Monday, February 11, 2013

Unknown language speaker: Amy Macdonald

Holy cow, I'm watching Top Gear S19E03 and the guest tonight is Amy Macdonald. What language does she speak? :)
She pronounces so strangely, I can't understand. When she said 'I did', it sounded 'I ded id' and instead of 'first love' she said 'fast lov' and 'succesful' as 'soekhsessfjul' and 'sitting' as 'setting' and 'busy' as 'bezi' and 'were' as 'where' and 'Stig' as 'Steg' :D:D. Does she know which letter is actually written in that word? I reckon I speak and sound better even that I am not native.
I know that in every country there are accents but this was a total different language. She actually said that whole Britain is laughing on her. Doesn't she have to take lessons of the English language? :) Anyway, who is she? What does she do for living?

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Nonsense story: The Borgias

Still watching The Borgias and there is a nonsense scene in the 8th episode of the first season.
WARNING - SPOILER!
Cardinale Della Rovere speaks to Gulia Farnese and Lucrezia Borgia about his intentions of deposing the pope. Lucrezia asks: on what grounds? The cardinale says: public lechery. Gulia says: with whom? With you, madame. Either she is completely idiot or...she is idiot.
Even the allegation is nonsense. In the catholic church exists a word: celibacy. It has power. It is a groundstone.  Even basic priests can't have wives (nor kids, obviously). Cardinales? A pope with a wife? With children? With a lover? They built the entire story on a non-existing thing but the other events follow history. Yeah, I know it's fiction. But trying to follow history and building on non-sense things? Too much.
I enjoy the series but the celibacy thing bugs me.
Let me cite some law reference here:
"Celibacy was first written into law for all priests in the 12th century at the First Lateran Council (1123), but it was a common practice much earlier, as shown in the Spanish Council of Elvira (~295-302), which required celibacy of clerics."
And it is 1500 in the series.
Can you tell me what they thought?

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Balding actress: Lotte Verbeek

In the series The Borgias, Lotte plays the most 'beautiful' woman in Rome. Couldn't be a worse choice. Have the casting director noticed that she is balding? Her hair line is way to high up, she should consider hair replacement. What does she think? Is it appealing for men? I don't understand how people with a higher paygrade can't spend some money to hide flaws.
Her hair should start at the green line. Notice where hers start...at the top of her skull :)

Sexy legged actress: Lucy Liu

I've been watching Elementary for a while and I always find Lucy's legs sexy, They are greatly shaped, not skinny, not thick, sexy legs. It is obviously not a coincident that the director uses wide angles so many time when Lucy is on screen. What do you think? :)