Afro Samuri is great stuff: excellent animation, interesting characters, revenge tale, "modern yet feudal" Japan is an interesting setting/technology and what else, well just watch it its really good stuff. Go watch and enjoy.
6.29.2007
Afro Samurai
Afro Samuri is great stuff: excellent animation, interesting characters, revenge tale, "modern yet feudal" Japan is an interesting setting/technology and what else, well just watch it its really good stuff. Go watch and enjoy.
Ciao Facundo
Well, bye-bye Facundo. Not sure at all how I fell about this deal. Age and experience for youth and well Erp-Fu? We'll see in a few weeks if Vanney settles in well. Hopefully it works out, but I just don't feel good about this and I hope I'm wrong. Who knows maybe our style will suit him. I wonder how the locker room feels about this?
DCU 4(1) - 1(1) Colorado
"The first 25, 30 minutes we were flat, the same way we came out against Salt Lake," Perkins said. "Fortunately, they didn't capitalize on a couple things. Second half, we collected ourselves here [in the locker room] and came back out fighting."
Well said Mr. Perkins. Good game and closer than final score indicates. Alot of the guys had good second halves, Adderly, Moose, Fred, Gomez, and Perkins. This team is still giving away alot chances though and well, as long as we score more than anyone they can work on that.
Speaking of defenders and according to Steven Goff: "After the game, according to sources close to the team, United was trying to finalize a trade that would send Argentine defender Facundo Erpen to Colorado for former U.S. national team defender Greg Vanney." Whoa that's interesting, what's the deal, Colorado is the home of old DC defenders?
Cheers
Well said Mr. Perkins. Good game and closer than final score indicates. Alot of the guys had good second halves, Adderly, Moose, Fred, Gomez, and Perkins. This team is still giving away alot chances though and well, as long as we score more than anyone they can work on that.
Speaking of defenders and according to Steven Goff: "After the game, according to sources close to the team, United was trying to finalize a trade that would send Argentine defender Facundo Erpen to Colorado for former U.S. national team defender Greg Vanney." Whoa that's interesting, what's the deal, Colorado is the home of old DC defenders?
Cheers
6.26.2007
Solo con tu pareja
Alfonso Cuaron, director of Y tu mama tambien made this delightful, mildly surreal and, at times, quite serious film in 1991. This movie is about relationships, people growing up, AIDS and Mexico City. The humor in this film is just great, endlessly poking fun at the oddities of men, women and their relationships while treating the serious issue of AIDS with respect. In this film all relationships are heterosexual and it is in this community that issues surrounding AIDS and its impact on individuals are discussed. I also quite enjoyed the lazy pacing of the film, it added a certain dreaminess to the film and that may be what I'm calling surreal. Well, anyway, here is a far better synopsis from the Criterion Collection, the version that I saw, than I have time write.
6.25.2007
Found an awesome photography link
So I found the above link here. This is done by a photographer SAIGA Yuji and he documents the story of an artificial island, Gunkanjima, that has now been abandoned. Strange, evocative, and well sad in a way.
USA 2 (0) -1 (1) Mexico
Wow! Comeback win versus El Tri!!!! Wow! Salute the guts the boys showed!!!! I was quite honestly shocked. After the Sanchez's triple save and us being a goal down, I said to myself that it wasn't our day. We were playing well but had run into a red hot keeper. Then the pk and off we go. Excellent counter-attacking and Benny F., wow that was hard to do and gorgeous to see. Mexico kept coming and Tim HOWARD came up big! Wow. Been a long time since I felt that way about USMNT.
Realistically now there are still problems with team but right now I'm ignoring them. Something tells me we will see plenty of USMNT faults on display very soon.
Cheers
Realistically now there are still problems with team but right now I'm ignoring them. Something tells me we will see plenty of USMNT faults on display very soon.
Cheers
6.24.2007
6.18.2007
Good stuff this week-end
Busy week-end with lot of stuff going on.
So the easy part. US Mens National Team beats Panama. Great and we should, nuff said.
DCU beats Chicago. YES YES YES !!!!! We played well, have played well these last two games. Chicago was just at 6's & 7's for the fist half, clueless. They were depleted and we pounded 'em like we should, unlike when we played the LaLas. The fact that we didn't play down to the opposition and took full advantage is a good thing. We played our game regardless, good attitude if you ask me.
Dr Who - The Master has returned!!!! Derek Jacobi(Cadfael fame) plays The Master, initially, but then he is killed and he regenerates. Really good stuff. I had my reservations about this season but the last three episodes have really turned things around. Turning into a really good season. Grab 'em however you can!!!!
So the easy part. US Mens National Team beats Panama. Great and we should, nuff said.
