Yum Yum

This pic greeted me at facebook today! :P The True Blood Page is listing the 10 most memorable True Blood Moments. Click the hot pic to see more pictures from Rolling Stone.

All I want for Christmas, is a man in cravat

A Jane Austen couples galore for Christmas. Could have been better, but Movie Make kept annoying me so I got fed up with it. But it works, I think.

I really like google today!

This was the sight that greeted me when I logged on the internet this morning...

Needless to say, it kind of made my day... Can it be because it's Jane Austen's birthday? Yes it can! Born on December 16 1775!

Happy Birthday Dear Miss Austen!

A video I made two years ago! :)

Amazed - Bella & Edward

I have borrowed Lonestar's song Amazed for this one, and I'm so happy with how it turned out! I really love the song!

100 Books

I found this on Facebook and had to try it.


The BBC estimates most people will have read only six of the 100 books listed here. If you have a few minutes, see if that applies to you.

Instructions: Copy this into your Notes. Bold those books you've read, italicize those you started but didn't finish, or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

New Personas

Was bored yesterday and made two new personas for firefox with Dean Winchester and quotes. I'm quite pleased, if I may say so myself. :P

 Jensen Ackles as Dean is superhot! :P

And I realised I haven't shown you the other one I made for Becoming Jane.

You will find all my personas here.

I'm a Persona-designer

Yes, I couldn't help myself. Mozilla Firefox has made it so easy to make your own theme to bling your web-surfing. First I started out with a Persona for Jensen Ackles. I just adore him. :P He's such a cutie. It looks like this:

Then I thought I'd make one for Becoming Jane too. I made it in sepia tones and am very pleased with how it turned out.

Next I'm thinking I'd try with Mr Darcy... and other Jane Austen characters. Check out my gallery here. :)

Another Twilight Fanvideo - Iris

I am really pleased with how this turned out. I hope you enjoy it too!

She's like the Wind - A Twilight Saga Fan video

Jane Austen Revisited

I have been reading through all of Miss Austen's novels this summer. And I must say that I have held them all in a sort of romantic glow, and frankly, I'm a bit disappointed with some of them. Take Sense & Sensibility for example. I remember it to be one of my favourites, but now that I've read it again, I find it most vexatious! I'm getting so frustrated with all the people around the poor Miss Dashwoods and their mother and how ill they are treated. Is it because I've always remembered the adaptations, and not really the novel behind it? I guess the adaptations puts the more positive things as the love stories, that's of course all good. :P But perhaps it's Mr Ferrars, Mr Willoughby and Colonel Brandon that blinds me to the illtreatment of the ladies. ;)

I have reread Emma and am in the middle of Mansfield Park at the moment. They are both still as good as I remembered them, or at least not worse than I recollect. Next up is Northanger Abbey. I really should be able to relate to Catherine and her obsession with novels. ;)


I have found that my favourites now are Pride & Prejudice (no surprise there) and Persuasion. There is a tie between them. Perhaps it's because I can relate to more of the characters in those novels than in the others.

True Blood Season 3

**Spoiler alert! If you haven't seen the two first episodes of 

season 3, read carefully!**

The wait is finally over, True Blood Season 3 is here! I'm so looking forward to this season. I really eager to see what themes and events they are pursuing this time.The two first eppies has been very good, though varying much from the book, but I'm learning not to compare too much. It only gets me upset. It's still a great show, and I so enjoyed the view of Alexander Skarsgård's naked behind in the first episode.

Borrowed from HBO

I'm looking forward to more flirting between Eric and Sookie, and later Alcide Herveaux. I think we all are in for a treat this season. :)

On a side note, the tenth book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries Dead in the Family was released on May 4 this year. I'm really looking forward to read it soon!

Oh Dear, What Would Miss Austen Say?

