Peekaboo.
Posted 23:40 CET Wednesday January 13th, 2010 (57 days ago). 162 views. No comments. Tagged with Movies, Music, Personal.
Ah, my posting frequency is rather, shall we say, unreliable? Since we last spoke I’ve almost finished building a new server for this site, been at the movies, ordered tickets to a concert and spent quite a lot more time than usual on MSN and Skype.
Let’s start with the new server. I realized that the server that is currently running this site and two other doesn’t pack enough punch to handle the odd requests peaks I’m seeing. Every now and then, the one-liners are being picked up by some site, sending quite a lot of people this way. The last time this happened, about a week ago, the server got totally clogged when it ran out of memory. The reason? Only half of the 1GB chip in the box is discovered by the motherboard. The result? Swapping madness and total break down. The solution is to build a new and better box that will handle the peaks and then some. This will cost me a hell of a lot more than paying someone to host the site, but where’s the fun in that!? Now I’ve almost got all the parts I need (all I’m missing are some cables and the ones I received in the mail today were all useless – I have to learn to read the specifications properly before ordering), and I’m working on a small How To so that other people can also build their own home server. More to come.
The movie I went to see was the Norwegian “Tomme Tønner“. It’s heavily influenced by the style that Guy Ritchie uses in his movies, and it has its moments. They are brief, but they are still moments. Onc scene in particular actually made me laugh until I cried and that’s not something that happens often to me at the movies. Don’t get your expectations go through the roof, though, but you should still go see it. Maybe just to support Norwegian movies. Continue reading "Peekaboo." →
Sicko.
Posted 14:01 CET Sunday November 8th, 2009 (123 days ago). 152 views. No comments. Tagged with Computer Games, Internet, Movies.
No, I haven’t got the swine flu. Not even a slight cough. Anniken was out sick for a couple of days last week and I was so sure I’d get ill too, I prepared good for it: I hocked up my old Xbox 360 and bought GTA Episodes From Liberty City. After I got my PS3, I tried to sell my Xbox 360 console, but the big consumer electronics store chains sold Xbox 360 systems so cheap, they completely killed off the second hand console market. There is an obvious upside to this, though; I can play games that are exclusive Xbox 360 releases.
But since I’m not sick yet, the game is still in its plastic wrapping. Nothing wrong with playing the game while I’m not ill, of course, but since being home sick can be quite boring, I need something to do if it happens. I do have some excellent PC games I can play, but they are all strategy games that require some level of brain activity and that’s usually not my strong side when the fever kicks in. But where did all those great strategy games come from? Continue reading "Sicko." →
Review: District 9.
Posted 18:59 CET Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 (170 days ago). 198 views. 4 comments. Tagged with Movies, Reviews.
It’s been a while since I last posted a review. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I haven’t seen a single movie or read any books, it’s just that I’ve not written any reviews. These days I’m reading the fifth book in Stephen King’s epic The Dark Tower series. Great stuff.
But something even better than reading a Stephen King book is to watch Neill Blomkamp’s movie District 9. I’m pretty sure this is the best movie I’ve seen so far this year, and I won’t be surprised if no one will make a better before the year ends. Unless that movie 9 or maybe even Up can match it, that is. They’re very different movies, though.
Anyway, let’s get back to District 9. It all started with a short movie called “Alive in Joburg”, directed by South Africans Blomkamp and his friend Sharlto Copley. Because of Alive in Joburg, together with other work by Blomkamp, he was offered to work with the movie adaption of the Halo video game together with Peter Jackson. Unfortunately, the Halo movie was put on hold because of lack of funding. But this got Jackson and Blomkamp talking about other projects and result of that discussion is District 9. Here’s Alive in Joburg from YouTube: Continue reading "Review: District 9." →
Closer.
Posted 10:50 CET Thursday May 21st, 2009 (294 days ago). 184 views. 2 comments. Tagged with Miscellaneous, Movies, Personal.
A few years ago I lived in a shared apartment with, among others, an aspiring actor. He’d been in a few plays, produced a few others, had short career as a trouble maker in a Norwegian reality show and even starred in a not-that-successful movie.
We never got too close when we lived together and immediately lost contact when he moved out. But over the years I’ve got regular updates on what’s been happening in his life through friends, and a while back I learned that he’d been accepted to attend the Oslo National Academy of the Arts to try to get a Bachelor of Acting. Quite impressive as they only accept 8 new students every year.
Three years have passed now since he got accepted and yesterday I went with a few friends to see his graduation play, “Closer“. The fine arts is not usually my thing, I think the last time I went to the theater was 15 or so years ago, and I saw “Of Mice and Men” with Klas and his family. To be honest, I’m more of a movie goer. Continue reading "Closer." →
Little Miss.
Posted 21:33 CET Saturday January 26th, 2008 (2 years, 45 days ago). 90 views. No comments. Tagged with Movies, Music.
I usually don’t buy movies because of a good soundtrack, but there is a first time for everything. When I flew to Australia, one of the in-flight movies was Sunshine, a nice science fiction movie with a spectacular soundtrack and some marvelous video photography even on the crappy LCD screen in the back of the seat in front of me. For some time I’ve been looking for the movie OST, but a little digging around in the interweb has revealed that the soundtrack was never released and probably never will. You can find an unofficial version floating around on the web, but it’s only a rip of the music straight off the DVD.
When I was grocery shopping today, I noticed that they had the Sunshine DVD for sale (grocery shops sell all kinds of stuff these days) and decided to go for it. If it was a good movie on the plane, it’s very likely that it’s a good movie in our living room as well.
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