DCU beats Chicago. YES YES YES !!!!! We played well, have played well these last two games. Chicago was just at 6's & 7's for the fist half, clueless. They were depleted and we pounded 'em like we should, unlike when we played the LaLas. The fact that we didn't play down to the opposition and took full advantage is a good thing. We played our game regardless, good attitude if you ask me.
Dr Who - The Master has returned!!!! Derek Jacobi(Cadfael fame) plays The Master, initially, but then he is killed and he regenerates. Really good stuff. I had my reservations about this season but the last three episodes have really turned things around. Turning into a really good season. Grab 'em however you can!!!!
6.16.2007
Friday Film Fest, love lazy fridays!!
So what did I watch? Basilisk, Ghost in the Shell (yes again), Final Fantasy VII, and Animatrix (yes again). Also I played around a bit with Suse Linux live cd on the Sony and it worked well.
But first the movies:
Basilisk
Basilisk is an animated tv series. It's a Romeo and Juliet set in feudal Japan. The warring families are, you guessed it, Ninjas. Yup that's right and it brings all the standard requirements for that sort of tale, and it is great fun. Looks fantastic, great animation and it is well plotted. A few flashback episodes slow things down but the background stories are needed. If you like this kind of stuff, then it is a great example of period storytelling genre, if you don't well, it could be a good introduction.
Ghost in the Shell
If you like anime and you haven't seen this yet, Go Away and Don't Come Back until you do! That's it, step away from the computer and GO GET THIS MOVIE!!! Yes it is important. It is gorgeous combination of traditional animation with digital. The color palette in this movie is stunning and a great soundtrack. Interesting characters and excellent plotting tells the story of an individual in search of meaning. Really if you have any interest in anime and have not seen this, please do! If you don't like it, fair enough, but I think you will.
Final Fantasy VII
NOT a sequel in any way to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It is a movie of the game with the same name. It's a cool flick, great to look at, enough story to keep interested (post apocalyptic world, planet in ruins, good guys save world but must resolve personal issues first - c'mon you know the plot). Get some beer in and enjoy some harmless fun.
The Animatrix
Yeah Yeah it's been around forever, like its the Matrix dude, whatever, get over it. This is good stuff, Matrix or not. Again,see Ghost in the Shell, if you have any interest in anime and have not seen this, Go Away and Don't Come Back until you've seen these various shorts. For me this is not a money making spin-off of The Matrix, these are almost all quality works that stand on their own, mixing a variety of styles and techniques. Renaissance or whatever the heck the name of the background story is a bit weak.
Suse Linux.
I used this a long time ago on my ol' 333 Pentium MMX, which I thought was the greatest box ever, man, and now I think my phone has more computing power less than six years later. So anyroad, I was playing with a live cd of 10.1. Nice stuff. I must say it was a clearer process of interaction than using Ubuntu. To be fair, it could be my familiarity with Suse rather than any problem with Ubuntu, tried Ubuntu thursday and I just couldn't get comfortable with the information it was feeding back to me, not enough and vague. That said, playing with the two definitely got the Linux bug back. But I've decided to hold off installing on my laptop. Speaking of my laptop, I've got Vista tweaked the way I think it should run ( about 3/4s effeciency of OS X is the about as good as I've got it running) and well, if it ain't broke...I think I'll see if can't find a refurb job and play with that.
By the way, Vista, from an avowed dis liker of all things MicroSoft, is the easiest Windows I've used (I have used 98, 2000, ME, NT, XP). My Mac blows it away for usability, memory management and other features too numerous to mention, but for a Windows OS, well it only took a little time to tweak it the way I want and I didn't have to replace everything on it to make it work. Now is that Windows or is it Sony, honestly seeing as Sony send patches, 3 so far, to make Vista work better with the hardware I have to lean towards it being Sony. Anyway, for what its worth, if you've got Vista on your machine (by choice or otherwise), look up "vista tweaks" online and use which ones you feel comfortable applying, they really help and they don't take long to put in place.
But first the movies:
Basilisk
Basilisk is an animated tv series. It's a Romeo and Juliet set in feudal Japan. The warring families are, you guessed it, Ninjas. Yup that's right and it brings all the standard requirements for that sort of tale, and it is great fun. Looks fantastic, great animation and it is well plotted. A few flashback episodes slow things down but the background stories are needed. If you like this kind of stuff, then it is a great example of period storytelling genre, if you don't well, it could be a good introduction.
Ghost in the Shell
If you like anime and you haven't seen this yet, Go Away and Don't Come Back until you do! That's it, step away from the computer and GO GET THIS MOVIE!!! Yes it is important. It is gorgeous combination of traditional animation with digital. The color palette in this movie is stunning and a great soundtrack. Interesting characters and excellent plotting tells the story of an individual in search of meaning. Really if you have any interest in anime and have not seen this, please do! If you don't like it, fair enough, but I think you will.