A friend sent me this link just now. I don't know if one should laugh or cry. Although I have always found Mr. Darcy to be a very manly man, I'm not sure I would name a urine pheromone after him, even if it does attract females unlike anything else. ;)

I guess it's the same for humans. We are attracted to different smells. I know I can (or could, since I am a happily married woman) diss a man simply because I don't like his aftershave.I have read or heard somewhere that we are attracted to different types of men on different times of our cycle. Around ovulation we are attracted to manly men, with the potential to breed awesome heirs, while around the period we are more attractive to caring, loving men who would provide and take care of the family.

On a funny note, the lead researcher is named Jane Hurst. Very suitable don't you think?

Favourite of the Week

Okay, so I just stumbled upon this nice picture of Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince of Persia. Hot damn!!! He's just gorgeous. *drools*

He used to be my celeb crush a few years back after seeing Brokeback Mountain. I haven't seen anything with him for a while and the crush has kind of faded. But, dang, I think it's back. And who can blame me? He is super hot!

He just seems so down to earth, and lovable. Not to mention, kissable.

I think I want to be a damsel in distress... Come and rescue me, Jake!

And damn, does he look good in a suit! Yup, the crush is a fact. Damn.

All pictures are taken from People.

The Clothes Makes the Man?

Clothes has some serious power, people. Some people can put on almost anything and be totally gorgeous, others, not so much. Let's look at an example, shall we?

Let's look at Richard Armitage. I've seen him as Mr Thornton and Guy of Gisborne and he's really handsome in both. As Guy especially, he looks so deliciously bad ass in black leather. And, yes, I have a soft spot for guys in cravat, but you already knew that. So as Mr Thornton I just adore him. He's always got this dark and brooding thing going. I love it! ;)

But in The Vicar of Dubley, not so much. He's just not made for wearing normal clothes! ;)And most definitely not glasses!

Sure, I can fully admit that I see him as his characters. And I can admit that he does look very handsome in a nice suit. But as a normal dude? Nope. Doesn't do it for me. Maybe he's just made to be dark and brooding? :P

Or is it just me?

Pics from Richard Armitage online.

Never Underestimate the Power of a White Shirt

Seriously, is there anything sexier than a man in a spanking white shirt? If you don't agree, let me give you a few examples:

Rupert Penry-Jones (Persuasion for example)

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (The Tudors)

Jensen Ackles (Supernatural)

Paul Wesely (Vampire Diaries)

My favourite, Mr Darcy (Colin Firth) in a slightly wet shirt :P

 Changed your mind yet?

Favourite of the Week

This week I'm giving you one of my, recently discovered, favourite songs. I've probably heard it a million times before, but since my new found fascination with vampires, it just speaks to me! ;)

Vampire Heart by HIM

So, I had actually thought of making a Twilight-fanvid with this song, but a visit to YT showed me that there are a million already. Perhaps I will resolve to write something instead.

The lyrics are marvelous too:
You can't escape the wrath of my heart
Beating to your funeral song
All faith is lust for hell regained
And love dust in the hands of shame
just be brave

Let me bleed you this song
Of my heart deformed
And lead you along this path in the dark
Where I belong
Until I feel your warmth

Hold me like you held onto life
When all fears came alive and entombed me
Love me like you loved the sun
Scorching the blood in my vampire heart

I'll be the thorns on every rose
You've been sent by hope
I am the nightmare waking you up
From the dream of a dream of love

Let me weep you this poem
As Heaven's gates close
And paint you my soul,
Scarred and alone
Waiting for your kiss to take me back home

Hold me like you held onto life
When all fears came alive and emtombed me
Love me like you loved the sun
Scorching the blood in my vampire heart

Nothing more needs to be said. I love it, I adore it, I want my own vampire. Give him to me! ;)

A Dream Come True?

Me and my Mr Darcy, made by a new friend. :) Aren't we cute? :P

There's a New Doctor in Town...

