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🎬 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Movie poster for “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”.

I’m on a quest to watch all Jim Jarmusch movies. This, once more, was right up my alley. The calmness, the humour, the characters. It again featured hilarious dialogues where people don’t understand each other. And towards the end I noticed that the comics the characters are watching seem to give away what will happen next. So I need to watch this again to see what I can discover.

Ephes Blog

Weeknotes 2025-01-06

Weeknotes 2025-01-06 Jan. 6, 2025, Jochen My New Year’s resolution? 3840 × 2160 --nixCraft It's the first week of 2025 and the last week of my holiday break. I've mostly been lounging ...

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Doing some light video editing and exporting this evening and using my wife’s M4 iPad, because it is the most powerful computer we have. Exporting 4k video is screamingly fast. 🤯

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Still feeling under the weather. 🙄 And because I couldn’t go out today, I added Bluesky comments to my photo blog. 🤷‍♂️ With their open API to get likes (just like Mastodon’s) it was pretty straighforward and easy to do. They are now displayed with the Mastodon favorites below every post. I will write it up in a proper post down the line.

Ephes Blog

Weeknotes 2024-12-30

Weeknotes 2024-12-30 Dec. 30, 2024, Jochen Days of the week no longer exist. There is only thinking of what to eat, eating, and dreaming of eating --Dave During the final week of 2024, I...

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366 Days of Daily Posting

I did it again! I posted at least one image per day for one year straight. I started on January 1st, 2024 and crossed the finish line on December 31st, 2024. On some days it was really hard, on most days it became just part of my day. One of the best decisions compared to l...

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Yesterday I ordered 853 small format prints from my Aile project. As we didn’t visit Turkey last year, and most likely won’t be able to do so this year either, I thought this longer break might be a good marker to finally start working on this project again. I would love to create a photo book, but in order to do so, I have to live with the work, and that is much easier done with physical prints than with images on a screen.

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Weeknotes 2024-12-23

Weeknotes 2024-12-23 Dec. 23, 2024, Jochen I have been asked to stop referring to LinkedIn as "Grindr for Business" --ncl It's the final work week of the year. There were some exciting ...

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🎬 Anna and the Apocalypse

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🎶 "When it comes to killing zombies, I'm at the top of my game…" 🎶

Very entertaining and funny musical zombie film. Good songs – I enjoyed the one cited above, the "filthy" one, and the "brand new day" – some good kills, likeable characters, and just a great sense of humour. The whole scene with the snow man is bloody golden.

Not all is perfect – partly the makeup, the effects; and towards the end it loses a bit of tempo – but overall this was a very worthwhile christmas movie.

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🎬 Black Christmas

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The kills in this were partly quite nice. But it's always about the eyeballs. I would've enjoyed some more kill-variety. But apart from this, this lacked suspense. And I think it was unnecessary to uncover all of Billy's backstory. This also reminded me of Scream – which I liked – but all characters in this were unlikeable IMO. Little bit of an annoying one.

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🎬 Black Christmas

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The kills in this were partly quite nice. But it's always about the eyeballs. I would've enjoyed some more kill-variety. But apart from this, this lacked suspense. And I think it was unnecessary to uncover all of Billy's backstory. This also reminded me of Scream – which I liked – but all characters in this were unlikeable IMO. Little bit of an annoying one.

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🎬 Silent Night

Movie poster for “Silent Night”.

Eh, no. It's not like this was all bad. But there's absolutely zero backstory to the approaching apocalypse, that fog looked awful, and the characters were all well over the top. And this would've been fine, if the movie decided to go all in on its funny side. But it also had this seriousness. And this was all confusing IMO.

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🎬 The Limits of Control

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The protagonist is like an anti James Bond: no action, no talking, no sex, no drama. And he still gets the job done. And the movie still manages to be suspenseful and entertaining despite all the "missing" bits. The end left me a little confused, but other than that, this was ace. Jarmusch just makes movies I like.

This also has a brilliant music scene with flamenco guitar playing, -dancing and -singing. And it's probably all done while the camera was rolling. I can rarely tolerate music not matching the instrument on camera, but this was the exact opposite. Kudos!

And I enjoyed the soundtrack, too.

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Seven years later

It's been seven years that this blog exists - but it just sat there while I was busy. A relationship broke, others came and went, some came back ... but the Arduino fix for the fridge still works at my wife's place. That's been much more sustainable than expected! As I'm hea...