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Photos from SmashingConf Antwerp 2023

In February Vitaly Friedman and I went on a one-day road trip to explore a few venues in Belgium in Ghent and Antwerp. Some of them were recommended to me, others I had found on the web. During the car ride we had lovely conversations about what we want for SmashingConf and ...

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🎬 Dead Man

Movie poster for “Dead Man”.

Johnny Depp as a wounded/dead man still walking. Surreal, dreamy, funny, great acting. And the soundtrack is especially noteworthy: it's just Neil Young and his electric guitar, and it all sounds like he's improvising live to the movie. Just great.

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🎬 Black Bear

Movie poster for “Black Bear”.

Still don’t know what’s going on (and that’s part of the fun). Still very entertaining. Still like this very much!

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🎧 Nightmare Logic – Power Trip

Great riffs, powerful vocals, raw sound, and all killers no fillers. Thrash!!!

Bandcamp

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🎧 Axe To Fall – Converge

For some reason, this is the album from their discography that I had been drawn to first. And I absolutely love it!

Converge were so impressive live a few weeks back, I had to get more into them. And it’s absolutly rewarding once you do. So many interesting ideas and songs on this album. Plus the musicianship is top notch. And that sound!

The whole thing is so damn heavy! And in a different way than I’m used to from - say - Death Metal. A ferocious steamroller.

Bandcamp

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🎬 Eastern Promises

Movie poster for “Eastern Promises”.
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This was good! A great cast. Credible characters. Some gruesome moments. A story with twist and turns. And a fantastic action fight scene. Only that ending spoils it a little (they kiss!? What?!).

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I have now integrated the photo journal feed directly into the main feed.

This saves me from manually creating a link post each time the photo journal has been updated.

And I updated both feeds. If you now have a whole bunch of unread articles in your feed reader, I’m sorry.

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🎬 Everything Everywhere All at Once

Movie poster for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.

Ok, I do not quite get the grand hype around this. It’s good, though: it’s like a modern or different take on Matrix. With a similar philosophical theme. It’s pretty funny in parts. The fight scenes are quite good. Dialogue is good. But it’s a bit long: the whole universe-switching gets a little distracting towards the end. But overall I can certainly recommend this!

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📄 Moved the photo journal to a new host

Now served from a VPS and via HTTPS

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🎬 Pig

Movie poster for “Pig”.

I liked the overall theme and vibe of this movie. It's nicely filmed and Nic Cage is great. It could've been more focused and could have had more bite. Good!

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🎬 Uncut Gems

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Maybe if you manage to sympathise with the protagonist, you will feel different about this. But I didn’t, and so I found this pretty boring.

The end was really unexpected, though (which is a plus in my book).

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📄 A "Now" page

This website has a new page where you can read about what's currently going on in my life.

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🎬 Arrival

Movie poster for “Arrival”.

Wow. I wasn’t prepared for this much emotion. Much respect Mr. Villeneuve, what a beautiful film! Visually, sonically, emotionally. And the story really comes together nicely in the end. And Amy Adams plays her role so brilliantly! I could easily watch this again once I'm prepared for another onslaught of sadness.

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📄 Fall

Another accident happened: I broke my arm while hiking.

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🎬 The Return of the Living Dead

Movie poster for “The Return of the Living Dead”.

If you see past the partly questionable acting, this is a lot of fun. Quirky, gory, funny with a hint of seriousness and menace. Effects were great! I’m not sure if I like running and talking zombies, but I enjoyed this overall.

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🎬 The Square

Movie poster for “The Square”.

This one makes you think. There’s a lot going on, and I felt like it wants to say a lot. A bit too much maybe. I found his a bit long, yet still interesting. I enjoyed Force Majeure and especially Triangle of Sadness more.

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🎬 Hobo with a Shotgun

Movie poster for “Hobo with a Shotgun”.

Violent and vulgar. Cheap and cheesy. Underwhelming and unworthy.

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🎬 Bronson

Movie poster for “Bronson”.

In the beginning, this had me excited to see where this is going. But then it’s a lot of the same throughout the film without much progression. But maybe that’s the point!? I don’t know. It’s indeed insanely well acted and very funny at times. And it’s certainly quite unique in how it’s filmed. Maybe this needs a rewatch.

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🎬 Triangle of Sadness

Movie poster for “Triangle of Sadness”.

This was a wild cruise! An a damn entertaining one! Nothing too subtle going on: just bunch of filthy rich idiots getting what they deserve. Muahahaha. The captain’s dinner is incredible. With Refused’s "New Noise" as the perfect Soundtrack. In den Wolken!

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The music section for the most part now features the Bandcamp embed instead of the one from Spotify. I find this to be much better, because you can listen to a whole album, even without account. And I actually prefer Bandcamp and have been using it more and more lately.