Rupert won!

[my_thestral]

Yey! :) Rupert won the London Newcomer of the year award and it kind of made my evening! :) Congratulations!
I know he'll probably be in lots of plays in the next few years but I used my window of opportunity to see him in this first one live and to me, that makes it really memorable. I most likely won't ever see him live again, living in fucking Mordor where I do, but I really wanted him to win this one where I witness what an excellent actor he was - and he did! :D
I know being in Harry Potter probably made this award happen for him - but that doesn't make him any less worthy of receiving it, mind you! Yeah, I'm kind of the mother hen here, all protective of "my babies". ;)
So yey again! Happy and proud of him! And of myself, to getting all my resources together (financial and otherwise) and see him when I could!
Plus, Potter, erm Daniel was there as well, and I believe he also walked out with quite an award himself. The reunion photos look quite lovely!
I'm just... kind of made happy by this after an exhausting day, so yeah - shoot me. I know it's adolescent and stupid, but I can't care rat's arse if it is. I was really rooting for it (of course I voted and I probably wouldn't have unless I saw him live) - and I guess I was not the only one!

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[roelliej.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

Are you Dutch, because you know Sinterklaas? ;-)

I read the rumor somewhere. I forgot where. ;-)

[my_thestral]

No, I'm not Dutch, I'm from Slovenia (but my dad's Croatian, so I've got a hefty load of Balkan genes), but I've been living with my Frisian BF for 13 years now, so my kids are half Dutch. So whenever a Dutch embassy throws a Sinterklaasfeest for the kids, we take them there. I want them to absorb some of their dad's culture and the older one speaks quite decent Dutch. The little one - not so much, he doesn't hang around his dad enough to learn. He understands some, but he doesn't speak much. Things improve drastically as soon as oma and opa visit for a week, then he hears more Dutch and he learns quite a few words. Oh,well... can't have it all. :)
Sinterklaas is such a nice tradition - we watch Sinterklaasjournal and have a CD with songs in the car so they get really psyched up before the event. And of course, we watch the whole thing on TV and they love it how every year there's some plot or scandal or something going wrong before it goes right again. I think the highlight of their celebration is that their dad gets a "zakje zout" in his shoe every year and they don't. ;)
We have the holiday here as well, but it's much more scary - there are proper "devils" going around the house with St. Nicholas and kids are dead scared (which is also good sometimes!) - if you type this word into google, you might see how this looks like over here: parklji
I hope you can sleep at night! ;)

[roelliej.livejournal.com]

That's so cool! Sinterklaas is a wonderful feast for children. The commotion around Zwarte Piet was absolutely ridiculous. :-(

[my_thestral]

Don't even mention it! I can't imagine the Dutch giving away a part of their tradition for a ridiculous reason like that. Don't international bodies have anything better to do!?
I don't have anything against black people or immigrants (at one point I was the latter myself for a short while when I lived in England), but I do think that they should leave the culture that hosts them as kindly as the Dutch one does, intact in their traditions. So what if Zwaarte Piet is black!? Who cares if he's green!? It shouldn't bloody matter! What matters is, that kids have fun and get passed some of the tradition in the process. And what do you achieve if you make them white - effectively make people forget a piece of very real history - and slavery was part of that. So make them white and we all happily forget it was there. How stupid is that!? Eh... these kinds of things just piss me off and I kind of have a temper, sorry about the rant!;)
Personally, I enjoy seeing the kids in Holland getting all dressed up as well! BTW - we have a carnival in Slovenia today - do you have one, too? Cause my Frisian tells me they don't have one up north, but down south you might.
Heh, I've just seen a new still of Rupert from the Enemy of man! What a cutie! He should play in a few "rough" movies, I like his stormy grumpy face. :)

[roelliej.livejournal.com]

And not to forget that Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) is actually white, but because of climing through the chimney he becomes black. :D

Like children think of slavery or discrimination. I hope the commotion will pass.

Yes, I live down the river (Limburg), and we celebrate carnival. Although most do. I have done it a couple of times and although I like the dressing up and stuff, I really HATE HATE HATE HATE the music. ;-) So I'll pass. ;-)

Yeah he looks absolutely stunning. Have you seen Rupert's speech on the WOS-awards?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkO8qee8w14

I totally LOVE the presenter. Mooooooove closer ;-)

"Rough" movies? Like hardcore gay-porn? *angel face* ;-)

[my_thestral]

Well, we mostly go to kiddy carnivals these days (though I went dressed up as a very convincing prostitute a few years ago, even a guy dressed up as priest came to get me to dance, imagine the comments!) - and the music they have there is mostly live. They'd hire a band doing all this kiddy/teen flicks (Gangam style, even Wrecking ball - I'm not talking Drie klein konijntjes here!) and I just swallow thickly and promise my black metal soul to give it its proper share of trashiest metal music the next day - and go anyway. It's fun to see kids run and dance around and sometimes you just have to take one for the team. :) I suppose it's different when you have kids. I don't so much hate the music, as I do the lame performance, but yeah, anything for kids.:)
Yeah, I've seen his acceptance speech - there wasn't much of a speech left in the end, was there?! Our man got right cuddled up there on the stage, heh... :) I envy that lady, I would have probably done the same.;)
Uuuuh, you dirty-minded Dutch... *angel face* indeed!!!:D Hardcore gay porn?! I don't think I've seen one from beginning to the end in my life!:) Sorry to say, but porn movies just don't do it for me - the music in them is also shit, BTW - and I'd take good erotica or sexual innuendo/insinuation and UST over any porn movie I can think of. Pure action, no story just kills it for me. Sorry about that!:) I'm sure it's different if you're a gay guy (I'm not judging, just to be clear, yeah?) - but being a chick with a taste for some slash action makes me appreciate different things. :) I don't mind nudity at all, but it has to develop as part of the bigger story, not as the sole mindless focus of the movie. I guess I have a chicky way to like man-on-man action.:)