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Claire Foy Source aka Claire-Foy.org

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Book, Celebrity, Sites, TV | 3 Comments

Yay! It’s online! Anna and I’ve been quite busy in recent weeks and are really proud of our little baby. Claire really caught my attention in Little Dorrit and I reading interviews with her only made me more appreciative of the talented British actress. Not sure why I resisted a website for her last November but I’m sure it had something to do with my vow not to have a new website when I was neglecting the ones I already had. Never mind that, when Anna suggested we opened one I remembered all the reasons why I adored Claire and also I was excited about the idea of working together with Anna for the first time!

Mariana created the lovely header and I adapted my recent Marion WP theme.

So far, I’ve never really been lucky when it came to being part of a team on a website. Well, AnnaPaquinFan was really good, but I really only came onboard late and only to help out Angie. And it seems it only lasted a second. But apart from that… First of all, I’ve always liked to work alone on my precious websites about Sophia and Marion (also Scarlett, back when I still had it). And then there were a few occasions when one or both of us lost interest etc, so things just went their natural course. Really, I’ve no hard feelings at all about those instances. It just wasn’t meant to happen & I myself am partly responsible. But then there were times when everything I heard about someone’s commitment to a project sounded so fabulous and honest and serious, I stopped whatever I was doing and made it all happen. After everything was set up (or a very short while later) there was complete silence on the other end. Matthew and Emily were the sites in question. Anyway, not sure why I’m talking about all that now, but I’m sure I’ll have a great time on Claire Foy Source with Anna!

Not sure if I’ll be keeping my Fragment of Light site, but I’d really love to use it for all those screencaps etc I intended it for when I opened it. If only I had some more time & motivation to updated it! Let’s hope that’ll soon come!

Other than that I’ve read the first Sookie Stackhouse novel and kind of liked it. I mean it’s nothing deep but it’s good fun. I don’t see however, how fans of the book would condemn True Blood for its kinky scenes. Sure, the book only has those that involve Sookie, but she’s intended to be the innocent character, at the beginning at least. So what exactly did you guys think was going on in other people’s lives??!! Nothing?! Some people never cease to amaze me. The scenes might not be to their liking but to say they have nothing to do with the book is such a self-deceiving lie. Whatever makes them happy I guess.

As for True Blood, I’ve only seen the first episode of the new season yet. I’m not as enthusiastic about it as others are, but then I’ve always kind of felt ambiguous about the show. Also, I would never have said I’m into vamire stories. Go figure why I enjoyed Moonlight and why I keep watching True Blood. Well, there’s something about it that intrigues me. Not least Anna’s involvement. Though I have to say she looks too thin this season, also something about the shade of her hair is slightly off. It all gives her a “hard” look, and she looks kind of old. Well, I seem to be picky, what do you want?! I’m still in love with Erik played by Alexander Skarsgard (don’t care about the spelling right now) and if nothing else he’ll keep me watching lol

About actresses being too thin… Scarlett Johansson has come under quite some scrutiny lately. My opinion on the matter. Had she not lost some weight for the role, she’d be equally critizised, at least when the film comes out. Besides, she’s never really been curvy. Well, she’s got cleavage yes, but that’s just genes. No one who just happens to have large breasts but is otherwise very slim deserves to be commended for being “healthy” and “non-Hollywood” when others are more flat-chested but really more naturally curvy. Scarlett’s always had great legs and slim arms, people just never noticed because she always wore those tight and revealing dresses. It seemed to me she couldn’t press her cleavage enough, couldn’t make people notice it enough. It always looked as if everything would pop out any second. Now, apart from the weight loss the more significant change is her style of dress. The outfits aren’t as lowcut, as tight, as revealing. On pictures, black fabric makes it very hard to figure out what someone looks like in reality. So when people show me a pic of her dressed in some white skin-hugging fabric and a low-cut bodice next to one of her dressed in some black almost old-fashioned dress to “prove” that she lost more than she said I can just shake my head. Get over it people, she’s always been slimmer than most people I know in real life!

