Monday, January 22, 2007
Sad state of affairs concerning teens. Besides the murder of Turkish Dink by a teen, a Belgian high school student who was expelled last week broke into the director's office and stabbed him.
Looks like Europe is trying to catch up with the US.
Or maybe there's just more press coverage on these incidents. Who knows?
Yet sad it is.
Here's to humanity!
Looks like Europe is trying to catch up with the US.
Or maybe there's just more press coverage on these incidents. Who knows?
Yet sad it is.
Here's to humanity!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
2006 music verdicts
Just for the fun of it, a yearlist of albums (regardless genre) released in 2006 that I dig a lot:
1. Misery Index - Discordia
2. Into Eternity - The scattering of ashes
3. Green Carnation - Acoustic verses
4. Keep Of Kalessin - Armada
5. Scar Symmetry - Pitch.Black.Progress
6. Aghora - Formless
7. Ignite - Our darkest days
8. Sophia - Technology won't save us now
9. Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
10. Keith Caputo - Hearts blood on your dawn
11. Sick Of It All - Death to tyrants
12. Gadget - The funeral march
13. Suffocation - Suffocation
14. Gorefest - La muerte
15. In Flames - Come clarity
16. Tool - 10.000 days
17. Vader - Impressions in blood
18. Equinox - The immortal kind
19. Zero Hour - Specs of pictures burnt beyond
20. Melechesh - Emissaries
21. Amon Amarth - With Oden on our side
22. Anjani - Blue alert
Best boxset of the year:
Nasum - Grind finale
Best re-release of the year:
Impetigo - Ultimo mondo cannibale
Best release from 2005 that I didn't hear until 2006:
Coprofago - Unorthodox creative criteria
1. Misery Index - Discordia
2. Into Eternity - The scattering of ashes
3. Green Carnation - Acoustic verses
4. Keep Of Kalessin - Armada
5. Scar Symmetry - Pitch.Black.Progress
6. Aghora - Formless
7. Ignite - Our darkest days
8. Sophia - Technology won't save us now
9. Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
10. Keith Caputo - Hearts blood on your dawn
11. Sick Of It All - Death to tyrants
12. Gadget - The funeral march
13. Suffocation - Suffocation
14. Gorefest - La muerte
15. In Flames - Come clarity
16. Tool - 10.000 days
17. Vader - Impressions in blood
18. Equinox - The immortal kind
19. Zero Hour - Specs of pictures burnt beyond
20. Melechesh - Emissaries
21. Amon Amarth - With Oden on our side
22. Anjani - Blue alert
Best boxset of the year:
Nasum - Grind finale
Best re-release of the year:
Impetigo - Ultimo mondo cannibale
Best release from 2005 that I didn't hear until 2006:
Coprofago - Unorthodox creative criteria
winter
Some pics I made last Tuesday when a snow storm descended on Pittsburgh.
Standing on my porch.
Porch view again.
Walking to the cinema.
Visibility rather low since the wind was blowing the snow right into my face.
Standing on my porch.
Porch view again.
Walking to the cinema.
Visibility rather low since the wind was blowing the snow right into my face.
Monday, January 15, 2007
I'm always up for some Mac bashing and with all these TV commercials they deserve some payback:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT3Zio2tMSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT3Zio2tMSM
Friday, January 12, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Being stuck at home sucks but fortunately there are two cinemas that aren't that far off from my house.
So last night I went to see the eagerly awaited "The perfume" based on one of my favorite books. Overall it was a good movie with brilliant cinematography. The story had a good pace and was mostly true to the book. They did keep the two big scenes at the end and although I hadn't mind them being more explicit they seem to have been more than enough for the Americans in the audience.
I'm glad I saw it and applaud Tom Tykwer for daring to take on this project.
Even though the book is infinitely better.
I wish Netflix would work 24/7 on the weekends too. I need more movies.
I need my fix and without a car I can't see all the movies I wanna see at the cinemas.
Apparently some people still don't know "The departed" is a remake of a Korean movie called "Infernal affairs". Fair enough, "The departed" is a great movie but since it leans so much on the original a movie geek can't help but prefer the original.
Guess what?
So last night I went to see the eagerly awaited "The perfume" based on one of my favorite books. Overall it was a good movie with brilliant cinematography. The story had a good pace and was mostly true to the book. They did keep the two big scenes at the end and although I hadn't mind them being more explicit they seem to have been more than enough for the Americans in the audience.
I'm glad I saw it and applaud Tom Tykwer for daring to take on this project.
Even though the book is infinitely better.
I wish Netflix would work 24/7 on the weekends too. I need more movies.
I need my fix and without a car I can't see all the movies I wanna see at the cinemas.
Apparently some people still don't know "The departed" is a remake of a Korean movie called "Infernal affairs". Fair enough, "The departed" is a great movie but since it leans so much on the original a movie geek can't help but prefer the original.
Guess what?
2007
So we're a week into 2007 and it's been a rather horrible start.
My car died on me. Started having transmission trouble from my birthday (oh the irony) on and last weekend things went to hell. Got the car to a car shop but obviously the only time the transmission actually works was during the test drive with the mechanic. The only useful thing he said was that a transmission overhaul would cost more than $1000.
The car is now on the parking lot of the nearby Giant Eagle after I got it there with great difficulty. So I'll try to get rid of it asap and look around for a new used car.
We also discovered a problem with the wireless network of the high school I'm about to do a study at. So last Friday we went to try a few possible solutions but guess what happened 5 minutes after we sit down in the classroom?
A power outage.
Yes.
So we wait until we're told the black out won't be fixed until at least noon. We leave for CMU and in the afternoon I get an e-mail informing me the power came back 15 minutes after we left.
Splendid.
My car died on me. Started having transmission trouble from my birthday (oh the irony) on and last weekend things went to hell. Got the car to a car shop but obviously the only time the transmission actually works was during the test drive with the mechanic. The only useful thing he said was that a transmission overhaul would cost more than $1000.
The car is now on the parking lot of the nearby Giant Eagle after I got it there with great difficulty. So I'll try to get rid of it asap and look around for a new used car.
We also discovered a problem with the wireless network of the high school I'm about to do a study at. So last Friday we went to try a few possible solutions but guess what happened 5 minutes after we sit down in the classroom?
A power outage.
Yes.
So we wait until we're told the black out won't be fixed until at least noon. We leave for CMU and in the afternoon I get an e-mail informing me the power came back 15 minutes after we left.
Splendid.
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