Why it was Mila Cunis who ruined our Generation.

To be clear: I adore Mila Cunis, she's one of the most beautiful actress of our time. But:

In the year of 2011 Hollywood surprised us with two movies of a very similar kind. Let me tell you a story:

Boy meets girl. Both sick of relationships. Both suffer of a lack of sex. Both very attractive. What happens? They end up in bed. No feelings, just sex. In the end they get that they actually fell in love and live happily ever after. The End.

One motto, two movies. Great! Truth be told, I loved Friends with Benefits. Basically the tragedy of those movies are/where that they had happy ends where both inividuals ended up realizing that they where deeply in love with each other. So more and more friends of mine told me about exactly this scheme in their lives. And there's tragically often no happily ever after included. So now, three years later I look around me and what happend? There's nothing but a glimpse of serious realtionships around me anymore. WHERE HAS THE LOVE GONE?


How girls stumbled in to this:

#1 GIRLS THAUGHT

Maybe, when we start making out and spend enough time he'll realize how cool and nice I am. I just have to let him think I'm all cool about it!

#2 GIRLS THAUGHT

Ok, surprisingly I actually am quite cool with this...if only he'd call more often...oh look there goes my heart...oh shit!!

      And - whoop - there you go: what start's of all easy-peasy screws with your head and heart and everything within a wink. It begins with a lot of things like relizing that he or you are jealous. Or by having real fun with real conversations. By knowing each other like no one else. And everything is just so simple. The moment you realize this is the moment it becomes harder.  Neither do you know about his feelings or not feelings, let alone the chaos inside of you. You don't know what you're at. He know's you're easy to get so it's too late for playing games. 

      Ok, I get it. Sex is fun and your last relationship was bullshit so you don't wanna commit to anyone and stuff. But girls, here's what I learned: The feelings are going to come either way. And your life is no movie! Those movies may seem more realistic than Cinderella, but that still doesn't mean they have anything to do with reality. Guys can sleep with girls without comitting to any feelings, while girls - trust me on this - can't. This may not apply to "It happened once...or twice." And maybe it takes some time but it will happen. Even super-tough Anne Hathaway in Love and other Drugs gave up her heart.

     What I want are the cheesy lovestories. I want to tell my kids about romance like my parents told me: by telling the truth. I don't mean flowers and candlelight-dinner twice a week. I'm talking feelings. Truth. And knowing, what you're at. Either you sleep around - totally fine! Or go all in for the real deal. If you have an "open relationship" it's easy to analize: Open for me - relationship for you. Or the other way around. Either way, there's no truth in it.

Love, V

We love... Beginners

It's 2003. Oliver is 38, single. His dad recently died of cancer. When his Mom died 4 years ago his dad - Hal - announced, that he's gay. They've been married since 1955, that makes 44 years. 

Hal: I don't want to just be theoretically gay. I want to do something about it.

Is what he says. And he does! He joins all sort of gay-communities and even falls in love. This is something Oliver can't say of hisself so far. That changes in 2003, the moment he meets Anna.

Anna: You can ask me anything you want.
Oliver: Anything? What's there?
Anna: That's a tree. And Cars. Another building like this one. People in the building like us, half of them think it's never going to work out, the other half believe in magic. It's like a war between them.

Anna is from France. Anna's an actor. Anna's beautiful. Unusual. Inspirational. Lovable. Human. Their lovestory is no Hollywood-lovestory. It just walks through the movie. It's usual and easy - it feels real. You don't expect anything to happen or not to happen. You just let them live. Their story is told concurrently with Hal's last four years before he dies.
Also from time to time we learn more about Olivers mother. She seems weird. Embittered. Self-determined. Loving but cold. I like her. she's true to herself. She's sad. More - she's melancholic. But she's a good mother. She doesn't lock herself into her room to be sad. She carries her frustration outside, lives it. I like her.

          Oliver: Our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness our parents never had time for. 

   The movie's great, because it feels so real. You crack up, listening to Oliver talking to his Jack Russel. Watching Hal being gay in all that he is. Being truly happy this late in life. And just when you crack up most - you want to cry. About Hal's death. The tragedy of the family. Life. Unlike to most of the movies these days you don't feel like you've read the script before. It's unexpected. Just like life's unexpected. And it hides a lot of wisdom. Little maxims hidden behind some corners. Generationconflicts not screaming for attention but nudging in you're head.

