Preikestolen, also known by the English names of Preacher's Pulpit, or Pulpit Rock, or Preacher's Rock (only such a thing exists in USA already, on the Georgia portion of the Appalachian Trail), and by a Norwegian local name translated as "the carpenter-plane’s blade", is a massive cliff of 604 meters above Lysefjorden, in Ryfylke, Norway. It is one of the coolest places on earth, visited unfortunately by just between a hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred thousand people per year. After … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
Sucker Punch, a Movie for Zombies
Sucker Punch is a 2011 movie, directed by the sickening mind of Zack Snyder, the creator of Cruel and Unusual Films, a production company hatched together with his lovely wife, Deborah. It is considered on imdb, an action, comedy, thriller. It's rated 6.1, which is way too much. The first song, voice performed by young Emily Browning herself, looks like a cover over Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams", only it's a cover of cover after Marylin Manson, with some really cruel addiction. Last part wasn't in … [Read more...]
More Sub-Categories
[updated October 2015] I have modified the former Art category as follows: posts appeared in "Art" without being mentioned in a sub-category of this one, are now included in Essays, a separate category. TV (former "Art" sub-category) is now a separate category on its own, and what was called "Writing" (another former sub-category) is now called Books, and consists a separate category on its own. Former category "Motion Pictures" is called now Movies, and has now nine sub-categories as … [Read more...]
Ravi Shankar Passed Away
Ravi Shankar died a few days ago. A great loss. They say he was a Pandit. Maybe it is too much, a pandit is some polymath equivalent in Hindu tradition. A pandit is "a scholar and a teacher, particularly one skilled in the Sanskrit language, who has mastered the four Vedic scriptures, Hindu rituals, Hindu law, religion, music, and philosophy under a Guru in a vedic school" (Wikipedia). Now Mr. Shankar played the sitar. He played it from an early age, until he played it with great internationally … [Read more...]
Show Me Love
A refreshing Swedish film from 1998, an European answer to American Pie... It was brilliant. This will be a short post about a teen movie. They were kids, they were disoriented, they were crazy but that was normal at their age. It's not normal to think it's funny to mug a retired person, but it was just a figure, a stylish one, nothing more. [source - this one and the rest of the pics in this post] It is a 7.7 imdb rated movie. It won some awards, especially in Europe: Best Foreign … [Read more...]