August 2006 Archives
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The opening shot (of a movie) can tell us a lot about how to interpret what follows. It can even be the whole movie in miniature. I'm going to talk about some of my favorites...
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Odd band supporting Radiohead
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Morena Baccarin accepts on behalf of Joss Whedon, and reads his acceptance speech which is as funny as ever.
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Irishman with pretty voice doing well on Aussie idol
A nifty application at u2-vertigo-tour.com lists all the songs you've heard live once you feed it the concerts you've been to. I've seen the band live 50 times (that's if I remember correctly). My full list after the break...
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UK version of well known tech blog
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Dark comedy about a fictional California suburb and its residents, a handful of whom are involved in the distribution and consumption of cannabis.
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I love this show, screw the awful Hell's Kitchen. Gordon Ramsey finds the right balance here, not all ogre.
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pope vs lizard
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'leuke uitzendingen van de publieke omroep'
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Gustav Mahler was particularly fond of Holland, apparently.
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'Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit is ending its 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise's film production company because of the actor's offscreen behavior.'
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Online digital image editing (Dutch)
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emerging Dutch electro pop outfit
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Poor Babar!
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human skateboard
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Music sounds better than the name suggests
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Made this for dinner today. I'd sieve the bean puree next time.
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Grace Dent writes what I think. '...there is no other housemate who has weathered as many storms or progressed as far as Ash has during BB7.'
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Heh. Good one. If you get this, you need to step away from the computer.
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Gossip blog
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Send any size file to anyone, free!
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Waarom kunnen we niet deeplinken naar pagina's in uitzendinggemist.nl? Weg met die ingebouwde refresh svp. (tijd voor een grassroots actie)
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Oh geez, must check my laptop.
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Japanese Construction Worker Fashion
Yesterday evening at the pub quiz for some reason we started singing Sir Mix-A-Lot's 'Baby got back'. I hadn't heard it in years. Made me want to download it, though. But I forgot about it.
Tonight I'm watching my download of the audition rounds of Australian idol S4, and Kyle and Mark suddenly start singing the same song. So I'm reminded of it again and I download it.
Now I'm reading the frontpage of ask.Mefi and my eye falls on a username: _sirmissalot_.
That's all.
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Always nice to get published.
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Cool new series with lots of familar faces.
I don't go to my P.O. box very often, which is why I only picked up this card today,. It was sent from Toronto (or, as the senders says on the back of it 'New York without the dirt') for my birthday back in April.
I've been at home, mostly in bed, for the last week. Getting this on my first day out really cheered me up.
Mounties rule.
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'For as many authors as you want, as many blogs as you want, you can just go get it.'
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'Men in white coats' song (apparently used in VW Eos advertising). Sounds like Pink Floyd.
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Great photoset on Flickr
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Dutch signage at Waterloo Station in London
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Flippin'ell, Sylvian (Jansen) brothers have got good genes.
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Bauhaus pictures from the Lokeren show
For the past couple of weeks I have been mostly blogging at Vox, where I can set my posts to 'private / friends / family'. Yeah, like LiveJournal, but I've never felt at home at LiveJournal - it doesn't look or feel like blogging to me there, and I've never got my head around its bizarre GUI.
Back when I started (98/99) blogging appealed to me because of the small and friendly community of people involved in it. A couple of hundred webheads, mostly American. When blogging spread and reached The Netherlands, things quickly got nasty.
The second wave of early Dutch bloggers took delight in bullying. I quit my Dutch blog very soon after and retreated back to my English blog(s) where things were still quite peaceful. And then blogging went world wide, it went A/N, it went political, it went... fucking mental. And part of me went: 'oh, you're no fun anymore'.
In an article in Time Out Chicago Mena Trott says:
“Being online can be fun. We want to capture that. This is supposed to be pleasurable. If you want to write posts that never get troll comments, that are just for your friends, that’s completely acceptable.”
“What we’re trying to capture is how we felt about blogging in 1999, 2000, 2001.
“That your community is small enough that you’re just with people who care about you. You’re communicating with people you know. And that’s a way to express yourself more.”
And that's exactly how I feel. So I'm blogging at VOX for the smallest group of people you can imagine and it doesn't matter because I stopped caring about readership numbers (which have dwindled dramatically) on my personal weblog quite some time ago.
I still have to figure out what to do with eachman.com, but I may just make it a link or aggregate blog.
Italian Prunes/Siouxsie wannabes Chants of Maldoror weren't the most original band to ever grace the Tivoli stage, but at least singer Adolphe presented himself to the audience, which is more than can be said of Bauhaus' Mr Peter Murphy, who moped at the side and the back of the stage in the shadows, having conceded his spot centre stage to guitarist (and second huge ego in the band) Daniel Ash.
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'Send any size file to anyone, free' (recommended by a colleague)
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A German cultural primer for Gavin Friday fans. For the bewitched, bothered and bewildered.
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... and sometimes I wish it was still like that.
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Yay. My Sorkin fix.
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New official site
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Big Brother UK's Pete's mum was in the Brilliant Strings Quarted with Gini Ball.
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A four-disc box set titled The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, due October 24 on Shout! Factory.
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"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am"
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Confusing visual to separate boys from men
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I don't know where this is, but I want to go there.
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Shoot bubbles
I wish there was a way on Flickr to upload a batch of photos temporarily, without them appearing in your photostream. So you can look at them, rotate them, whatever, and then tick off the ones you want to add to your stream, and the ones you want to delete. That's all.
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Tons of people cover Love will tear us apart
It's past 1 AM, I have to be up at 6.30 and I have 9 minutes left on my 400+ kB/s download of the 'leaked' Studio 60 on Sunset Strip pilot.
Damn the consequences, I'm waiting for it to finish and then I'm watching it.
For those of you who don't know, Studio 60 is the new TV show by Aaron Sorkin, the man who created The West Wing. He's been away from TV since, what was it, Season 5 of TWW? I may have missed his presence on TV more than I have missed Joss Whedon's.
3 minutes 29 to go.
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Not that I care anymore.
My own videos came out shite, so here's one I found on YouTube.
(Image nicked from ModSue)
That's us, lazing about in Dublin, undecided about what to go see or do. ('I know, let's go over to the east side of the jungle. There's always a bit of action, a bit of swinging scene, alright?').
But really, in five days we saw two shows, went to the IMMA (modern art) and the Casino at Marino (18th century outhouse), had another extravagant lunch at L'Ecrivain, sampled the food and drink at various places such as the Octagon bar, Nude, Good World, Mulligan's and what not. Mostly the Octagon bar. Why? Because it's quiet, because they serve great food and have the best cocktails. I'm not sure the staff appreciated our ten hour session ('I'd like some ice cream, please.' 'NO.'), but hey, it wasn't like the place was teeming with punters.
In contrast, it appeared many of the other hotel guests never left the horrible hotel bar, with its round the clock play by numbers Irish didleyaye and dancing.
Ronnie Drew, I love ye, but there's only so much I can take.
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A redesign at long last! But it still looks like the mid-nineties.
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Dutch band do their version of Bob Dylan's Subterranian Homesick Blues video.
Oh why didn't I get one of these yonks ago? These Canon photo printers don't really cost all that much and the quality is just stunning. I splashed out on the 'pro' type photo paper and an extra set of ink cartridges that should last me a good while.
It's fun to play with while I'm recuperating from week that was.