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🎧 Ravishing Grimness – Darkthrone

I simply picked one Darkthrone album, as I‘m not very familiar with their discography. And this one has been virtually rotating here for a couple of spins. „The Claws of Time“ is so classic Black Metal: starts with this evil tremolo-picking melody, then the vocals come in… ahhh….pure black gold!

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🎧 Purple – Baroness

When listening to Baroness, I tend to pick this album. Love the drumming and odd rhythms on it. Great guitar work, too, of course. „Chlorine & Wine“ is probably my favourite song of them.

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🎬 Memories of Murder

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I find it refreshing to watch a non-Western movie occasionally. Same with this one. Bong Joon-ho‘s humour is somewhat unique. He manages to put those funny (silly even) elements in a movie while not devaluing the serious topic he‘s dealing with. Although in this one I find the whole stupid-cops-don‘t-make-any-progress-in-the-case-play go on for too long.

I found the camera work to be great. Characters were interesting (somehow the main suspect reminded me of Paul Dano‘s role in „Prisoners“). And the ending was top, too.

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🎬 What Drives Us

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Totally fine documentary with a promising bunch of interviewees. Butsomehow it manages to be bit thin in truly interesting nuggets.

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TIL: Integrate Wagtail API into Local Namespace

TIL: Integrate Wagtail API into Local Namespace Feb. 25, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer ...

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Weeknotes 2023-02-20

Weeknotes 2023-02-20 Feb. 20, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer “Raw data is...

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🎬 Hellraiser

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Finally, I have seen this movie! And what a treat! Everything’s greatabout it: plot, costumes, sound, acting, sets. And the special effects!And it’s scary as hell – as it should be for a horror film. Lookingforward to part 2!

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🎬 Jason X

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Wow, we made it through this whole series. And it didn’t end on a high note. This was trash. And I could enjoy some of it. For example, I liked that Jason was this brutal force that just kills. Or the cliché nudity. Or the sometimes quirky charming dialogue. And the scene where he beats the one girl in the sleeping bag with another is just hilarious. But oh man, this was long, the set design was terrible (reminded me of American Gladiators in a lot of scenes), and the characters and the plot: puh. And don’t get me started on wardrobe or props. It was cheesy, too. Anyhow, it is what it is. And this over-the-top rendition is a fitting finale for this series IMO. And it’s good, it’s over now. May Jason rest in peace.

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🎬 White Noise

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Lovingly made: great lighting, fantastic choreography, great acting andmuch more. But overall unfortunately the plot seemed senseless andinconsequential to me, which made me care less and less as the filmprogressed. Had good things, but I’d rather watch a Wes Andersson movie.

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Weeknotes 2023-02-13

Weeknotes 2023-02-13 Feb. 13, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer The logic of...

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🎬 Bones and All

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Some aspects were totally fine in this, but ultimately this wasn‘t mykind of movie.

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🎬 What We Do in the Shadows

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A bloody healthy and funny dose of New Zealand for me.

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Weeknotes 2023-02-06

Weeknotes 2023-02-06 Feb. 6, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer I am wonderin...

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Weeknotes 2023-01-30

Weeknotes 2023-01-30 Jan. 30, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer Your honor m...

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🎬 The Power of the Dog

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I would watch this again; to see if I notice some more subtle clues earlier and pay more attention to the individual chapters on their own. The storyline is so well done: it progressively changes the impression you have or had of both Phil and Peter. And in the end I didn‘t know how to feel about any of them really – pity or aversion or simply empathy.

A great film about men and their hardships/obstacles/difficulties they faced and how those manifested themselves in their behaviour and characters in very different ways.

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TIL: Editable Package Installation

TIL: Editable Package Installation

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Usually, I use pip -e ../package-directory to install an editable version of a package I use in a different project. Usually I use this method to track a bug or develop a new feature. Some time ago I switched to using flit to build my packages because it supports putting all the configuration in pyproject.toml and is not poetry. Today I had to learn that for a django-packages built with flit but then installed with pip -e the Django template lookup is broken. Using flit install -s works fine though.

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Caching Audio File Sizes Jan. 28, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer The feed...

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🎧 Sky Void of Stars – Katatonia

Preparation for tomorrow’s concert.

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🎬 One Hour Photo

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I don’t want to focus too much on the negative, but this film didn’tstir up much excitement in me. Maybe just because it looked dated (and alittle bit like a 90’s commercial). Maybe because I thought it onlyscratched the surface of what it could have been. Maybe because I wasreminded that I personally don’t like Robin William’s acting all thatmuch.

Anyhow, it’s an ok movie. I liked the directly photography-relatedscenes and the monologues or rather the protagonist’s thoughts onphotography.

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Weeknotes 2023-01-23

Weeknotes 2023-01-23 Jan. 23, 2023 Jochen Wersdörfer That’s why T...