Trying to find my way

I wanted to post this two weeks ago, but always forgot.

I already specualted about the plot idea behind Doctor Who episode 4.06 after I saw the preview. I'm glad I was right. Plus after this episode I want fanfiction with Wolverine and the Doctor just talking about something they have in common now :-)
Some more blah and scans with Logan and Laura ... (SPOILERS for the episode)
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frogspace and I went to see the musical "Der Ring" in Bonn yesterday. A music version - or better interpretation - of Wagners "Ring" operas. We enjoyed it very much. It's not the best musical I've ever seen but it's very good. You can take a look at it here (official website), here ("3Sat Kulturzeit" coverage, in German, interview with cast and creator) and the trailer.
Wagner already changed the original stories of the Edda according to the message he wanted to transport with his operas. And this musical has gone very far from the old sagas. Nimsgern only kept a few elements and concentrated on one interpretation of two wagnerian characters, Wotan and Brunhild. That lead to a very intresting story about emanzipation and overcoming patriarchy including double father-murder. This plus very good rock music makes the musical a great experience .. plus lot of naked skin and a Brunhild in black rubber ^_^ I liked the "Rhinedaughters" a lot. Two of the three, for some strange reason, spoke with intended heavy accent: French and Russian. But it was funny. And they all were dressed like Britney Spears trying to look like the bride from Kill Bill. The birth scene of Sigfried (called Sigi by Alberich LOL) reminded a lot of the Rocky Horror Picture show. Yay for popculture references XD

But I have to confess that it took me some time to get into the story. I had to drag my head away from all the sagas I've read (well, you need to do that with Wagners Ring anyway), that was hard since some iconic images, like Wotan as the traveler with big hat and spear, kept popping up. The second distraction was that, for me personaly, the Nibelung story needs Hagen! XD He's my favorite character from the Nibelung-legends. I guess I have to blame that on the old 60s movie and Stephen Grundys Rhinegold novel. (Hmm, just been reading the reviews on amazon.com and amazon.de, very different - plus the problem that the german translators "censored" the book)

I'm ending this entry with another death-of-a-father-god-version. This time father-murder by son. Read here some scans from J.M.S. (creator of Babylon 5) current series "Thor". It's called "father issues". And he does a great job. I never read much "Thor", but JMS already did an awesome Loki story in Amazing Spiderman. So I gave it a try. In his resurrecton of "Thor" we get a split person or douple person. In the old comics Dr. Blake and Thor were the same person. Here they are two different beings. Very interesting plot.And the new Dr. Blake is awesome in many ways! ^_^ To my surprise this series has become one of the few comic-series I'm really looking forward to each month.

The new Dork Tower cartoon has a nice guest star .... XD

I went to see the new HP movie yesterday. ( I liked it! And like I expected - the story works a lot better as a film than a novel.) Before the film they showed only very few adds and one trailer. And I don't know why this film was never ever on my radar. It was a trailer for a new Asterix movie. "Asterix at the Olympic Games". And appernetly it is a French/German co-production again because it was a scene with a well known german comedian: Michael "Bully" Herbig. And after looking into imdb I also found that Michael Schumacher (yuck!) is making a cameo - I bet as a charioteer *yawn* Alain Delon as Ceasar??WTF? Depardieu is back as Obelix yay, but not Clavier as Asterix *sniff*. I prefer the animated movies to the 'live-action' but they did some really good casting for the first film (Gottfried John looks a lot like the comic Ceasar and Roberto Benigni was funny as a Roman polititian).

my head hurts...my eyes hurt ... but the Ghost Rider pic is just priceless :-)

Marvel swimsuit issue scans

JMS did nitpicking comic readers annoy you ? ;-)

scans from the new 'Amazing Spiderman' issue

fourth scan, second to last panel !!! LOL

oh, and spoiler ahead for you Spidy-readers (looks around, I think I'm the only one ... *shrugs* ^_^)

just saw this link for X-Men 3 pics at sashatwen
*bounce bounce*