Final Fantasy VII
NOT a sequel in any way to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It is a movie of the game with the same name. It's a cool flick, great to look at, enough story to keep interested (post apocalyptic world, planet in ruins, good guys save world but must resolve personal issues first - c'mon you know the plot). Get some beer in and enjoy some harmless fun.
The Animatrix
Yeah Yeah it's been around forever, like its the Matrix dude, whatever, get over it. This is good stuff, Matrix or not. Again,see Ghost in the Shell, if you have any interest in anime and have not seen this, Go Away and Don't Come Back until you've seen these various shorts. For me this is not a money making spin-off of The Matrix, these are almost all quality works that stand on their own, mixing a variety of styles and techniques. Renaissance or whatever the heck the name of the background story is a bit weak.
Suse Linux.
I used this a long time ago on my ol' 333 Pentium MMX, which I thought was the greatest box ever, man, and now I think my phone has more computing power less than six years later. So anyroad, I was playing with a live cd of 10.1. Nice stuff. I must say it was a clearer process of interaction than using Ubuntu. To be fair, it could be my familiarity with Suse rather than any problem with Ubuntu, tried Ubuntu thursday and I just couldn't get comfortable with the information it was feeding back to me, not enough and vague. That said, playing with the two definitely got the Linux bug back. But I've decided to hold off installing on my laptop. Speaking of my laptop, I've got Vista tweaked the way I think it should run ( about 3/4s effeciency of OS X is the about as good as I've got it running) and well, if it ain't broke...I think I'll see if can't find a refurb job and play with that.
By the way, Vista, from an avowed dis liker of all things MicroSoft, is the easiest Windows I've used (I have used 98, 2000, ME, NT, XP). My Mac blows it away for usability, memory management and other features too numerous to mention, but for a Windows OS, well it only took a little time to tweak it the way I want and I didn't have to replace everything on it to make it work. Now is that Windows or is it Sony, honestly seeing as Sony send patches, 3 so far, to make Vista work better with the hardware I have to lean towards it being Sony. Anyway, for what its worth, if you've got Vista on your machine (by choice or otherwise), look up "vista tweaks" online and use which ones you feel comfortable applying, they really help and they don't take long to put in place.
6.14.2007
Good Stuff on Race and Diversity in Fiction
Ghanageek raises some very strong points/issues here concerning the current state of Science Fiction and particularly about the dearth of non-white authors in the field.
"How to promote Diversity in Fiction Markets" from The Angry Black Woman.
"How to promote Diversity in Fiction Markets" from The Angry Black Woman.
Migraines, I hate 'em
Just getting over a massive migraine from yesterday. Feels like I was drinking Budworser all day, man what a nasty one.
So US men's national team played their way through our Gold Cup first round group. Won all three games as we should have. Some big things: Gooch and Pablo need to stop collecting yellow cards and the Bradley/Nowak combo seems to have the team playing a style that really works well against CONCACAF teams, so did Bruce but I think we're playing a more pressing style that punishes the bunker and counter tactics that were being used against the USMNT previously. I saw only one bad half of ball from the boys and that was in the first game. Other than that they were too much for the other three teams, but as I said we should have been so the jury's out but I'm intrigued.
Quarterfinals on Sat. so the level of difficulty should go up. I'm looking forward to it.
So US men's national team played their way through our Gold Cup first round group. Won all three games as we should have. Some big things: Gooch and Pablo need to stop collecting yellow cards and the Bradley/Nowak combo seems to have the team playing a style that really works well against CONCACAF teams, so did Bruce but I think we're playing a more pressing style that punishes the bunker and counter tactics that were being used against the USMNT previously. I saw only one bad half of ball from the boys and that was in the first game. Other than that they were too much for the other three teams, but as I said we should have been so the jury's out but I'm intrigued.
Quarterfinals on Sat. so the level of difficulty should go up. I'm looking forward to it.
6.12.2007
So I took a Briggs-Myers and I'm a ......
iNTj - Mastermind Rational. Yup I'm a one percenter, Woot Woot Woot.
6.10.2007
DCU 4(1)-1(1)Red Bulls
YES YES YES!!!!!
1. We beat the Red Bulls
2. Did not quit when suffering from a very poor referee performance, heat/humidity, conceding a lead and going a man down.
3. Goals Goals GOALS!!!!!! Benny OLSEN!!!!!!
Nice Post article on Benny and game.
Yup a good day out. Best game ever, no but best game this year? I think the closest we've had yet to a complete game this year in MLS, well done. Full strength we had good possession and played with tempo. I get the feeling that this is the way Tommy wants the boys to play, i.e. with guts and no stopping. Played through the refereeing and kept looking to press and attack. Even after going a man down! (Three goals!!!) Credit Tom for getting them out of the malaise that started last year.