Doctors 1-8

Or in space, rather. I've followed the new series of Doctor Who since they started in 2005. It's, I guess, one of the oldest tv- series out there. It originally aired between 1963 and 1989, but was taken up again by BBC in 2005. I have seen some of the old black and white eppies from those days, but I think I prefer the newer ones. We are now down to the 11th doctor.

The doctor is a Timelord and is travelling through space and time to, well, not really meddle, but help out. He usually travels with a companion or two. The most famous one, at least of the 2005 version, I think is Rose. She was with him for quite some time. He met her in the first season, as the 9th doctor.

The 9th Doctor is played by Christopher Eccelston. It was really my first encounter with the series and I really didn't know what to expect. But I liked what I saw. Looking back, I think he's the darker, moodier of the three I have followed. It must be hard to take a role that has been played by so many before you.

Then came he turned into the 10th Doctor, and David Tennant, and I fell truly in love with the series. I really enjoyed his quick humor and sort of geeky handsomeness. He's still funny and all, but there is something darker lurking beneath the smiling surface, which we also get to see later in the series. Being the last of one's kind cannot be easy, even if you are the Doctor. I kept on wanting him and Rose to get together for real, but it didn't happen and she ended up in another universe. Too sad really.

And now, here he is, the 11th Doctor, played by the youngish Matt Smith, well he's younger than me anyways. ;) And he's already got a good companion in Amy Pond, a fiery Scot. There's only been 3 episodes so far, but I think I like the new doctor. The concept is still the same. But I'm eager to see what will happen with Amy's wedding...

All pictures are taken from BBC.

Northern Sky - North & South-video

I've been working on this fanvideo for some time, and is finally finished. I really like how this turned out. I'm reading Gaskell's novel at the moment, so I will return with something on that. I'm currently quite infatuated with the passionate Mr Thornton!

Favourite of the Week

I found, through a friend, a new fantabulous blog to follow. I'm in love with it! Check it out here. There everything between heaven and earth, and filled with crazy stuff as Hello Kitty-rifles, awkward Christmas Greetings-cards and what not. It is really worth a visit. :)

The Notebook

I have heard so much about The Notebook, and was really glad to stumble upon it on telly the other day. I had to see it. But I was gravely disappointed. I don't know why, I mean it's all there. A great love story, the regular difference in social status, the forbidden love and someone has to leave. I should like it. But I didn't. I didn't even cry, and I'm a big softy. Sure, a little teary-eyed in the end. Because, that was the best I think. Perhaps it was too predictable. There was nothing more to the story, nothing that really made it special. I thought it rather boring.

Not even Ryan Gosling or Rachel McAdams could make it come alive. The scenery was great though. I love the costumes and cars... But there it ended.

You may very well disagree with me. If you do, please leave a comment and tell me why it's supposed to be so great. Thanks! ;)

Pic borrowed from Moviephotos. 

Favourite of the Week

This weeks favourite is Captain Wentworth of Jane Austen's Persuasion which I have just finished reading. I'm not sure if I've ever read it before, actually. Such a shame because it's a great novel! I have seen the adaptation from 2007, however, like a million times. I'm currently so in love with Captain Wentworth, maybe because of Rupert Penry-Jones. He is gorgeous and plays the part so well (I have seen the one from 1995 and I didn't like it as much. But that is for another blog post)!

Perhaps not so shockingly to fall for him, especially not after you have read his letter to Anne. Some people claim that Jane Austen's novels are boring and without passion, but after reading that letter, I beg the difference. It's filled with passion. Read for yourselves:

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W."

"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."

Persuasion chapter 23 

If that's not passionate, I don't know what is.I'm swooning right now. It is really a shame that we do not get to know more of his feelings in the book. I would have liked a chapter dedicated just to him, instead of Anne all the time. But, she is the main character, I guess. Perhaps I must write his story myself? :P 

And he can ride a horse! *drools*

I'm Counting the Days...

