Getting away

I am currently writing from a suburbian village in Estonia. I came here because.. well because I could and because the Man is working on a project here on the weekdays.

I thought I was fooling myself when I said that I was coming here looking for inspiration and a possibility to concentrate. I have now proved myself wrong.

Things I needed inspiration and concentration for:

Finding an idea for a documentary film
Writing my script

Things I have done today:
Come up with an idea for a documentary film
Written a new ending and beginning to my script


What the actual hell, it worked!
At home I'm always so easily distracted, but I can't really work at a library either because lets face it: very few libraries in Finland actually offer an inspirational and comfortable working environment. At least at the ones I've been to are these modernized and sterile places useless for anything else than getting a book and quickly running home to read it.

And cafés are just not my thing for writing because I like to just sit and stare at people = not getting anything done.

I'm very picky about my environment of preference, but whatever because apparently I know myself better than I thought.

Einstein and Eddington

Today's breakfast was a little bit of historical fiction involving these two gentlemen:

Arthur Eddington (David Tennant a.k.a. the tenth Doctor) and Albert Einstein (Andy Serkis a.k.a. Gollum.) The film is called Einstein and Eddington and portrays the two scientists in their respective communities during WWI, communicating by letters.

It's a quality film. It was intriguing in many ways, which is why I feel the film was a bit too short. The characters were left too shallow. I'm not saying the characters were shallow, oh no sir, not at all, but there were so many moments and events in the film that could have gone deeper and really dug into the pain and joy these men felt.


I recently saw a drama documentary about Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh : Painted with words.
Van Gogh is played by Britain's it-man right now; Benedict Cumberbatch, and done so marvelously. I could go on and on about this film, but I'll leave it for later. See, the reason I mention this film now is because it has something Einstein and Eddington lacks: a thorough portrayal of the anxiety of an agonized man. The reason it doesn't have it I feel is the lack of time; the film was simply too short. Of course we see some painful moments but for me they left me wanting more. Dig a little deeper, hit a little harder... let that painful gaze last a while longer.

Like van Gogh in his life, both Einstein and Eddington were faced with contempt from their community. And there were moments in the film where Tennant and Serkis had their painful gazes, but these moments were too brief and were pushed aside to quickly get on with the rest of the film, and that's what's wrong with Einstein and Eddington: it's limited by the 90-minute frame of a TV movie.

 ...Aside from that, it's a great piece.

I leave you with the suffering eyes of van Gogh, as portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Today's movies

Aaand to continue my recommendation-thingymajig.

When I have a day off I tend to watch a movie for breakfast. Today's choice was:

Silver Linings Playbook

 .. which was a pleasant movie. Not mindbogglingly fantastic, but pleasant. It was nice to watch, the drama worked, the main characters are pretty... and I realised one of the reasons I like Jennifer Lawrence: her voice. She has this darker, more soulful voice than most other young female actresses spawned out of H-wood. A voice that is pleasant to listen to, a voice I can relate to. Because let's face it: in speech, deeper voices are just that much more pleasant to listen to. Maybe one of the reasons why women don't get to talk about important stuff in movies? Because their voices make it sound unimportant. Really a long shot, but for me it works - my ears dislike high pitches.

Enough about voices. SLP was a good movie, watch it. .. but it wasn't fantastic so don't expect too much (like I did), it's just great, old-fashioned GOOD.


Aaand seeing as I'm home alone for the evenings this week, I've had movies to accompany my evening cup of tea. Today, this was on the menu:

A fantastic fear of Everything

What to say... Simon Pegg looks good in his wig. Another GOOD movie. Not fantastic, but good. It had some gnarly animations and a wicked style of its own though, and a lot of the comedy was made up of Mr. Bean-ish gags so entertainment-wise this was great! .. and in general, what the script was lacking was partially made up for some great production design, animations and, well, Simon Pegg.

That's all for movies now, tomorrow's breakfast will either be the safe bet-delicious The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Soloist, or Einstein and Eddington.

PS: I do this for research, right. Research for my own projects, right.

Sol. Fruset.

 Att skriva på papper är roligt. Det är mycket lättare att sitta i solen och skriva då man använder papper och penna istället för dator. Måste börja på en ny historia idag eftersom den satt i mitt huvud och distraherade mig från den historia jag borde jobba på. Det nya barnet hann nå sin första vändpunkt innan ett träd skuggade mig så jag fick kallt och måste gå in.

 

Marken är ännu frusen. Jo, jag försökte med våld sticka en spade ner i grönsakslandet. Ställningen är därmed 1-1 mellan is&snö och mig.

Läsa och skriva

Har åter lekt författare och insåg nånstans på vägen att då det är ens egna text man ska läsa och ändra så är det mycet lättare att göra med det gamla, hederliga paret Papper och Penna. Har även lärt mig tycka om min handstil. Eller så har min handstil gått och blivit vuxen medan jag inte tittade.

Musik

Whenever I'm home by myself I remember all sorts of different artists and bands I haven't listened to for ages, here are some of today's rediscoveries:

Recommendations

Saker jag vill rekommendera denna morgon:

- att stiga upp i tid: så kanske man får nåt gjort. Åtminstone får man mera ingenting gjort
- plättar med honung: vi råkar ha nån supergod magisk lokalproducerad honung
- pyssel: under senaste veckan har jag stickat färdigt en halsduk, och 2 mössor från scratch, dessutom har jag börjat förså grejer för grönsakslandet: dill och persilja var först ner i krukan

Jag tänker börja skriva mera. Här. Typ. Och kanske på engelska också. Typ.

Aijo, en sak till måste jag rekommendera, fast jag redan rekommenderat den tidigare.
 En förbannat snygg anime-serie som heter Deadman Wonderland.




Utspelar sig i ett fängelse som är byggt i en gammal nöjespark. Innehåller element av scifi och psykologisk thriller. Namnam












Orsaken varför jag kom att tänka på DW igen är att jag hade denna fantastiska idé:
"VITSI NÅN BORDE GÖRA LIVE ACTION AV DEADMAN WONDERLAND" Och jo, jag var så exhalterad att jag skrek det inne i mitt huvud.