Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

Klausoties kārtējo "Kino" albūmu, varu saskatīt vienu izteiktu šīs grupas plusu un mīnusu. Pluss ir tās diezgan lipīgās melodijas. Mīnuss ir šausmīgā vienveidība. Šķiet, ka Viktora Coja balss tembrs un dziedāšanas maniere varētu būt pie vainas - viņš visas dziesmas izpilda gandrīz vienādi.

Despite the name this band hasn`t a lot to do with United Kingdom, instead you should understand the name U.K. as a short form for "Udriitis" "K." - I`m not sure what the name of the second member of the due is. The former is quite a popular musician in Latvia as the singer for the band "The Hobos" which is even mentioned somewhere on this factoid. On "K.U." he leaves behind his usual language of singing - English - and switches to his native Latvian. What this album has a lot of is pretty arrangements - what it doesn`t have is a lot of interesting songs - in terms of melodies there`s not too much to get from this album. "Tirgus" has a very resonant chorus in the language of the roman people. "It`s cold in Beijin" is by far the most catchy song on the album and it`s no wonder it became the first single of the record. "Gljuk" which is sung in Russian reminds of a Russian band DDT which is neither a plus nor a minus. Overall if you listen to this record a lot of times in a row you probably can find it quite a nice thing to listen to but once you`ve pressed the stop button on your cd player "U.K." ceases to exist for you.

Jau otro filmu pēc kārtas konstatēju, ka neesmu bijis pietiekoši labi informēts. Kā es varēju palaist garām faktu, ka šajā filmā galveno sieviešu lomu atveido Džesika Simpsone, es patiešām nesaprotu. Tikpat labi tur varētu būt piedalījusies Britnija, un arī to es nebūtu piefiksējis. Vienreiz Simpsoni filmā jau esmu redzējis - pilnīgi idiotiskajā "Dukes of Hazzard" un tur viņa bija fenomenāli slikta. Šeit viņa nebija labāka. Vienīgais glābiņš - filmas veidotāji droši vien paši saprata, ko viņi ir izdarījuši, tāpēc daudz iespēju runāt Džesikai šai filmā nebija. Vairāk viņai bija iespēju rādīt pupus, kuri neapšaubāmi ir daudz talantīgāki par Džesiku Simpsoni kopumā.

No tiem Vonnegūta romāniem, kurus lasīju vēl skolas laikā, "Māte nakts" man atmiņā bija palicis kā viens no spožākajiem viņa darbiem. Tagad varu tikai pārliecināties, ka attiecībā uz viņu mana gaume īpaši mainījusies nav un es "Māti nakti" joprojām uzskatu par fenomenālu grāmatu.

Well, I`m not so sure what I was looking for. Nothing in particular, I suppose. You see, this was an exhibition where you could see different kinds of chicken (because it`s the year of the rooster right now), and so I went there and checked them out. Chickens are just chickens, basically. Ok, there were some ducks, pheasants and quails as well but the amount of the birds wasn`t particulary big, nor were they particulary beautiful. On the other hand - the expectations for an exhibition like this shouldn`t be very high.

The central hero in this novel has got a name quite similar to mine - he`s called Raymon. The novel revolves around two scenes in his life and concerns a weird polygone of love. Let`s start with the earliest episode. Raymon was an unsecure teenager in a family of a doctor. He wasn`t aware of his good looks and had he lived in the modern age he`d be probably called a goth for he wasn`t the most cheerful person in town. His life took an unexpected twist when he met Mary Cross on a tram. She was a woman of a very doubtful statue despised by many because of her affair with an elder man from the high classes. What Raymon wasn`t aware of was the fact that Mary was a patient of his father`s and that his father was unhopefully in love with her (she on the contrary didn`t notice his love considering him a saint). But that didn`t stop Mary from devoting a passion towards the young Raymon and almost seducing him (Raymon learned to understand that he wasn`t a freak after all but he blew everything about their possible romance by his foolish teenagers behaviour). After everything came to a logical conclusion Raymon still had a lot of bitterness towards Mary who had rejected him and planned to revenge himself by becoming a victor in the battle for many womens` hearts. He succeeded at that but when he met Mary some 15 years later he learned to know that he hadn`t come over his passion towards her (she didn`t see in him anything at all anymore) and that his father was also still mad for her. So they both - father and son who had never understood each other were tied by this woman that didn`t care for either of them. Sad, sad, sad.

