Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

Šo Metalikas ierakstu nedaudz saīsinātā veidā - 80 minūšu apjomā, biju pat iecepis matricā, kas liek domāt, ka savulaik biju radikāls Metallica cienītājs. Protams, ka vienīgais iemesls kaut ko tādu klausīties, bija apziņa, ka Metallica ir mega stilīga metālistu grupa, par kuru fano visi krutie ļaudis.

Michael Moore is the director of "Bowling for Columbine" and in this film he still shows his documental style to criticize American government, and George W. Bush in person. Of course, Moore isn`t particulary neutral, you can simply feel how much he hates GWB and how much support he puts into the democratic party thus showing that there`s a choice between good and bad in the states, and I can`t really aprove it. But what the film shows is some cool things - starting from 2001/9/11, switching into the war in Afganisthan, over to Iraq and to Bushes interests in the Saudi Arabia - a country which brought Osama Bin Laden to the world. This film certainly is controversial, and it didn`t win the palm at the Cannes film festival for no reason, but in comparison to the Bowlind movie it isn`t extremely strong, for it lacks the horrorous feeling of watching something unexpected. Most of these things Moore shows in this movie are already known to a wide audience, and for me in person. But what was good - it was an American soldier singing "Fire Water Burn" by the Bloodhound Gang as a patriotic piece of music in order to keep the spirit of the soldiers up.

I`m not quite sure why I never watched this film earlier. Probably it`s because of the title - I`m not a sucker for films with the word "American" in the title. This is certainly a film that doesn`t easily fall into any category. The film starts with Kevin Spacey masturbating in the shower. Mainly the film is about the meaning of peoples lives - what content our lives have, what we leave behind, what do we think we are, what are we in the eyes of the others, what can we do in order to change our lives, etc, etc. It doesn`t provide real answers, it doesn`t try to moralise about things and feelings, its just a very powerful film. Lester doesn`t love his wife anymore, and he falls in love with his daughters she-friend. The daughter meanwhile creeps out of her goth shell into love with a weird guy who lives next door and who`s father happens to be a homophobic army man. The weirdo is a drug dealer whos main hobby is filming things that he finds beautiful - including the legendary dancing bag sequence. It`s surely the first great film I`ve seen this year, but I hope its not gonna be the last.

It took me some time to figure it out where I first heard the name "August Strindberg". And finally I realised that it was the title of a play by Duerrenmatt "Play Strindberg" where I heard it first. A brief research in Wikepedia told me that Strindberg was a Swedish novelist who lived in late 19th, early 20th century and was a major force in Swedish literature. He`s mostly famous for his dramatic work, but "The Red Room" was the book that brought him fame. Strindberg can be classified as a satirical realist who balances on the line between communism and anarchism, yet prefers the second to the first. This book we`re talking about isn`t really too interesting on the first glance - the characters are kinda weird, the story goes pretty much nowhere, only to prove that bourgeous pigs suck big time. It`s no big shakes for me. The central figure in this book is a fellow who has a rich brother but he himself is a silly idealist, who can`t compete with the capitalist pigs, and has to suffer. Other people around him are more or less normal people - they know good from bad but they also try not to drown. Apart from a young man named Ulle who commits suicide. His last note is surely the best thing in the entire book and it provided me with a thing to think about. He makes fun of some of the ten commandments. For instance, he says - that the first commandment which says that God shall be the only God you shall serve clearly states that there ARE other gods. And why would a God so great care about whether someone uses his name without a need? Isn`t that a silly thing that no God would find that important to give it as one of the ten commandments which every man and woman should follow? Yet apart from this part about the commandments the book isn`t too interesting.

Šī Marka Tvena grāmata aizsāk kārtējo projektu (šoreiz gan diezgan īslaicīgu) manā dzīvē - pievēršanos grāmatām, kuras esmu jau lasījis, bet par kurām labprāt uzzinātu savu tagadējo viedokli.

