Editorial - 28 January 2002

Some bear is trying to take over my website. He has been hogging the TV remote for as long as I can remember him being around. Then he took it upon himself to eat all the crunchy nuts in my house, play Quake on my computer, surf the web when I'm not home and now he's trying to conquer the web ... why don't you take at look.
Song of the week : "Sweet Instigator" Ozark Henry
Oldie of the week : "Side By Side" An old jazzy classic - don't know the actual performer
Last seen movie : "Die Hard" on DVD. One word : KABOOM ! Gotta love them explosions. This helicopter scene can easily stand next to the much hyped one in The Matrix.
Doing this week : Can I get back to you on that one on friday ?

Editorial - 27 January 2002

Housecleaning sucks. Ocean Breeze floorcleaningstuff rules. All fresh and wonderful sweet and smelly. A nice change from the everlasting pinetree smell you find everywhere. In your toilet, in your car, around your christmas tree (wait, that's normal - damn), added to your potpourri for the original forest smell. Oh well ... it's better than your average garbage-bag after a day or five ...
Gotta run, gotta go. Nothing on TV, raining a lot and the house's still a mess.

Editorial - 23 January 2002

Thank you BMW USA. Yes, that's right, I'm actually thanking a car brand whose drivers I usually curse when they're cutting me off again (they have this weird uncontrollable tendency). Let me explain ... last year BMW USA asked 5 renowed directors (John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Kar-Wai Wong, Guy Ritchie and Alejandro González Iñárritu) to direct a shortfilm. Some new way of making commercials for the internet. Hugely succesfull on the net, BMW decided to burn these movies on DVD and spread them around as promotional material - not for resale. Knowing this I kindly asked them for a review-copy and lo and behold the mailbox yesterday : "The Hire" on DVD ... region 0 ... for all the world to see. And that's why I say : thank you BMW.
Song of the week : the new song me and my band wrote monday-evening - no title yet
Oldie of the week : "Fever" Peggy Lee - for obvious reasons (dying recently)
Last seen movie : I'm really starting to dislike the new ticketingsystem in our local Kinepolis cinema. The lines for getting a ticket and for getting into the venue were never long than right now. While waiting to buy a ticket for I can 't remember what movie all tickets flew out the window like hot cakes. So we ended up in the new Brad Pitt and Robert Redford movie "Spy Game". And what a pleasant surprise that was ! This was one great movie. Although sometimes a bit too stylish while letting the story slip away. Nonetheless the movie and storyline never really falls flat. There was one time when I started thinking "get on it with it - what about the original plot ?" and exactly then everything falls into place. And not in a rush-ending kinda way. I'd give this one around 80% I think (gee, I should develop a real pointingsystem when I'm going to be using percentages).
Doing this week : Probably sanding my girlfriends new studyroom's wooden floorboards. Unless she wants do do everything herself - than I'd better get the hell outta Dodge.

Editorial - 18 January 2002

Like I mentioned yesterday I was going to see two Ultima Vez productions this week. Ultima Vez is Wim Vandekeybus' dance-group. Not some stupid tapdancingkings idiocy but the really physical modern dance stuff. Wim Vandekeybus is one of the best in the world on this matter. Has been ever since he and Peter Vermeersch (music) won a Bessie Award in New York in 1987 for their first work called "What The Body Does Not Remember". I've seen that piece in 1997. On it's tenth birthday. I'm not saying it completely blew me away because I didn't have a clue what it would be like. I just went along with my girlfriend. And why not ? It would be something I hadn't seen or done before.
Alas, I didn't get it. Which does not mean I didn't like it ... because I did. 10 men and women, dressed in pants or skirts and badly cut blazers throwing bricks at eachother while franticly running around, stealing eachothers towels ... heck there was even some nudity. Not something you'd expect if you haven't got a clue what it's all about. A few years later I saw another piece from Ultima Vez : "Seven For A Story Never To Be Told" and from that I remember flames bursting out of the stage - just like a Rammstein concert. All very imaginative stuff.
Seeing "What The Body ..." again yesterday - it's fifteenth birthday already - was different then the first time. Then we were sitting at the same height as the sage so we saw the dancers in front of us. Yesterday we were sitting high above them, looking down on the dancers, seeing the white bricks flying over them and I actually understood some of the symbolism behind it all. Well, at least, what I feel it might be about ...
It starts with two people tossing and turning in their beds - plagued by memories (of past relationships) ? Then you have dancers trying to get to the other side of the stage using bricks to crawl over. Bricks they have to pick up behind them and lay in front of them. Then you get the bricktrowing, people stealing eachothers bricks, then some frantic walking up and down the scene, barely passing eachother - usually without looking (a busy pavement filled with working people ?). After that there are retakes of these scenes with different scenarios and combinations of people.
Uptill now it wasn't all clear to me, certainly not when there was this scene in which someone is strinking all kinds of poses on a chair while lying down on the floor with this chair. On the other corner someone is mimicking all these moves whilst normally sitting down on the chair - with the chair on all fours ... the other dancers would gather round the second dancer. now this is fun to watch but what the hell does it mean ? And does it have to mean something ? I don't know but thinking about one other scene in which three male dancers each hold a female dancer captive (arms and legs stretched as if strinking a Blair Witch crucifix pose), suddenly all the pieces of the puzzle fell together : it's all about relationships. Relationships with yourself, someone else, someone you don't know, someone you do know and love, relationships with the world around ypou and how it can suddenly sneak up on you very fast (as if a brick fell on your head) ... I'm not saying this is it, but it sure is what I get out of it after thinking about it for a while.
Last tuesday I saw the new project "Scratching The Inner Fields" (already 1 year old, but it's still the newest one). An all female cast (7) and some very good music from Eavesdropper. Again very confusing, some humour, some frantic moving around (real chaos) and very physical dancing. Twisting and turning, falling on the floor, spasticly gyrating on the floor ... it's all there and yet so different from the other pieces I've seen. i'm thinkg this one is about the inner demons who sometimes get a real life form and haunt us, trying to get away from them, losing the fight but not giving up. The jury in my head is still debating on this one ...

