Nearing the end with my photos from 2023.
Photos from the Alpeninferno plus some random shots.
November 2023
Photos from the Alpeninferno plus some random shots. (32 photos)
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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.
🎬 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.
🎬 Black Christmas
This was good! And I was quite surprised of the crude language. I didn’t think everything in the plot made sense, but it was still anentertaining watch. And it must be one of the first (horror) movies thatfeatures the telephone-spiel and the Killer-POV shots.
🎬 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.
🎬 The Name of the Rose
Nice atmospheric middle age murder story. Great characters, great acting, great makeup, great setting, great fog.
🎬 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.
Been watching Interior: Chinatown on Hulu. Didn’t read the book, but interesting story.
🔗 October 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Another one!
We went to the middle age market again. And our group of friends filmed a music video as a birthday present one afternoon.
finished the #InsideTrail Woodside Ramble 35k #trailRace in 7:42:58!21+ miles for the 21st. Happy Winter Solstice!One last dance for 2024. Drove down 101 and saw the orange sunrise between the East Bay mountains and stormy cloud cover. Made it to Huddart Park, parked, got my ...
October 2023
We went to the middle age market again. And our group of friends filmed a music video as a birthday present one afternoon. (30 photos)
Skyliner is nice.
🔗 September 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Another one!
Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat.
September 2023
Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat. (23 photos)
December 12th, 2024
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🔗 August 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
The latest photojournal entry has been out for a few days.
Zoe's first day at school. I went photographing with Florian at Zeche Zollverein in Essen. It was my mum's birthday. Saw Gatecreeper and Converge live in Dortmund with Bernd and Fred. We went to a horse race. And Bernd and I went on a multiday hike in Austria, where I broke my arm.
signed up for @brokenarrowskyrace.com (@BrokenArrowCA) 23k #skyRace on 2025-06-22!¹ This will be my third #BrokenArrow race. Goals: finish strong, beat last year’s time.The race sold out within 10-15minutes of opening this morning. Here’s how it went for me:09:00 Pacific time...
I’m supposed to say Stay Classy San Diego now, right?