Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

Dīvaini, ka es nebiju iepriekš ievērojis, ka šī grupa ir kārtējie vāciešu power metālisti iz Helloween un Accept nometnes. Tāpat dīvaini, ka man no viņu šī albūma dziesmām tā sauktajās "Kazhe collection" izlasēs bija iekļauta kompozīcija "War in the gutter", kas patiesībā ir diezgan nebaudāms skaņdarbs.

Fritz Lang. Does this name ring a bell for you? This is the director of "Metropolis" - the first feature-length sci-fi movie. He also directed this film that`s according to IMDB is the 49th greatest film ever. If I told you that it was made in 1931 you`d probably undestand that a film like this is quite hard to judge. Do you consider that old films deserve better ratings just because at the time nothing better was made? Or do you expect that a really good film will be able to stand out even 100 years after it was made? The storyline: a child murderer is plaguing the city of Berlin in something like 1930. The police can`t do nothing about him, so the regular criminals - thieves, burglars and other riff-raff - decide to catch him themselves. For the first half of the film Hans Beckert (the murderer) is on a hunt of little girls but after that he himself becomes the hunted. What`s weird is the sound - back in 1931 it was probably a common thing but I have never experienced a film that had only the sounds of people talking but no sounds of them walking or something like. There`s no music, there`s no city sounds, there`s absolutely nothing. Did I like it? Well, it was a bit too long for a film this old. The idea itself was a good one, but you can`t expect the level of suspence to be very high in a film that was made before WW2.

This is crap! Johnny Knoxville and Sean William Scott are two idiots living in the South of the US of A and they know how to have a good time - selling illegal alcohol and being chased by mad fathers with guns after they`ve made out with the daughters is the perfect plan for the Duke brothers. They also have a cousine named Daisy who`s played by pop star Jessica Simpson and that should only do porn movies - big tits she has, acting talen`t she hasn`t. Man, was her acting lame! Willie Nelson and Burt Reynolds also take part in the film but they are only better than Jessica. As a matter of fact no one would be worse than her. Only Pamela Anderson probably. There`s nothing more to say than this is a bullshit film for rednecks. I am not a redneck, so I say - it`s worse than bad, it`s worse than worse than bad. Even Sean William Scott has participated in better films, and he ain`t no Johnny Depp for sure.

"Skriešana ar šķērēm" mani pirmā pa īstam iepazīstināja ar Veirdu El Jankoviču - pirms tam biju redzējis "Smells like Nirvana" videoklipu un noklausījies kaut kādu aizdomīgu izlasi, kurā kā vēlāk izrādījās, gandrīz pusi dziesmu neizpildīja pats Veirds.

Nule esmu nonācis tik tālu, ka klausos Pantera. Tiek apgalvots, ka šīs grupas skanējums esot tāds, kāds būtu bijis Metallica`i, ja Hetfīlds un kompānija nebūt pārdevušies industrijai. Un te patiešām jāpiekrīt - uz kompromisiem Pantera neiziet un ar milnu pa galvu bliež bez pārtraukumiem (iedomāties mūsdienu Metalikas albūmā tādu kompozīciju kā "Fucking Hostile" patiešām būtu pagrūti, lai arī kāds nu 1992. gads ir mūsdienas?). Pa brīžam Pantera gan arī dara to pašu, kas patīk Hetfīldam - spēlē uz klausītāju emocionālakajām notīm, piemēram, kompozīcija Hollow savā pirmajā minūtē izklausās pēc kaut kāda "Pearl Jam", tiesa pēcāk atgriežas Panteras tipiskais skanējums. Ir skaidrs, ka lai klausītos šādu mūziku ir jābūt pārliecinātam Metalheadam, kāds es tomēr neesmu, līdz ar to ar pāris šī albūma noklausīšanās reizēm man bija vairāk nekā pietiekami, lai saprastu, ka nē - es negribu kļūt par Pantera cienītāju. Man labāk patīk Rozā pantēra, nekā šī blice, lai arī es varu piekrist, ka, piemēram, "Mouth for war" ir tīri forša melodija un ka "This love" ir interesanti apvienota balāde ar sātanisko rēkšanu. Bet mīnuss ir tāds, ka ķērcošie sātaniskie metālisti man vienmēr ir diezgan izteikti dergušies un Pantera šajā ziņā nav izņēmums, un man ir pie kājas, ka žurnāls Q ir šo ierakstu nosaucis par vienu no visu laiku 50 smagākajiem albūmiem. Lai jau. Es to nenosaukšu par vienu 50 labākajiem, ko šogad būšu noklausījies - un, lūdzu, iesūdziet mani par to!

