Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

It`s been a long long time since I last read a book that was banned in a democratic country until a very, very recent time. This is a novel written by a son of the legendary German writer Thomas Mann. I`ve had this book at home for years (if I`m not mistaken, it means - since the day I was born) but I didn`t read it for I find it... damn, I`m so bored with this factoid... sometimes it`s easy to write about something, but not today. I just want to go home and relax, this is just so boring. Maybe the right choice might be switching to writing one liners. A good book although a bit too political for me.

Jāatzīst, ka grāmatu ņemšana uz dullo bibliotēkā tomēr ir ļoti riskanta stratēģija. Un te nelīdz pat tādas piesardzīgas metodes kā grāmatas vāciņa novērtēšana, nosaukuma apskatīšana un acs uzmešana uzrakstiem uz aizmugurējā vāka. It īpaši tas attiecas uz pēdējiem, kas vienmēr ir no konteksta izgrābtas suminošas frāzes.

"Monsters Inc" tiek uzskatīta par vienu no visu laiku labākajām datorgrafikas multfilmām, kā nekā IMDb tās vērtējums ir 7.9, bet puvušie tomāti to atzinuši par 95% svaigu.

It`s the weight that a person loses after the death. Probably it`s the weight of the human soul. Not that the film would tell that much about it. Basically it`s about a man who`s dying from a heart disease (caused by smoking!), a woman that has lost her family in a car accident and a man who has caused that car accident. Benitio del Torro and Sean Penn are the leading males while I can`t tell one american actress from another. The main importance is the timeline of the film that doesn`t go forward or backwards but is somewhat of a jigsaw puzzle so that until somewhere in the middle of the film you don`t really understand what`s happening. I still think that without that the film would lose much of its quality. I certainly expected more although it`s still a good film.

A single father that has two childer sees in a vision that he must destroy demons that live among people. Nobody except for him can see that they are demons. And he starts slaying them with the help of one of his sons while the other one not without a reason thinks that his dad has gone berserk. The final is partly predictable. If it was meant to be a horror movie I was not very scared, not to say more.

In the review on the back cover of this book it is said to be somewhat similar to "Master and Margarita" by M.Bulgakov as a book redefining old stories. You see, the characters mentioned in the title are the three wise men that came guided by a star to look at the newborn king. In this book though they didn`t start the journey because of no king - Gaspard was unhappy after he found out that his white slave lover was cheating on him with another one of her kind; Melchior`s museum of art was destroyed by religios people; and Balthazar wasn`t even a king he was running away from his uncles people who were trying to kill him (an evil uncle once again!). On their journey all of them met one another and they also visited king Harod in Jerusalem, who was the one telling them to go and look at the newborn Jesus. And that`s what they did; and another king (prince actually) also wanted to see Jesus, being sent there by the same Harod. But he was late. There`s nothing extremely great about this book - it is a nice tale about the past, but definetely not groundbreaking, despite some interesting spots, for example the problem was Adam and therefore God as well black or not.

Emir Kusturica should only make movies at home, and not bother to become popular all over the world. I`ve seen four of his movies so far. 3 of them were done in Yugoslavia/Serbia, one - in Hollywood. And guess what? The one with the most popular actors and the biggest budget did nothing for me. And all the rest - they were just top class movies. "Underground" is surely the hardest to bear among those 3. First, because it is a film where war goes on the whole time. The characters are still what you would expect from Kusturica, but the circumstances are just dreadful. Marko Dren and Peter Cerny are two real good friends that are communists and fight against the fascists in WW2, it doesn`t mean of course, that they`d be great people or something like that, on the contrary they are sick weirdos, that don`t care much for the others. But it happens that Peter and a group of his people has to remain underground hiding from the nazis, but Marko decides at the end of the war that he doesn`t need to inform his pals that the war is over, and they remain underground for 15 more years. Marko and Peter meet again in the Yugoslavian war of 1990s, where literary a brother kills a brother and a friend kills a friend. Of course, I read that this film is a support of the Yugoslavian fascist regime of Milosevic - but I also read and knew that already that stupid people are stupid people. And Emir Kusturica ain`t a stupid person, but a great film director, capable of creating a drama of a very high level.

This is the music of my youth. So I will say when I`m 64. Until then I`ll say - this is the music of my last years at school. I remember how I wanted to see the Apes live for it was considered cool to listen to this kind of music. And I wasn`t a particulary cool person with a high level of popularity at school. Chicks didn`t like me, guys didn`t like me (for I`m not gay) and I was depressed all the time. Well, maybe not, but I still was some kind of a "Napoleon Dynamite" character. By saying all this I don`t mean to tell that now I`ve become a super-duper cheerleader-captain (if were are male cheerleaders) and that everybody loves Raymond. But at least I have become a mentally calmer person with less nervous breakdowns and suicide attempts (you`re free to interpret this sentence any way you like).

Es nevaru beigt brīnīties par Elisu Kūperu - sasodīts, cik viņš savulaik bija labs! Patiešām neticās! Pirmo reizi klausoties, šis ieraksts man likta pateikt - hā! rekur viņš beidzot savā it kā labākajā periodā ir ierakstījis nebūt ne lielisku albūmu, bet, pie joda, tā nav taisnība! Šis albūms ir ļoti pat labs, un vairākas tā dziesmas ir pat pesimisiskākajā gadījumā nosaucamas par īsteni lieliskām. Ko es ar to domāju? Pirmkārt, humora pilno "Prettiest Cop on the Block". Otrkārt, dejojamo "Don`t Talk Old to Me". Treškārt, "Generation Landslide", kurā Kūpers atkal piemin biljonu dolāru mazulītes. Ceturtkārt, disko humoru "Skeletons in my closet". Un visvairāk, protams, es ar to domāju septiņdesmito gadu Elisa stilā veidoto "You Look Good in Rags".

Šo filmu mēs iesākām skatīties pie Lienes jūrmalā pa televizoru, bet tad aizbraucām uz Ķemeriem ar riteņiem, tāpēc filmu vēlāk iedabūju datorā un mēģināju ar to uzmākties N&N, bet N teica, ka viņam riebjoties Žerārs Depardjē un ka šī filma vispār esot sūds (pēc IMDb vērtējuma).