Photographing Fairies

My Tuesday-movie starring Toby Stephens was an odd movie called Photographing Fairies.

It's starts off with photographer Charles Castle and his new bride in some wintery destination for their honeymoon. When they are out there on the ice, it breaks and his wife falls into a cavern.

Devastated by his wife's death he returns to London and resumes his photography, but tells his clients "no weddings." 

One day he is contacted by a woman who says that while she was photographing her two daughters that she captured something strange on film. She says that her girls keep talking about fairies and if you look closely  you can see the outline of them in the photos. Of course Castle doesn't believe in her, but she says that she contacted him especially because he is a sceptic and challanges him to prove her wrong.

He sees the girls eat a special kind of flower they must have picked near the tree where they have seen the fairies and becomes intreagued. And when their mother mysteriously falls to her death near that same tree he becomes not only suspicious but later on even a little obsessed with the thought of fairies.

To not spoil the movie for anyone, I'll leave it at that. It's a fairly (no pun intended) psychedelic movie. It's kind of sad and beautiful, but with kind of an unsatisfying ending, I must say. But the ending totally makes sense though. It's just unsatisfying for me because it was kind of sad, hope I didn't spoil too much, haha.

Toby Stephens was kind of young and gorgeous in this movie, as you can see. He's always brilliant, but the movie didn't suit my taste. Ben Kingsley was awesome in it, he is always great, but here he was also kind of young and fit, which is a first for me.
Well, in conclusion: Good movie, but not great with great actors though. Kind of sad and psychedelic.

Two out of five stars
**

another obsesson; Vik Sahay

When I (re)discovered Toby Stephens I became a little bit obsessed with him. And that's why I set out to watch all his movies and tv-shows. And when it's with a brilliant actor, it doesn't matter what you're watching, because you know that whatever he chooses will be excellent, or at least he will be excellent.

That's why I have made myself another commitment to my new obsession, Vik Sahay. I will watch all the things he's been in, or at least try to find as many movies as I can. Because I think he is a brilliant actor.

I am currently enjoying watching him on Chuck season 1.

Here's some eyecandy, ladies!

Absolutely adorable!!!

I'd buy that phone if it came with the gorgeous man!

He's so goddam beautiful!

Rawr, baby, rawr!

Vik pic ^_~

I played with Vik Sahay a little...
(I mean his pictures, you pervs!) :P

Anyhow, he's my new hottie obsession, so I just had to play with him a little.

I made the first pic a little softer and dreamier and played with the warmth

The second one I just made into a half-drawing

I thought it turned out pretty cool

(He'd make a gorgeous animé character)

In this one (pausing for drool)..I did the half-drawing thing again

And on this one I turned it all the way to a black and white drawing

I thought it turned out really really cool. 

Tomorrow I have an interview! Wish me luck!!

The Great Gatsby 2000

Continuing my quest to watch everything Toby Stephens has ever been in, I've just finished watching The Great Gatsby (2000). I read the novel about two months ago and have been unable to find the movie for download, but you can stream it on youtube in surprisingly good quality.

Everyone seems to praise the 1974 version with Robert Redford, but I think this version was a very close adaptation of the book, and Toby Stephens as Jay Gatsby is to die for! He was made for the part!

Toby Stephens as Jay Gatsby

"Hello, old sport"

Mira Sorvino plays Gatsby's old sweetheart Daisy, and I must admit I think she does a good job, I was surprised that she was that good an actress. She's always seemed kind of tough to me, but here she plays dainty little Daisy very convincingly. 

Mira Sorvino as Daisy

What really surprised me though, was that Paul Rudd was cast as Nick Carraway, the narrator of the book (and movie) and everything is seen through his eyes. I've only ever seen him as this dorky, dopey guy, so it was both surprising and refreshing to see him as a more sober character.

This movie has great actors and costume and it follows the book perfectly. The only thing I could have wished for was that the glitz and glam of Gatsby's parties were not as extravagant as they are described in the book. There were a lot of daytime party scenes that should be in the night. And also the score, the sort of film noir, old detectives-story music wasn't really appropriate if you ask me. I'dve gone for more violins than trumpets.