Wild thing - you make my heart sing! That`s the song you most probably know The Troggs for. And you`ve also heard a cover of their another song - "Love is all around" was done by "Wet Wet Wet". But none of these tracks can be found in a "Mixed Bag". No, Mr. Mister! But that doesn`t mean that you won`t find anything useful in this bag. If you happen to be a romantic person you`ll probably find something in "You can cry if you want to" which goes in the same vein as "Love is all around". "Say Darlin`" is dumb but fun. "Marbles and some gun" is a typical song for an oldies collection. So is "Little Girl". "Purple shades" is a bit better than the two songs preceeding it. "Heads or Tails" is the most likely candidate for being the best song on the record, although it is also primitive like hell. "Hip Hip Horray" is good, although dumb once again. Yet who would await anything else from some troggs?

Ar šo grāmatu man saistās divi stāsti. Viens - komisks. Otrs - pilnīgi nekāds.

Tikko atgriezusies no Ēģiptes, Liene man paziņoja: dabū Lava-Lava! Tikko neatgriezies no Ēģiptes, es atbildēju ar jautājumu: Kas tas tāds?

Yuri Norstein, a Russian animator and animation director was the evil mastermind behind this cartoon. If you haven`t seen the "Hedgehog in the fog" you`ll have no idea what this is all about, but here you have a cartoon that for the most time looks like it was a moving picture by a great artist and not just a collection of images out of a comic book. Would you like me to tell you the storyline? I`d do that in a second if I knew where to begin. First, there`s a little wolf that watches everything and steals a piece of paper from a poet, but that paper turns into a baby. Then there`s girl playing with a bull. Then there`s a fisherman. There`s a baby feeding from his mom`s breast. But it all doesn`t make much sense. Oh, I forgot about a little boy eating an apple and dreaming of himself sitting on a trea and sharing his apple to crows. Damn, does this sound weird. I bet you didn`t get the story. Well, in that case you got it. It`s beautifully animated, it`s totally strange, it`s what soviet animation sometimes was like and its what American animation rarely managed to be. It`s ART.

It took me some time to get a hold of this book. You see, it never got published in Latvian and it can not be bought in Russian. As far as I`ve understood it`s banned or something like that. Weird things happen in the world. It`s not that scandalous - just a very good book. Anyhow there are three parallel stories taking place on the pages of this book. Or are there just two of them? Or is it four? I`m not so sure. The central line tells us about Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta - two Indian actors who survive a air-plane explosion and after that they somehow turn into respectively Satan and arch-angel Gabriel (Shaitan and Gibreel for the muslims). But the angel isn`t that good and satan that bad. Probably what bugged the muslims the most is another part of the story which tells us about Mahound (Mohammed) and his revelations from Gibreel (this story comes to Farishta in his sleep). It`s actually a bit similar with what Bulgakov wrote about Jesus. And the third story line is about Ayesha - a young woman that leads her whole village to Mecca on a pilgrimage. What`s weird is the outcome - you can`t really say, whether the ending was or wasn`t a lucky one for the pilgrims. This was certainly not an easy reading task by any means - Rushdie`s writing style, his choice of words, his structure of sentences aren`t easy to handle for a person like me that`s not too strong in English, but it was most certainly worth it. It was worth the time, the effort, for "Everything will be asked from us and everything will be given."