Editorial - 26 November 2001

Sunday nights are cool. Each week there's another Bond movie on the television. Seen Goldfinger yesterday. One of the best ones with Sean Connery. Ultrasweet ...
Song of the week : Haven't decided yet which one from the bonus cd from "Rotten Apples" - the Greatest Hits album from the Smashing Pumpkins. Better hurry up and buy it. The first editions feature a bonus cd with 10 previously unreleased songs.
Oldie of the week : "Sweet Jane" Cowboy Junkies : thanks to Dustpuppy for lending me the double live album.
Last seen movie : "The Anniversary Party" : an alternative american version of Festen. Almost european and it did remind me of The Five Senses although that one was better. Still, a worthwile effort from two quasi mainstream actors - Jeniffer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming - to direct and star in their first home-made movie. Digitally filmed with some of their mutual actor friends - including Kevin Kline and Gwyneth Paltrow (boy, does she look ugly !). And that's the main flaw of this picture : it's not directed, it's acted. You keep looking at good performances, but you don't get to see the whole of their world. You just see the stages in which it takes place. It's like one of those old theater-pieces that was filmed for viewing on television. You know it's fake, it doesn't suck you into the story. But after considering this I still want to recommend it. After all, it's definitely better than American Pie II for instance. These kind of movies are more worth your money and valuable time.
Doing this week : After seeing bZone, the website of a friend of mine, I decided to redo all my new designs for this site. In comparison they sucked. They looked too pale so I have to think of something better. Way better ...

Editorial - 23 November 2001

Exactly one week after the wedding I have some pictures for you all.

Editorial - 19 November 2001

Time to remove the "Big Day Counter" (above on your left - no, your other left). That day (the 16th) has passed and my sister's now officially married. I got to be so lucky to be her best man in all of this so I actually had front row seats for the whole thing ...
I case she's reading this : have fun on your honeymoon, check out the scenery on the other end of the globe and try to ignore as many dutch people as you can. And you can bet on it they're over there as well. Those people are everywhere and always on a holiday. Vote now if this is a bad joke or not !
Song of the week : Surely NOT the new Michael Jackson vehicule ...
Oldie of the week : "Opal Mantra" Therapy? : songs these guys never even put on their albums are very interesting. If you can find some obscure EP's from them, be sure to buy 'em twice. Just to be on the safe side ...
Last seen movie : Grabbed my copy of John Carpenter's The Fog from the pile of videotapes just to be disappointed. This movie does not stand the test of time. No matter how much I liked it as a teenager (okay, we're a few years later now, but not that many), this time around it failed to deliver to needed icecold chills down my spine. I started watching around midnight - alone at home, in a comfy chair beneath a blanket - but that didn't help. The beginning is good - especially the scenes in the first night, but when they start explaining what's happening it's just to unbelievable to accept. Combine that with very crummy special effects - okay, timeframe considered it isn't all bad - and an all too hasty ending it's a let down. It hurts to say this but : for serious horror fans only ...
Doing this week : I'm going to try to put at least some redesigns online. But that's not an actual promise ...

Editorial - 14 November 2001

These colors are going to the World Cup Soccer for the sixth time in a row. Kinda unprecedented for a small nation like ours. And best of it all ... our all time rivals - the Dutch - can't come with us. Like usual they couldn't find the goal after spending way too much time in their bank-offices buying stocks and bonds ...

Editorial - 12 November 2001

Hey hey hey ! Autumn is definitely settling in. It's been raining every day the past week. Sometimes for an hour, sometimes practically the whole day. Just another 5 more months to go until the next summer as my girlfriend said today.
Time to refer you all to Franky's site Vendetta.org again and mention at the same time that he's putting together another one : CBMgallery.com. Vendetta's about the hell some helpdesks go through trying to help users, CBMgallery's a site about Commodore computers. As usual he's letting me do some of the desinging. Mind you, the site's not updated yet. He just started four days ago and my efforts are only to be seen on my own computer. Not on any servers worldwide available ! Coming soon on an internetconnection near you !

