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The last post on this great platform (don' t really know why twitter is pulling it down, very mistake!!!)

 

1. Dorothy Parker

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24956.Dorothy_Parker

 

2. Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/7

 

3. Herta Müller - Atemschaukel

http://www.amazon.de/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=m%C3%BCller+herta+atemschaukel&a...

 

4. Mascha Kaleko

http://www.maschakaleko.com/

 

5. Ingeborg Bachmann

http://www.amazon.com/Ingeborg-Bachmann/e/B001HPUD6S

 

6. Ayn Rand

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0141188626/ref=s9_ps_bw_d99_g14_ir05?pf_rd_m=...

 

7. Lian Hearn

http://www.amazon.com/Lian-Hearn/e/B001IQX7E6

 

8. Gwendoline Riley

http://www.amazon.de/Cold-Water-Gwendoline-Riley/dp/0099437155/ref=sr_1_4?ie=...

 

9. Siri Hustvedt

http://www.amazon.de/Summer-Without-Men-Rough-Cut/dp/0312570600/ref=sr_1_11?i...

 

10. Arianna Huffington (no joke)

http://www.amazon.de/On-Becoming-Fearless-Women/dp/0316166820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U...

 

11. Miranda July

http://www.amazon.de/One-Belongs-Here-More-Than/dp/0743299418/ref=sr_1_2?ie=U...

 

12. Fred Vargas

http://www.amazon.com/Sinn-Lebens-Liebe-Aufr%C3%A4umen-Schr%C3%A4nken/dp/3746...

 

13. Virginia Woolf

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14942.Mrs_Dalloway

 

14. Joni Mitchell

http://www.amazon.com/Joni-Mitchell-Complete-Poems-Lyrics/dp/0609600087

 

... any ideas? I'm sure the list could be made up to a 100 authors...

 

 

 

 

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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:32:00 -0700 Making something perfect brilliant: The girl with the dragon tattoo http://remrih.posterous.com/making-something-perfect-brilliant-the-girl-w http://remrih.posterous.com/making-something-perfect-brilliant-the-girl-w

There are many remakes of european movies that didn't work out. But Finchers remake of "Män som hatar kvinnor" worked out very well and it's because of the details, the reflection and obvious thought about "what could we do better", so that the result is somehow brilliant.

At first glance, I thought about the budget that Fincher had in comparison to Niels Arden Oplev. But the casting has been done very well and there is more, from the excellent Intro to the superb editing and the great sound editing combined with a genius score in this movie.

It's because the characters are developed so good and their personal motives, especially the one of Lisbeths are working out. While Oplev describes better at the end of "Män som hatar kvinnor" how Lisbeth is taking revenge on the "men" that treated her so badly, Finchers film concentrates on how Salander is attracted to Blomkvist.

There are more psychological insights that are really authentic. Her guardian is somehow the same kind of type/ compared to Blomkvist (same glasses etc.) and she feels somehow guilty and in a strong way addicted to the only man that took her for granted, that she is giving in so deeply into a relationship with Blomkvist although he's so much older and at least not very interested in her (sexually).

Another improvement is the consistent visual presentation of this film. So, it is worth to see and to compare with the origin and even the book...

 

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:00 -0800 Evolution- Seeing "The Tree of Life" http://remrih.posterous.com/evolution-seeing-the-tree-of-life http://remrih.posterous.com/evolution-seeing-the-tree-of-life

Now, after seeing "The Tree of Life" a second time, it's getting to be more profound that I thought it was after seeing it the first time in cinema.

Malick is giving us "the big picture" and the small picture all at once. He's putting a small life into the center of his movie and shows how great and full of wonders and spiritual experience it can be. He shows, how meaningful and meaningless such a life is, all at once.

Everything what we do is meaningless in context to the space of time, but for us it is essential, it is our live. Malick draws this big picture how only Kubrick does it in movies… but in contrary to him, he has no book to follow. He develops his own story through improvisation with his great actors.

The movie tells us about how great and similarly small are lives are.

We don't even know, if Sean Penns character is the son, Pitts character has lost or if he has become an angel after dying all at once in the beginning of the film and is connected to our world as a sort of angel.

However, this film gives us more quests than answers, that's a good reason for looking at it twice.

 

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Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:37:00 -0800 "Running Man" or "The Voice of Germany" http://remrih.posterous.com/running-man-or-the-voice-of-germany http://remrih.posterous.com/running-man-or-the-voice-of-germany

Seeing the latest episode of the "Voice of Germany", I'm somehow finding myself remembered to the movie "The Running Man" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/) with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

How forwardthinking this movie was! Not really reffering to it's quality, but to it's content...

