A little bit of moaning about the current situation.
🎬 Die Grüne Lüge (The Green Lie)
I commend the sentiment of this movie. And I agree with it. But to me, there was nothing really new in here, however. And it was a bit dry and too long. The more confrontational interviews of the various groups’ spokespersons were a bit so-so. But the interviews with Raj Patel and Noam Chomsky were pretty interesting.
🎬 Sound of Metal
There was not really much metal in here. It was more about how it is to lose one’s hearing. And that was well done, in my opinion. The story itself was ok, but the different sections of the film weren’t very coherent as a whole.
🎬 Blue Jasmine
As usual for Woody Allen, this is a lot about the characters, their relationships, and – of course – the dialogue. Cate Blanchett is absolutely incredible in this. Loved how you got to know about Jasmine’s past piece by piece via the regular flashback scenes. Top!
🔗 Why The IndieWeb? (Webbed Briefs)
This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross. Or if you prefer, this is the video in which I say the expression “barbecue sets” far too many times.
Not your usual explanation of the history of the web and the IndieWeb.
🎬 Everest
Movie about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
The movie itself is fairly conventional. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Far from it! A fascinating story told via a well-made movie made a good Saturday night.
🎧 How Did We Get So Dark? – Royal Blood
Royal Blood are back in rotation!
📖 Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue (und andere Erzählungen) – Edgar Allen Poe
Ich hatte dieses Buch in unserem Schrank gefunden, und dachte es wär’ mal was anderes ab und zu eine Kurzgeschichte dieses weltberühmten Autors zu lesen.
Gefiel mir. Einige Geschichten waren in der Tat sehr morbide. Und “Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue” war die beste – und ist meiner Meinung nach somit zu Recht eine der bekanntesten Erzählungen Poes.
Ich mochte seinen Schreibstil, besonders, wie er viele der Geschichten aus (scheinbarer?) Autorensicht eingeleitet hat.
GitHub and GitLab now both offer dark mode. My eyes thank you!
📄 The new president
Summarising my feelings about the recent US presidential election.
🎧 Imperial – Soen
The new Soen album came out and it’s in heavy rotation.
[UPDATE:] This seems to not be for me this time around. I find myself regularly skipping songs, because either melody, guitar solo or vocals are unbearably cheesy. A shame, because some songs are actually quite good.
🎬 Host
I liked this one! Yes, it’s got fairly typical horror movie elements. But the stage is a Zoom-call during the Corona-lockdown. And I found this pretty well done.
Reminded me of “The Blair Witch Project” (if I remember correctly – because that was looong ago) and “Rec”.
📄 GitLab Pages: serving compressed resources
I have now enabled gzip compression on this website. This means all text resources are now served compressed, which results in quicker page (down)loads.
I removed pagination from a few index pages. Because: who needs pagination when you have compact index pages and all images are lazy loaded? Right: no one! Kinda fixes static page search, too.
🎧 Paranoid – Black Sabbath
I never listened to this album. But because it’s such a classic, I know pretty much every song on here. And I’m enjoying it!
And if the end lead riff of “Fairies Wear Boots” was not a major influence for Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” I’ll eat my hat!
🎬 Barn (Beware of Children)
This was a slow movie and more like a psychological and/or social study than about the plot itself.
Relationships, feelings and emotions can be complex and the movie intelligently communicated this. And are so-called grown-ups really that for off in their behaviour from children?
🎬 Deerskin
I expected nonsense. But not like this. I didn’t get it.
Ich habe heute Die Ente gemalt.
📄 Updated pedalboard
I bought more pedals. And so I needed a bigger board, to be able to fit them all. Here’s what it looks like now:
🎬 Suspiria (2018)
Although this is not a remake, I think I enjoyed the “original” more.
This rendition certainly had a much better production and much better acting. And it wasn’t bad at all. And I very much enjoyed the Berlin set. But I found the side-plots somewhat irrelevant and the main story confusing. Or maybe it was just too late in the day, yesterday night.
So, it was a good movie, but I wasn’t 100% convinced.