Editorial - 10 November 2001

Ah Rotterdam ... only 2 hours away by train and yet so different from the big cities over here. New and shiny buildings, shops on the groundfloors, lots of bicycles off course and the incredible long waiting line at the museum. By now it's too late for you guys to go and see the "Jheronimus Bosch" exhibit in the Netherlands (completely sold out and closing tomorrow), but I wouldn't have adviced you to go anyway. Okay, what can be seen is nice - very nice sometimes - but the organisation was way off. It's easier getting in the Uffizi museum in Firenze (that's Florence for all you americans) in July /me thinks. I kept wiggling my toes in my shoes in order to keep 'em warm and gave myself a huge blister on my right big toe. Quite painful when walking around afterwards.

Editorial - 9 November 2001

Since it's a holiday I thought I'd skip the songs of the week and stuff. I don't think all too many people will miss it. But if you do, feel free to mail me about it. But don't expect roses (free Therapy? qoute).
Well, the holiday started off as many do : a lot of sleeping and piecing together small items in my life (like visiting the bank, shopping for food and visiting the parents). I also took the time to watch a lot of movies that were lying around on tape or DVD. First up was "Une Liaison Pornographique". Considered as a somewhat graphical yet very subtle belgian/french drama about sex and the surrounding feelings. Usually that crap translates as "watch girl meet guy, then watch some titties". I'm sorry, but have you ever seen those high culture flicks ? Most of them just seem to be a collection of incomprehensible scenes built around some "artistic nudity". Boring !
This film isn't like that. In high contrast to the title there is almost nothing to see. Sure, occasionally a breast can be seen inbetween the arms folded around eachother during the sex-scenes, but these scenes are hardly worth giving them that name. This really is a very nice and subtle movie about feelings. Sex is just the starting point. Love the quest ... very nice. I was impressed. Go rent this with your significant other.
Next up was "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes". A not so succesful follow up to the 1968 classic. It's lacking in pace and in decent story-telling and the scenario sucks firmly when approaching the end. But still the last scenes are quite funny. If you liked the first one and have some money to spare : buy the 5 movies DVD box like I did. This second installment is supposed to be the worst in the series, so the next review will be more uplifting again.
Finally I enjoyed "Caddyshack" one afternoon on television. I had seen this one and it's follow-up years ago but it's still so dumb it becomes funny. Not hilarious though. I seem to remember it being different, but I'm probably just mixing up the two storylines. Anyway, nice rainy afternoon flick with the crop of the late seventies, early eighties american comics : Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield.

Editorial - 4 November 2001

Most sundays are a waste of time.
Usually everybody you know has got something else to do and off course you yourself are the only one who hasn't planned anything yet or maybe you just don't want to hook up with the usual bunch of acquaintances because you're not feeling so good or you think you're having some sort of a fight with someone you care about.
Sometimes you just don't wanna do all too much. Sometimes you're full of energy, but there's nobody home. And then there are those sundays with their bad weather which make you wanna get right back in bed from the moment you get out and open the curtains ...
Yep, sundays sure are a waste of time, space, friendship and good intentions.

Editorial - 2 November 2001

Seen another movie yesterday : "A.I." : the collaboration between the late Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Coming from Steven it's a dark movie. More Schindler than E.T. That was a surprise considering some critics review the movie as definitely "Spielbergian". Okay, the ending can be categorised as that but wasn't it true that Kubrick asked Spielberg to help him because he had a great beginning and ending but no ideas for a bridge between those pieces ? So Kubrick wrote a Spielbergian ending which got directed by Spielberg and that's supposed to be the flaw ? Well, he could've made the movie like this : "Boy is sick, mother in shambels. They buy a dog, mother gets better. Boy gets better, meets dog. Boy likes dog, everybody happy. The end." Some dumb girl in the theather said this while leaving. She sure didn't get it ...

darkman says sleep tight

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