Happy Midsummer ( Read more... )

Because of the Football World Cup or rather because of the time when the games are broadcasted I feel both boiled and mashed all day long. How do you manage through this?

Из-за Чемпионата мира по футболу или вернее из-за того, что матчи идут так поздно, чувствую себя весь день вареной и мятой. А вы как выдерживаете?

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”RAIN
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.”

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894.

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Несколько странно смотреть немецкий фильм про Мартина Лютера, где все актеры говорят по-английски.

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I guess everybody nowadays has a portable phone in a pocket or a purse. But do you remember the times when there were no pocket phones? The times when we had to look for a telephone booth when we needed to call someone.
Have you seen any lately? If yes, fancy to share a pic? ;)
Happily I am not alone with being fond of them. bergberg , a wonderful friend ( Read more... )

Some time ago I found a wonderful thing on Youtube: Mosfilm's own channel with full versions of old Soviet movies equipped with English subtitles. The quality of the translation is not always so good but... well, it's better than nothing. So if you have a wife/girlfriend or a husband/boyfriend who grew up in Soviet and you are curious about his or ( Read more... )

Муж пришел из магазина. Купил молоко, мороженое, клубничное варенье, туалетную бумагу, глёгг и...

Hubby came back home from the food store. Bought milk, ice-cream, strawberry jam, toilet paper, glögg  and...

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From Wikipedia:

"Reception
The film was a box office failure, with a domestic gross of $3,626,883 and a foreign gross of $4,715,249, making a total worldwide gross of $8,342,132, it didn't come close to making up for its estimated budget of $50,000,000.[2][3]

Critical reaction to Stay has been mixed. The film holds a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes[4] and 41 ( Read more... )

Once again I ran out of storage space on my hard disk. Right now there are only 254 Mb left.
While trying to clean the computer from less nessessary files I found a folder with 4 screenshots from the movie Io non ho paura. I won't tell the plot, I just say that it is an incredibly beautiful film. If you haven't seen it yet I'd absolutely recommend ( Read more... )