Wat is ze toch heerlijk geflipt!

Gezien: The Darjeeling Limited

Een tragikomische film met veel droge humor en absurdisme, zoals Wes Anderson ze graag maakt.
Drie van elkaar vervreemde broers maken een spirituele reis door India op zoek naar hun moeder die zich heeft aangesloten bij een klooster in de Himalaya.

De reis loopt in het honderd en niets gaat volgens plan, maar toch weten de broers zichzelf, elkaar en hun moeder te vinden. Een film over vervreemding, verlaten worden, de altijd aanwezige band met de familie en wat India doet met een mens.

Naturalis

Een dubbele helix DNA

Life on Mars is weer begonnen. Serie 2.

Donderdag's na middernacht, NL 2.

En de winnaar is....

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
boek: Cormac McCarthy
film: Ethan & Joel Coen.

Ik heb de film nog niet gezien, maar het boek is weergaloos.
Llewelyn Moss (wat doet zo'n een prachtige Welsche naam in Texas!) jaagt antilope. Op een dag stuit hij op een misgelopen drugsdeal, en tussen de lijken vindt hij een tas met geld. In een opwelling neemt hij het geld mee. Bij thuiskomst weet hij eigenlijk al metteen dat hij iets rampzaligs heeft gedaan. Diverse mensen komen achter hem aan, waaronder een lugubere moordenaar met een heel eigen ethische denkwereld.De lijdzame toeschouwer in het bloedige kat-en-muisspel is de oude sherrif Bell. Die op het einde van zijn carriere ziet dat het ultieme kwaad ergens rondloopt. En hij kan het niet tegenhouden.

Nog een leuke: alle acteerprijzen gingen naar Europeanen.


Mnl. hoofdrol: Daniel Day-Lewis (UK) - There Will be Blood.
Vrl. bijrol: Tilda Swinton (UK) - Micheal Clayton
Vrl. hoofdrol: Marion Cotillard (FR) - La Vie en Rose
Mnl. bijrol: Javier Bardem (SP) - No Country for Old Men.

The Red Carpet wordt weer uitgerold....

... want vannacht worden de Oscars uitgereikt: de nominationslist en veel meer info op Variety.com

Omdat ik ik digitale tv heb, kan ik vanacht kijken. Maar helaas, ik ben ziek...
http://www.degrotegriepmeting.nl

De Kuukse 11-Kroegentocht

Elke carnavalsdinsdag wordt hij gelopen en gevierd. Dit jaar alweer voor de 23e keer.


website 11 kroegentocht: www.elfkroegetocht.nl

Office Space

Me weer kostelijk vermaakt....


Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

Going Office Space on the printer....



"I think my mind just goes outta control
And judge your subjects muthafuckas read about
I touch on the shit that they be leavin' out
I seen this muthafucka's .9 smokin'
I seen the same nigga with the .9
die with his eyes open
And simply what this means is
He didn't know that every dog had his day
Until he seen his
I bet you muthafuckas will too
Because its die muthafucka, die muthafucka still fool"

Roombeek, Enschede 13 mei 2000

Afgelopen vrijdag door de nieuw opgezette wijk Roombeek gelopen. Deze is in 2000 verwoest door de Vuurwerkramp. Als je dan de beelden weer ziet....



Zie ook: http://www.fotolog.com/marcelvangunst

Museum De Pont - Tilburg

Geopend in 1992 en gevestigd in een voormalige wolspinnerij in Tilburg is dit een van de leukere musea in Nederland. Er wordt hedendaagse kunst tentoongesteld, waarbij ook goed gebruik wordt gemaakt van de industriele architektuur van het pand.
Het bezoeken waard.

http://www.depont.nl/

Aan het luisteren....

Gone to Earth - David Sylvian



Voor meer info over David Sylvian: http://www.davidsylvian.com/

Overstag...

Jawel, het is zover.... Kaat zit op Hyves.

Wat een een dagje kerst met je familie niet kan doen.
't Is wel grappig, moet ik zeggen.

Voor als je nieuwsgierig bent (en zelf nog niet Hyvet):

http://karenvandelockant.hyves.net/

Goffert Park 22 december 2007 9.00 am

Na 2 grauwe dagen scheen in 1 keer de zon. Tijd om de schoenen aan te trekken voor een ochtendwandeling in het Goffert Park. Gelukkig had ik mijn fototoestel bij me...

