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"I'm back." At least I can quote them even though my computer torments me by allowing me only to listen to the soundtrack of the new ROTK trailer while refusing to show the pictures. Curses!
So, anyway. Thank you, everyone, for your birthday wishes! Yesterday, I left Rügen as I found it, in sunshine, wind and splendid scenery. I can really recommend it to anyone who enjoys a week of vacation, and likes his/her sea, beach and forests not too overcrowded. Right now, the first wave of laundry is busy being washed, and before the ironing can start, I managed to get online with the above mentioned results. However, I also found here, a very funny Farscape introduction for people who have no idea what this show is about. You can quarrel with some particulars, but it is very amusing.
Going through newspapers offline and only, I see that Martin Luther has joined the ranks of people getting a big screen biopic. He's played by Joseph Fiennes, which, bearing Cranach's famous painting in mind, struck me as odd until I remembered that a) Luther was actually quite skinny in his youth and b) I have seen the younger Fiennes in the title role in a play called Son of God some years ago (pre-Shakespeare in Love). Reading the reviews in the New York Times and the Süddeutsche Zeitung respectively, the end product sounds watchable, even though they predictably shied away from Luther's less-than-sterling moments - such as his position in the Bauernkrieg, the peasants' uprising, where he sided with the princes completely and actually wrote a pamphlet encouraging them to get tougher on the peasants. Not exactly fitting the image of a liberator. I'm not bashing Luther. He was a man of his times, and besides the patronage of the princes was important to save himself and his followers from going the way of many a heretic, helping to make them an official branch of Christianity instead. But bearing this in mind helps not to idealize him.
So, anyway. Thank you, everyone, for your birthday wishes! Yesterday, I left Rügen as I found it, in sunshine, wind and splendid scenery. I can really recommend it to anyone who enjoys a week of vacation, and likes his/her sea, beach and forests not too overcrowded. Right now, the first wave of laundry is busy being washed, and before the ironing can start, I managed to get online with the above mentioned results. However, I also found here, a very funny Farscape introduction for people who have no idea what this show is about. You can quarrel with some particulars, but it is very amusing.
Going through newspapers offline and only, I see that Martin Luther has joined the ranks of people getting a big screen biopic. He's played by Joseph Fiennes, which, bearing Cranach's famous painting in mind, struck me as odd until I remembered that a) Luther was actually quite skinny in his youth and b) I have seen the younger Fiennes in the title role in a play called Son of God some years ago (pre-Shakespeare in Love). Reading the reviews in the New York Times and the Süddeutsche Zeitung respectively, the end product sounds watchable, even though they predictably shied away from Luther's less-than-sterling moments - such as his position in the Bauernkrieg, the peasants' uprising, where he sided with the princes completely and actually wrote a pamphlet encouraging them to get tougher on the peasants. Not exactly fitting the image of a liberator. I'm not bashing Luther. He was a man of his times, and besides the patronage of the princes was important to save himself and his followers from going the way of many a heretic, helping to make them an official branch of Christianity instead. But bearing this in mind helps not to idealize him.
