The Kingdom (Riget)

I've just finished the second season of this TV series and all I can say is this: Why oh why is there no third season?!? I've been looking around for rumours on the net, and I found that a "Riget III" has indeed been prepared but abandoned since the actors playing the roles of the professor Helmer and Ms Sigrid Drusse both died in between.
The Kingdom is a TV soap opera about events that take place in a hospital that is built aver an ancient cemetary. As a movie by Lars Von Trier, you of course get the Dogma unstable DV camera but you also get all the characters, the whole depths of their relationships, and all the shades of grey between good and evil that he brings to his movies. The movie looks grainy or dirty sometimes, which gives it a more "organic" look, rather suited to the goofiness or spookiness of the characters, and the uncharasteristic other-wordly events.
Everyone will love the danes-hating, faeces-sinking, swedish professor Helmer and its danish counterpart, the loony, fresh-aired, always misplaced professor Moesgaard.
Half touching, half gory, half surprising and half ghostly: 200% strange but always interesting. It may not be as long or as elaborated as "Twin Peaks" but it misleads you all the same.

You have to see the Kingdom!

From Hayao Miyazaki to Lars Von Trier and current reading

Well, last month, I had decided to catch up with Miyazaki's movies so I ended up watching successively "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited away" (Le voyage de Chihiro) and "Laputa: Castle in the Sky". Although these were great, I was in need of something a bit more "spooky" so I decided to watch "The kingdom" again (in Danish with English subs... Danish sounds funny). More to come about the Kingdom and its inhabitants when I'm finished with the second season.
As to my reading, I read "Cyrano de Bergerac" (which is hands down the best book I've ever read) last week and I'm now in the middle of "The Wind in the Willows"... more on that later.

Summer is definitely over

In my yard, there is a lamp that is triggered by a motion detector when it's dark. When I left home this morning, for the first time in months, the lamp has lighted up. Sigh... summer is already over, welcome to autumn.

A rainy moment

Today was beautiful a day, sunny, not too hot, about 25 degrees (well, since I was in my office, I didn't enjoy much of it).
As I left the building after work, a small rain started to fall. A fine, tepid and very pleasant rain. It has lasted 30 seconds. How great!

I tell you : it's the little things that count.