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The most beautiful theatres from around the world
1. Minack Theatre, Cornwall
2. Seebühne, Bregenz Austria
3. Winter Garden, Toronto Canada
4. Opera City Hall, Tokyo Japan
5. Palau de la Musica, Barcelona Spain
6. The Tampa Theatre, America
John Eberson, who designed the Tampa Theatre, also designed a theater in San Antonio, The Majestic, which I think is also deserving of being on this list.
Omg that's stunning 😍
Best book to movie adaptations (2020-2021)
1. The invisible Man by Wells - The invisible man (2020)
2. Emma by Jane Austen - Emma (2020)
3. David Copperfield by Dickens - David Copperfield (2020)
4. Dune by Frank Herbert - Dune (2020)
5. Station Eleven by Emily John Mandel - Station Eleven (2021)
Glyptothek Munich - One of the oldest Museums for acient arts
The museum features sculptures dating from 650 BCE to 550 CE
I just started my instagram Feed about literary and cultural themes. Would be very glad, if some of you would be interested in checking it out. It would be so helpful to me, since it would be my dream to be an independent journalist one day. It is in german though but i think with google translate there will be no problems. I post similar stuff to the things i post on Tumblr.
@illiskulturblog is my name. Thank you!!!
Nine people I want to get to know better.
Tagged by @mountainmaven and @dangerousfiction - thanks to both of you! It's been an age since I did a tag thing :)
Last song: Special by Lizzo (not very indie of me but this song hits me in the feels and I'm thankful for it, so there you go.)
Last show: Rupaul’s Drag Race season 14, Sanditon season 2, Julia ( I think the season is done???) , Anatomy of a Scandal, Minx etc (i watch too much tv. smh)
Currently watching: The Flight Attendant, Signora Volpe, Gaslit, Shining Girls, Bosch Legacy, and i have a couple of eps to finish of Our Flag Means Death (which i don’t want to end so I am drawing out), and the odd eps of shows i’m trying on for size.
Currently reading: Just started Alan Jacobsen’s The 7th Victim, just finished earlier today Anthony Horowitz’s A line to Kill, and also Dan Jones’s Powers and Thrones. Am thinking though that it’s been a minute since I read a fantasy novel and i might go back to Sarah J Maas - I never did finish the book about Nesta and I always liked Nesta and her bad attitude, so maybe that will get added.
Tagging people makes me feel like I've fallen out of the loop with communicating with mutuals.. And that some of my mutuals that I did communicate with more aren't around as much. BUT ANYWAY for those that are - I value yous and i am tagging: @seashells-and-bookshelves, @i-blame-this-on-sherlock @bookishdiary @waitingtogethome @freckles-and-books , @haybop-86, @theselkiesea @annaintheworks @ladyoleighander and i think she's off tumblr but I'm going to try and tag @librarianlirael as well as anyone else that wants to do this :) And for those i did directly tag - no pressure ok <3
Last Song: I listen to a lot of hozier right now. So it was probably cherry wine. I also listened to a beautiful neopolitan Song called "ombra di nube"
Last Show: I recently finished breaking bad and rewatched the hollow crown.
Currently watching: Westworld Season 2, This is us Season 6. I also wanted to check out some literary bbc series like war and peace and north and south.
Currently reading: Less by Andrew Sean Greer and the Shining by Stephen King.
@highwaydiamonds thank you for tagging me! I am tagging: @epithimia @queertoddanderson @pretty-pianist @dailyroutineisamyth @impassionedactress @franknstein @haydenthorne @notyouraveragejulie @enchantedengland
"He was like those bronze statues in public parks that, despite one lucky knee rubbed raw by schoolchildren, discolor beautifully until they match the trees"
~ "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer
Why do these Posters for the Met's Don Giovanni remind me of Pirates of the Caribbean? 😅 Opera Houses have really gotten A LOT more modern over the last few years. They really got a Hollywood poster movie style to them now.
Marius Kwiecien as Don Giovanni
Great books where the Main character is a writer
The following books are great reads about different struggles and events a writer can face during his career
1. Less by Andrew Sean Green
Arthur is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: his boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. He can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and he can’t say no--it would look like defeat. Thus begins an around-the-world-in-eighty-days fantasia that will take Arthur Less to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India and Japan and put thousands of miles between him and the problems he refuses to face. What could possibly go wrong?
2. Misery by Stephen King
Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the woman who has saved his life: "I'm your number one fan!"
3. Wonder Boys by Michael Gabon
In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.
"It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially."
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Hey :) I'm looking for movies similar to the green knight or something kinda like that. Do you have any recommendations?
Aesthetically Pleasing movies II
1. The green knight
This movie is breathtakingly beautiful and strangely unique. A real gem. Please watch it. A must see for arthouse lovers.
2. The Fountain
This has to be one of the most underrated movies ever. And oh my god..it is otherworldly beautiful.
3. The Lighthouse
Still beyond me why this hasn't got an Oscar. The acting is incredible. And it has this unique old vintage horror movie flair which i can't even describe.
4. 2001 Space Odyssey
A classic for a reason. Truly visionary in it's cinematography.
5. A Monster calls
Beautiful movie with a beautiful Massage.
What are some good animated movies that you like?
Just off the top of my head:
1) Howl's Moving Castle
2) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3) The Incredibles
4) Tangled
5) Aladdin
6) Metropolis (2001)
7) The Lego Movie
8) The Iron Giant
9) Shrek 2
10) How to Train Your Dragon
Omg. I loooove the iron giant 😍 I made a list with the most beautiful animated movies too if you would like some more recommendations.
my favorite painting in the whole world has got to be Franz Liszt at the Piano by Josef Danhauser just in virtue of how ABSOLUTELY DONE everybody looks with him playing the piano, like: Georges Sand? Done, Alexandre Dumas? Done, Paganini, Rossini, Berlioz (or arguably Hugo)? Done, Liszt’s wife? D o n e, Beethoven’s bust on the piano? The Most Done out of all of them
I am quite saddened to hear this is how the painting comes off…
It's kinda true though. Lol. Paganini is like: "pfff...i can do better than him"
Will these hands never be clean? ~ Lady Macbeth
I created this Poster for one of my favourite movies of all time
teapots!
I need that Teapot! 😍
The best books involving classical music
Julian Barnes - The noise of time
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovitch's career, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union.
Haruki Murakami - Absolutely on music
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder.
Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann's last great novel is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility.
Douglas Hofstadter - Goedel Escher Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Vikram Seth - An Equal Music
Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more.
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well.
Daniel Levitin - Your Brain on music
This explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.
it's folklore season, baby! about to be spring turning into summer turning into fall soon so let us pretend, for a little while longer, that we are all just angsty teenagers who use escapism to cope
oh hey I’m back with uhh…more. hopefully I don’t call u out too much this time
Lol that's really accurate though 😅
