My roommate gave me “The Hunger Games” as a Christmas gift (German version here). Finished it, and it’s alright. What we have here is a young adult novel that is following the wake of the Twilight novels, in the sense that it takes a fairly normal trope, a teenage girl torn between 2 boys, and [...]
While I am typing this, The Big Bang Theory is on the TV. Dubbed. I know, English is not that prevalent in Germany, but this is a disgrace. None of the jokes work. The translations are so bad that they are distorting the meaning of the dialogue! Sure, it’s a silly comedy show, but isn’t [...]
Just got home from seeing the Dropkick Murphys in the Columbiahalle in Berlin. Support where the Bouncing Souls, and all you really need to know about them is that they should be called The Green Blink 41 Springs. American Pop Punk, as generic and stupid as it gets, played fairly competently though. Dropkick where fun. [...]
This thing is long. 2,5 hours. And I think you could describe the time you would spend watching it as a waste. Let me tell you why: This is one of the blandest, most uninspired pieces of culture I ever witnessed. 2 hours in and I had no idea why I should care about any of the characters [...]
http://patricks12string.wordpress.com/ Started work on a new one. Nothing too special, should be a quick one once I have all the supplies together. And yeah, I caught up to the 366 project with this one. By cheating. Haters gonna hate, I guess.
…and I say more power to them. It is a very compelling argument that the tactics to outlaw certain behaviors are a sign that the people that are advocating outdated media distribution methods are admitting defeat. If they thought they could compete, they would. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn’t stop as [...]
The words from the man himself. You probably heard about the MegaUpload bust and the waves it made around the file locker scene. Apart from my personal satisfaction that another Kim Schmitz (I refuse to call him by his new last name) venture went belly up I have some very confusing thoughts and emotions about [...]
So the Internet rose up to smite what it perceived as a threat to it’s core working principles, and it seems SOPA and PIPA are gone for now. Let’s hope that this slacktivist uprising won’t get outmaneuvered by bringing up the same shit with a slightly different name later, when everybody else is distracted by [...]
I just don’t get it. Went out to see a rock show, which was nice enough, but then the “clubbing” part of the night followed. How do these people pretend to enjoy that insane mating ritual? They expose themselves to music that must have been produced by throwing a laptop down a flight of stairs, convulsing in [...]
Oh man, I’m gonna lose some sleep over this one. Today I wen’t for a walk with a friend, to talk about what bothers us, what we have been up to, to catch up in general. The weather was reasonably nice for for the terribly warm and humid winter that we had. At some point [...]