Bruce lee: Bruce lee
Totti’s 282 goals: Excessive
Master and commander: Realistically Epic
The man with the iron fists: Ninjanegratazzzzzzzzzz
Those are all great films. And because I’m in a certain mood that’s going to make me go down into a basement, and, much like the first circle of hell, take flaming irons and solder eletronics with them (wait… what?) let me play this song for you. I love it. It’s from my past.
I like videogames, that should be obvious. I’ve even written about that.
I also like Estonia, I was there once, enjoyed the shit out of it, and to top it all off, I have amazing friends from there.
Also, Estonia is a country. And countries tend to appear in videogames.
However…
Sometimes, weird shit happens.
Very weird.
So yeah. Blah blah some music.
So I visited Sigmund Freud’s musem the other day. It was very, very cool.
And you know, there were two funny things.
The first is that it has inspired me to create a new category for the silly texts in this blog.
But the second, and more important, is that it is the only house-turned-museum that I know of where, during opening hours, the door is closed and you must ring the door, wait for someone to open you, then go into a waiting room.
If you know what I mean, you know what I mean.
Otherwise you don’t.
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Trance was a pretty cool movie, something really experimental trying to combine Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind with Ocean’s Eleven.
It sucks that it isn’t pulled off completely right and some parts are just plain confusing, and also that the suspense part is not incredibly done and you can guess quite quickly who is the baddie.
But I had fun in it, maybe because I go into movies expecting nothing, and the novelties in it were interesting.
Oh, and there’s Rosario Dawson, stark naked. I mean… yeah.
Rosario Dawson is damn sexy, I gotta say. And she does some fine acting.
Trance: Almost
My roommates have been nice enough to invite me for a walk of some deep, deep pits and trenches of the internet.
Seriously, what have I done to them?
Let’s cathegorize them:
Award If Cthulhu has a face
Donatella Versace. Ugly warning
Award Why does this even exist
Stella the sheep. Definitely Not Safe to watch at Work.
Award Fuck the Japanese
Japanese public toilet prank. I mean, seriously, what’s wrong with the Japanese?
Anyway, let’s offset this with something nice and call it a night.
Cool Hubble pictures fuck yeah!
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CJ7 is just a movie about a kid who is poor and finds an alien creature, then turns his life around. It’s really a kids movie, with a moral and all. That said, it’s remarkable because it comes from a different places. I realized that many of the common places that you would find in western comedies are absent here, replaced by other common places… familiar to the Chinese. It’s fascinating to think about. In Western movies you’d have the misunderstood hero, the ugly girl who turns out to be awesome, the bad guy who turns good… and those archetypes are simply different.
Also, I’ve never seen a movie that abuses so badly that bad narrative strategy: “And then the little kid woke up and it turned out it had all been a dream.” Three times. Three times in a single movie. Dude.
The replacements is less a movie about American Football than a movie gloryfing scabs and being very sexist. It glorifies scabs because the phrase “The people don’t want this strike!” is heard at least four times, and the whole point of the movie is that “striking or demanding anything from your employer = bad”.
It’s sexist because in this movie, no woman, literally NOT ONE woman does anything but cheerleading and looking pretty/stupid.
Shaolin Basketball is the most unpretentious movie ever. What does it say on the tin? That you are going to see dudes doing martial arts and slam dunks? Well, that’s what you get. Switch off your brain and have fun.
And as any weekend with Marco, moviez galore:
CJ7: paradigm
The replacements: ideological
Shaolin basket: unpretentious
Note that 2/3rds of the movies are Chinese.
Wow, about those moviez.
By the way, here’s a picture of Venus passing in front of the sun. Taken with a filter of course.
I don’t know if you know about bitcoins. Let me summarize in three bullet points.
- It’s a decentraliced currency created through a clever cryptography algorhytm, that is created (more or less) at the same rate always (so no human intervention to increase or decrease the monetary mass in circulation). The advantages toted by its defenders are that it’s anonymous, free and not controlled by a government or central bank.
- It’s an extremely bad idea if you know anything about economics. This is one argument, but there are more. Oh, and it’s been seriously badly implemented.
3. As if bullet point 2 wasn’t enough, it’s become the realm of scammers, Ron Paul libertarians, child pornographers, arms dealers… the works.
So why do I mention bitcoins?
Well… an anonymous hand wrote something on a wall I saw once, and I feel it’s relevant. Not only to today’s discussion, but to today’s world.
The only beautiful thing coming out of a corrupt society are it’s debris.
I like the concept and the idea. And that’s what I have found, I believe. Look:
Music. Music made from bitcoins.
Someone has this program that keeps track of bitcoin transactions (all transactions are known by anyone in the network) and assigned musical notes to each. The larger the transaction, the lower the pitch.
And let me tell you, I am mesmerized. This shit is beautiful.
It’s not the first time thieves have displayed such ambition. Earlier this year half a bridge in India was stolen over the course of three days – the 40 thieves involved told a guard they had been contracted by the public works department, and blithely set up their cranes. Last year, in the Czech Republic, a 10-tonne railway bridge was stolen by a gang who pretended to be making way for a nifty new cycle route.
Something has changed. I feel it in the air. Bridges are going missing.
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Operation Petticoat is a really nice film, fun and interesting because it’s old. I really like how this film is all about gender equality. Of course there are many stereotypes of the time (and natives as pictured as stupid) but much of the film is really about women being as capable as men, and that’s great. Also, the fact that the submarine is pink is totally not a metaphore for anything else.
Cloud atlas is visually incredible and very interesting. The Wachovskies deliver again.
Diario de a bordo. 27/03/2013, fecha estandar.
Lugar Albacete city, ciudad sin ley.
Han sido visualizadas las siguientes pelis.
Operation Petticoat: Advanced
Cloud Atlas: Interesting
A thought for our North and South Korean brothers
This is from one of those games that I keep talking about, made by people who are a bit obsessed with detail.
The cool thing is how sometimes they leave in little relevant details.
For instance, the third river from the top left. The cursor is on it and, on top of the screen the game displays the name of the river.
Yeah.
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Iron sky is a lot of silly fun. You could read things into it but it’s just good jokes and references to other movies and the internet. The reference to Hitler’s movie was fantastic.
Kung fu panda was a regular cartoon, but it´s all about the benevolent father figures who will tell you what to do and it will be good for you. Meh.
