I post this so others don’t have to go through hours of painful hardware research, not because I think it is a particularly interesting story. If you just bought a new, large harddrive which is running inexplicably slow in windows, this story is for you. If you didn’t, it’s not. The players in this particular […]
8 Der dicke Mann mit dem Ziegenbart nickt missmutig, als ich ihn frage, ob ich das Austellungsstück kaufen kann. Jetzt muss er auf eine Leiter steigen und mir den Hasenohrenkarton herunterholen, und das mag der dicke Mann nicht so gerne. Er holt ihn natürlich trotzdem und bringt ihn schnaufend an die Kasse, wo ich die […]
Not before I looked the movie up on IMDB did I realize that the reason the main character looked familiar was that I had just seen him in Zatoichi, playing the title blind swordsman. As with Zatoichi, Kitano wrote the script, directed and played the lead in Kikujiro, the odd tale of a summer vacation […]
Come Oscar time, I usually display a reasonable level of excitement, and like to watch the ceremony if possible. This year, however, like all his other urban slacker fans – to paraphrase O’Reilly – I absolutely had to, because Jon Stewart hosted, promising more than the usual detached entertainment narrative for a show that is, […]
An interesting anecdote which maybe doesn’t sum up this volume of writing advice, but certainly illuminates it, has Mozart being asked for hints on symphony composition by a young, aspiring composer. He advises to start with small pieces and work up, and when the composer is confused by this and points out that Mozart himself […]
The best martial arts movies combine poetry and action into something unique, and boy, does this one ever succeed at it. At once a parody of the genre, and a masterful example of it, humor and inventiveness make this an exhilarating masterpiece. The feeling of sheer delight was heightened considerably by the fact that for […]
Chomsky doesn’t deserve the movies made about him. Manufacturing Consent was an adequate representation in both content and style of the man who often appears to be the only sane person in a large room full of fanatics, but Distorted Morality and Power and Terror, both done by Jon Junkerman, are little more than badly […]
Als ich um die Ecke biege, sitzt er da, vielleicht zwei Meter entfernt, und inspiziert einen halbzerkrümelten Keks. Das bindet seine Aufmerksamkeit so sehr, dass ich die Entfernung halbiert habe, ehe er mich bemerkt. “Tenki-wa atsui desu”, murmle ich im abwesenden Zwiegespräch mit dem Ipod, dann “Iie, tenki-wa samui desu”. Sprachlehrganghohlheiten sind keine Kekse, aber […]
I knew I had seen and loved it, but as with Shortcuts, I couldn’t remember a thing. Now, memory is an odd fellow, and often you’ll immediately recognize what you couldn’t actively remember – but not me, in this case. Every part of it was just as fresh and new as it was when I […]