Favourite of the Week

I thought I would start a trend. A regular feature here in my blog called "Favourite of the week". I haven't exactly decided on what it will entail, but, I had planned on like character, actor/ess or novel or... well basically anything, really.

So with out further ado, I give you...
Eric Northman, viking vampire and character in Charlaine Harris' novel series Southern Vampire Mysteries. He is roughly about a thousand years old. He's Swedish. And so very sexy. He's tall and well built if we may trust Sookie Stackhouse (“handsome, in fact, radiant; blond and blue-eyed, tall and broad shouldered. He was wearing boots, jeans, and a vest. Period. Kind of like the guys on the cover of romance books.”). He's all together attractive. And even though he's a flirt and perhaps somewhat of a player and bad boy, we get to see a softer, more sensitive side of him in Dead to the World when he's bewitched and without a memory of the vampire he used to be. He grows as a character in the books, which don't think comes across in the Tv-series True Blood. I do, however, approve of them choosing Alexander Skarsgård and the fact that he speaks Swedish from time to time. :) It cracks me up every time.

I really like the way he always sound so seductive... It really, when listening to the audio book, sends shivers down my spine, and it's really a woman reading it! That's good writing, right? :P

Don't you just want to eat him up? 

Pictures from: True-blood.net and Deviantart

Another tips of Free stuff

Yup, found another great free site for audio books today. It's called LibriVox, and it's contents is read by volunteers. Check it out. I've just downloaded The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, which I haven't read before. Interesting.

The Good Things in Life are Free

I just have to tell you about a great site I just found when hunting the net for free Audio Book downloads. I found Booksshouldbefree.com And it's excellent! It has a great library right there, free of charge and downloadable in mp3s or iPod format. Great, huh?

I've become a huge fan of audio books lately, since I'm doing quite a lot of walking, or at least try to. Great to be listening to a great story at the same time, right? Business and pleasure all at once. A total win-win situation. Check the site out!

True Blood Season 2

*Spoiler alert*  

If you haven't seen season two, and don't want to know about it, stop reading here.

I've finally had the time to watch all of the episodes of season two of True Blood. I probably should have let more time pass before I did it, because all I did now was to complain about how this and that didn't happen like that in the book. My hubbie became quite put out with me. "It's only based on the books," he said, continuously. And I didn't get to see Eric in lycra, well the sexparty-thingie didn't really happen like that in the book. Lafayette didn't even get killed. I have much trouble relating to the book now. The series is still good, but I think they have changed too much for my liking.

One thing I really liked was the relationship between Hoyt and Jessica, they were so sweet. Too bad Jessica went all vamp in the last eppi. I wander what is going to happen there.

And the thing with Maryann the meanad? I just didn't get that, so not what the book said. And Eric inviting Lorena, Bill's maker? What's that all about. I did, however, like the relationship between Eric and Godric. That showed a more sensitive side to Eric, which shows even more in the books. I like that side of him. He is not as ruthless as he seems.

I do still enjoy the tv-series, though I find the books even better. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next season, which is to be aired this summer.

Picture borrowed from True-Blood.net.

Club Dead

The third book, Club Dead, in the Southern Vampire Mysteries takes Sookie to Jackson, Mississippi, to investigate the kidnapping of her boyfriend Bill Compton. With the help of the werewolf Alcide Hervoux she finds out that Bill is actually being tortured by his mistress, and former lover, Lorena. At Josephine's, or Club Dead as the weres call it, Sookie meets Alcide's former girlfriend Debbie who is not pleased to see her ex with a new woman, even if she is at the club celebrating her engagement to another man. Later, thanks to her ability, she saves the King, Russell Edgington, of Mississippi's right hand from being staked, only to be injured in the process. Thanks to that injury she is taken to his mansion, where they suspects Bill is being held. In order to rescue Bill, Sookie drinks Eric's blood to regain her strength and then some.

