My brother had a combined 100-drumset-anniversary, birthday and going-away party yesterday.
As a gift I wrote, arranged and and recorded a song for and about him: FreddesĂĄngen (click the small play button to stream directly)
Good food, Good wine, Good friends, Good times!
As requested, here is the squid picture. Made in Photoshop (CS2 I believe) and a Wacom board.
Comments are appreciated!
Nice, a new Watchmen trailer has been released!
For those of you who didn’t know, Watchmen is a 12-issue comic book by Alan Moore, who among other things also wrote V for Vendetta, From Hell, Batman: The Killing Joke and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Visually they got just about everything right – The Comedian’s wry smile, Rorschach’s mask, the power in Dr. Manhattan’s origin etc..
However, the first trailer gave me much more of a wow-feeling. But that might just be because the characters I had previously read about in the Watchmen comics (which I highly recommend, by the way) for the first time came to life.
Read the original Watchmen comic book limited series, see the trailers below and you too will long for March 6th.
Trailer: Watchmen (Trailer 2)
And in case you missed the first one, here it is as well.
Trailer: Watchmen (Trailer 1)
Update: A new Japanese trailer has also been added in a separate post.
I just found this really cool table by the French designer John Nouanesing.
Me Want!
Thank you.
Really, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for not being complete idiots for the third time in a row when voting on who will lead you. Maybe now you can change tactics and not be a big bully to everyone around you anymore, but actually behave like in the propaganda you sell to yourself.
Or, as Little Gamers puts it (to be more noble):
An update to my previous post, about how I got Microsoft Office 2007 for free at Webhallen.
I got 920 SEK for it at Tradera, after 26 bids. Not bad for something you got for free! 🙂
Edit: Just received a mail from the buyer, stating that everything has worked fine and she was happy with the transaction. Everybody wins!
I just watched Aliens vs Predator – Requiem. I knew that it would be bad. I even knew that it would be really bad, but in spite of my better judgment, I decided to watch it anyway.
And man, it sucked.
The script was lousy and the acting horrendous. The Strause Brothers who directed this has previously worked almost exclusively with special effects, and watching this movie it comes as no surprise. Because they sure can’t direct people.
The story in short:
WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD
After the first AVP movie, one Predator gets infected by an Alien. The result is for some strange reason that is never explained an Alien-Predator hybrid. For some other reason that is never explained, the ship carrying this hybrid is returning to earth, along with a bunch of Alien facehuggers. One single Predator tries to stop them all, but also kills some humans in the process for some reason. A town where you get to see four minutes each of a bunch of two-dimensional characters is attacked by a swarm of Aliens (who has now proliferated) and the hybrid. Instead of actually stockpiling the food (humans) for eating and such, they just seem to kill everybody at random for some reason. People die, including most of the ones you have been introduced to. The government finds out, tells the people to gather in the center of town and drops a nuke. Everybody dies, except for four people in a chopper who for some reason decided to fight their way up through an Alien-infested hospital to get to the chopper on the roof instead of simply driving out of town with the perfectly good armored car/tank they just had. The end.
In short: Alien vs Predator – Requiem is a movie that really, really, really sucks. Hard. And not in a good way.
If you have any good memories that you don’t want to ruin from previous Alien (or Predator) movies, avoid this at all cost.
Kung Fu Panda is an animated movie from Dreamworks, starring major voice actors as Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu.
The main story revolves around Po, a clumsy panda who dreams of being a kung fu master while having to work in his fathers noodle shop. After some curious circumstances, he is given the opportunity to learn kung fu by a grumpy kung fu master. Without spoiling to much of the story, a big threat is later revealed and unexpected things happen.
I didn’t have the highest expectations, and was maily expecting a slapstick parade. I was pleasantly surprise how good the movie was. Granted, there was a fair deal of slapstick in the movie, but (almost) never too much. There was also a more serious side about not fitting in, not wanting to be yourself.
As a fan of eastern cinema, I have watched a fair deal of kung fu movies (as well as practiced kung fu myself). It was a delight to see so many clichĂ©s and homages as they could fit into the movie, most executed with a twist. The voice acting is most of the time very good (though I didn’t think Angelina Jolie really fit the role as Tigress).
On a whole, Kung Fu Panda is a warm, engaging and very enjoyable movie. Recommended.
p.s. Martial art turtles rock. d.s.
Today I saw a movie from 1978, starring a young GĂ©rard Depardieu. It is French produced, but takes place in a semi-futuristic New York and everyone speaks English.
The story centers around GĂ©rard’s character (also named Gerard), finding and taking care of the child of the now dead King Kong. This, along with the fact that it was labeled as Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi, was enough for me to want to see the movie.
I was deeply dissapointed. There is no real red line in the movie to follow, nothing to look forward to and the whole thing is utterly unengaging. The script is meager and staggly, the dialoge is strange and stiff, most of the acting is plain bad and the DVD transfer is low quality (especially the sound where the S sound are often distorted).
During most of the 113 minutes I just waited for it to be over. Avoid if you can (shouldn’t be too hard).