OpenOffice 3 - soon to come..

A long waiting filled with expectations. Hopefully, the launch is just a couple of days away. However, seems like it's been postponed at least once. I reckon, like a week ago, the Swedish OpenOffice site claimed the preliminary release date to be at 29th of September. As of today, it's set to 7th of October. Anyways, guess you can wait just a little bit longer for something as fabulous as this release.

Running out of Ketaprofen gel

Heh. Still unsure of whether this NSAID stuff is really helping at all. However, it must be placebo or something, 'cuz when I'm in the loop of lubricating it into my forearm, I just can't seem to get enough. A big shout-out to that muscle-caring nurse who gave me the tip about NSAID á gel. I mean, how come nurses up at boot camp land didn't tell me about this back in 2004 when the first symptoms occurred. Strange indeed. Feels like a big waste to spread this [known to cause gastric ulcer as main side effect] substance out more than necessary.

However, the gel is as you can see not everlasting.

My first tube - 13th of August 2008


My first tube - 26th of September 2008


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoprofen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID

A.M.F.A.B - A Major Food Ambient Blog v0.1

Just catching the vibes, trying to figure out the appropriate interface for this one. However, there's no time to argue with myself about little things. Time to hit the haystack.

28th of August

One meaty day!

24th of August

The Salmon was calling us!

23th of August

Chicken Race on the highway, hombre!

21th of August

Meat is what the doctor referred to!

18th of August

Farmer beef w. vegetables means happiness!

17th of August

The delicious mixture of sausage, vegetables 'N' hocus!

16th of August

I'm no chicken, I just eat lots of white meat!!

15th of August

Hamburgers 'R' us right now.
We do not refer to traditional fastfood corners.

14th of August

Meat? How could I eat so much? It must be a miracle!

13th of August

Back to the world-famous Sausage Stroganof.
This here is to die for!

9th of August

My sweet lady preparing the onion.

Lucid dreams in wonderland

Wow.

When I woke up this morning, I could recall the strangest dream. It was so clear. I was sort of drawing a Rocky strip, but not as a comic, but more of motion. I mean like, my focus wasn't on the illustrations, but on the storyline of the strip. And how I made it connect, truly amazing. I recall two pieces of the story. On the first one, Rocky was having a conversation with a friend of his, regarding childhood memories. This side-characters explains that back when he was a kid, he was always so anxious to get on the train so that he was always standing nasty close to the edge of the platforms. I mean like, where did I get this idea from? I know I read in the news a couple of days ago about some guy who had been hit by a S-train due to an unfortunate tripping (whereas [of course] he must have stood close to the platform). Wow, could this be a blast from the sky. The Almighty Creator (for no particular reason) trying to tell me how that man was hit by that train 'cuz of stress. So, if I dig deeper into it. Where does this leave me? Hmm.. Wicked indeed. However, in the other half of this Rocky strip I was ..err.. shooting.. Rocky was having a daydream about how he would lay his hands on some real rare concert tickets. Then, Rocky is suddenly standing on the platform, waiting for a friend to arrive by train. When he does, he hands Rocky a couple of concert tickets. However, it was some lame shit, not that cool concert that Rocky was hoping for. Names of the artists? Well, you have to keep in mind that lucid dreams blocks away all unessential stuff. So, here is the part where Rocky is giving his "jerked-off" smile directly to the strip-viewer, this is sort of the bottom end score for this strip. I'm telling you, it was incredible.

Back to being bald!

Yeah. I know we're reaching in upon autumn, even winter, but I just felt like doing it. It's such a nice feeling, a clean shaved head. So fresh, even when it's cold outside.

Movie: "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007)

So, yesterday me and my beloved fiancé watched this film. Nice photography all the way through the movie, is oughtta be my first comment on this one. What more is there to say. It's a pretty nice story, yet from what I understand told a couple of times before throughout the years. However, Tim Burton really laid a smooth hand over on this one. It just has to be said. The film is made like a musical, with lots of singing. Some which I almost thought felt a bit out of chorus, a little feature that I (after going through it) think could be inplanted in purpose. Sort of the same thing that some noisemaker I read an interview explained it, but then of course the main issue was that you should pop made up rhymes into your lyrics to make them more alive. "The listeners will go 'Wtf?!' and eventually catch on to the vibe", he explained. Hehe, well, guess I ran off topic there. Anyways, this was definitely a film worth watching. Damn, still havn't ran that Batman marathon, and it feels like that DVD release for The Dark Knight is getting pretty near now.

Movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236/
http://www.sweeneytoddmovie.com/

About the fictional main character:

GIMP 2.4.7

It's been nearly a month since it's release, but I'm a little bit slow on catching those crucial updates. Besides, I've had lots of other stuff to think about. Anyways. For all those who are totally new to GIMP, it's a form of [GNU / Open / Free] image manipulation software. Think Adobe Photoshop, but free of charge, developed by volonteers from all around the world. Then there are those who have heard about GIMP, but has thought that it was only available for Linux/UNIX environment. This is wrong, 'cuz the GIMP was Windoze-ported a long time ago.

Check it out!

http://gimp.org/

Rocky #6 / 2008 out now!

It's worth a shout-out!

What's up?!

I've seen a couple of films, but I've also been going through lots of things lately. Therefor, I'm written more stuff in my own personal notebook than online. I'll eventually scrap it up anyways. Hope everyone's doing well.



However, I couldn't focus very well during neither one of these movies. All I could think of was how incredible beautiful the business central area of South-Korean capital Seoul looks through skylight.



However, regarding the films, I must say I had higher expectations on Blue Velvet. I thought it would be some sick shit with lots of freaky stuff on a mental level. I mean, isn't that somewhat of David Lynch's speciality? I thought Blue Velvet was almost concidered a classic? Watching it was boring anyways.

Still, I feel closer to Seoul than to Gotham City, nor Lumberton for that matter. Seoul, I bet they never suffer winter over there.

Movie: "Bucket List" (2007)

Interesting film. Really not the usual crap, so to say ;D The rich millionarie Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) is put in hospital 'cuz of severe cancer. He's on the list of "important people" who usually support the hospital economicly (from what I see a PR thingie), you could almost say he's a co-owner of the hospital. Anyways, here he is, lying in the bed with lethal internal injuries, slowly ripping him into pieces.

So, here's where Carter (Morgan Freeman) enters the picture. He's a [low-working class] car mechanic, who also seem to have met this unpleasent destiny that cancer means. So, they have beds in the same room, giving them lots of time for conversation. In the beginning, you could say both of them are almost hostile, probably partly 'cuz of this sudden newsflash of life that they have been given.

Anyways, friendship grows slowly. So, as they eventually come to accept their destiny, they get the idea of writing a list on every dream that they would have liked to pursuit before the end of time. Here's where the adventure starts. Really wonderful. Brilliant story, even though death is not to fool around. It shall come to visit all of us, eventually..

7/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825232/
http://thebucketlist.warnerbros.com/

Movie: "Napoleon Dynamite" (2004)

Brilliant.

I saw this one shortly after its premiere, this was about four years ago. However, [thanks to my halfway screwed sequencing memory] I had forgotten a huge part of the story, so it was a really nice refreshening.

Napoleon is a highschool kid with something that looks like lightweight authism, but it's really hard to say exactly what it is. However, you may get the impression that he is a bit strange. He's a nice boy though, especially noticable when he meets a new friend, Pedro. Things will get wild.

7/10


"He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove"


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/napoleondynamite/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Dynamite

Ice cream w. chocolate powder - underestimated!

Most people have probably not even tried it. I can tell you one thing for sure, you've missed out on something incredible. You cannot make the simple comparison with simply buying chocolate ice cream, 'cuz it's just not the same thing. Try this one. I hope everyone gets that by chocolate powder I mean the stuff that usually go with milk to make chocolate drinks. OBOY is the most common Swedish brand, whereas I suppose Nestle's product "Nesquik" runs the market in other parts of Europe.



Yummy!

Movie: "Vantage Point" (2008)

Not as faschinating as I thought it would be. When I read the plot "..president assassination.. but when everyone sync their watches.." I had expectations on some really high-turn twist towards the end, gasp-crawling, you know what I'm saying. This was actually just an ordinary action film about a bounce of terrorists who's after the US president. No newsflash, not like we havn't seen it before.

Not fly!

4/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443274/
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/vantagepoint/

Movie: "Stir Of Echoes" (1999)

Really great film. Me and my fiancé was looking forward on seeing something more of a horror flick than the drama/thrillers we've seen lately. So, this is where we landed. I had no expectations at all, not knowing what this would be, not even sure if it was just a thriller, or a spaced out boogey man production.

