THE EVENING

With the ghostly shapes of dead heroes
Moon, you fill
The growing silence of the forest,
Sickle moon -
With the gentle embraces
Of lovers,
And with ghosts of famous ages
All around the crumbling rocks;
The moon shines with such blue light
Upon the city,
Where a decaying generation
Lives, cold and evil -
A dark future prepared
For the pale grandchild.
Your shadows swallowed by the moon
Sighing upward in the empty goblet
Of the mountain lake.


GEORG TRAKL

Translated by Robert Bly and James Wright

The idea came from an old story by orange_crushed called "The River" (here at the pit of voles). Spoilers for the movie, Wanted.

Fox and Cross. PG. There is an afterlife.



It's fall and dusk.
And no one is walking
along the road.
- Basho



( Matins )

Trailer for Fernando Meirelles' Blindness, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, and based on the novel by Jose Saramago. [imdb]

Paul Fischer talks with Christopher Nolan about The Dark Knight. (Dark Horizons) [imdb]

Sacha Baron Cohen will play Sherlock Holmes in a comedy based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, with Will Ferrell as Dr. Watson. Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce the film, and Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) will write the screenplay. (Coming Soon)

Trailer for the action-adventure The Mutant Chronicles, starring Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Devon Aoki, Benno Fürmann and Sean Pertwee. [imdb]

Trailer for CBS's new sci-fi show The Eleventh Hour, starring Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton. [official site] [imdb]

Maureen Ryan chats with the star of Burn Notice, Jeffrey Donovan.

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Helena Bonham Carter will play a small but significant role in Terminator 4. (THR) [imdb]

Clea DuVall, Erik Jensen and Jose Pablo Cantillo join Fox's back door pilot, Virtuality. It features an ensemble cast playing the 12-member crew of the Phaeton, the first manned spaceship on a 10 year trip to explore a distant solar system. More details about the show here. (THR) [imdb]

The teaser trailer for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace is online. Directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) and starring Daniel Craig. I've made some caps of the HD trailer, which you can find here. [imdb]

The cast and producer of The Sarah Chronicles talk a little about season 2. ( *spoilers* ) (E!Online)

TV Guide previews Joss Whedon's internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion. Episodes will be available free online from July 15.

News about the Battlestar Galactica prequel TV-movies. ( *spoilers* ) Jane Espensen will be writing the first of the movies, with Edward James Olmos directing.

[WHAT DOES THE BITTER WIND WANT]

What does the bitter wind want
that it comes down the ravine
and breaks through the windows
while I dress you in my arms?

To fell us. To drag us away.

Fallen, dragged down,
both bloods receded.
What else does the wind want
more bitter by the minute?

To separate us.


MIGUEL HERNANDEZ

Translated from the Spanish by Ted Genoways

A PITY, WE WERE SUCH A GOOD INVENTION

They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.

They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.

A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An airplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.

We even flew a little.


YEHUDA AMICHAI

The viral video campaign for HBO's new vampire drama True Blood goes full out. Watch them all here.

With the advent of Tru Blood, a synthetic blood substitute, vampires have decided to announce their presence and exist among us openly. This website chronicles the amazing days we live in as vampires attempt to integrate with humans.

History is changing, and BloodCopy is there.

I really hope that Lamar, Vampire King of California, makes an appearance on the show.

Penn Badgley, SUCH a fanboy:

Who do you dream of working with one day? “Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2.”
Girl crush? “Parker Posey. She is so sexy in Blade: Trinity.”

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