But Toby was brilliant in it though. It's amazing how he can project the full range of his emotional state in just a couple of glances. And he was as young and gorgeous as ever in this movie. To think I was only 16 back then...

a man in love

In one scene Gatsby (Toby) says "In her heart she never loved anyone except me." And I was thinking "How could anyone ever love anyone except you?" Hahahah, I'm such a sucker for Toby.
HIS VOICE is just amazing, it sends all kinds of chills through my body. Of the good sort, hehe. I love his normal voice when he speaks with a british accent, but with an american accent his voice just turns so incredibly smooth and sexy. And when he says "old sport" it's not annoying at all, it's so endearing.

Vik Sahay

I kind of love this guy! I wish he was mine!
He's so frickin adorable!!

Vikram "Vik" Sahay

he is Indian-Canadian

best known for his role as "Lester" in the tv series Chuck

His dark, seductive eyes just mesmerizes me every time!

Rawr!

He looks so cute in a hat!

plus he's got awesome hair, it really suits him <3 

(extra plus; he has a tight little body)

There's just something about those eyes that make me go: "wow"

And I can't help it that when I saw him on Chuck I thought he was hella sexy :P

Can you believe this baby faced man is 41 years old??

Well, he's gorgeous anyway, damn. 

Usually I don't like Indian men so much. Japanese, Koreans and Chinese are more my kind of Asians, but this guy is so amazingly adorable and cool and sexy all at once that he's like the exception to a rule. ;P 

Beautiful man <333

Hey Vik, call me! ;P

midnight gymming and picture improvement

This week I've really turned up the notch at the gym. Been there 2 hours every time.
Tomorrow I'm going with a friend in the middle of the night, we're calling it "midnight-gymming" or something like that, and we thought that since the gym is open 24/7 and we have never really been there past 7pm (or at least I haven't) that we'd do something different and check the place out in the middle of the night.

Anyways, I downloaded Paint.net because I wanted to modify a picture, and now I can't even remember which picture it was, but for two hours I've been keeping myself busy beautifying or playing with some pictures. It started out with me wanting a pic for a song on my iPod and I just sort of saved this picture of Far East Movement and made it better, haha. I thought it turned out quite luxe actually!

So first I played with Far East Movement

 

Before:

 After:

Doesn't the modified pic just look so much more luxurious?

I LOVE this song btw! "I'm flossy, yeah!"

And then I played with myself: (lol)

Before:

 After:

(I call this one Angel-lights)

Before:

 After:

(I call this one Angel_grit_candyrainbow)

I look a little strange in this pic though, don't know why I chose this one
I don't look like myself :P

And I also played with Kev Nish

(I'd like to play with him for real haha..)

Before:

After:

Basically I just wanted to rotate the picture to make it look better on my screen so you don't have to turn your head to the side when looking at it, and then I ended up doing a little more than that.

I guess this is just one of those strange things I do when I'm bored :P

Today though, I've strangely had so much energy. (Even though I've had like no energy whatsoever for several months) I've danced twice, went to the gym and worked out for 2 hours, cleaned my apartment, fixed my hair, waxed, picked my brows, shopped for groceries and did these pics. The only thing I did today that hasn't been active was reading.

Let's see if I make any more of these picture improvements in the future, when I'm bored...

Am I too old?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm too old to realize my dream...
But whether or not I am, I still have to have a "real" education, because finding a job is just too hard these days without going to Uni.

I dream about living in Korea. Exploring Seoul every day, having lots of friends and living a wonderful life there (and work as an English teacher). Korea just seems like the greatest place on earth and I can't wait to go back...

But I'm also impatient. I want to go back NOW and start living NOW. I don't want to wait 4 - 5 years to start living my life!(Which is the length of the education) I don't know, I just feel like I belong there and I want that life so much! But my problem is that I'll be old by the time I get there. I want to go there and live like I'm in my early 20's (or at least mid-20s') But the problem is I'll be in my mid 30's. That's really frickin old!!

I'm 29 already. I don't even know if I've gotten in to the school yet. I don't want to be too old to date and have a love-life. I'm a woman after all, I want love too, not just friends. And by then I'll want someone my age, but the trouble is everyone will be taken!

*sigh*
I want to live in Korea. It's my dream, I want it more than anything. Or rather, I want it equally as much as I want love. Ottoke?