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I`m not exactly the most romantic person in the whole wide world. But that doesn`t necesserialy imply that I can`t enjoy a good film "for ladies only". "The Notebook" is a typical example of such a film. An old man reads a romantic story to a woman that has lost her memory. The whole thing happens in a nursing home. It`s no big wonder to learn that the characters in the story and the old pair are the same people. Yet once again you don`t really need to be surprised. It`s interesting to watch even if you know what`s going to happen. This film ain`t flawless for sure - and I doubt that any melodrama in the whole wide world is. And it`s not a film that I would want to watch over and over again (not that were are many films I would). You can`t say that too many famous actors are involved in this film but that`s no problem either. So - watch it if you want to shead a tear while watching a film. In case you don`t and in case your eyes are hurting from sitting at a computer all day long - don`t. I`m going home, that`s for sure. And there`s no use stopping me.

Tā kā mani apraksti lielākoties sastāv no manas dzīves atstāstījuma, būtu grēks nepieminēt, no kurienes es pazīstu Rodžeru Žeļazniju (kā autoru). Patiesībā nekā daudz, ko stāstīt, nav - kaut kad vēl skolas laikos es iepazinos ar tā saukto "Moškova bibliotēku" - lielāko Krievijas interneta bibliotēku, kur vismaz tolaik pilnībā tika ignorēts tāds jēdziens kā autortiesības. Un šajā bibliotēkā bija tops ar vislabāk novērtētajām grāmatām. Un šajā topā 10niekā bija vairāki Žeļaznija darbi.

Atzīšos - mana iecere noklausīties visus manā kolekcijā esošos ierakstus ir debīla un pašnāvnieciska. It īpaši tas attiecas uz "agrīnajiem" metāla diskiem.

I am slowly turning into a computer nerd. Some may think that I am one already but watching films about the youth of Bill Gates surely is a sick thing. Anyhow Bill Gates isn`t really the main star of this film. It`s Steve Jobs, the man that created "Apple" we want to see. And no wonder - in comparison to the pale dorky Gates Jobs looks like a Jesus-like creature, a very complex person with its good and bad sides but certainly a Man and not a mouse. The film didn`t have a big budget and it surely didn`t have a perfect script. The actors are quite good though and I won`t even complain about the fact that the computer freaks look too much like hippies to me. The funny thing that Bill Gates is played by an actor whom I`ve only seen in "Freddy got fingered". In case you don`t know Tom Green is also connected with Bill Gates - he once swam across a lake that the wealthiest man in the world owns. Update: I found out that Anthony Michael Hall also appears in "The Breakfast Club", one of the most famous films of 1985 where he plays a dorky kid. I don`t know why anyone who doesn`t care for computers would want to see this film but I learned a lot from it. For instance, that not "Windows" wasn stolen from the Macintosh but that the Mac itself was just a copy of what people at "Xerox" were doing at the same time. Yeah, and DOS also wasn`t created by good ol` Bill and his pals but bought for 50 grand off a weirdo.

ZZ Top ir vislabāk zināmi bārdu dēļ. Bārdas viņiem varbūt nav tik kuplas kā Krišjānim Baronam, taču noteikti garākas. Un tas jau šo to liecina. Muzikāli viņi vienmēr ir bijuši blūzā un bugijā bāzēti rokeri, kas nav aizrāvušies ar sarežģītām kompozīcijām un kuru dziesmu tematika reti sniegusi pāri dažādu sievietes ķermeņa daļu apdziedāšanai.

"Roždennij v SSSR", vismaz kā es to saprotu, ir atbilde uz Brūsa Springstīna "Born in the USA". Tā kā man arī Springstīna veikums ir salīdzinoši vienaldzīgs, tad gaidīt kaut ko milzīgu no atbildes varētu būt naivi, vai ne?

Man, is my memory twisted like Elvis`s ankles! How on earth could I forget whilst rebuilding my long suffering factoid about the existence of this jolly good book! Apparently this Dahl fellow used to write stories for children. Not to be monotonous he also wrote some short stories for the bigger audience that doesn`t wet it`s pants quite so often (unless being drunk as shit, if you ask me). So, there`s quite a lot of those stories in this book. They are slightly in o`Henri`s manner - having a twisted, quite unexpected ending to something what you`d call quite regular. Or not regular, as a matter of fact. There`s one about a wife who`s husband had cheated on her - she kills him with a frozen lambs leg and feeds the weapon on death to the arrived policemen who are looking for the exact same thing. Then there`s a guy who has a bet on whether he can guess the exact brand of a wine (which he already knows). I personally liked one about some person that has lost his money in a debt and tries jumping of a ship so to be able to win the bet, but he doesn`t succeed at that, as you could probably guess. And last but not least there`s the "Automatic Writer" (or something like that) about a computer whiz who creates a machine that can write short stories and novels. You`re bound to laugh your behind off upon reading this - unless you`re some freak that has no behind at all. By the way, I read somewhere that Dahl was the writer who wrote about the most interesting ways to die. The only problem is - where have I misplaced this book? I absolutely must find it!

It`s been a while since I last saw a war movie. And it`s been a while since I last wanted to see a war film. If I had it my way I`d never watch this film at all. Why not? I`m not particulary interested in the Soviet war in Afganisthan, nor do I have a need to see Russians fighting each other all the time. The film was so boring that I couldn`t really force myself to watch it. The film is trivial as an empty set - it starts with few young guys that have just joined the army sent to a boot camp, which is full of the beautiful experience Russians call "dedovshina" - you`re told that you are shit and that you are only good enough for dying. Then they go to war, and in the end only one of them survives after heroically performed a mission that noone really needs. It`s a bit similar to me - I watched this film and that was a pain in the ass, but nobody really needed me to overgo it.

Lasot šo Viktora Jerofejeva memuārisko grāmatu, es saskāros ar tipisku problēmu, kas mani mēdz piemeklēt dažādu rakstnieku sakarā - es parasti lasu tikai tādu cilvēku memuārus, kuru faktiskos darbus es nemaz nepazīstu. Un šis ir vistipiskākais gadījums. Maksimums, ko es varētu teikt par Viktoru Jerofejevu, ir tas, ka viņa vārdu es kaut kur esmu dzirdējis.

Reti, bet tomēr gadās uztrāpīties uz filmām, kuras spēj tevi patiešām pārsteigt un izrādīties nebūt ne tādas, kā tu būtu gaidījis.