Editorial - 17 January 2002

Well we got into that LHSP server in a little more than an hour. I think Franky will be getting into it in more detail on Vendetta later on. I took some very crummy pictures (bad lighting, too lazy to take actual screenshots ...) and they might be included.
This brings us to that fact that I'm currently enjoying a "Bring Your Own Webserver Week !" at work. Due to lack of funds of one of our clients there's no budget for a testserver - needed to tackle some configurationproblems on the production machine. So I brought my own server ... I had to do something didn't I ?
Song of the week : "Hey Girl" Zornik - Gotta love that static noise when the Marshall amp kicks in
Oldie of the week : "Dream On" Aerosmith
Last seen movie : No movies last week - still recovering from the overdose I guess. I did buy the new Special Edition double disk DVDs of "Die Hard" and "Die Hard II". Not out yet in the rest of Europe, so it's extra special. Considering we usually get these things a lot later or in extra crummy editions.
Doing this week : Going to two Ultima Vez productions. I'll get into that later.

Editorial - 8 January 2002

Got milk ?
Song of the week : "Calibre" .Calibre
Oldie of the week : "Need Your Love So Bad" Fleetwood Mac
Last seen movie : I've seen three movies last week (hey, free tickets, I gotta use 'em). The first one up was "Don't Say A Word" : very typical Michael Douglas movie - the older he gets, the younger his children in the movie are - with a nice beginning, lousy middle and not completely satisfying ending because of the extreme sillyness of the whole psychological approach. Off course, there was no other way around that part of the story, but it still sucks. Once upon a time I've studied Psychology (didn't pass though) and I could easily recount some dumb facts used. I can only guess what real shrinks would think about it. I'm even sure laymen wouldn't fall for the used mumbo jumbo.
Two days later "Zoolander" seemed worth a visit. Hoping for some mindless entertainment I got more than I bargained for. Lots of extremely funny scenes. Definitely something to go see or rent on video/DVD. Featured lots of cameo's including David Bowie and Billy Zane ... Cocktails afterwards were nice too : Maffioso (sweet) and ABC (strong chocolate taste).
The next day we felt it was time to pay for "Lord Of The Rings : Fellowship Of The Ring" tickets. I really don't like the book in question. Too many boring details (all those songs, oh my God !) from an average writer with great imagination. I give him that, he has envisioned a very complex and broad universe, but that does not make him a good writer in my book. Anyway, you may differ on this point, no one likes the same things on an equal basis ... Well, at least I was amazed by the movie : all the boring details are left out and the pacing's a lot quicker than in the book. Even when considering this first movie already takes up 2 hours and 45 minutes ... Well done, Peter "Bad Taste Braindead" Jackson !
Doing this week : Having fun with the LHSP server ...

Editorial - 2 January 2002

Bizkit (the funkmeister as he likes to call himself) would like to welcome y'all back in the new year with the incredible news that there is no news yet. Actually he's kidding (as usual) because there is some news : Bizkit will be reappearing on this website on a regular basis. You might say he and his friends will be the head-honcho's around here. Something they think they are at home too ... big mistake off course. So go on and read the old editorials or click on the logo above for the other stuff ... or go away ... it's your life, time and bandwidth, ain't it ? Clicking on Bizkit's face will show you the fullframe bigger version (still only 44 Kb's). But do watch out for his angry reaction when you click to hard ... after all, he's still a bear.

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