The X-Files', you should at least save the money for the cinema and rent the DVD later.

Website: The X-Files: I Want To Believe
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MC listened to: Dixie Chicks - Long Time Gone
via FoxyTunes

Get Smart

Seen Yesterday.

Sooo damn funny! Partly I nearly laughed my head off!

It's some time ago - about 18 years or so - since I saw the old Maxwell Smart played by Don Adams, but as far as I can remember it was one of the funniest secret agent tv series I've ever seen so far.
Steve Carell is fantastic as Maxwell Smart a.k.a. Agent 86.

Together with the CONTROL-Agents 99 (Anne Hathaway), 23 (Dwayne Johnson) and the chief (Alan Arkin), Smart has to save the world from KAOS' latest plans, after the CONTROL-headquarter was attacked and all the agent's identities were revealed.

A lot of slapstick comedy and fantastic and funny action make this movie a great pleasure to be seen!
I would nearly go as far as to say it's a must-see.

Website: Get Smart
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MC listened to: Meredith Brooks - Watched You Fall
via FoxyTunes

joined postcrossing

About two weeks ago I joined postcrossing.
It's a project where members get adresses from other members to send them a postcard and receive one from some other member.
I think its a pretty cool idea!
Just got my five first adresses. Cards will be sent to Finland, USA, Germany, Netherlands and Portugal.
When they reach the receipients I will receive my first regular cards. :-)

There is also a forum where people make special arrangements and trade cards (and other stuff) big style. But I think I will keep my hands off of that - too expensive. ;-)

In that forum Julia asked some people to send cards to me while she sends them some of hers to get me started. She is such a sweety!
I already received this three beautiful cards - from Finland (wonderful Aurora Borealis), France (great multiview of the city of Munster) and Germany (nightview of the famous Oktoberfest). :-)



Websites: Postcrossing, MC @ postcrossing
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MC listened to: Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
via FoxyTunes

Kris Kristofferson in Vienna

Friday, 18. July, 2008

Wonderfull concert!

On Thursday my friend Maze told me that Kris will be in Vienna on Friday.
Didn't think I would get a good ticket, but luck was on my side and I got the last ticket in the 16th row. Around that seat all were already sold. Then there were just a few tickets - 20 or so - in the last rows left. Lucky me! :-)

To be honest before this concert I didn't know too much about Kris Kristofferson. Only saw him the in 'Blade'-Trilogy and 'Convoy' and knew that he had sung the theme-song of 'Convoy'.

The concert was really worth being seen!

His songs and his whole appearance seemed pretty true and honest to me.
The songs are great and the things he said between them were pretty cool. Like when in advance of one song he said 'I wrote it for my kids and their momS.' - got a lot of laughs.
But he also said serious things. He mentioned that these days news are rather depressing everytime you read the paper but he's faithful that soon there will be the headline 'Barack Obama - new president of the United States'. From the reactions of the audience you could tell that people all over the world hope for a change, and maybe Obama could be the start of several changes all over the planet.

After the first hour he made a short intermission and as the lights went on a guy ran to the stage with a guitar case and Kris signed his guitar right away. I found that very kind of him!

To bad I didn't have my camera with me, but here's a little video from youtube-user wuzlump.



Website: Kris Kristofferson
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MC listened to: Kris Kristofferson - Just The Other Side Of Nowhere
via FoxyTunes

Kung Fu Panda

Seen yesterday.

A very nice and funny movie!

Po's only dream is to be a Kung Fu fighter. But that's rather unlikely for a panda with some extra pounds - until kismet makes him the dedicated Dragon Warrior.

I love the 'design' of the characers. All together very funny.
The animation of the martial arts movements is fantastic and extremely smooth. During the training and fight scenes they included slow motion sequences - pretty cool!

Again a movie with a good message. You can be whatever you want to be as long as you believe in yourself.

'There is no secret incredient!'

Website: Kung Fu Panda

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MC listened to: The Rolling Stones - How Can I Stop
via FoxyTunes

keep on rockin'

What a show!
No, not just a show!
It was an experience!

I never witnessed such a cool and awesome perfomance before!
The three times I had seen it before were already great but this finish was just unbelievable.
(1st, 2nd, 3rd)

This time I finally saw Serkan Kaya as Galileo. It's true, he is the best!
Scaramouche was played again by Silke Braas - she is a pretty cool Scaramouche too. Jessica Kessler couldn't play in the great final performance because of an laryngitis. Get well soon!
I guess the rest was the first cast. Martin Berger as Khashoggi (fabulous!) and Brigitte Oelke as Killer Queen (perfect!).

