Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

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.

It`s amazing to follow how far I`ve sunk. When I first started this factoid I wrote about Umberto Eco and "Abre los ojos". Nowadays I`m only capable of outing my thoughts on a porn movie. A hardcore porn movie to be more specific. How did this happen to me, you may ask. The thing is - I had to watch "Inside Deep Throat" which will be running in cinemas in Latvia quite soon. But who on earth would watch a documentary about a film he hasn`t seen? I certainly wouldn`t. So I decided to download and watch the godmother of all porn movies - "Deep Throat" with Linda Lovelace and Harry Reemes. Story: Linda can`t get an orgasm from sex and a wacky doctor tells her that her clitoris is bizarrely located deep in her throat. So she has to perform deep throat oral sex in order to get pleasure. I don`t suppose that I can really evaluate this film by any criterias - how would I know a good dirty picture from a good one?

Par "Aerosmith" parasti ļaudis izsakās, ka septiņdesmitajos gados viņi bija gandrīz Stounu (vai pat ne gandrīz) kalibra grupa, kas vēlākajās desmitgadēs savu reputāciju ievērojami sabojājusi, sākot intensīvi sadarboties ar "outside songwriters" un darot visu iespējamo, lai paliktu publikas uzmanības lokā, lai tas nozīmētu kaut "I don`t want to miss a thing" stila balāžu izpildīšanu.

Tims Alens, Džons Travolta, Martins Lourenss un Viljams Eič Meisijs (ar Reju Liotu kā galveno otrā plāna personāžu) atklāja mums filmu skatīšanās sezonu Ziņģa un Žeņas miteklī Zolitūdē. Un šī ir tipiska filma, kādu skatīties kompānijā lielākā par diviem cilvēkiem - tomēr uz nekādu mākslinieciskumu nepretendējošas komēdijas ir vispiemērotākās filmas, ko skatīties trokšņainā kompānijā (lai arī jāatzīst, ka vismaz šoreiz trokšņaini bijām tikai Liene un es).

Rainer Fassbinder is the director of this picture and also one of the leading actors. A film must be shot in Spain but for a long time there is no director in sight, after he arrives still nothing is shot for he has problems of his own and so does everybody else on the set. To be honest, I don`t really know what it`s all about. Most of the members of the crew are in some weird pseudo socialist community which means nothing more than sleeping with everyone on the group. The director has a relationship with a dude named Ricky, but also has sex with women. Almost nothing goes on most of the time. The film is by no means entertaining and if it has a message I didn`t see it.

A man travels to the past to make life better than it was before. Sounds silly and familiar? No, in this case it doesn`t. Aston Kusher - Jesse from "Dude, where`s my car?" is good at portraying Evan, the guy with his blackouts. And the plot is also quite amazing. I probably can say that the ending was a bit too happy, but on the other hand - it was just perfect (although Evan ending up locked up in a mental hospital for life would be another good option). Anyway, the fat goth person is really nice. Sometimes there may be some dangerous plot holes around that could happen because of Evan changing his past but they are not too big and everything could be explained in the terms of the logic of the film. A heart felt film it seems to me, no matter what the critics say that decided to call it a flop. After all, who am I to obey the general critical opinion - to believe that `Citizen Kane` is the best film of all times, battling only with `Godfather`?

Now this is a bit complicated. One can certainly feel George Orwell influences in this film but it is somewhat special. Not a comedy though, contrary to the information provided in IMDB. I don`t really know how to rate it or what to think about. It`s good I suppose. The burreacrats are good, so is the ending which I found to be stronger than in Citizen Kane but overall - I don`t know. Perhaps it would be a good idea to watch the film once again. Maybe not, I shall think about it some time.