Top 5 series returning this fall

I am a total junkie when it comes to series. Sadly (or good for my summer) most of my fave series take a break over summer... so here are my top 5 series returning this fall and when!

#1 and best: How I met your mother! 
 Season nine - the FINAL season - is coming up on 23rd of September. I hardly ever met anybody who doesn't like this series. If you wouldn't like HIMYM that would mean you don't love Barney's pick up lines, Lily and Marshall's hilariously adorable relationship, Ted's desperate believe in true love and Robins self-protection sarcasm...and that's only a glimpse of the awesomeness!

#2 New Girl 

 One girl, three guys, one apartment in Chicago. It's Zooey Deschanels charming nivity combined Schmidts narcissism, Winstons lostness and Nicks total being out of everything. On the 17th of September we'll learn the development of Jess & Nick's love-life and a lot more...

#3 Vampire Diaries
 Twilight almost achieved that vampires and werewolves were oh-so-middle-school-groupie-ish. Almost! The best and only savior of the coolness as well as the sexiness of vampires and werewolves are the stunning Salvatorebrothers. On the 3rd of October there'll be more Vampire-Hybrid-Werwolve-Sex, more love, blood and mystries...

#4 The Carrie Diaries
 I've already mentioned this lovely prequel to the beloved Sex And The City-Series earlier this year. On 25th of October it returns for season 3!

#5 Awkward. 
 A show I aswell told you about before. Jenna featuring Matty, Tamara, Jake, Ming & Co. make us crack up beginning 22nd of October this month. It's obvi going to be amazeballs! You're welcome.

 Hope you're as excited as I am!

 

Kisses V

We Love... AWKWARD.

Because it's so real! Awkward. is a MTV Show starring a High School teenager whose life is truely awkward.
 Jenna Hamilton used to be a quite normal teenager. Until she became "That Girl" that tried to kill herself. Accidentally. Adding up with the fact that she lost her viginity to the hottest guy in school and now having him as well as his best friend fighting for her make the whole situation arround the young blogger more awkward. What else is awkward? Let's see...

1. Her parents. They're kind of awesome. Far too young to be parents, what makes them kinda hilarious because they're a little swamped with all the responsibility and how to deal with the whole parenting thing.

2. Her BFFs. On the one hand we have Ming. A chinese girl who has trouble dealing with "The Mafia" because she's not a staight-A-student in contrast to all of the other chinese kids. On the other hand there is Tamara. All crazy, hyperactive and simply amazeballs! She has kinda her own language, parts of which you can check out on the pic.

3. The guidance counselor. She is...ineffable! Clogs and fannypack included. You have to see her!

4. Jenna's life. Of course!! All messed up with secrets, little white lies, gossip and random High School crap.


Summing up it could seem as if it's just another one of the random High School movies. IT IS NOT! It's down-to-earth and straight forward, hilarious and touching all at once. It's simply awkward.

You're welcome! V

We Love... The Art of Getting By

 This is what I love vacation for. You have time for things you truly want to do! For me it's for example watching movies that have been on my list for ever (I have lists for everything). My dad was nice enough to let me order some movies on amazon lately so I even got to watch them legally.
 Yesterday I watched The Art of Gettiny By, a wonderful coming of age movie starring Freddie Highmore and lovely Emma Roberts.


 Set in Manhattan the story focuses on George, a senior in High School who has trouble figuring out the sense of (his) life. We are all going to die anyways, so why bother with homework, graduation, college...? Problem here: his parents as well as his teachers don't exacly share his views. Instead of doing homework he doodles all of the time, everything and everywhere. His Books are full with monsters and a beautiful mess set free from his messed up mind. But one day he covers for a girl, somking on the schools roof. They get to meet and she seems to who understand or at least admire him for his view on life. Sally.

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Sally: I have fears but I thought they were pretty run-of-the-mill: pain, death.

George: Not me. I fear life.

 Of course they become friends. She - beautiful, popular, openhearted - showes him - withdrawn, artistical, pensive - the "normal" teenage life and fun in life while he introduces him to his world of doodles and art and a lot of thoughts and worries. Naturally he falls in love with her.