 

 

 

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Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:17:00 -0800 Demokratie definiert sich über das Recht - nicht über Moral oder Werte http://remrih.posterous.com/demokratie-definiert-sich-uber-das-recht-nich http://remrih.posterous.com/demokratie-definiert-sich-uber-das-recht-nich

Was hat er denn nun eigentlich falsch gemacht, unser Herr Wulff? Außer dass er sich "PR-technisch" ziemlich dumm angestellt hat? Rein rechtlich ist ihm nichts vorzuwerfen, moralisch offenbar schon?

Seit knapp einem Monat ergeht ein regelrechter Shitstorm über den aktuellen Bundespräsidenten und immer wieder hört man nun die Forderungen nach Rücktritt. Doch anders als im Fall Guttenberg hat er sich nicht wirklich etwas zu Schulden kommen lassen (obwohl er Schulden gemacht hat). In der ganzen Diskussion gewährt sich seitens der Medien lediglich die Kulturzeit ein differenziertes "Bild" (http://blog.zdf.de/3sat.Kulturtube/2012/01/03/unwuerdig/) und trifft damit den Nagel auf den Kopf.

Tatsächlich hätte ich mir damals Herrn Gauk oder sogar Frau Schwan lieber gewünscht als Herrn Wulff. Aber was nun gerade mit ihm geschieht, entbehrt doch jeglicher Polit- und Demokratiekultur. Es scheint eine regelrechte Medienkampagne zu laufen, wie sie sich selbst Schröder in seinem paranoiden Träumen von einst nicht vorstellen konnte.

Die Frage, ob sich eine Gesellschaft plötzlich durch neue Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation wie im "Social Web" nur noch durch Meinungen und Moralvorstellungen ein Urteil generieren möchte stellt sich mir.

Gibt es denn niemanden, der sich noch dem Recht zuwenden will und prüfen, ob und inwiefern jemand in einem politischen Amt noch tragbar ist, weil er offenbar verfehlt?

In vergangenen PR-Krisen, durch die verschiedene Unternehmen und Personen gegangen sind, hat sich oftmals eine übereilige "Wertediskussion" entwickelt, die so seltsam erscheint, dass einem Angst wird.

Was ist, wenn jemand rechtlich konform handelt, sich die öffentliche Meinung jedoch gegen ihn wendet? Hat das nicht eher etwas von einer Hetzjagd, die an die McCarthy-Ära erinnert?

Ein wenig weniger Emotion und ein wenig mehr Ratio sollte unserer demokratisierten, säkularisierten Gesellschaft eigentlich besser stehen als die ständige Diskussion über Werte und Moral. Diese sind nämlich definiert, und das sehr gut, und Grundlage unserer modernen Gesellschaft seit 1949.

 

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Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:15:00 -0700 So funny - now we are in the 21st century http://remrih.posterous.com/so-funny-now-we-are-in-the-21st-century http://remrih.posterous.com/so-funny-now-we-are-in-the-21st-century

I've just seen Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence and I'm thinking about what's happening to us in our world these days, also what fictional work is all about creating future perspecitves.


First of all it came to me, that now we have absolved (or however you can name it) the first decade of this new century, I have a better understanding of how people might have felt in the beginning of the 20th century. We all stick to the past and we all stick to that, what happened in our lives, no matter what history told us. Maybe that's why we learn so hard in an emotional way.


The knowlegde (in maths or phyisics) that is earned by mankind over the centuries, could be given from a generation to the next and the invention of books has given us the oppurtunity to share things a lot more easy.


But the knowledge you have earned emotionally can always be inheritad to a small group of people. Wether it is good or bad. So the evolution of mankind is a slow process.
Seeing Ghost in the Shell 2 made me also think of film history and literature and the use of A.I. fantasies. The first work I can ad to that kind of stories is Frankenstein, the second Pinochio. Since then, many stories were written and many movies were made, that fucked up our minds and let us think of the meaning of human life. If it was Blade Runner or  Frankenstein, it was always fascinating thinking of Cyborgs, who are manufactured machines, getting a emotional touch.


When I'm  now seeing Ghost in the Shell 2 it makes me think about this correlation more and more. What is, if we, the human mankind are just a step in the evolution and the next step is a machine (like in Matrix)? Is it good, is it bad? Is it either? Maybe it's just what it is, as live always is.


In any way, a movie that has to be seen!

 

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