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🎬 May December
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I really like the soundtrack, which consisted a lot of piano playing. Together with the story and filming, this really created a suspenseful atmosphere. Acting was great, too. But in the end, I was left disappointed, as it was all too ambiguous for my liking. I mean, the characters were all somehow fucked up, but it never got past scratching to surface on any of their stories or personalities.
🎬 All the Colors of the Dark
This didn't fully convince me: maybe it was the occasional drop in pace or a sudden strange dialogue or scene of acting. But overall, this was a very solid movie. Had a great story, really succeeded in portraying the protagonist's paranoia, and was atmospheric, too. And this from 1972. Tutto bene!
🤘👀🤘
Weeknotes 2024-10-14
Weeknotes 2024-10-14 Oct. 14, 2024, Jochen "To whom it may concern"
- vague
- weak
- ignorable
"To whom it will concern"
- ominous
- strong
- alarming
--Aelfred the Great
Relea...
„The Legend of Zelda: Echos of Wisdom“ was delightful!
Weeknotes 2024-10-07
Weeknotes 2024-10-07 Oct. 7, 2024, Jochen hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave --Janel Com...
Zines ordered. ✅
🎬 Without Warning
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I wanted to watch this mainly because its poster is so cool. And the movie itself was ok, too, as far as I remember (it's been a few weeks since I watched this; and I also fell asleep briefly; it's been a long day). Nice 80s horror charm and some nice and juicy hand-made effects. It's all a bit ridiculous, though, of course. "ALIEN! C'MON! ALIEEENN!" *KABOOM* best ending! ;)
🎬 Kinds of Kindness
I enjoyed this. It had me constantly wondering and wanting to know what happens next. I really liked the quirkiness of it all. But then in the end it left me kind of empty and wondering “why all this?” and “what for?”. All the stories had the same subjects it dealt with, but I couldn’t find any purpose (if there is any), and why it had to be three episodes. So I had the suspicion the movie is just weird for weirdness sake. But maybe that’s just Lanthimos’s thing and I shouldn’t complain. What never seems to disappoint, though, is how he films everything. It’s just fun to watch. Emma Stone was superb once again, but so were all the other actors.
Weeknotes 2024-09-30
Weeknotes 2024-09-30 Sept. 30, 2024, Jochen There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem. --Chris Shiflett
I didn’t manage to accomplish much this week....
Feeding AI bots
I have been blocking AI from scrapping this blog since a while using the robots.txt. You can get a list of user agents at darkvisitors.com.
Inspired by Melanie Kat, I added a rewrite rule to feed them bots.
<configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <ru...
Weeknotes 2024-09-23
Weeknotes 2024-09-23 Sept. 23, 2024, Jochen This week, I released a new version of kptncook that includes a fix for Windows by setting the default encoding to UTF-8. I also attended a mee...
I just scheduled my first newsletter to go out tomorrow morning. I thought, while I am setting this thing up (originally to inform all the people who are interested in my next zine), I might as well use it to share a bit more about how I created the zine etc. There’s still time to sign up!
Type Annotations can Cause Unexpected Behavior in Python
Type Annotations can Cause Unexpected Behavior in Python Sept. 19, 2024, Jochen Today I learned that type annotations in Python, while being valid code, can sometimes lead to unexpected p...
🎬 Mac and Me
Another Mondo Bizarr flick. Reading the summary, I was actually expecting something way worse than this. This was actually high quality and looked a lot like more famous American movies from that time. But rightly so, it's not as highly regarded: it's just all a bit off and wacky at times. But that doesn't mean it's less entertaining! Just more bizarre. The chase scene is fantastic, the musical part at McD is just great and the ending is just the whimsical cherry on top.
🎬 Xaver und sein außerirdischer Freund
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Uff. Ein Außerirdischer hat mit seinem Ufo ein Panne und strandet im Wald unweit eines bayrischen Dorfes. Xaver entdeckt und kümmert sich um ihn. Die Einheimischen sind skeptisch und die Böse-Buben-Gang ist auch noch hinter Xaver her. Aber dann stellt raus, der Mann vom anderen Stern ist eine regelrechte Biervernichtungsmaschine. Damit gewinnt er nicht nur die Herzen der Dorfbewohner sondern auch den Biertrinkwettbewerb im Festzelt. Es gibt Verfolgungsjagden zu Fuß und mit Gefährten und am Ende gibt es ein Heidendurcheinander, aber alles geht nochmal gut aus.
Tja, was soll ich sagen. Hat irgendwie Spaß gemacht das mit der Truppe im Mondo Bizarr zu schauen. Prost!
366 Zine
Ever since starting the currently running 366 project, I wanted to have a printed record of it as well.
Come December 31st it will be way too many images to fit into one book, so I decided to go with a magazine format (my favorite anyway), and split everything into four part...
Weeknotes 2024-09-16
Weeknotes 2024-09-16 Sept. 16, 2024, Jochen Be nice to us folks who wear glasses. We paid money to see you. --BobGolen
I just released a new version of kptncook because my wife's attempt...
Weeknotes 2024-09-09
Weeknotes 2024-09-09 Sept. 9, 2024, Jochen WHY WAS IT CALLED SINGLE-SIGN ON WHEN SIGN-ON 37 TIMES PER DAY WAS RIGHT THERE --Joe B
I'm rereading Every Layout and practicing some CSS on m...