| Editorial - 25 July 2005 |
| Kinda tired right now. Been re-organising the bedroom all weekend. Removed all
furniture, mopped walls and floor, cleaned out the cabinets, removed clothes I'm no longer wearing ...
All the stuff you should do at least once a year. I'm already glad I downsized my clutter with one big
cardboard box but I'm sure I'm going through a few things in a month's time and remove some extra stuff.
I saw some things I'm dumping too if I'm not wearing them in the coming weeks which will be filled with
a lot of sunshine. I hope we're having sunshine. Anyway, about the tiredness, the slight muscle-ache, the kind you get from doing the same thing too much like use a short broom or vacuumcleaner, walk the same distance over and over ... It did give me a good night's rest. Song of the week : ----- Oldie of the week : ----- Last seen movie : "Constantine" : Rewatched it on DVD. "The Hunter" : comments are being written. "The Final Cut" : comments are being written. "Babe" : comments are being written. "Runaway" : comments are being written. Doing this week : Clean up some more, there's more stuff to do. Oh yeah, and install the new radio- and cd-player in my car. Bought one of my own now (with MP3 and WMA capability) so I can give back the one I've been borrowing from my boss. Thanks boss ! |
| Editorial - 21 July 2005 |
| Belgium celebrates its 175th birthday today. After centuries of spanish and french rulers, we kicked the last dutch rulers out and started a nation of our own. Many cool and stupid things have happened in those 175 years, but you can google all that on the internet. I'm just gonna say I enjoyed being able to send free cards and letters today. Every handwritten card and letter you post today will be delivered for free. A nice gift from the belgian post-office which almost makes up for getting my mail undelivered three times already this year. |
| Editorial - 20 July 2005 | ||
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36 years ago mankind first set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong landed his moonboot in the celestial dust and spoke a few wellknown words and made history. But after him many others followed. Google has created a map where you can see all those spots and zoom in and out. And it wouldn't be Google if there wasn't a small gag hidden : zoom in completely and see what happens. | |
| Editorial - 19 July 2005 |
While surfing eBay yesterday and visiting the numerous links left
behind there, I found out that NIN had a brilliant marketing-campaign set up to announce
their summer tour this year. Unfortunately the company whose artwork was being copied wasn't
amused and banned them from using it. A few prints were already made and are awaiting
immortality in a collector's archive. I'll bet they'll end up being sold on eBay in a few years
time for more than what they're going now.
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| Editorial - 18 July 2005 |
| Man, it looks like I'm getting hay fever. I thought you didn't get it
anymore once you're passed let's say 25 ? Thought you were safe then. Dammit. Have been sneezing
for a week now and my nose has been either clooged up or dripping the past 2 days. Went to the
docoto this morning and got some pills. We'll see what happens. Song of the week : ----- Oldie of the week : ----- Last seen movie : "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" : Having read the book as a kid, I still remember how I enjoyed seeing the original movie - even if it wasn't exactly the same as the book. By then a little fan of Gene Wilder (whose comedies were on tv all the time) him portraying Willie Wonka was brilliant. At first I shuddered at the idea of a remake, but when I read that Tim Burton was going to do it, I couldn't wait. Like a lot of people I'm a big fan of his weird and colorful movies. Especially when he throws Johnny Depp in the mix : one of the best actors around. Depp plays Wonka as a pale-faced recluse with a children's television way of speaking : a little familiar, a little belittling. Supported by a good cast who portray the stereotypical characters as precise as possible, Depp walks a thin line between sillyness and hamming it up. Sometimes he's a little over the line, but usually he falls back on his feet with the next sentence. Burton created a wonderfully colorful world with as much real stages as possible. There's not a big deal of computer-effects in it. He thought that real soundstages would make the child-actors feel more at ease and enhance the performance. As usual he was right. Combined with any kind of music-genre you can think of, the story rolls along until the end. Leaving you singing "willie wonka, willie wonka" for several days. "Chocolat" : Two Johnny Depp movies about candy in one weekend ? Sure, why not ? As he's one of my favorite current actors and I was told this was a great movie, it was time to pop the DVD in the player and enjoy a romantic feel good movie about some kind of modern fairytale where a woman and her daughter enter a village in France and open up a very special chocolate-shop. Some deeply christian citizens think it's against god's wil to open up a shop like this during the 40 days before Easter, but she has other intentions with her treats than just make people eat and eat a lot. Her chocolate is supposed to fix relationships and people. Somehow I wanted to live in that little town by the river and go to the shop and get what was best for me ... "Ray" : A few years before his death Ray Charles was asked if he'd like to cooperate on a movie about his life. Just before his death in 2004, the first cut was finished and he got to "see" that