So, it turned out to be awsome. Kevin Bacon plays Tommy, an ordinary all-American suburbian man. Together with Maggie (Kathryn Erbe, whom you may have seen as the death-sentenced Sherley in 'Oz') he has a son, Jake. This whole story starts with a houseparty with the family a couple of blocks away. Tom is cynical-minded about para-normal stuff, so he laughts at the bare thought about hypnosis. However, Maggies sister Lisa talks him into giving it a try, even though he's being slightly drunk. So, the hypnotizing is a success. But hey, are you supposed to get cold turkey by a hypnosis session? Tom starts seeing things. Nasty things.

I get influence vibes from aswell 'The Shining' as 'The Sixth Sense'. However, this film was really great. Brought something, and leaves you in that pleasent state of mind that you wish to be living in when you leave the theatre.

7/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164181/

Movie: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004)

Now - this - was a great movie, written by Paul Haggis; directed by Clint Eastwood himself. Strangely enough I havn't seen it until now. Probably 'cuz I'm usually not so much into sports movies. However, this one was more of a tragic saga. Sort of like you couldn't say Forrest Gump is a sports movie neither, right?!

Here's Maggie (Hilary Swank), a woman in her early 30's, dreaming about becoming great in boxing. She's from the dirty south, so she has nothing but shit in her backpack anyways. So, she comes to the boxing gym where Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) trains young boxers. At first, he won't even look at her. First of all, because the bare fact that she's a girl. "Girl - being touch ain't enough" he tells her. However, due to circumstances (most of all her strong will) he eventually takes her in for practise. She becomes really great, and is just longing for that one title match that will take her to the stars...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405159/
http://milliondollarbabymovie.warnerbros.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Baby

Movie: "Sublime" (2007)

The worst piece of shit I've seen in years(!). Didn't even know it was one of those straight-to-DVD productions at first, 'cuz then I'd probably never have watched it. A routine procedure at a hospital ends up in mystic horror by some African witchdoctor who blames white man for everything, this while chopping his fingers bit by bitgar with a garden tool. Not entertaining at all. Especially lame when this african witchdoctor first holds this "mystic voodoo attitude", and from this shift over to something more of a Harlem thug attitude. So lame. So incredible lame.

Do not watch this film!

2/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822858/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(film)

Movie: "Hell Ride" (2008)

Written and directed by "the legendary" Larry Bishop, produced by Tarantino, I had expectations on at least something watchable - not this mess. This really didn't reach out at all. Just nonsense. I guess Tarantino's contribution is the naked hooter girls and the few throat-slice-cuts, but it still wasn't enough. The story is about a motorcycle gang that has is looking to find a treasure that a - once young boy - got to key to from his mother, who got slaughtered right after. Of course, by a competing gang. So, on-the-road slaughters, using wicked arrow guns as weapons. Not even this was faschinating. The [least said wicked] carbon dioxide relay that the bad man in 'No Country For Old Men' strikes with. Now that's(!) a weapon, not these little sissy crossbows. Nah, this didn't fly well at all.



Like I said, it didn't fly well.

4/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411475/
http://www.hellridemovie.com/

Movie: "Reign Over Me" (2007)

This film has had great reviews over at IMDb, 7.8 to be accurate. Still - it doesn't recieve the big clap from me. It's about a tendist, Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) who rans into his old college room mate, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler), who he has heard rumours about getting all isolated from the real wo rld since he lost his entire family in the 9/11 catastrophe. So, this appears to be true. Charlie Fineman is so totally into his music, always wearing thick headphones, when he's not in the record store of ocurse. Now, at first, Fineman doesn't even seem to recognize Alan. But Alan is a stubborn dentist, he just isn't willing to give up. So, yes, the relationship between Alan and his old room mate Charlie Fineman begins to grow (again). In the meanwhile, Charlie's mother-in-law is trying to get him institutionalized, since he just isn't willing to speak to them anymore.

I think this was a pretty messy film. Sure, it has it's moment, but I can't see it standing up to the 7.8 that IMDb voters has given it. A sad drama in it's whole, not sure if it's the Sandler appearance that gives me a tweaky feeling about it, but it not one of the better/more original films I've seen.

