Metal Gear Solid Soundtrack - "The Best Is Yet To Come"

Oldie but goodie...

hack.SIGN

A boy finds himself in "the World", an online (immersive VR-like) game, unable to log out, and not sure how he ended up there.

Strange, but pretty nice.

E.M. Forster - "A Passage To India"

Interesting, and some wonderful paragraphs, but had to force myself more to read it than I would've preferred.

Inception (2010)

Impressive!

Long film, didn't feel like it. Keeps an impressive pace. The "heist" part is amusing, oesn't get boring at all.

Long discussions about the last shot (the totem, circling forever on the table). They're still not finished, and of course there's an NDA, so hush hush for now.

Let's say I found some errors / inconsistencies within the film, but they didn't downgrade my opinion at all. Impressive storytelling.

Kula Shaker - "Peter Pan R.I.P."

Violins, britpop-ish, slightly sad, 

Toy Story 3 (3D)

Pixar short: "Day and Night"

brilliant! A 3D adventure with essentially two 2D figures!

short, funny, sad... marvellous

Toy Story 3

Liked it!

way ahead of 2 and 1 concerning graphics of course

but story-wise, even more so: this was a "true" Pixar film: funny, passionate, sad, scary almost

the "near-death" scene is definitely impressive, very very much so

Raymond E. Feist - "Magician

2nd book of the Riftwar saga.

Bought because of the long trip home from San Diego.

Not bad. Not particularly good. Better than the first, I'd say, but still superficial, and the "Game" that sounded so promising, has hardly been touched and might not be that interesting at all.

[actually, I haven't finished it, and small chance I will anytime soon. Tag as finished to get rid of it.]

Daniel Mason - "A Far Country"

As poetic as "The Pianotuner"

There's not many quotes I wrote down. If I would have done so, half the book would be printed here.

When she thought of him now, she realized she couldn't remember his entire face, only fragments of it. He is ceasing to be, she thought, but then later she wondered: Maybe I am getting closer, to that place where a person breaks into pieces - a walk, a laugh, a smell, the strength in an arm. Isaias used to say this when they told stories of grandparents or aunts who were gone. Think, he said, of people you know, You don't know their faces, You know bits of them, their movement, their voice, The closer you are, the more broken they become.

Used this book while writing. Reading a few pages and then writing. It helped a lot to eliminate so many useless words, empty sentences.

Lange Frans & Sef Thissen - "Het zwaard van Damocles"

Een tragisch oud jaren-60 begin gemixt met een rustige rap van Lange Frans. Hedendaagse dystopie in de stijl van "Vluchten kan niet meer".
Heeft wel wat, maar even belangrijk was het volgende stuk tekst
en aan de rand van het ravijn
blijft heel de wereld dansen
tot er geen morgen meer zal zijn
en de muziek verstomt
Vooral die 2e zin: blijft heel de wereld dansen. Niet staan. Niet hangen. Maar dansen. Op de één of andere manier is die zin zo raak, zo juist, zo perfect. Wow.

Met dank aan de immer fantastische Def P. voor het draaien hiervan.

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Same year as the Matrix. Things have changed.

Visually, absolutely better. More puns, both visually and in storyline.

Story-wise amusing enough. Not special.

Watched this and the first so I can see 3D number 3 this afternoon.