Das Kind hat woanders übernachtet. Endlich mal wieder in Ruhe Sonntagmorgens im Wohnzimmer Death Metal hören.
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🎬 The Godfather Part 3
I think Part 3 was a great movie. The story probably wasn’t as enthralling as in the other two, so I think I agree with most critics it’s the least favourite film of the trilogy. But the whole opera bit at the end, that scream (!), and the end scene were very much worth it.
We got tested for Corona virus today. The results were negative.
In Germany you can currently get one free test every week. While we thought it’s pretty unlikely we’re infected, we thought it couldn’t hurt taking advantage of this (after all, we do occasionally meet a few people).
We used “Mein Corona Schnelltest”, and the whole process – registration, test, and test result retrieval – was quick and straightforward. Our test centre was set up in a mall where a shop used to be. I thought it’s worth sharing these two photos.
🎬 Adam‘s Apples
This was trying too hard being bizarre. It’s tricky to make a bizarre movie. And in this case it didn’t do it for me. I think it also wanted to be funny. I didn’t agree very often (and the jokes sometimes went too far for me). Great cast, though.
📄 Fixing video sharing
How I now host video files outside of GitLab Pages
🎥 “Crystal Mountain” Guitar Cover
My cover of Death’s “Crystal Mountain”.
I wanted to try out recording myself – both video and audio – and see how it goes. The playing is far from perfect, but I’m reasonably ok with the take. It was a first take after all, just to try out this sort of thing. I simply hit re...
🎬 The Godfather Part 2
Part 2 is on par with part 1, sharing the same minor criticism and major praise. Loved the background story about Vito Corleone’s life and how he became the “original” Godfather.
🎬 The Godfather
It’s a little intimidating to write about such a classic. But I agree it’s a great movie. Story, atmosphere, the filming, set design and costumes, acting: all superb. The only negative thing I can say, is that I sometimes found it difficult following the plot, with its many characters and all this macho mafia business.
Overall, though, it’s a classic for a reason!
This also must’ve been one of most explicitly violent movies at the time. And I found it amusing that I didn’t recognise Al Pacino and Robert Duvall at first, because I’m used to their much older faces from much more recent films.
📄 My sporadic and minimalist darkroom
How I use our little bathroom to make gelatin silver prints.
🎬 The Dead Don't Die
I came to appreciate Jim Jarmusch’s movies in recent years. But this was boring. The “Chardonnay”-scene was the only funny one. Well, and Iggy Pop as Zombie wasn’t too bad. But that was by far not enough to save the film. And it sure had potential with all those terrific actors. No, I’m sorry.
🎧 Wolverine Blues – Entombed
The recent death of singer LG Petrov prompted me to listen to this marvel again.
It’s the Entombed album I listen(ed) to. It’s so damn heavy and the drumming immediately brings me in a good mood. Just listen to the title track. Banger!
🎧 The Sound Of Perseverance (Reissue) – Death
Death! Just too good! So, this one’s also in rotation now.
🎬 The Party
A rewatch. Still very funny. 70 minutes hilariously well spent! And bonus points for being in b/w.
We’ve been making these veggie burgers with beetroot-based patties for a while now. They are delicious.
So I think the search for a great patty has ended.
🎧 Symbolic – Death
Learning Crystal Mountain on guitar. Death is always much fun to play. And this is such a great album!
🎬 Cutterhead
Not a film for claustrophobics! I found this ok. The psychological interplay between the three characters trapped way underground was interesting, although not 100% convincing. The movie also should have better explained why things happened or needed to happen a certain way. As a person unfamiliar with underground tunnel-digging, I was wondering what was going on at times.
🎧 Look Back – Spiritual Beggars
Been listening to this track a lot, because I was learning that middle section on guitar.
🎬 The Summit
Since watching “Everest”, we got into a bit of a mountaineering-movie fever I guess. This one is about the 2008 K2 disaster, featuring interviews and original footage, combined with re-enacted scenes to fill the gaps.
Again, I found this fascinating, simply by the topic itself. However, the movie was a bit confusing concerning where everyone was at what time, or why/when/how people got in trouble – or not. And the occasional non-linear timeline added to the confusion. Plus, the parts about the Italian mountaineer that was part of the first successful K2 summit in the fifties was redundant, in my opinion.
But overall, an interesting film about a K2 expedition gone wrong. But I had to consult Wikipedia afterwards to fully understand what was going on.
📄 The future of my photo journal
Right now, I’m unsure about whether I will continue my photo journal in its current form.
📄 Corona Update
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.