Archive for January, 2010
A surprise film
Depression in films could not be more accurately shown than in the French film Un homme qui dort. From the very beginning the narrator utters Your alarm clock goes off, you do not stir, you remain in your bed,you close your eyes again. It is not a premeditated action, or rather it’s not an action [...]
Waiting in hospitals
Contrary to expectation I have no gripes today while I waited with my mother to be seen by a doctor. Within 10 minutes she was up on her feet and behind closed doors for a ear test. I looked after (overflowing the poor kid with cut up pieces of apple) a child that my mother [...]
Tired out fiction
There is nothing more boring than having to read the same characters and similar story lines from a authors 5th book. Its like a 25 year old television soap . In the guardian Toby Lichtig wrote I was considering this recently when I picked up the new John Irving novel, Last Night in Twisted River. [...]
What could he be filming?
I was walking around Prague on January 6th 2010 at around 13:00 (CET) and noticed someone filming, I was unfortunately in a rush to notice what was being filmed. I am quite intrigued to know if anyone can enlighten me to what happened.
Criticising soldiers in wars
Deciding to be a professional soldier for some may well be an attractive alternative to long term unemployment or continuous low paid brain dead work. Its very hard to blame someone for deciding the former. Is attacking a soldier for fighting in a war (as part of their job) that one does not agree with [...]