I bought the first volume of the Norwegian “Walt Disney’s Hall of Fame” today, a book that collects some of Don Rosa’s first and best Scrooge McDuck comics. I haven’t started on the comics themselves yet, as it had some snacks in the beginning that I have to read. One of these tasty little morsels [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Mellom Slagene
Grufullt lite foredrag jeg holdt på museet i kveld. Et språklig togkrasj, siden jeg skrev førsteutkastet på riksmål, før jeg plutselig innså at syntaksen min når jeg snakker er mer nynorsk, hvorpå et kaotisk og halvhjertet forsøk på å tilpasse stilen muntlig framføring oppsto.
Som sagt, språket er katastrofe, innholdet noe bedre. Poster foreløpig tekst, så [...]
I passed! I passed! Oh glorious day, I passed!
Sure, I got an E, but I passed social scientific method! I’ll never have to bother with the crap again! NEVER!
Sunshine
Perhaps the only advantage of having to depend on a small town cinema during summers: I get the opportunity to watch movies I missed when they were screened in Trondheim. As was the case of “Sunshine“.
In 2050, the Sun is about to stop burning, and a crew of astronauts and scientists are sent out to [...]
Goldfinger
It’s been more than a decade since the last time I watched “Goldfinger” — my favourite, along with “Golden Eye”, “In Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, and “Casino Royale” — but last Saturday I finally found the time again.
In this the, umm, I think third or fourth Bond movie, 007 has to stop a fat old [...]
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The object of observation last Friday: “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit“.
Wallace and Gromit are doing quite well in their new jobs as pest controllers. Their village’s annual “giant vegetable competition” is close, and all the town’s inhabitants are eager to secure their services, in the hopes that Wallace and Gromit in turn [...]
Dalek!
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of days now, but haven’t found the time for it until now. And while the immediacy of the post’ll be lost, compared to what it’d been if I’d written it when I should have, I feel it has to be said:
I’ve used to make fun [...]
Garden State
I watched my favourite romantic comedy last Thursday: Zach Braff’s “Garden State”. (Eh, this one was written about one month ago; I must have forgotten to submit it…)
It really is a magnificent little movie, which Braff not only wrote and directed, but also starred in. He played the main character, Andrew Largeman, a young man [...]
“Gaid”
I’ve finally taken my language-related snobbishness out into the open, primarily because the local newspaper recently titled me as “gaid” — a horrendous norwegianification of the English word “guide”, and an unnecessary one too, as we have the perfectly servicable synonym “omviser”.
So, it might be that the Norwegian Council of Language has given the go-ahead [...]
A “Tigana” related “whoa!”
Perhaps it is because I am mentally exhausted after two very long, very straining tours earlier today, but I just had a whole new experience:
I’ve never before — never ever — been touched to tears by exposition just 116 pages into a book. Never. Not until Baerd told Devin of the fate of Tigana and [...]
… and “Reaper’s Gale”.
”Reaper’s Gale”
by Steven Erikson.
Bantham TPB, 2007. 910 s.
It’s been three years since the Edur conquest of the Letherii Empire, and one year since the outlawing of Adjunct Tavore, the Bonehunters, and the rest of her army.
“Reaper’s Gale” has the same basic structure as all the other “Malazan” books. It starts out kinda slow, with a [...]
By popular demand: “Lyonesse” reviewed.
”Lyonesse”
by Jack Vance.
My copy was published by Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks, and the “Lyonesse” trilogy consists of:
– “Suldrun’s Garden”, 1983, 434 p.
– “The Green Pearl“, 1985, 378 p.
– “Madouc”, 1989, 400 p.
In the Cantabrian Gulf, in what is today known as the Bay of Biscay, between Galicia, Aquitaine, Armorica, Britain and Ireland, there was once a [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
My sister and I invited the vicar’s two eldest daughters to watch “At World’s End” last Wednesday, as all of us (except from the eldest, perhaps) wanted to see it.
Now, while I quite liked the first “Pirates” flick, I was never very enthusiastic about the second installment of the series. Thus, my expectations to this [...]
Ethaaaaaaaan!
Noooooooooooo!
The rest was not much more than okay, though. I’ve never really been much of a fan of action in comics, and this issue, being what it was, suffered from this, in my eyes. And the exposition of Twilight… maybe if I read it a time or two more, but as of now? [...]
Just a thing…
I got from a Polish friend.
Second day of work…
… and I’ve already been exhausted for one day, even though I haven’t really started on the tasks that actually require an effort. Damn, but I wish my sister had still been here to take care of all this pre-season stress…
Oh well. I might try to convince myself that with all this work, [...]
Doctor Who 2005
One of my flatmates claimed that the series featuring Christopher Eccleston as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, wasn’t all that bad. So now I’ve watched the first episode of this thing — my first encounter with Doctor Who since I accidentally came across an episode from the 70s, a couple of years ago.
And my [...]
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