In this book Eric's interest for Sookie deepens and I think we get to see another, softer side of him.Then we have Alcide, the dark and sexy werewolf who shows great interest, much to his ex's dismay who actually tries to kill Sookie when she shoves Sookie into the trunk together with a very hungry Bill. Intrigues, intrigues.

These books just gets better and better!

picture borrowed from Wikipedia.

Living Dead in Dallas

The second of Charlaine Harris's series of Sookie Stackhouse, Living Dead in Dallas, takes our heroine to Dallas for a job. She's been hired by the vampires of Dallas to use her telepathic skills to find a missing vamp. She encounters the Fellowship of the Sun for the first time, she also finds out that there are more supernatural creatures out there aside from vampires. Such is meanads and shapeshifters/ werewolves.

I still have a very vivid image of a Eric Northman in Lycra. That must be a sight for sore eyes, right? Apparently, that is not in the TV-version. Such a shame. Would have liked to see Alexander in pink Lycra.

I really enjoyed this book. And I'm really starting to become very fond of Eric as a character. Maybe because he's more fun and dangerous than Bill. Bill is kind of meek in comparison.

And to be honest, I'm getting a wee bit embarrassed when listening to all the sex scenes...

Pic borrowed from Wikipedia.

What I like about Men in Cravat - New and Improved

Yup, I made a new version of this fanvid, starring three of my favourite men in cravat; Mr Lefroy, Mr Thornton and Captain Wentworth.

Oh, Darn it...

I have had a major celeb crush for a while on James McAvoy. Well, since Becoming Jane in fact. He's just so cute and lovable. I adore him. Still do, but not as fanatically as I once did. Perhaps because he's always seemed attainable. Even if he was married. But now, he's gonna be a daddy. That kind of make his edge go away. Of course I'm happy for him and his spouse, I mean, children are the greatest blessings of life. But, being a father makes him even more unattainable. You cannot leave as easily. Yes, I do have this fantasy that if he did meet me, he would totally go with me. ;)

Oh damn it. :P Who am I to fantasize about now? Well, I do have a vivid image of an Eric Northman (Alexander Skarskård) in lycra. Yes, I think that might suffice for a while...


Picture borrowed from Newsweek.

Men in Cravat Turn(s) Me On

I created a new Youtube-account today, to match with the new blogadress and email. Yey! So, I just had to make a fanvideo, starring Men in Cravats, and Jane Austen heros/ines as well as Gaskell's NS couple.

Enjoy!

Dead Until Dark

I have just finished reading (well, listening to actually) the first novel in the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark. As you may, or may not know, these are the novels that the popular Tv-series True Blood is based on. But I must say, the books are better. Even if we get to see everything through Sookie's eyes, and the fact that they have added  characters and events in the series. Of course I have the images of the cast in my head. Yes, I find Stephan Moyer's Bill Compton very attractive. And yes, I find fellow Swede Alexander Skarsgård very, very attractive as Eric Northman. Anna Paquin is great as Sookie.They have explored other characters in the series, even if the focus is on Sookie, we get to see more of for example, Sam and Jason in the Tv-series, which is good too.

The book is from a first person perspecitve and Sookie is the one we are following. I usually prefer it to be third person, because I would so like to know what everyone is thinking. I'm kind of nosy... :P I mean wouldn't you like to know what is going on inside of Bill's head? Or Eric's for that matter?

These books are a lot more juicy than say, Twilight, which is quite sweet in comparison (in the first two-three books anyway). They are more like Laurell K. Hamilton's series about Anita Blake. Rawer and much sexier. I like it. It has all the elements I like in a book; romance, vampires,  a little bit of violence, a whole lot of sex...

If you like the tv-series, read the books, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

The pics: 
Dead Until Dark from Wikipedia
True Blood from True Blood News

I May be a Trekkie Yet

I saw the new Star Trek movie the other day. Apparently you can rent movies via the Xbox these days. That's kind of cool. Quite cheap and in full HD. My first full HD experience. I have never been a big fan och Star Trek, only seen one movie before (First Contact and it was the first date with my ex). I have never really been a fan of out-of-this-world kind of movies. But I might just change my mind. Well, my hubbie has slowly, but surely changed my view of sci-fi and unworldly stuff. Like Star Wars and such.

