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Welcome to the magnificient world of Francois Ozon! The director of "Swimming Pool" and "Water Drops on Burning Rocks" has created another controversial movie. The film starts with the divorce trial of Marion and Gilles. After the trial the former couple goes to a hotel room in order to perform the good-bye sex, but it ends up as Gilles raping Marion (I`m not gonna discuss whether I find it a perfect occasion for what they do). After that the film starts going backwards showing us the most critical moments of Giles` and Marion`s relationship. We see how they argue over Giles` homosexual brother, we see how Giles falls asleep on their wedding night and how Marion meets some English speaking guy in the park and does as if he was her new husband and not Giles. Then we switch over to some place near the sea where Giles and Marion become a couple. Apparantely there`s got to be 5 major scenes in the film, but I somehow remember only 4 of those but it doesn`t really matter. In comparison with other Ozon`s movies this one doesn`t offer anything particulary new. It`s more in the direction of "Water Drops" but not quite as daring (since no Fassbinder had written the script for it). It`s a bit disturbing to the eye - especially the rape scene, but that`s a thing you`d expect from Ozon.

Turpinu ceļojumu "mana tēva mūzikā". Kraftwerk manā dzīvē ienāca ar ierakstu "Radioaktivitat" (vācu versijā), bet "Autobahn" tur parādījās tikai līdz ar konkrētā diska parādīšanos manā krājumā.

Ja nu kaut ko es nevaru saprast, tas ir kāpēc man kādreiz Jethro Tull likās "mīksti" un smieklīgi. Šo ierakstu "iegādājos", domājot, ka šī grupa pieder kategorijai "hard rock" un to izdzirdis, padomāju, ka tā ir mazām meitenēm domāta flautu mūzika. Tikai ar laiku sapratu, ka "Aqualung" mūzika nebūt nav viegla un ka tikai es nebiju spējīgs to atbilstoši uztvert 16 gadu vecumā. Varbūt tur pie vainas ir flautas un akustiskās ģitāras izmantošana, jo tolaik man bija asociācija, ka smaga mūzika ir tāda, kas balstās uz dzelzs bungām un mežonīgām elektriskām ģitārām (par smagu mūziku uzskatot, piemēram, "Manowar", kas gan tā nopietni ņemot, ir daudz popsīgāki par šo Jethro Tull albūmu).

Edward Norton is an ex-skinhead leader that wants to stop his brother from following his footsteps. The film is quite strong although I have to admit that all the black characters lack depth. Though I don`t mean to tell that the movie has a racist message, of course it doesn`t. The basketball scene is lame, but nevermind that. At one stage it seemed to me that the film might have a compelety idiotic happy ending, but it didn`t, and that`s really good (not that the actual ending was that great but at least it didn`t smell likek saccharine).

"He`s gump, he`s gump, he`s kinda square" that`s what Weird Al Yankovic had to say about the main character in this movie. You certainly know that Tom Hanks won the second Oscar in a row for his performance in this film. And deservedly so! Forrest Gump was a new kind of American hero, being far from smart he was a very warm, heartfelt person, that participated in the most important events of modern history. Elvis Presley got his hip shaking style from Forrests leg fixators. He started the unveiling of the Watergate incident by a phone call. From Vietnam he came out as a hero. He even invented the smiley. And to do that he didn`t need anything more that a very kind heart and no understaning of the world. He fell in love with a girl from a no good family, he loved her all his life, although she thought that Forrest didn`t know what love is. Anyway, you know all this already. What I must say - seing this film now I knew much more about the events shown in the film and therefore it was much funnier for me than it once was. And much sadder as well.

The sweet milk in the lives of the Beatles starts turning sour. They get booed from the Phillipines because of not going to a party of the local dictator. Thus the Beatles managed accidentally (for they didn`t go there just because they were lazy) to avoid losing their face by playing for the dictator. The Beatles decide to stop touring for nobody listens to their concerts but only screams by looking at them. The Beatles record "Sergeant Pepper" - a real milestone in modern music which showed that rock`n`roll can be much more than just music for dancing. "Penny Lane" and especially "A Day in the Life". The latter is probably the greatest song the Beatles ever did, and boy did they do many great songs. This song was also the very first one to feature the line "I`d love to turn you on." What was also cool was Paul admitting to reporters of using drugs. But it was cool - they way he did - saying that it was the reporters and not him who talked about him using drugs thus telling the youth that their idols were on drugs and supporting them taking drugs themselves.

This book was something new for me in several aspects. First, it was the first book by R.S. I read. Not too surprising though, for he isn`t that popular. Second, never before had I read a book where characters occasionaly speak in yiddish. Not that I learned anything from that language, apart from "Meschugge" and "Kuss mech in toches" which I knew before this book. Then the contents of the book were really untrivial - it`s about modern days of Jews in Germany and about what people`s attitudes towards Germans are, what they think of themselves and of the others. The leading character is a man in his early seventies who can`t accept that he`s got cancer (because he hasn`t got cancer), who can`t accept that his son lives with a German woman (although he himself also lives with a German woman), and who doesn`t want to spend a rather big amount of money for his friends eye surgery. The interesting aspect for me was how the Jews draw a very strict line between themselves and the "gojim". For a partly Jewish person like myself it was quite a surprise, it was also interesting to read about the different approaches towards the state of Israel and towards the Palestinians the German jews have nowadays. As a pure work of art the book ain`t no slouch either, but it`s surely mostly the content and not the form that made the difference for me.

Formāli ņemot, šis Judas Priest albūms atrodas pašā pirmajā Mp3 diskā, kas parādījās manā kolekcijā. Oficiāli tā numurs gan ir 4, bet tieši šis ir disks ar Ļeņinu un uzrakstu: "Mp3 - eto ješe odna pobeda kommunizma!" uz vāciņa.

Ārprātīgi paredzama filma. Jau no pirmajām minūtēm bija skaidrs, ar ko tas viss beigsies.

This was the first book where Faulkner wrote about his favourite characters - Flem Snoups gets his first chance to shine in this book, but mainly it`s about one of the sons of the old colonel Sartoris that has returned from WW1 where his twin brother Johnny has died. The other one is a loony for sure who enjoys driving a car way too fast and who doesn`t care whether he lives or dies. Not an especially groundbreaking book, but at least easier to read than the one about the intruders in the dust. Still I won`t be rereading it I suppose.