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Sally: Are you okay?

George: I'm allergic to hormones.

Sally: What hormones?

George: My own.

 But he is shy and inexperient as he is he seems to screw it up. And she does too, kinda. Both overvelmed by their feelings drive through the rollercoaster of almost beeing grown-up. But only almost. 

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Sally: You know we're going to be together one day, we just have to sort through all of our messed up issues first, and you have a lot of girls to sleep with to get out of your system.

 For me, a coming-of-age-movie-lover, it's one of the stories that give you this warm fuzzy feeling. You will smile. And then you will smile even more - because you realize you are smiling. 

xxx V

We Love... The Great Gatsby

 I am stunned! After reading "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (even the english edition!) I had to see the movie yesterday. I was stunned! Carey Mulligan's dresses, Leonardo DiCaprio's charmingness, the awesome partys, the language...everything was absolutely perfect. I would even dare to claim the movie's better than the book. Maybe better's the wrong word. It just...brings everything to life so perfectly. Greater as you would dare to imagine it. 

 A friend of mine probably got it right by saying "It's more of a fairytale than a story!". Perhaps that's why I enjoyed it so much: I adore fairytales! Especially when they come to life in such adorable pictures with the great dresses,jewellery and...everything!

 Another great thing was the music. Throughout the whole movie there was no song I didn't enjoy. Every song goes right through me. My faves are Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful", "Love Is Blindness" by Jack Black and "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody" by Fergie, Q-Tip and GoonRock. The dancing was excessive and fantastic, for me especially 'cause I used to dance LindyHop and Boogy Woogie, which are styles from the 20s.  

I don't fancy Leonardo as a person - but I love him as an actor. And in this sweater.

Here you can check out the whole playlist:


Jay-Z: "100$ Bill"
Beyoncé and André 3000: Back to Black" (Amy Winehouse cover)
will.i.am: "Bang Bang"
Fergie, Q-Tip and GoonRock: "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)"
Lana Del Rey: "Young and Beautiful"
Bryan Ferry and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra: "Love Is the Drug"
Florence and the Machine: "Over the Love"
Coco O of Quadron: "Where The Wind Blows"
Emeli Sandé and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra: "Crazy in Love" (Beyoncé cover)
The xx: "Together"
Gotye: "Hearts a Mess"
Jack White: "Love Is Blindness" (U2 cover)
Nero: "Into the Past"
Sia: "Kill and Run"

Let me know your thoughts on my new favourite movie.

Sunny-weekend-kisses V

Top 5 reasons why I adore Emma Stone

Emma Stone. I even love her name. It's so simple, memorable. If I think of someone named Emma she fits perfectly. My top 5 for her? Here they come...

1. No matter if "Superbad" and "Easy A", "The Help" or "Gangster Squad" and "Spiderman"... she fits every role perfectly, no matter how different they are. There is nothing worse than actors always playing what seems to be themselves.

2. Her boyfriend is Spiderman! Nothing more to say to that. I mean...look at him! ;)

3. She looks fab with no matter what haircolour.

4. She's got rarely any bad press up until now...has she?

5. The awesome idea of the handmade charity signs.

Emma and Andrew with their handmade charity signs.

Okay.  I know, there is much more to her. But these are the first five things that popped to my head. Did I forget anything?

xx V

We Love... The Carrie Diaries

TCD is a prequel to the beloved series Sex and the City, both based on the books by Candace Bushnell. We both read TCD Books and totally fell in love. But we have to admit: the series are even better!! Starring the power-loaded Anna Sophia Robb as 17-year-old Carrie Bradshaw, trying to rule her chaotic teenage-love-life in the sub-urbs while living her exciting Manhattan-intern-at lawfirm- / Interview Magazine, totally rocks The CW's serie.

The thing I probably love most about this more or less chickflick is the 80s setting. Not only Carries gorgeous wardrobe filled with glitter, tulle and pastel-colours but also the stunning partys and the people not constantly fixated on their mobiles.

Another great thing about TCD is Sebastian Kydd - Carries on and off BF - aka Austin Butler. With his blond hair (okay, usually I'm totally NOT into blondies), his cheeky smile and his simple and cool appearence...he is just a-mazing!

xx V