Biggest criticism: still giving away too many chances and thank you for missing some easy chances Red Bulls, Same old Jersey....
Definitely a convincing and spirited win, thank-you boys.
Cheesy David Bowie vid for Heroes
1. We beat the Red Bulls
2. Did not quit when suffering from a very poor referee performance, heat/humidity, conceding a lead and going a man down.
3. Goals Goals GOALS!!!!!! Benny OLSEN!!!!!!
Nice Post article on Benny and game.
Yup a good day out. Best game ever, no but best game this year? I think the closest we've had yet to a complete game this year in MLS, well done. Full strength we had good possession and played with tempo. I get the feeling that this is the way Tommy wants the boys to play, i.e. with guts and no stopping. Played through the refereeing and kept looking to press and attack. Even after going a man down! (Three goals!!!) Credit Tom for getting them out of the malaise that started last year.
Biggest criticism: still giving away too many chances and thank you for missing some easy chances Red Bulls, Same old Jersey....
Definitely a convincing and spirited win, thank-you boys.
Cheesy David Bowie vid for Heroes
6.06.2007
Ultra Vivid Scene and Cocteau Twins
Or how I downloaded 71 songs in less than twenty minutes!!!!! Yup it was eighties night chez Bibliotheker. Delightful dream pop from the late eighties and early nineties. I got my hands on UVS' Joy: 1967 - 1990 and wow. I had completely forgotten what a wonderful record that was. Just missed it at the time. I was listening to My Bloody Valentine alot and I'm sure I was just too caught up in their more power rock/pop. Oh well, what can I say. Joy is just a pure pop delight, genius? Maybe but what caught my ear was I kept hearing little bits of Andrian Belew type guitar chops in the songs and that gave a bit of quirky King Crimson touches and when combined with some the obvious Lou Reed and MBV touches creates something that I now hear as far more unique than I thought. Just a really fun, rich, and intriguing sonic mix.
Next up Cocteau Twins. So I downloaded Lullabies to Violaine, Vols. 1 and 2 and well that was 59 songs right there, yikes. 59 Cocteau Twins songs what was I thinking!!! But hey in all honesty it takes that many songs to do justice to this band. This is all the eps and singles from '82 and '96. It shows just how much this band changed and grew over the years. Well what can I say that probably hasn't been said before. If you like dreamy pop music that is well crafted, rich in ideas, and subversive in quiet ways than check these guys out.
Next up Cocteau Twins. So I downloaded Lullabies to Violaine, Vols. 1 and 2 and well that was 59 songs right there, yikes. 59 Cocteau Twins songs what was I thinking!!! But hey in all honesty it takes that many songs to do justice to this band. This is all the eps and singles from '82 and '96. It shows just how much this band changed and grew over the years. Well what can I say that probably hasn't been said before. If you like dreamy pop music that is well crafted, rich in ideas, and subversive in quiet ways than check these guys out.
6.04.2007
That was a bit of a let down!
USMNT 4(2) v China 1(1) - We are supposed to win this sort of fixture aren't we. Played decent ball in the first half and then countered in the second to good effect. We won, we were supposed too. So the real test is coming up later in the Gold Cup and other events, I'll judge USMNT then and until that, well ESB is my friend.
Okay DC United. Yikes that first twenty minutes was a disaster. LA should've been killing us, thank LA for being wretched. Changed formation, stabilized a bit and well, when that's the best you do in 45 mins... sad. Second half well we left two points in LA, played well enough in the second to steal three points, sad. Oh well. Not a loss but, not a good feeling either.
Bertrand Burgalat SSssound of Music
Okay DC United. Yikes that first twenty minutes was a disaster. LA should've been killing us, thank LA for being wretched. Changed formation, stabilized a bit and well, when that's the best you do in 45 mins... sad. Second half well we left two points in LA, played well enough in the second to steal three points, sad. Oh well. Not a loss but, not a good feeling either.
Bertrand Burgalat SSssound of Music
6.02.2007
DCU vs. LaLas and USMNT vs. China
So big day in Soccerland today. Will the boys take out the LaLas out in CA. Will MNT do well against the Chinese. We will have to see.
For my money the match v the LaLas is tricky. They've been on bad run and need the victory more so than usual. We're on a bit of roll and want to maintain the momentum. So sounds good right, HA. It's the MLS regular season and you never ever should get yr hopes up but, dang I want another win. I really want a convincing win and not another nail-biter!!!!
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED - Flowers of Romance
For my money the match v the LaLas is tricky. They've been on bad run and need the victory more so than usual. We're on a bit of roll and want to maintain the momentum. So sounds good right, HA. It's the MLS regular season and you never ever should get yr hopes up but, dang I want another win. I really want a convincing win and not another nail-biter!!!!
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED - Flowers of Romance
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