However, a funny fact was how I could recall the face of Cheadle from 'E.R.', despite the fact that my face recogition skill is usually someplace below point zero, PLUS the fact that I now also see that he only appeared in four(!) episodes of the television series. Funny, I really nailed him there.



5/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490204/
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/reignoverme/

Movie: "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999)

Wow!

Really liked this sci/fi flick. Actually I do remember when it had it's premiere around nine years ago. However, by some strange reason I seem to have missed out on it. Guess I was fully occupied with being a savage teenage boy then, hehe.

Anyways, I remember back in the early days of year 2000, me and a friend had this "what if everything is just planted.." discussion, concluding that if that was the case we would probably be memory-wiped before we woke up the next morning, to prevent us from spreading this fact. Heh, the idea was then mostly my own (perhaps with a bit of inspiration from 'The Matrix' though ^^), but I'm not sure about him. When come thinking about it, out discussion was more like the scenario of this film, than Matrix. Had my friend seen this film already? ..'cuz I sure as hell hadn't! :|

Anyways..

A game company has worked six years with a VR-alike sort of thing which enables you to visit a fully similated world, with electric circuits as human beings, behaving exactly(!) like us human beings, even living with the awareness of being human beings, just like us. The bad things starts when the company's boss, Hannon Fuller, suddenly is found murdered in a dark alley. Who has had the reason to do such thing? Damn, hope I havn't spoiled too much of the plot by those inner thoughts I described above. The film is really awsome though. The "30's similation" is well-made indeed, really smooth all the way. Go see this film, if you havn't already..



7/10 (a strong one, that is!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/

Movie: "The Lookout" (2007)

Not that bad, really not that bad. Here's the sweet kid Joseph Gordon-Levitt ('Mysterious Skin') as Chris Pratt, a brat kid taken away from all the glory of his life after a serious car accident. When you first get the "Four years later" insight, you don't really see that anything has happened. He doesn't need a wheelchair to get up, and he speaks. It's a while later you begin to understand that something actually did happen to him. His functions is severely impaired, which has affected nevertheleast his social network. From being a top player in the local ice hockey team, with bimbos all around him, he's now stuck(?!) in a co-habitee with a blind man (Jeff Daniels). He doesn't do much else. His memory is messed up so he has this notebook he writes down everything of importance. He has managed to get a job as a cleaner at the local bank in the hole where they live. Now, the badness starts vailing in. Some creepy guys sees an opportunity in Chris condition. If they just manage to get connected..

6/10


http://video.movies.go.com/thelookout/

Movie: "Homegrown" (1998)

Heh. I've been looking for this one for years. Now I finally had the opportunity of watching it. It was.. okey! Definitely okey. Dunno if it's to be considered a comedy or a thriller. The excitement concerning "the spooky part" is a bit too high to just draw a straight line and throw this in the pile of ordinary pothead comedies. It was actually really enjoyable.

Jack (Billy Bob Thornton), Carter and the youthful Harlan (Ryan Phillippe) is growing marijuana on the outdoor fields. I didn't catch the location, but it seems to be some Californian village. Anyways, the whole community seems to be more or less into the thing with growing dope. So, the trio makes a fair profit on their little business, and their so called manager Malcolm is keeping the authorities down with settled bribes. So, everything is ok up in at chillout county. Until, all of a sudden Malcolm gets wacked by someone(?!). What to do? First the trio is certain that the authorities is involved in Malcolm's death. But then, why is the plant fields still untouched several days later? Strange.

Maybe, just maybe, the three of them could keep on with business as usual, like as nothing ever happened. So, Jack is harvesting weed on one half of his time, whereas he's paying off the sheriff, hiring cheap harvesting labour, etc (under the name of Malcolm) on the other. How long will this last before shit hits the fan? And who Did murder Malcolm?

It's a wicked story with the romantic spice needed to hold it up for approx. one and a half hour. This movie works for a lazy Sunday.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119305/

Movie: "Manic" (2001)

Beyond expectations, really. This film was really knocking me in the right place. It's about Lyle (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a kid with this aggressive part that he has having great difficulties controlling. So, the film begins when he has just bashed another kid's head in(!) with a baseball bat. When he's sitting at the principle's office, he suddenly recieves the news that this time he's not getting away. He's to go from here, to the Northwood Mental Institution, for a validation. "This transport can go more or less smooth, it's up to you", sort of. It's pretty cool, 'cuz the whole movie is filmed in this documentary footage style, if you know what I mean. It occasionally sort of feels like one whole Bumfights episode. Anyways.