Savā debijas romānā Haruki Murakami jau ir tas pats Haruki Murakami, kuru vēlāk iemīlējuši miljoni grāmatu lasītāju visapkārt pasaulei.

Patiesībā šis nav īsts "The Cure" albūms. Īstais Cure debijas ieraksts saucās "Three Imaginary Boys" un vairākas dziesmas tajā bija atšķirīgas no tā, kas ir šeit. Taču šī ir attiecīgā albūma amerikāņu versija, kurā iekļautas vairākas citas dziesmas - tai skaitā jau nosaukumā ieliktā "Boys Don`t Cry". Patiesībā "Boys Don`t Cry" ir viena no manām mīļākajām Cure dziesmām - tā ir pietiekami viegla un tik "optimistiska", cik vien šī grupa jebkad ir spējusi būt. To varētu nosaukt par viegla popa krustojumu ar septiņdesmito gadu pankmūziku.

The story is as old as the world itself. Allen, the main hero of this novel (which is written from the first persons perspective as some kind of a diary) becomes the only heir of a very big amount of land when his brother suddenly dies. Being in the age of circa 20 years and not interested in his heritage at all Allen wants to pursue a much more spiritual life than that of a rich landlord. Still he can`t escape from the immense influence his mother has over him, and he knows that one day he will marry a girl who`s just 12 now but who also will inherit lots and lots of land. His life suddenly changes when he meets a woman working at a bookstore (he`s some kind of a reading freak). Although the woman is some 10 years older than he is and much wiser they become lovers (in the spiritual form of the word) and Allen is almost ready to break free from his mother. But he fails, despite the help by the woman (who doesn`t want to become his wife knowing that because of her troubled past she will be only a burden to a man of his statue) and a six-fingered man who almost became a priest but was much closer to becoming a lost soul. When everything seems to be lost it only gets worse - Allen suddenly finds a crush in himself on the 12 year old girl after seing her bathing naked in a lake but she knowing how much he hated her before runs into the woods where she gets raped and murdered by a local farmer.

"Sestdiena, asiņainā sestdiena" reiz bija man mīļākais BS albūms. Droši vien es tolaik biju maigāka dvēsele nekā šodien. Lai gan varbūt arī nebiju, kas to lai zina. Šobrīd manā skatījumā šis ieraksts ir mazliet par vieglu. Jā, patiešām man gribētos no BS dzirdēt vairāk tādu dziesmu kā titulkompozīcija šajā albūmā (kas gan, protams, ne tuvu nav tik smaga kā, piemēram, "Sweet Leaf", bet citādi ir viens no veiksmīgākajiem Tonija Aijomi radījumiem). Arī tai sekojošā "A National Acrobat", kas ir diezgan līdzīga pirmajai dziesmai, ir gana spēcīga. Patiesībā patīkamākais šī ieraksta pārsteigums ir instrumentālā "Fluff", kurā Aijomi sevi parāda kā akustiskās ģitāras atmosfēru meistaru (par pirkstu veiklību Stīva Hova stilā te gan runāt nevajadzētu). Vispār no visiem agrīnajiem Sabatu ierakstiem šis ir vispopsīgākais - ne velti tā ierakstīšanā piedalījās arī Riks Veikmens no Yes - jā, pavisam nopietni, Riks Veikmens un Ozijs Osborns vienā grupā! Arī Metallica`s kaverētā "Sabbra Cadabra" man patīk gluži labi, lai gan īpaši metāliska tā nemaz nav.