Needed a globally accessible place to jot down notes about books, films, music and the such.
Watched the first episode of "True Blood"'s second season. Still not convinced about it, but it's good popcorn stuff.
Openingssong and visuals haven't changed, and still consider them really good.
Openingssequences not featuring actors or scenes; you know they intentionally thought about which images suited the series. Like it, it's good.
Watched 2/3rd of Oliver Stone's "The Doors" last friday. Highly entertaining, right up there with Cohen' "I'm your man" in the list of films one watches out of sheer joy for the music they portray.
Logically, and because it seems to agree with a cloudy after-party head (BBQ), listening a lot to the Doors. Trying to listen to the more obscure songs
(mostly) instrumental surf, catchy!
not sure which of the songs above it is, but taking the Russian spoken words, I go with Gulag. (Otherwise it'd be something by "Electric Joe")
Happy surfing on a boring friday-afternoon!
*jiggles back 'n forth* hey! *keeps jiggling*
update
they keep changing the names! now it's "Gulag Tunes"
ti tum, ti tum, ti tum, ti tum, ti tum, ti tum
Now you, and read it out loud!
That's how he describes a iambic pentameter.
Gotta love the guy, if just for his grant love of, amongst a thousand other things, language, words and poetry.
Had to write 10 iambic pentameters as an exercise.
This book will reside rather long in the "started" phase because you don't just browse over it every moment. But it is wonderful. I already know three people I'll recommend it to.
Je komt dus niet er is iets
waardoor je niet komen kunt
ik neem aan er is een diertje dood
het behoeft begraving
of de hak van je pump
zit vast in de plank
het struikgewas is te hoog gegroeid
het vuilnis opgestapeld
hoe ook de knappe telegrambesteller
boerenzoon met werk bij het rijk
zwoegt en ploetert
hij komt er niet doorheen
met zijn ijlboodschap
dring aan op aanwezigheid
ben je het dak op gevlucht?
lees je een boek in een kast?
80 jaar, dat moet toch even vermeld.
Bought it a while ago because I liked "Tipping the Velvet".
"Tipping the Velvet" isn't the craziest or most amazing of stories, but she does an impressive job at describing her characters as plausible, believable and likeable personae, even though they are often far from perfect.
Nothing difficult, just a nice and easy read...
Listening a lot to these albums again. Ripped them partly because I suddenly became afraid of diskrot after unpacking hundreds of recordables after 3 years (fortunately, most of them are on quality discs, but still), but they help to imagine and write.
Used them while writing preliminary ideas for the first "crazy" letters (him ---> her) of "Poste restante" (working title, though I like it very much).
It seems I need estranged music for estranged writing.
Written bij acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi, produced by the BBC with David Bowie providing the soundtrack, this must be something...
It is comprised of four episodes of about 45 minutes, haven't heard the commentary track.
Good, enjoyable, giving a good (I think?) idea of the bleak prospects and hopeless dreams of suburban people, the vibrant soundtrack was at a positive juxtaposition, but I was confused throughout the series.
Changes in time happened quickly and seemingly at random. This wouldn't have been so much of a problem when the changes in character though, felt "hastened" as well. Sudden changes in main character "Creamy" weren't believable in my eyes.
Loved the music, the scenes, decor, as I said, it seems to give - wasn't there, alas - a good impression.
Can't help but feeling the sudden change around 3'16 is, well, strange.
The second version of the beat is identical concerning rhythm and style, it's "just" as if the samples are switched.
But why do that?
Must be missing something here.
A film like this should stun and flabbergast, mesmerize and lead beyond the places that are never imagined. In this, the sixth Harry Potter film failed.
The score wasn't impressive, though the eerie tingling harp throughout Harry and Ginny's moment in the Chamber of Requirements ("Kamer van Hoge Nood" in Dutch... oh dear oh dear, what was the translater thinking!)
Found in a small shop near Camden, London, this 45-minute anime features a little girl as the last "true vampire", not concerned with anything like civility, completely focussed on her goal of killing off mean beasties.
Not bad, but there wasn't a "wow" feeling. This is the middle sequence of a 3-part OVA, the only one which has been made, it seems. Can't say I found it truly sorry this did not continue, it didn't catch my attention and had some illogical steps in the story.
Director was animation director of Akira (1988)
The 35-minute animation featuring the voices of Pitch Black actors (of which Vin Diesel is the only one worth mentioning), set between Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. For me, the fact that it is directed by Peter Chung, of Aeon Flux and "Matriculated", was the main reason of buying it during a decadent London-weekendtrip.
The visuals didn't let me down, though the strange eerie feeling of Aeon Flux wasn't there. The 'hand of the master' was visible in all characters, but not in set-design, which basically was the futuristic-spaceship-style. Particularly the scene in which evil miss shows him her collection of frozen badass motherfuckers... they could've done more with that.
Story-wise, it didn't add anything. Mostly acknowledge that Richard B. Riddick is indeed a wellknown bad-ass. Oh, and he wins. Yay.
Should watch the extra's.
Will it be as awesome as "Cloud Atlas"?
Shouldn't expect that much. In all honesty, the first 25 pages don't seem to indicate so, but there is a strangeness to the story.
Should try to dissect it while reading. Notice the style, the tricks, the ideas.