Recent Films

Friday, March 20th, 2009 | Film, Sites | No Comments

I watched “Ensemble c’est tout” and I have to say it’s such a lovely film. I think I could watch it a number of times. “Transsiberian” made me want to have my Emily site finished right away… And “Barfuss” must be the loveliest, cutest and most romantic - yet never “kitschy” - film I’ve seen in a long time. Plus it made me bawl my eyes out.

Then “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. Isla Fisher is great and Hugh Dancy (with what little he got to do) too. The whole film is just overly pink though IMO. For a movie marketed at women rather than girls (at least I think so) a bit less would have been ok. Whenever Rebecca was overly fascinated with shops etc I kept thinking how I couldn’t relate to that at all. Only later I realized I am just about the same when it comes to rare pictures & magazines of my favourite actresses - or just pics I don’t have yet. I HAVE to have them lol For the time being I want to focus on adding all the exciting stuff I own on the sites before heading off gathering more and more - so much for my self-set goal at the moment.

Oh, and I did buy 4 DVDs (at reduced price though) over lunch - any relation to my annoyance with my current car troubles?!

Exhausted

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 | Film, Sites, Songs | No Comments

I’m definitely exhausted from upgrading 7 Coppermine Galleries with the latest script. 4 of them also needed the new Stramm Mod. Usually I try to do one each day or so, but lately I’ve been very good at procrastinating online stuff so I did it all in a row. Seems like a huge waste of time but ever since having had my whole hosting account infected due to one un-upgraded Coppermine installation I really try to take the upgrades seriously…

Watched Cranford earlier this week. I really enjoyed it, just a shame Mr. Holbrook died as suddenly. Now, that was a storyline I would simply have loved to see more developed.

Also updated the Radio Blog in the sidebar. Don’t know why I added those Il Divo tracks in the first place… Deleted those and a few others but added 4 new songs

Tri orísky pro Popelku

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | Film, Personal, Sites | No Comments

Apparently that’s the original title of my favourite winter movie - also known as Three Wishes for Cinderella. This is just an unbelievably gorgeous film. Every single time I watch it I fall head over heels in love with it again! Of course I have a German dubbed version and I think it works nevertheless. I remember it took me a while before I figured out it wasn’t original audio. Found it in Czech yesterday and downloaded it. Usually, I’m always all for original audio no matter what the language (given that it has subtitles) but in this case, I don’t know. Maybe I’ve just seen it one time too many in German but I found the Czech language seriously distracting. It was still nice though and I got used to it. But then, there it was, the first scene of Cinderella galopping across the scenery, I was already looking forward to hearing that lovely dreamy music, but then, oh my! in the original there are lyrics! In Czech! Not nearly as nice as the music I’m used to. Even bought the soundtrack a few years back. I think I’ll burn the Czech version on a CD just in case I like to watch it again sometimes but my feeling is I’ll be sticking to the German version!

Haven’t done as much for my sites as I had planned to but that’s ok. At least the group podcast for the Sophia site went over well. It was quite the experience! In the end I edited the whole thing to 38 minutes (it was 72 to begin with), we had lots of technical difficulties lol

I washed my car yesterday. I felt so proud - one of those things I rarely muster up motivation to do - until I realized that the temperature was below 0° C which caused the whole car to be covered in ice. So I had to scratch the windows before I could drive back home again.

People have been wanting to invite me or include me in their excursions today. But I only felt like going back home and continue watching movie after movie. So I had some lame excuses and a narrow escape. And anyway, I’m the one who’ll have to go to work tomorrow and face my crazy boss and do all the last minute work.

p.s. The 1973 Czech Cinderella movie counts as period drama, right? Not that there’s any indication as to when it’s set but it’s definitely not in the present time. I will be able to make caps for Fragment of Light

Baby Boy

Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Personal, Sites | No Comments

I’m an auntie!!!! A few hours ago (just about 9 to be exact) my sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy! Can’t wait to go & visit them at the hospital after the lunch break!!

And, Fragment of Light is open! I had wanted to make it a subdomain but it just didn’t work out. Maybe WP was messing with it, I don’t know. Enjoy!