The show was unbelievable! The actors put in some extra jokes and improvisations. It was a huge party for everyone!
The audience was wonderful too. Right from the beginning, when the lights went out and we were told to turn off the cellphones etc., the crowd started screaming like the stars were already on stage. Wow! What a start!
And the atmosphere stayed so till the very end.
At the start of every single song the people screamed and clapped their hands like at a concert and sang along. Some even spoke the text partly along. Really cool!

After the pause free glow-sticks were given out. An awesome view to see everybody in the theater waving with the lights.
Before the second part began people stomped the 'Wee Will Rock You'-rhythm and shook the whole theater.

During the second part the audience went completely 'Bohemian' and at the end everybody sang along the 'Bohemian Rapsody'. It was overwhelming!

This time there was even another song as encore - 'The Show Must Go On'. Again the complete audience was singing, clapping and jumping.

Here some videos from youtube-user Miaka01.




Afterwards Serkan thanked everybody and the actors pulled the custome and make-up staff and the techies on stage. A real noble gesture.

You could see the joy in the actors eyes for having given us such a great performance but also a bit of sadness about having reached the end of an era.



Hope WWRY will be back in Vienna soon!

As I mentioned last time - I think it's a great way to keep Freddie Mercury's and Queen's music and legacy in people's minds!

Never forget - THE SHOW MUST GO ON!


Websites: We Will Rock You (at), Raimund Theater
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MC listened to: Queen - Hammer To Fall
via FoxyTunes

Tutankhamun - The Musical

Seen on Saturday in Gutenstein.

Gutenstein is well known for great productions of Ferdinand Raimund's plays; this year they have the world premiere of the brand new musical about Tutankhamun (ger.: Tutanchamun), the famous Pharaoh.

Great production! Fantastic stage design! Awesome actors! Overwhelming choreography! Great music!

This musical is really worth being seen!

The story starts with the death of Pharaoh Akhenaten (ger.: Echnaton) and Tiye's (ger.: Teje) - King Tut's grandmother - decission to make Tutankhamun the new emperor of Egypt.
The story shows the envy of the military leader and the administrator - who both wanted to become Pharaoh after Akhenaten's death; the way they let him sign several orders for their own benefit and the resulting povery of the Egypt people.
When Tutankhamun sees the troubles of his people he starts questioning decissions and changes his line.

The way King Tut died is left beside and i think that's good so, because of all the myths about his death.



A fine piece of work!

More pictures can be seen on the website.

Website: Tutanchamun - The Musical
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MC listened to: Smash Mouth - All Star
via FoxyTunes

Hancock

Seen yesterday.

Starts extremely funny with a drunk, filled with self-hate not so glamorous hero Hancock (Will Smith), who of course helps people but what he leaves behind after his help looks like the aftermath of some terrorist attack .
People hate him, the city is fed up with paying the devastation he causes.
But all this will change when he rescues the PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), who want to help Hancock to polish up his image.

I like the movie really a lot!

Only thing I missed was some kind of explanation who he really is and where he came from.

Website: Hancock
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MC listened to: Black Sabbath - Killing Yourself To Live
via FoxyTunes

Wok'n'Roll

Yesterday we tried a new Restaurant at the SCS Multiplex (shopping mall with restaurant and an UCI cinema; about 20 km south of Vienna).

The Wok'n'Roll is a wonderfull restaurant with a nice interieur and an overwhelming choice of different Asian dishes - Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, etc.

We thought several times of trying it because it always smelled fantastic when we went by.
Believe it or not it tasted even better then it smelled! :-)

Julia had Samosa (Indian dumpling filled with spicy vegetables) as starter and Wok'n'Roll Season's Vegetables (fried vegetables served with jasmine rice) as main course.
As starter I had Sateh Ayam (tender chicken skewers with spicy peanut sauce) and Wok'n'Roll Duck (fried duck with east'n'west asia sauce served with madarin bread and rice) as main course.
I also had a dessert called Asian Snow White (Thai rice pudding - Sago - with caramel sauce and almonds).



Everything was fantastic!

We drank mango juice. We thought that it would be very sweet but it wasn't - it was really delicious and refreshing.

I am sure we will stop by there several times in future!

Website: SCS (Shopping City Sued)
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MC listened to: Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
via FoxyTunes