Ok one more dream cast...

Since I am giving away all my secrets...These guys don't look too alike, but I'd love to see them in a movie together. I take that back. They totally look related!

Stellan Skarsgard

[photo from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/feb/21/filmweeklymeetsstellanskar]

Brendan Gleeson

[photo from http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4430000/newsid_4433700/4433714.stm]

Another Dream Cast: two similar actresses

We rewatched "The Matrix" the other night. The first scene with Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) totally made me think of Elizabeth Mitchell, who is Juliet on "Lost," of course. Wouldn't they be great as sisters? They speak the same, have similar features...yes? No?

Elizabeth Mitchell Carrie-Anne Moss

For Your Reference: Three Very Similar English Actors

I think it was when we watched the first seconds of "Life on Mars" that I thought, "Oh I love that guy...wait, who is that again?" All three of the men below popped into my head. So, I've been daydreaming about writing a screenplay where they play brothers. 

Martin Freeman is Tim from "The Office" and the super sweet body double in "Love Actually."

[photo from http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/541286/]

John Simm is Sam from "Life on Mars," The Master on "Doctor Who," and Cal in "State of Play" (all the good BBC versions of course). He was in  the second season of "Spaced" with Simon Pegg, which I haven't seen yet. They were both also in "24 Hour Party People."

[photo from http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1166793/]

Simon Pegg is from "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz," and now Scotty on "Star Trek." !!!

[photo from http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/10questions/0,30255,1845694,00.html (Munawar Hosain/Getty]

Vladivostok sure loves music...

So it's hard to get away from live music here in my little town of Vladivostok. A few weekends ago was the Blossom festival and the house down the street was having a party to celebrate. I was really mad at first: Why do they have to impose their music on me? Why can't I have my precious silence? (Never mind the fact that I can't actually stand silence and wanted to just hear my own music or tv or whatever it was.) Then it dawned on me...They are playing really great jazz! They are pros! It's beautiful! A warm breeze bringing happy music to me through the window. What more could I ask for?

The same weekend, we heard the teen bluegrass banjo boys and a gypsyish, circusish brass band just out playing on the main street. Fun.

Not as much fun is the aspiring drummer up the street. He's pretty good for a high school kid. But he's started practicing at ten at night. Does he have a job after school now? It's really loud but I don't have the heart/guts to ask him to stop. Maybe I could just leave some egg cartons on his front porch?