The Biscuit Barrel

Deci, cugetam zilele astea despre relatia mea mult prea complicata cu fabrica de vise americana si am inceput sa ma gandesc, i wonder waht i would do if i were in a movie……. Read the rest of this entry »

Well it sure gets the job done!

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Aparently, my rants are more popular than my movie reviews, that are, also, mostly rants, and they arebad reviews’ i’ll give you that much, but they are good rants? Read the rest of this entry »

Fun! Fun! Fun! Read the rest of this entry »

OK, deci am ras putin, mai ales la nunta pentru ca ma puteam vedea peste vreo 30 de ani in pielea saracului martor. Read the rest of this entry »

Tezeu mi-a zis sa scriu la blog ca sa scape de mine, sau pentru ca chiar ii pasa despre ce se intampla cu cartitele cand vin inundatiile, potopul cel maret al naturii care ia cu el cartite, gaini si pensionari si lasa mult, mult noroi. Read the rest of this entry »

Ce dracu s-a intampalt cu oameni din orasul asta? O fi de la frig si de la nori? Poate for sa stea la caldurica intr-o sala de cinema?

Povestea pe scurt este ca eu de obicei cand merg la cinema (si merg de cam 2 ori pe saptamana) sunt cu cam 5 oameni in sala…ok a good day.

Ieri am fost la Bobby, nu tocmai un blockbuster de film de actiune cu multe explozii and shit, dar au fost cam 20 de oameni in sala!

Si azi am fost la foarte fain-ul 4 luni 3 saptamani si 2 zile, la care nu ii voi face review pentru ca nu stiu ce sa scriu in el. Dar totusi, era fain, era romanesc, si erau cam 40 de oameni in sala, sure,sala e de 600 de locuri asa ca nu era tocmai plina, but it’s a start!

Vreau cate 200 de oameni la fiecare spectacol, sa isi faca oameni banii din filme, si sa pot sa vad si eu filmele la cinema cand apar in bucuresti. De asemenea, vreau multiplexul, care nu da semne ca se grabeste, desi scrie ca va fi gat aanul asta, om trai si om vedea, cu ceva noroc.

Kennedy again and again. Read the rest of this entry »

Well it’s that time again, inainte de Halloween, inainte de craciun, inainte de ziua mea. Singura diferenta e ca de data asta nu primesc cadouri si aparent e o tragedie mult mai mare decat moartea lui iisus, sau macar asa e tratata. Read the rest of this entry »

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!

Step right up ladies and gentlemen!

See the duel of the century!

The battle of the two terrible Ts

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No fear and no loathing today.

Soimos e foarte fain, ruinele cetatii sunt mult mai interesate si mai……MARI! decat ma asteptam, si atmosfera e magica dimineata la 6, cand ceata trece pe dealuri, norii sunt albi si cartitele fac pipi.

“I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen-I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians inWar of the Worlds . I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

–Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Schindler’s list with a vengeance!

Un film olandez cu accente engleze perfecte. And more! See our young starlet as she unwillingly grows up from a happy-go-lucky singer into a jew in hiding in the dark times of the nazy ocupation and then into a darring member of the resistance.

Her family murdered she is forced my circumstances to join the Dutch Resistance and become one of it’s key operatives.

Blood! Shotouts! Inumerable plot twosts that make your head spin!

