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🎬 Halloween H20

Movie poster for “Halloween H20”.

I did very much enjoy the first film in this series when I finally watched it not long ago. But this one didn’t grip me and I had to roll my eyes way too often.

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🎬 Victoria

Movie poster for “Victoria”.

A movie without any cuts and you really feel like you are self part of this adventure through Berlin with Victoria and the four guys that ends with these phenomenal acting performances which were incredible high stakes given the movie is over two hours long.

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🎧 Wallflowers – Jinjer

The new Jinjer has been out for a few weeks now. Given that I enjoyed their latest two outputs “Micro” and “Macro” a lot, I was looking forward to this one. And it’s a good solid Jinjer record. Tatiana got even better at singing. But apart from that now real surprises, I must say.

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🎬 Au Poste!

Movie poster for “Au Poste!”.

An absurd interrogation in a murder case. Claustrophobic, confusing, unsettling, funny. Did I mention “absurd”? Definitely recommended. I still haven’t fully coped with that oyster scene.

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📖 Die Physiker – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Book cover of “Die Physiker” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Ich entdeckte diesen Klassiker im Bücherregal, und dachte – “warum nicht?”. Mal ein kurzweiliges Theaterstück in einfach zu lesender Dialogform. Ich wurde nicht enttäuscht!

Fand es in der Tat witzig, was bei solch alten (Theater-)Stücken nicht unbedingt immer der Fall war. Hat mich gut unterhalten. Das eigentliche Thema ist zeitlos und wird ansprechend erzählt.

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Got the second COVID-19 vaccine shot Wednesday evening. And other than a sore upper arm again, I haven’t had noticeable side-effects.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Turning 30

30 years ago, on August 6, 1991, a computer scientist working at CERN introduced a project to the public he had been working on for several months. The project, as he described, combined “the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful glob...

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🎥 “Buried by the Dead” guitar cover

“Buried by the Dead” guitar cover

Covering Bloodbath’s “Buried by the Dead” on guitar, having a bit of fun with my “Eyemaster” pedal. This album has definitely one of the most gnarly Swedish guitar tones out there.

Signal chain is:

  • guitar
  • Eyemaster pedal
  • Apogee Jam Audio interface
  • GarageBand
  • Fender amp simulation with a bit of overdrive
  • output to my Marshall Stanmore speaker – together with the original track from Spotify
  • recorded into my Apple earphones’ microphone hanging directly in front of the speaker, recorded straight to the video filmed with the iPhone.

In case this video is not fair use, and you’re the/a copyright holder and object to this video, please let me know, and I’ll just take it down.

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🎬 The Father

Movie poster for “The Father”.

Wow! Just terrific! You really get a feel for what dementia might feel like. The set was amazing. The dialogues were perfect. And of course, the acting was splendid – especially of the two main actors Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. I feel like there are so many subtle details in this movie that I hadn’t time to fully process. I could easily watch this again and again.

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🎬 A History of Violence

Movie poster for “A History of Violence”.

This was ok. But not more. It was a pretty straight forward story. Indeed not for you, if you can’t stand (graphic) violence. What the protagonist’s transformation does to his family relationships was unconvincing in my humble opinion (and so was the change in character of his son).

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🎬 My Octopus Teacher

Movie poster for “My Octopus Teacher”.

I didn’t think I could relate to an Octopus so much. This film is a wonderful documentary about a remarkable and almost tragic relationship between a man and an octopus. Amazing footage, brilliantly told.

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📖 Im Grunde gut – Rutger Bregman

Was für ein Buch! Es ist lang. Aber ich fand es aber durchweg gut. Ich habe über Monate der ungekürzten Hörbuchfassung gelauscht, wann immer ich mit dem Fahrrad eine längere Strecke unterwegs war. Rutger Bregman geht der Frage nach, ob der Mensch von sich aus “im Grund...

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🎧 Heavy Breathing – Black Breath

Man! What’s this? Some Blackened Death’n’Roll Hardcore? It’s definitely fun. Very aggressive with a lot of groovy breakdowns. If you dig the first 20 seconds of this album as much as I do, I guarantee you’ll enjoy the rest, too!

Heavy breathing? Heavy rotation!

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🎬 Oldboy

Movie poster for “Oldboy”.

What a trip! It’s quite the (shocking) story. And both the plot and action are brutal and certainly not for everybody. And it’s occasionally even funny, too. I don’t know. It’s unique. In a good way. And was a welcome change from all the hollywood-y movies one consumes.

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📖 Horrorgeschichten – Ambrose Pierce

Book cover of “Horrorgeschichten” by Ambrose Pierce.

Ich hatte ca. die Hälfte der Kurzgeschichten aus diesem Buch gelesen bevor ich es abgebrochen habe. Eine dieser Geschichten hat mich sogar halbwegs gepackt, als auch diese belanglos endete.

Die Geschichten waren nicht wirklich schlecht, aber eben auch alles andere als bemerkenswert aus meiner Sicht. Zum Glück ist Ambrose bereits tot und muss sich somit auch nicht über diese eher unvorteilhafte Kritik eines Laien ärgern.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Starting Again (Again)

It was about the same time last year that I decided to change something. I hadn’t written and published as many posts on my site as I had wished to get done. And it was nagging me. If this site was meant to be a place of reflection and experimentation, if it was supposed to ...

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🎬 The Empty Man

Movie poster for “The Empty Man”.

Okay. The whole setup and plot was actually quite good and promising. And I found the scary scenes to be quite good, too. But as much as this film spent on story, atmosphere and setup, just as little was spent on explaining everything (almost anything). So in the end I found this a bit disappointing.