Aloud Allowed

Friends,
Last weekend going to New Skete I took with me F.H.Bradley's "Appearance and Reality"
to dip into having often felt its musical quality and also the satisfaction in being
able to remember little since Hugh Kenner said that it has no single memorable paragraph
though it shaped the prose style of no less than T.S.Eliot. Its thought is idealistic in
an intuitive rather than systematic way perhaps rather as someone said like someone
brilliantly throwing darts at a pub dart board. This too is pleasing isnt it? anyway now
this bit I think may not be memorable in detail but is it not a nice thought(or anyway to
my simple sort of mind) that while everything, Time and Space and up and down and in and
out of life is in itself a mere appearance and we ourselves maybe 'such stuff as dreams
are made of' yet it is Real in its fullness in which no singularity is lost. Do you find
it pleasing? for you who do, here it is...
.
and to end with a view of the way down from Mount Equinox taken on Saturday
and I am yours
+Seraphim
.

source: http://youtu.be/u3dkVk3F57c

Sweden – The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 has a winner. Loreen won for Sweden with her song Euphoria and with the second highest score in Eurovision history (closely following Alexander Rybak). She has now officially achieved success beyond other Eurovision winners by reaching the #1 on iTunes UK. Additionally she is #1 in 20 other countries as well and is still increasing in most of them.


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BONUS: Euphoria, performed by the Royal Swedish Army band

Les Miserables - From Stage to Screen

On the Run

The dream of turning the long-running stage show based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social injustice into a film comes true on screens Dec. 14.  Broadway vet Hugh Jackman retracts his Wolverine claws and does his first movie musical as parole-breaking Jean Valjean, who assumes a new identity as a factory owner to escape from Russell Crowe's dogged police officer Javert.

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Danish heart-throb Mads Mikkelsen clinched the best actor prize at Cannes on Sunday for his role in Thomas Vinterberg's taut psychological thriller "The Hunt".

Italian jury head Nanni Moretti and his eight-strong panel handed the prestigious award to Mikkelsen for his turn as a man who watches his life unravel after he is falsely accused of molesting a child.



( Flawless actor, can do now wrong. )

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Where there are superheroes, there must be a supervillain. In writer/director Joss Whedon’s film THE AVENGERS, that supervillain is Loki, an extraterrestrial played by Tom Hiddleston, who tries to enslave the Earth with the help of a mysterious but extremely violent alien race.

Hiddleston, who hails from London, England, originated the role of the adopted brother of the mighty Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth, in 2011’sTHOR. Hiddleston has a strong stage background in the U.K. and costarred in the 2008-2010 BBC-made series WALLANDERwith Kenneth Branagh, who directed THOR.


2011 was a big feature film year for Hiddleston. Besides THOR, he also had major roles in the intimate drama THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Steven Spielberg’s epic WAR HORSE and Woody Allen’s lyricalMIDNIGHT IN PARIS as Jazz Age iconic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.


Hiddleston is currently filming in the title role of a telefilm of William Shakespeare’s HENRY V, having wrapped on HENRY IV PARTS I & II. This interview finds him seated in a hotel room at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons after a huge press conference, cordially giving us more details on Loki.
( I do what i want )



The success of Marvel’s The Avengers has allowed the comic book universe to introduce its rogues gallery to theater-going audiences, bringing in such extraterrestrial villains as Thanos, the Mad Titan. Thor was the first of the recent Marvel movies to use other-worldly magic as a power source instead of Tony Stark’s technology in Iron Man or the science behind the genesis ofCaptain America and the Hulk. In a recent interview, Kevin Feige confirmed that the death-obsessed Eternal would not be making an appearance in Thor 2; another big villain would be stepping in. We know that Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman will reprise the roles of Thor and Jane Foster respectively (not to mention the return of Idris Elba as Heimdall). We also know that Tom Hiddleston will return as Loki, but that’s not a new big villain. And we know Mads Mikkelsen is set to play a villain, so who could it be? Hit the jump to see what Feige had to say.

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i hope i did this one right!Thank you mods!

Rihanna may have sparked up a petty beef between Chris Brown and rapper Meek Mill after rumors of a possible romance between the two hit the internet last month. There were rumors that Chris Brown removed Meek Mill from a track on his upcoming album right after Rihanna appeared at Meek Mill’s party and Meek confirmed those reports when he tweeted over the weekend:



Chris responded:


FYI: Meek Mill's mixtape is called Dream Chasers 2


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