He ends up at this institution, meeting lots of other kids with different sorts of disorders. Girls hurting themselves with razor blades, sexually abused boys, etc. The whole shaboom kaboodle, so to speak. The story is sort of a telling from within the institutional walls. Lyle has firmly decided that he's on his way out. He's leaving the States for Europe/Amsterdam ("Freedom land"), where all his problems will just disapear. So, well, I found this film great. Watch it, if you havn't already.

7/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252684/

Historical war movies - an epic withdraw..

Havn't seen much war movies in my days. So, to wrap it up I thought I'd watch somewhat of the cream of the genre. Not really sure if this is what I did, or if I just slammed through the usual mainstream crap of the genre. Nah, strike that. These are known masterpieces, and they earn respect even though I'm not really a fan of war dramas.

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Gladiator (2000)

Started with this one. Marcus Aurelius is the king, and his throne shall be enherited by ..someone.. Of course, his deceitful son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) thinks that it's going to be him, mostly because the fact that he's the only son. What he hadn't expected is that Marcus Aurelius last words is that that the throne shall be inherited by the brave leader of the royal army - Maximus (Russel Crowe). Commodus gets really upset and actually gives his father a conclusive death blow. Hey, I ain't spoiling shit, everyone (except me, hehe) has seen this film already. Anyways. Commodus forces the throne and sentences Maximus to be executed in the woods. What he doesn't except is that Maximus has more lives than a cat. Anyhow, this movie wasn't really great.

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Braveheart (1995)

Directed by Mel Gibson, wow. I know he's made a real box office success with Apocalypto so this may be where he started into this. This is about Scotland. It's in the 13:th century, and the heathens and the nobility and the church havn't reach any firm boundries just yet. The only thing that the reign knows how to decide, is a new law that gives all noblemen the right to subdue virgins before they are lawfully wed with their respectively farmers. Mel Gibson isn't too happy with this, especially since them savages has wraped and slaughtered the woman who he has loved ever since they were kids. Now he's out for personal revenge. Also, he will give freedom to all of Scotland. Whoa. This film actually had its moments, but it wasn't all that..

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Troy (2004)

The final film. Hadn't seen it, yet I've read the Greek and Roman mythology (at least a couple of times) so I recalled the characters names and suchlike, nevertheleast the Akilles heel scene in the movie. I guess the best part with this movie was when I recognized lots of the things that were going on. However, I'm still no fan of epic war dramas. I guess this was just something that had to be done, sooner or later. Of course, with Brad Pitt as the brave warrior Akilles, it was definitely worth watching.

Movie: "Next" (2007)

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Really not that bad, even though I wouldn't call it a class A movie. It's based upon a story by famous sci/fi writer Philip K. Dick (whose novels has become big movies such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Paycheck). However, After Total Recall I havn't seen much of clean cuts on his novels. I do not blaspheme his work, nah, I think it's brilliant, all I say is I think the movie productions could be so much more.

Here we meet Chris Johnson (Nicholas Cage), a man with the incredible ability to foreseeing. Well, at least he can see twop minutes into the future. That's just about his limit. The thing is that you can't take a glance on the future without changing a bit, so you'd have to be careful. Everything has been quite calm in Chris life. He has this little on-the-road show under the artist name Frank Cadillac. On his sparetime he sometimes visits the casino to collect, not a fortune, but just so that he gets by.

Everything changes the day he sees Liz (Jessica Biel). He notices that the bare thought upon her pushes him to foresee more than his usual two minutes. Very strange. He needs to get in touch with her again.

In the meantime, a group of terrorists has laid their hands on a deadly nuclear weapon that will destroy entire L.A. The FBI are powerless. Their last hope is .. of course .. the man with a force that they cannot seem to find in their rational mind to understand .. but what they saw on that casino surveillance tapes was real. So, they need to get Chris Johnson willing to help them, and time's running out.

The mad "chain reactions" up at canyons where pretty impressive. Some of the "Daybreak stuff" got to be a little bit exaggerated, but I didn't loose interest entirely. At least I considered this film better than Paycheck.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/
http://www.nextmovie.com/