Anyway, we watched the movie, and I actually liked it. I might just have to check out a few of the other movies and series that has been made. I have seen a couple of episodes here and there, but never in the right order. Even if I have some aversion toward the outfits... Luckily in the new movie they are a bit more up to date.

I must say that they have done an excellent job with the casting. Chris Pine could be William Shatner's son for sure, and Zachary Quinto is great as Spock. Of course, they are way hotter, at least in today's standards. Really great movie. See it, if you're into that kind of things...

Everyone Loves a Bad Boy, Right?

They do get all the cool stuff, right? I mean, Darth Vader is so much cooler than Luke Skywalker, especially when you know who is hiding in there. :P Hell, I would even take Han Solo rather than Luke Skywalker. :P But then agina, he is a rogue. And they have so much hotter outfits, too.

Take BBC's Robin Hood for example. Sure, Jonas Armstrong makes a very dashing Robin Hood, I'll give you that. But, Richard Armitage's Guy of Gisborne is way hotter. He's dark and brooding, but at the same time you just know that there is a softer side in there somewhere, that the right woman will discover. And he is in black leather too.

vs

Well, in this case it might be my love for Richard's Mr Thornton that makes me biast to him. But he is kind of alluring as Gisborne too. He's got that little teasing twinkle in his eye that I love.

And to tell the truth, I rooted for Brian de Bois- Guilbert's getting Rebecka in Ivanhoe. Sam Neill, when he was young, was totally dashing. I mean if she didn't get Ivanhoe, why shouldn't she go with Guilbert? Seriously... I still don't get why she said no.Okay, so he was in love with her against his will and all that. But still, he's more handsome than that Ivanhoe, whose just so meek. :P And, he's willing to risk everything just to be with her. Seriously, who can say no to that? I wish the got a second chance...

There seems to be this obsession with black clothes amongst the villains. Vampires often wear black, need I say more? Leather in all forms is very popular and, well, kind of hot. I wouldn't wear it, I don't get why anyone does, it's most uncomfortable and very warm.

And we must not forget George Wickham, the dashing bad boy of Pride and Prejudice. Because he is handsome, at least in the book, I don't care for either Adrian Lukis or Rupert Friend. Of course, we readers and audience, see through his dashing looks and winning smiles, Elizabeth does not until Mr Darcy's letter.

The list may go on and on. Lots of handsome bad boys out there.

Who is you favourite bad guy, and why?

Jonas and Richard pics borrowed from Robin Hood TV show.
Sam from Knight Life.

New Moon - The Movie

So, I finally went to see New Moon, the movie, on Tuesday. After seeing the trailer I must say that my expextations were pretty low. And perhaps because of that I didn't think it sucked. But I have to say I think the acting was pretty bad. The only time when Robert Pattinson actually looked "alive" was at the very end when he told Bella his condition for turning her himself. There's this teasing smile and twinkle in his eyes that makes me see why people thinks he is so attractive. Otherwise, he was kind of flat. Kristen Stewart too. I don't really like how she portraits Bella. She makes her more helpess than she actually is.But I do like Taylor Lautner's Jacob. He seems so genuine.

There is now way you can even begin to compare the novel with the movie. So much is lost. Sure, I think New Moon is better than Twilight, but that's mainly because it's more action in New Moon. And then there is the problem with not liking the actors. ;) Therein lies the problem with liking a book so much. The expectations are so high and you want the movie to be as you have pictured it in your head. But I have found that it's better to have no expectations and be pleasantly surprised instead of disappointed.

The soundtrack, however, is great! Check it out! :) 

Picture borrowed from The Twilight Guide.