Kā manā mūzikas ierakstu kolekcijā nokļuva šis Ministry albūms, es atceros ļoti labi. To ieguvu tikai tālab, ka uzskatīju to par parodiju par Pink Floyd "Dark side of the moon", turklāt tolaik, protams, neiedomājos, ka "Dark side of the spoon" varētu ar PF īpaši saistīts nebūt, bet gan tulkojumā uz latviešu valodu nozīmēt "heroīna lietošanas negatīvā puse". Un to tas visticamākais arī nozīmē, lai gan viena lieta Ministry "Dark Side" un PF "Dark Side" ir kopīga - diezgan pesimistisks un paranojas pārņemts skatījums uz pasauli. Tikai Pink Floyd nekad nav spēlējuši industriālo metālu, tāds mazs sīkumiņš. Tikām "Ministry" ir viena no lielākajām šī stila blicēm. Īpaši simpātisks šāds metāla veids man gan nav nekad šķitis, jo tajā nav tā vienīgā elementa, kas man patiešām patīk labā metālā - sarežģītu melodiju spēlēšana milzīgā ātrumā. Tā vietā Ministry piedāvā mūziku, kādu būtu varējuši spēlēt Depeche Mode, ja viņi new wave stila sintezatoru vietā būtu izvēlējušies šāda stila virzienu. Plus, ja Depeche Mode nebūtu rūpīgi domājuši par melodijām (tā ka paralēles drīzāk būtu velkamas ar mūsdienu, nevis 80-to gadu DM). Par ko šajā albūmā dzied Als Jorgensons?

Stephen King meets Johnny Depp. "Good day I bid you" says Stephen King. "Howdy, partner!" says Johnny Depp. Not likely to happen? Not likely to write a correct sentence. Sentence me wrong or sentence me right I don`t mind.

Es nekaunos savas nezināšanas un nelepojos ar to. Es nekaunos savas muļķības un nelepojos ar to. Es neko nesapratu no leģendārās Andreja Tarkovska filmas "Spogulis". Lai šo filmu varētu saprast, to ir jāskatās daudzas reizes, tā man teica. Es šaubos, ka es to skatīšos daudzas reizes. Līdz ar to diez vai es to sapratīšu.

Šo filmu pirms dažiem mēnešiem Liene izdomāja, ka viņa ļoti grib noskatīties. Ievērojot to, ka to noskatījos tikai, kamēr Liene ir Ēģiptē, te var saskatīt zināmu silloģismu (es gan nezinu, ko nozīmē silloģisms, bet šis vārds izklausās tāds, ka to varētu izmantot inteliģenti cilvēki). Kad nākamajā dienā biju filmu lejuplādējis, izrādījās, ka Liene to vairs redzēt negrib un par spīti maniem daudziem pielaušanas mēģinājumiem, mēs šo filmu tā arī nenoskatījāmies. Sarunu par tēmu "Atšķirības starp vīrieti un sievieti (neskaitot ģenitālijas)" atlikšu citai reizei.

Boy, do we get a whole lot of templar and mason shit nowadays! Like this film for instance - there are those weirdos the Templars that take hold of a really massive treasure but they don`t spend it on drugs and women, oh, no, they hide it somewhere where noone could find it for the treasure is too huge for any living man. And when the chance comes they (already having become masons after the templars were eliminated) smug the whole thing to the US of A (which weren`t the US of A at the time yet). Since they don`t want the British to take hold of the treasure they hide it and make some weird clues for themselves to remember the place where they hid it (including a secret message on the back of the original Declaration of Independance). And nowadays a guy named Gates (just like good ol` William) who`s family held a part of the key to the secret goes to rescue the treasure before the bad guys get it. He`s accompanied by a weirdo who`s brilliant with computers and a sexy chick. What can you do without a sexy chick? Nothing, absolutely nothing. So, what good is this film? First, if you`re into discussing whether what happens in this film could be real, whether the conspiracy of the masons could still be living - my answer to you, Sire, is: buzz off! This film isn`t about the templars - it`s about action and adventure. If you can`t tolerate something like this - don`t! I found this film as a good piece of entertainment, with pretty solid acting and one lovable character - the computer guy. Oh, by the way, the beginning is extremely American patriotic and the ending is extremely cheesy and over-the-top optimistic... as if you couldn`t guess that without me telling you that.