version. According to several sources he wept for all the harm he had caused some people. Because Ray Charles may have made the most heavenly blues, gospel and soul music imaginable, in real life he was stubborn, manipulative and a control-freak. Accepting his mistakes he gave the go-ahead to this movie and that's why we can see one of the most beautiful portraits of a man ever filmed. No matter what mistakes he sometimes made, you can't help but love the man when the credits roll. Lifting the black man from a puppet on a string into the genius behind the strings, Ray changed the way a white-man's America looked at the black man's music-genres. Revolutionising the music-business by keeping control of his own music, he paved the way for other musicians to make the kind of music they want ... and not what was going to sell the most. Doing this week : The movie-reviews are going nicely, worked back a few months and enhanced existing ones and added a few. Let's keep it up. |
| Editorial - 11 July 2005 |
| Still at work right now. Going a little slow. I have two major updates
to do but can't continue testing until there are prices set in the system. Testing the purchasing
without products would be dumb wouldn't it ? So I thought I'd finish some stats for several partners,
but the stats-server is undergoing a rehaul ... this day was a bummer. Song of the week : "Don't Let Them Get You Down" Tom Helsen Oldie of the week : "Don't You Want Me ?" Human League Last seen movie : "5x2" : Latest film of french directorial genius François Ozon. It's supposed to be the story of a couple (2) told in a series of flashbacks (5) of the most important parts of their relationship. Told in reverse order : first the divorce, than the argueing, the baby being born, the marriage and it ends with the joyful getting to know eachother. The idea behind reversing the story is that the sad story of two people destroying their relationship now leads towards a happy ending, namely the beginning of a new love. But its just isn't that way. All you get throughout the movie are weird scenes with some strange behaviour of both the man and the woman. It's a typical french movie with a rape, experiments with gays, dishonesty, parents argueing, unfair behaviour during labour, adultery, cheating ... It's too numerous to mention and it certainly destroyed half of the power of the movie for me. This could've been so much better if these two people would've been a normal couple without all the extravagant soap-opera storylines. Just two normal people in a relationship that falls apart. That would've enhanced the point of reversing the order, it would've made the pain so much more real. All I could think now was "why is he such a jerk ?" and "what a slut !". And that, ladies and gentlemen, can not be the kind of emotion that you're supposed to feel. Damn, I really would have liked to be able to say that this movie was fantastic. I'll have to leave it at "good". Doing this week : Finish some movie-reviews. As I'm writing shorter ones these days, it shouldn't be that hard, should it ? |
| Editorial - 10 July 2005 |
When I was a little younger, less concerned about my physical health and
thus a bit more crazy I used to skate a lot. Let's say I had my two feet on a board since I was
10 until I was around 19. Acting more and more like the depressed student I quit skating for a
while - don't know why, I just did - until I picked it up again between the age of 24 and 27. Alas,
being older and less flexible my knee started to act up real fast and it became apparent that I'd
better quit before I busted it. Looked like I had been walking on a half-busted knee for a few years.
Stopped right on time when I was a teenager. Now, before you start thinking "what the hell do I
care ?" ... this is just an introduction to the man who doesn't care if his whole leg is in a cast,
if his back is nearly broken or whether his ankle, shoulder, neck or knee is either twisted, sore,
busted, broken or bruised ... he'll skate anything, any time, anywhere.  |
| Editorial - 7 July 2005 | ||||
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And there we go again ... one day after the decision to give London the 2012 Olympic Games, some idiots think it's necessary to bomb the shit out of the working joe's and jane's (picture-sets 1 and 2) in the subway and busses. At first there was a lot of confusion, when busses exploded it became clear it couldn't be a powersurge and now in the afternoon the death-toll is rising. I'm going home to watch the news. What else is there to do ? |  |
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| Ever seen a monkey ride a bicycle ? No ? Well, maybe they can't and maybe they shouldn't. Unless they work in the circus. | ||||
| Editorial - 5 July 2005 |
| Got back sunday-night from the Werchter festivalground. Tired, broken, sunburnt and smelly. No matter how
great the campingsite, you'll always stink
like hell after a few days of concerts, too little sleep and damp conditions in your tent while
drying whatever got rained on. At least we didn't get too much rain and the weekend ended under
the blistering sun. But it already seems to be the last day of sun, as we're getting rain and rain
the last two days. And it doesn't seem to be getting any better soon. Song of the week : "Vitamin" Kraftwerk Oldie of the week : "Something I Can Never Have" Nine Inch Nails Last seen movie : In my opinion, some concerts I saw should be televised completely. And not just streamed in small pieces for the people who stayed at home ... show 'em now ! Gimme the DVD ! Doing this week : Clean. Wash. Sleep. Rest. Heal. |
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