La modul cel mai serios, e un filg menial cu accente engleze perfecte (cateodata chiar prea perfecte) cand sunt folosite. Saraca fata, care e si personajul principal, jucata de Carice van Houten who is verry hot and has nice boobs! sufera mult in filmul asta in timp ce personajelecad moarte pe langa ea in duzini. De fapt, chair putine personaje reusesc sa supravietuiasca acestui film, motiv pentru care e recomandat unui anumit membru al clerului care va ramane anonim. Folosindu-se de atitudinea ei super-sexoasa (termen de specialitate) a accentului german faorte bun si a vopselei de par Avon saraca fata reuseste sa supravietuiasca muuuultor chestii de-a lungul filmului. Un fel de Mata Hari a WW-II, care are (ce surpriza) nume francez, in majoritatea filmului fiind cunoscuta dupa pseudonimul Ellis de Vries. Dar ii trece repede si abia se observa ca numele e francez sub accentul german impecabil. Ah da, those damned germans, the bastards. In film, germanii sunt descrisi ca niste bestii care omoara tot si tot ce nu omoara, si cateodata si ce omoara, they fuck! Este foarte multa nuditate in filmul asta, in mare parte buna, dar si nuditate rea, dar nu va spoileresc, consolativa cu ideea ca tipa arata bine goala, si ca apare destul de goala.

Daca sunteti in Timisoara filmul ruleaza la Studio intre 9-15 septembrie si merita vazut.

PS Cateodata devine plictisitor, are 145 de minute.

Vizionare placuta!

Si pe metropotam

International Romani Art Festival si-a deschis portile cu intrare libera pentru prima data (speram din multe) la Timisoara intre 31 august si 6 septembrie. Prima editie a festivalului are tema “So keres Europa?” si este un festival care promoveaza integrarea rromilor in societate renuntarea la prejudecati si alte aspiratii la fel de hipioate. Lucrurile merg bine, scopurile hipioate sunt promovate prin actiuni la fel de hipioate: concerte live, expozitii foto, proiectii de filme, parade, spectacole de teatru si dans, targuri, work-shopuri, dezbateri, conferinte. Lucruri foarte interesante pentru care merita sa iti faci timp, mai ales concertele. Dar, desigur, fiind prima editie, ca la orice prima editie, se mai intampla sa mearga omul la carturesti la o dezbatere si sa fie numai vreo 4 fotografi asteptand in fata semnului de “INCHIS”………sau lansarea tranvaiului antidiscriminare, pictat de copii si a carui lansare s-a reprogramat pe loc fara sa anunte pe nimeni……..DAR CONCERTELE MERITA!

In prima seara, vineri,31 august, entertainment-ul a fost asigurat de Dance Trauma si de Kultur Shock, o trupa de gypsy punk/ alternative din Seattle, adusi pentru festival, and worth every penny!

Sambata the king has entered the building! Nightlosers si Elvis Romano au zdranganit pe scena intr-o nebunie de fun-fun-happy-happy-OMFG, iaca-l pe elvis pe scena!

Luni, totul s-a mai linistit, pe scena (acum mutata in piata Traian) au aparut Dj Vasile si Shukar Collective care nu au mai reusit sa distreze publicul ca Elvis sau Kultur Shock, dar probabil deja se plictisisera de atata distractie .

Marti, pe malurile Begai (adica pe iarba, langa Jazz Club, apar Tamango iar miercuri Romano Drom, Rona Hartner si Mahala Rai. But first, LA carturesti se tine etapa nationala a concursului de Public Speaking “Discriminagora” ARDOR, o treaba semi-oficioasa sponsorizata de Consiliul ONU Pentru Refugiati. Toata lumea a fost de acord ca discriminarea e rea, si ca toti oameni, negrii, rromii si ungurii sunt egali and all that hippy stuff. Da, chiar si ungurii.

Joi, the great finaly e asigurat de The Serious Road Trip Romania, trupa de teatru Heavenly Hell si Florin Niculescu.

Lectia zilei e ca stereotipurile sunt ridicole, rasismul la fel and we’re all just one big happy family, chiar si ungurii.

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A 2-a lectie a zilei, si de fapt a saptamanii e ca e foarte greu sa organizezi un festival cat de cat important dar cand exista o dorinta comuna sa se faca ceva iese ceva distractiv si care merita cateva ore, chair si mai multe din timpul oamenilor.

Cu ceva noroc la vremea asta anul viitor vom avea inca un International Romani Art Festival, mai amre si mai breaz ca asta.