Pe mine mă atrage: Amazon Fire TV Stick HD (Newest gen), free and live TV, Alexa Voice Remote, smart home controls, HD streaming : Amazon.de: Electronics & Photo.
Dar sunt și altele:
Ce recomand?
Faustos! (2025.07.25-26, Sibiu)
Am auzit anterior despre Faust | Teatrul Național Radu Stanca Sibiu.
Am fost recent un weekend în Sibiu ca să văd piesa. Am fost două seri consecutive.
Impresii?
- Vizual, e cel mai puternic spectacol pe care l-am văzut vreodată. A depășit tot ce am văzut în România și aiurea, inclusiv musical-uri care aveau sala amenajată special pentru ele. Desigur, sunt puncte unde au fost întrecute, dar, în ansamblu, e cel mai puternic vizual spectacol pe care l-am văzut.
- Dna Ofelia Popii este cea mai bună actriță/cel mai bun actor pe care am văzut-o (când spun „actriță”/”actor” includ și actorii feminini și cei masculini). Mi-a plăcut mult interpretarea. Diavolul a fost jucat demențial. Diabolic, chiar!
- M-a pus în stare, am intrat în atmosfera locației, un spectacol memorabil.
- … și Faust-os!
Piesa nu mi-a provocat mari emoții. Destul de complexă, textul era pe baza unor versuri. Dar e o piesă foarte frumoasă și bine jucată.
Mai jos, imagini de la eveniment.
Ce să faci în București vara?
Pe vară majoritatea teatrelor din București nu au reprezentații.
Am niște piese favorite, dar nu se joacă în august.
La Constanța are loc SEAS și au loc evenimente »
În București, ca atracții:
- MINA Museum – MINA, Museum of Immersive New Art
- Muzeul National al Taranului Roman – Mereu actual din 1906
- Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României – Muzeul Național de Artă al României
- Cărturești Carusel – Wikipedia
Mie îmi place înghețata de la La Romană (au locații diferite).
Sunt interesanți pentru mine covrigii cu ciocolată Nutella de la covrigăria La Luca (dacă iei de la Luca, poți încerca o plăcintă) – au mai multe, în general toate produsele sunt calde.
De asemenea, Unde sunt cele mai bune merdenele din Bucureşti?.
Dacă vrei să mergi la mall, încearcă ParkLake.
Legat de parcuri, nu am o recomandare anume.
Dacă căutați ceva concerte:
https://www.eventim.ro/ro/
https://www.bilet.ro/calendar
https://m.iabilet.ro/
https://ticketstore.ro/
https://www.myticket.ro/
https://www.blt.ro/
În timpul verii mai puțin, dar merită și: https://www.mystage.ro/
De văzut niște cinema-uri cu IMAX.
Ca surse evenimente, de obicei apar vineri-duminică newslettere și știri cu ce e de făcut în București:
https://www.cronica.ro/cronica-de-divertisment/
https://pressone.ro/
https://hotnews.ro/
Filme la care tot revin
Eu am o listă de filme de tipul „feel-good”, mă fac să mă simt bine, la care tot revin.
Unele din lista de mai jos sunt agresive și/sau puternice, unele sunt ușurele.
Sunt filmele care mă fac să mă simt bine, periodic.
Poate inspiră pe cineva.
Various links on travelling by train around Europe
- 52 Hours on Amtrak Sleeper Train San Francisco to Chicago – YouTube
- How to offend Europeans in one sentence : r/MapPorn
- I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train | Metro News
- Ce înseamnă pasiunea reală
- FEROVIARI-intre profesie si pasiune | Remember! | Facebook
- Derail Valley – Open world train simulator
- Where the Streetcars Used to Go
- Trains in western US captured in stunning photo book | CNN
- Chronotrains – Europe Train Map
- Europe’s most beautiful train journeys | CNN
- How to Travel Around Europe for Free by Train-Hopping
- Exotic and sustainable, night trains are coming back to Europe – Big Think
- I didn’t expect that – 9GAG
- Plan Fun Experiences at the End of Your Vacation for Better Memories | Lifehacker
- A Scratch-Off World Map That Lets You Track Countries You’ve Visited | Bored Panda
- Flight deals from Europe | Fly4free.com
- Tips for cheap flights and promo deals – Flynous.com
- Flight deals from Europe | Fly4free.com
I’ll do my crying in the train
There are some movies that impress me to tears. Even if I see them multiple times, I cry.
Titles include:
- Le notti di Cabiria (1957) – There’s a scene that moves me to tears each time I see it. It’s a physical reaction.
- Saving Mr. Banks (2013) – I cried a lot during the first time I saw it. Saw it again – cried some more. And then again and again – but fewer tears.
- Interstellar (2014) – It generally moves me.
- Inside Out (2015) – There’s a watery scene.
I cried at How to Train Your Dragon (2025) pretty much at all of the whole second part of the movie. The crying was very high, similar to Saving Mr. Banks (2013). Pretty much for the same reasons, also.