Schiermonnikoog.

Winnaar World Series 2007!

Zuid Afrika Wereldkampioen!

Het is alweer bijna een week geleden, maar het vermelden nog steeds waard.
Uitslag Finale: Zuid Afrika 15-6 Engeland.

Herlezen: Regeneration - Pat Barker.

"In 1917, decorated British officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon wrote a declaration condemning the war. Instead of a court-martial, he was sent to a hospital for other "shell-shocked" officers where he was treated by Dr. William Rivers, noted an thropologist and psychiatrist. Author Barker turns these true occurrences into a compelling and brilliant antiwar novel. Sassoon's complete sanity disturbs Dr. Rivers to such a point that he questions his own role in "curing" his patients only to send them back to the slaughter of the war in France. World War I decimated an entire generation of European men, and the horrifying loss of life and the callousness of the government led to the obliteration of the Victorian ideal. This is an important and impressive novel about war, soldiers, and humanity. It belongs in most fiction collections" (Library Journal, 1992)

De Mokerhei op een mooie septemberzondag.

Gelezen: Middernachtskinderen

'Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Salman Rushdie. It centres on the author's native India and was acclaimed as a major milestone in postcolonial literature.

It won both the 1981 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the same year. The book was later awarded the 'Booker of Bookers' Prize in 1993 as the best novel to be awarded the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children is also the only Indian novel on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels since its founding in 1923.

Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India, which took place at midnight on 15 August 1947. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, a telepath with a nasal defect, who is born at the exact moment that India becomes independent. Saleem Sinai's life then parallels the changing fortunes of the country after independence.'

Time's 100 review:

"Rushdie's version of The Prince and the Pauper becomes a cartwheeling parable about the fate of modern India. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the date on which India proclaimed itself independent from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born with supernatural powers. Two are switched at birth, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the offspring of wealthy Muslims. Rushdie follows them through 30 years of partition, violence and Indira Gandhi's iron-fisted rule. The personal is the political here with a vengeance, as history becomes farce, becomes legend becomes memory becomes history again"

Filmtip uit het archief: sex, lies and videotape (1989)

"The argument in "sex, lies and videotape" is that conversation is also better than sex - more intimate, more voluptuous - and that with our minds we can do things to each other that make sex, that swapping of sweat and sentiment, seem merely troublesome. Of course, this argument is all a mind game, and sex itself, sweat and all, is the prize for the winner. That's what makes the conversation so erotic.

The movie takes place in Baton Rouge, La., and it tells the story of four people in their early 30s whose sex lives are seriously confused. One is a lawyer named John (Peter Gallagher), who is married to Ann (Andie MacDowell) but no longer sleeps with her. Early in the film, we hear her telling her psychiatrist that this is no big problem; sex is really overrated, she thinks, compared to larger issues such as how the Earth is running out of places to dispose of its garbage. Her husband does not, however, think sex is overrated and is conducting a passionate affair with his wife's sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), who has always resented the goody-goody Ann.

An old friend turns up in town. His name is Graham (James Spader), and he was John's college roommate. Nobody seems quite clear what he has been doing in the years since college, but he's one of those types you don't ask questions about things like that, because you have the feeling you don't want to know the answers. He's dangerous, not in a physical way, but through his insinuating intelligence, which seems to see through people.

He moves in. Makes himself at home. One day he has lunch with Ann, and they begin to flirt with their conversation, turning each other on with words carefully chosen to occupy the treacherous ground between eroticism and a proposition. She says she doesn't think much of sex, but then he tells her something that gets her interested: He confesses that he is impotent.

The early stages of "sex, lies and videotape"are a languorous, but intriguing, setup for the tumult that follows. The adultery between John and Cynthia has the usual consequences and creates the usual accusations of betrayal, but the movie is more interested in Graham's sexual pastimes.."

Unable to satisfy himself in the usual ways, he videotapes the sexual fantasies of women, and then watches them. Ann is horrified by Graham's hobby - and fascinated - and before long, the two of them are in front of his camera, in a scene of remarkable subtlety and power, both discovering that, for them, sex is only the beginning of their mysteries."

Met dank aan de review van Roger Ebert