Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

Kad tālajā 1992. gadā Kalifornijas poppanku trio "Green Day" izdeva savu otro albūmu, droši vien reti kurš gaidīja, ka šis ieraksts iezīmē vienas no 90-to gadu skaļākajām grupām īstenu parādīšanos savā istajā gaismā. Bet, kā teiktu šajā situācijā Jēzus, Tēti - viņi nezina, ko viņi dara.

Es apzinos, ka Terija Džonsa dokumentālu raidījumu par vēsturi skatīšanās ir slima. Šis vīrs IR zināms kā kādreizējs Džona Klīza (komiskā Mesijas) kolēģis, kas neizbēgami nozīmē, ka viss, ko viņš savā dzīvē var izdarīt, ir tikai parodija par beigtā papagaiļa skeču (kurā Džonss gan nepiedalījās).

Weird. I was absolutely sure this was already on the factoid but here I look and it just isn`t there. Strange. Anyhow "Sputnik Sweetheart" may have a perfect title but it`s not a perfect novel by any means. In fact it`s just a love triangle between a man and two women. Yet the fact is that the man is only sexually interested in one of the women, the other woman has no sexual life whatsoever, while the first woman has found out that she is a lesbian. Since I`m not particulary keen on reading about women desiring making love to one another (ok, that may be good on film... wait a moment, I didn`t say that... I`m not a pervert) "Sputnik Sweetheart" isn`t the book for me. Sugiko (that`s the lesbian one) goes with Meo to Greece and suddenly dissapears after she has told Meo that she wants her. After that the book gets a bit mystical, a thing not too uncommon for Murakami`s novels but it still doesn`t become one of my favourites. First, it offers very little new elements to the ones I`m already familiar with. Second, the content is a bit too sexual with Murakami going a bit too much in detail. It is true that I can tolerate more sexual content on film than I can in a book. I don`t really know why, probably because in a book you usually feel that it`s written by a middle aged person from the viewpoint of a young one, and you don`t get that much on film. Maybe it`s because films rarely dig that deep, they just stay on the surface and if something goes wrong it doesn`t go terribly wrong as it is with books.

Nevaru īsti saprast, vai pagājušoreiz, kad lasīju šo Sartra romānu, biju ticis līdz galam vai nebiju. Droši vien biju, lai gan drošs par to nebūtu.

Patiesībā šī grāmata nav gluži par smiekliem, par aizmirstību gan. Viss sākas ar gluži ikdienišķu epizodi - kad Čehoslovākija iekāpa komunisma upē (vai peļķē), tās vadītājs teica runu no tribīnes, bet bija auksts un kāds partijas biedrs šim aizdeva savu cepuri. Tapa klasiska propogandas fotogrāfija ar šo tribīni. Vēlāk biedrs tika apsūdzēts noziegumos un pakārts, bet no fotogrāfijas izdzēsts, pāri palika tikai viņa cepure līdera galvā.

The Rutles were the prefab four. They came from Liverpool and recorded some of the best rock`n`roll songs the Beatles never happened to write. And a documentary about this band was made. And who made this documentary? It was Eric Idle of Monty Python. And he was also one of the Rutles - a guy who strangely resembled Paul McCartney. This film should be watched if you`re a specialist of the Beatles, if you`re not - it`s still funny but you won`t get most of the gags. From the beginning until the very end the history of the Rutles is a hilarious piece of comedy. There`s the stage of their career when they are in Hamburg - far from home and far from talented. They atract their future manager because of their pants - how tight they are, and not because of their music. There`s a rumour that one of the members of the band has died, because on the cover of their albums he wears no pants, etc., etc. Yoko Ono in this film a simple German girl whos father had invented World War II. And you can actually see a few celebrities in this film - Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and even George Harrison of the Beatles who plays a reported interviewing Michael Palin - a further guy from the Pythons.

Ever been Legally Blonde? Some of us may have been, while the others not. The leading star of this film certainly has - for she`s the one who played the lead in the film about the girl with not-so-dark hair. Reese Witherspoon is her name. The story - somewhat similar to Thackeray`s novel but with a few changes, the most important among which is the fact that Becky Sharpe is a romantic person. That`s a thing I don`t like, ok, she`s not over-the-top romantic but still she was this i-know-what-i-want character in the book but here she`s just not that strong. The rest of the heroes is probably similar to what I had imagined, maybe Amelia isn`t as silly as she was in the book but that`s only because nobody would believe nowadays that such a loser person can be possible. Of course, this isn`t much more than just a costume film. You watch it, you probably even enjoy some parts of it, and in two days you don`t remember what the actors looked like and you don`t even remember the ending. Ok, I`m a bit overreacting here, but you probably get what I`m try to say here. It`s average - no more, no less.

I`m not sure why I had never listened to this record in its entirety before but that`s a solid fact. While listening to obscure and occasionally completely unknown bands I somehow missed the most popular record of the previous year. Probably it`s for the best for I can judge it now more clearly than at the time when "Take me out" was constantly played on the radio. Still I don`t have much to say - FF did have a really fresh sound on this album, the provided some bombastic tracks which meant fun, fun, fun and the opening "Jacqueline" sounds like Leonard Cohen for the first minute. Yes, and "This fire" is my favourites song on the album.

Pēc ilgāka laika, kad neko tādu teicis neesmu, teikšu sekojošo - uztrāpījos uz vienu riktīgu pērli. Jā, es zinu, ka tas ir tikai vēl viens angļu seriāls, kuru atkal jau veidojuši Rikijs Džervejs un Stīvens Mērčants, kuri abi šeit arī ievērojamu laiku redzami uz ekrāniem (it īpaši Džerveiss, protams). Taču - atšķirībā no the Office - šis seriāls ir tik smieklīgs šī vārda tradicionālajā izpratnē, ka nenosmieties.

Brīdinājums! Šis raksts nav paredzēts mērķauditorijai vecumā zem 18 gadiem!