I consider this movie to be in my top 10 movies, but probably in the top 5 I’ve ever seen.
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
In the movie, the acting was fine, the script was fine, and the special effects were fine. But what I did to what the movie did to me – this was exceptional.
I know people who don’t watch the same movie twice, who don’t go to the same plays twice etc.
I don’t know How to Train Your Dragon (2010) by heart. But I’ve seen it enough times again and again to know most dialogues and actions. It’s a more-than-ok movie, I saw the other parts in the series, also.
But this 2025 movie was simply amazing to me, even if I knew a lot of things from the animated version.
I go to see theater plays, and a lot of them don’t move me that much. Sometimes I travel a lot to see a show (theater, musical, other type of performance). The cinema is a much easier solution to consume media, and I’ll put more emphasis on it, based on the 2025 movie.
It’s very rare that something moves me with theater this much as it was today. No spoilers, so I won’t give details on what moved me, but take a look at the trailer.
I don’t think I’ll see the 2025 movie again at the cinemas, but I will surely rewatch it at some point.
Until then, I’ll do my crying in the train.
PS #1: I watched the movie with my brother. His reaction to the movie: „Quite an aggressive movie, but I liked it.”. I think they’ve done something to the 3D glasses. We might have watched different movies.
PS #2: Why watch a remake of a movie? It’s because it’s generally like with Vivaldi Recomposed (Max Richter – Anotimpurile de Vivaldi recompuse – Blog de Olivian Breda) – it’s the same song you know & love, but with some twists. Even if you know the main story, there are differences in the remake.
PS #3: In Romanian, they translated „God” with „Thor”. :)
On Jesus Christ Superstar Musical (Glasgow, 2024.07.29-30)
I saw „Jesus Christ Superstar” (JCS) – musical, in Glasgow, twice: 2024.07.29 and 2024.07.30.
Feedback?
I saw the show initially in Romania in 2006 (I went to see it twice).
Since then, I have become quite a fan, listening to the songs many times, watching the movie a few times, and watching pretty much everything about JCS I could get my hands on.
I became a fan of such music. According to my Last FM profile, I have listened to music by Andrew Lloyd-Webber more than 4,000 times.
I saw The Phantom of the Opera (POTO) four times (not always in its entirety) in London, and Starlight Express once, in London.
The last time I saw POTO, it was the greatest musical I had ever seen, so my expectations for JCS were high.
What did I like about the show?
Mary’s performance. I found the songs sung by Mary very nice, I enjoyed them very much.
Some other members of the cast. I especially liked Ryan O’Donnell (Pilate) and Jordan Michael Todd (Ensemble).
The music was fine overall. I have nothing to object to; there was nothing „wrong” with it.
What would I have appreciated more?
This is quite important – people put a lot of passion into the original version. They seemed to pour their souls into singing. On the upside, they showed emotions; on the downside, they seemed quite a bit desperate. Half a century later, I found that the actors were much more relaxed in this musical, even on powerful topics. While the role of Mary in this musical suits her well with a more relaxed way of singing, the others do not. I agree, putting your soul into something has something of a desperation. But if you take that away, you also take some emotions out of the performance. I didn’t consider anything was put back on. „We take out desperation; we put nothing back.” In my opinion, what was lost in this process were the emotions. Not all performers showed this; some actors had emotions, but most were following the issue I presented here.
I found that the objects on stage were over-simplified. Perhaps having everything simple and to the point is based on some people’s tastes. I think there is such a thing as „over-simplification.” A phone with close to no physical buttons may be nice, but there’s not much I dislike more than a remote control with just a few controls. I would have preferred more objects/things on stage.
Conclusion?
I liked the show, I think it could have been much better, though.
PS: A quote related to helping too much, too many people:
[JESUS]
Ooo There’s too many of you; don’t push me
There’s too little of me; don’t-don’t crowd me
Mmm, don’t crowd me
Oww, Ohhh
Heal yourselves!
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PS: On the topic of JCS, in Romanian:
Favorite cartoons
From the full list of the movies I like, below are some cartoons I enjoy more than others.
- Inside Out (2015) – IMDb
- Soul (2020) – IMDb
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) – IMDb
- The Lion King (1994) – IMDb
- Brave (2012) – IMDb
- Corpse Bride (2005) – IMDb
- Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) – IMDb
- The Secret of Kells (2009) – IMDb
- Ratatouille (2007) – IMDb
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) – IMDb
- Monsters University (2013) – IMDb
- The Book of Life (2014) – IMDb
Romeo și Julieta – Teatrul Național de Operetă și Musical Ion Dacian
I’ve seen Romeo și Julieta – Teatrul Național de Operetă și Musical Ion Dacian.
Thoughts?
- Visually, quite a show! Costumes, various objects on the scene, and lights. I enjoyed it.
- The music was OK. I don’t have any songs that I liked in particular, but they were OK.
- I especially liked Father/Părintele Lorenzo – Florin Ganea.
- Most actors played well, I don’t have any complaints.
- I felt good at the event.
- Do I recommend it? Wholeheartedly.