Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

This book is a collection of essays by a Jew that has survived the Holocaust. I doubt that there is a necessity to explain anything in more detail. But a one-liner always looks bad so I`ll try and do my best to express my own attitude. And what is it going to be? I am not particulary interested in essays, and I have read too much on the Holocaust. It sometimes seems to me that every second book in the world revolves around this subject. Ok, I admit that people like Jean Amery probably have little else to write about, I can completely understand him etc., etc. I understand him for refusing to write in German for a long time, I support him changing his name so he wouldn`t sound German, I support even his attitude towards the responsibility for your parents sins. But I still can`t like it. And I have no idea about the purpose of this book. It`s certainly ot entertainment, which is bad for it is what I seek. It`s not saying anything new - like everyone knows enough (or too much) has been said on this subject already. It`s not even dealing with his own enemies. To put it this way: I understand why Amery wrote this book. I don`t understand why I should read it. Maybe I shouldn`t, that would be a good way out for sure. I guess it would be a good idea for the Goethe library to add some tags on the covers of the books stating "Holocaust thematics", just as they do for crime stories. It would save me from reading a lot of the same. Not that I liked other subjects of the German literature that much better anyhow.

Šis albūms dažiem manas lapas lasītājiem noteikti asociējas ar vienu konkrētu dziesmu - "Big Balls". Šajā kompozīcijā diezgan komiskā stilā tiek izmantots frāzes "big balls" dažādu lietojumu klāsts - tādā ziņā kā "lielas balles" un "lieli pauti" (tiešā un pārnestā nozīmē). Protams, ka šī dziesma ir tik neķītra, cik tā vien varētu būt, bet ne velti tie ir AC/DC, ne velti tas ir Bons Skots. Tā tas ir un tā tas ir labi.

Šis Black Sabbath albūms neapšaubāmi ir unikāls vairāku iemeslu dēļ. Pirmkārt, albūma vāciņš. Ja tu spēj iedomāties kaut ko tizlāku/kroplāku par šo ierakstu, tad tev neapšaubāmi ir iespējas nākotnē sadarboties ar BS, ja šie izdos vēl kādu šādu albūmu. Otrkārt, albūmā vokālus izpilda Ījans Gilans - tas, kas Deep Purple dziedātājs. Kaut kāda iemesla dēļ pēc Ronija Džeimsa Dio aiziešanas no grupas Tonijs Aijomi padomāja, ka Gilans varētu būt viņam labākais aizstājējs. Un tas par spīti tam, ka Gilans jau nu noteikti nav slavens kā baigākais eksperts sātana pielūgšanas jautājumos.

Emir Kusturica is considered to be a great filmmaker, and after this film I have absolutely no doubt that he really is one. "Life is a Miracle" is a film about the Bosnian war in early 1990s but it`s probably the weirdest film about war I`ve ever seen. Like an army man says to the main hero: "This isn`t your war or my war, it`s the war of some idiots." (or something similar to that). Luka is a railroad man, although there are no trains on the railroad, his wife is a half-crazy opera singer and his son wants to play football at Partizan Belgrade. But the war changes their lifes dramatically - Jadranka goes completely crazy and runs off with some Hungarian accordeon player, Milos (the son) is drafted and taken war prisoner, but Luka has a war prisoner of his own - the beautiful Sabaha that`s given to him planning to exchange her for Luka. But it proves that he falls in love with her and doesn`t want no change. The film doesn`t show the good people on one side, the bad - on the other, Luka doesn`t have anything to do in his position with Milosevic or anything like that. The film is apolitical. It doesn`t show any battles. It`s very warm and heartfelt. It made me cry, if you want to know. This certainly wasn`t the first very dramatic comedy I`d seen over the past years, but this certainly ranked among the best films I`ve seen - the images, the sounds, the characters, the dialogues - it all made perfectly good sense.

When I was a little baby-boy I used to read a lot of books for children. "The Chronicles of Narnia" was among the books I read. Today I am not a little boy anymore, therefore I don`t read books of this kind too much. Still there is a big inner child inside me which makes me watch every movie designed for little children and happily shout how great it is. I will not give you the story of this film for I`ve already done that on the record for the book of the same title, so I`ll just state how the film compares to the book. First, there`s a much longer description of World war 2 in the film than it was in the book. Ah, who cares about this stuff anyway. I don`t care, so you don`t care, so nobody cares. Hiphop rules!

Pentaloģijas par autostopu Visumā otrā daļa atbild uz vienu no dzīves pamatjautājumiem - kur mēs varētu ieēst pusdienas? Viens no atbilžu variantiem ir Milliways - Restorāns Visuma galā. Tā ir vieta, pēc kuras apmeklējuma nav jāuztraucas par paģirām nākamajā rītā, jo nākamā rīta nebūs. Tā ir vieta, kur vari satikt dīvaiņus no dažādākajiem Visuma nostūriem. Tā ir vieta, kur tu vari apēst dzīvnieku, kas speciāli tiek audzēts tāds, ka tas vēlas tikt apēsts.

Neviens nopietns Makkas fans šo ierakstu neuzskatīs par vienu no viņa labākajiem veikumiem. Es neesmu nopietns Makkas fans, bet tāpat to par tādu neuzskatu.

Back in the 60s the Stones were considered to be a dirty and angry rock band and not a bunch of old bafoons as it is the state of the arts today. And no wonder why - who else if not a band of angry misfits would perform such songs as "Around and Around" (a cover of Chuck Berry) or "Suzie Q"? Ok, that`s not really heavy and that`s not really brave but maybe it was in 1964. On this record the Stones don`t really sound like the Stones we love the most - for they write little of their own material and mostly stick to the rhythm and blues patterns without daring to pull off some less expected numbers. The performance is usually quite good but the music itself is a bit too powerless for me - it`s a thing I find perfectly adequate for a band like "The Hollies" but the Stones seem better suited for being angry than for being calm. "It`s all over now" is the best song on the album but it`s a bit too poppy for my first day at work in 2006.

Droši vien Ingmars Bergmans varētu pretendēt uz pirmo vietu nominācijā "Pasaulē konservatīvākais kino režisors". Savā ziņā viņš ir vienveidīgāks par Vudiju Alenu. Kā tas izpaužas?

Tā īsti es nesaprotu, kāpēc Kobeina atraitnes ieraksts iekļuva manā ierakstu krājumā. Es nekad neesmu aiz sajūsmas spiedzis, iedomājoties par Kortniju Lovu.