Di findes, der fnyser af klæ’er å overfladisk pynt, der synes d’er spilt tid og anstrængelse, æd ville tæ’ sig gåd od for ændre. Enkelte hevder sogar, æd de æd forskønne sid ytre peger på betænkelie personlihedstræk som forfænglihed, hovmod, fælskhed. Di ved ige vor fejl di tæ’r; som om loslid eller smægløs bekledning sko’ [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Romeo + Juliet
For long periods of my life, I’ve nurtured a completely irrational dislike for the actor Leonardo di Caprio, a dislike probably rooted in my background as a male kid in the late 90s, when “Leo” was the dream boy of every girl, and the envy of every boy. And, as is so very often the [...]
Serenity
It’s been over a year and a half since the (first and) last time, but I finally got around to watch “Serenity” again.
And it was a pleasant surprise; before I watched it again, after having watched the series a second time, I feared that the relationship between the characters would be messed up, and that [...]
Thank You For Smoking
Bought “Thank You For Smoking” last week, and watched it last… Thursday, I think.
The movie’s still about the tobacco company spin doctor Nick Naylor, and a few weeks of his life. (See the link for a more comprehensive synopsis.) And it’s still a surprisingly moralistic anti-moralist movie, although the more liberal (and I don’t mean [...]
The Boondock Saints
“The Boondock Saints” has been so hyped by so many people (or possibly so fervently by few), I though I should see it. And now I have.
It’s apparently an indie film, and it revolves around two Irish-American brothers from Boston, who through a series of bizzare events conclude that they are chosen by God to [...]
2007-07-30 — Quote of the Day
“Eight years ago [Sandre and Tomasso of the Sandreni] had tried an assassination. A chef, traceable only to the Canziano family, had been placed in a country inn in [the neighbouring province of] Ferraut near the provincial border with Astibar. For over half a year idle gossip in Astibar had touted that inn as a [...]
2007-07-29 — Quote of the Day
“Why should we pity humans? We can always make more of them — but a horse, try making a horse!”
- Josef Stalin,
in a speech about human rights, 1935.
2007-07-27 — Quote of the Day
“One becomes sated with platitudes no less than with honey, so that one often breaks another’s bones in one’s vexation.”
- A gryph,
“Lyonesse I: Suldrun’s Garden”.
A silent prayer of thanks to the patriarchate and all male chauvinists
Oh, patriarchal social structure!
Oh, male chauvinists of the past!
I praise thee!
While thy general wisdom might leave something to be desired, and while I dislike thee quite strongly, thee have done me — and in fact the whole nation — a great service!
And while thy rancid ignorance and silly prejudices have also done us all great [...]
2007-07-26 — Quote of the Day
“The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then it’s up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, ‘This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, it’s never gonna happen.’ And [...]
2007-07-25 — Quote of the Day
“You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.”
- Eduard Shevardnadze.
Alatriste
I’m home alone this week, and as my parents left me a rather substantial amount of money to keep myself clothed and fed while they’re away, I found I could afford to rent a movie for once. I rented “Alariste“.
“Alariste” is a Spanish movie, based on five novels by the author Arturo Perez-Revertes, and it [...]
The Sum of All Fears
Not a bad flick.
Sure, its premise is a little far out — European Neo-Nazis using an Israeli nuke to set the US and Russia against each other — but hey, it’s fiction, and it’s entertaining. Nice to see, too, that both the American and the Russian high commands (or whatever they’re called) are saturated with [...]
A Clockwork Orange
I know I’ve often asked for more resistance in movies, for less comfort, and more challenges. But this is too bleedin’ much. It’s a fucking nightmare, is what it is.
Still, though, a fascinating nightmare. Kinda like a train wreck. 8.5/10.
And to think I was 11 or 12 the first time I watched it…
2007-07-22 — Quote of the Day
“I mean, you could claim that anything is real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”
“So you could,” said Xenophilius. “I am glad to see that you are opening your mind a little.”
- Hermione Granger and Xenophilius Lovegood,
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p. 334.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I finished the book five minutes ago, some 18 or 19 hours after I found it in my mailbox. I’ll try to review it, and I’ll do my best to do so without any spoilers, but for those who doesn’t want to know a godsdamned thing, I’ll hide it. Naturally, there will be spoilers for [...]
Noooooooooooooo!
Spoiler, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 385:
It’s here!
I just picked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows out of my post box, and because I am terrified of spoilers and want this to be an unblemished reading experience, I will now commence “radio silence” until the deed is done. No Internet, no newspapers, no TV, no radio — none of anything in which [...]
2007-07-21 — Quote of the Day
“Unfortunately, Hollywood does not understand literature. Peter Jackson did not understand Lord of the Rings, for that matter, or he could not have made the foolish, needless mistakes he made — like eliminating the “Scouring of the Shire” and trying to increase Aragorn’s “jeopardy” by adding meaningless silliness to the character of Arwen. In every [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, #2
Watched this one again last night, and it was surprisingly much better than the first time. Mostly, this was because I focused on what was actually there rather than on what wasn’t, and it turned out that even though they could have spent another half hour for emphasis to a couple of scenes, and done [...]
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