Comedy Central versündigt sich derzeit am Publikum, denn dort versendet man die Serie “Extras” in der Nacht von Sonntag auf Montag um 2.00 Uhr. Dafür gibt es um 20.15 Uhr zum abertausendsten Male “South Park”. “Extras” ist eine Serie aus der Feder, unter der Regie und unter Mitwirkung von Ricky Gervais. Gervais ist auf dem Gebiet der televisionären Hochkomik eine einsame Größe. Er schuf zuvor “The Office”, das unmittelbare Vorbild für unseren “Stromberg”, und spielte dort auch selbst die Hauptrolle. Kennt man das Original, verspürt man gelegentlich ein schmerzhaftes Ziehen in den Zähnen, wenn Christoph Maria Herbst in die Vollen geht.

2005 ließ Gervais “Extras” folgen, eine Tragikomödie aus dem Milieu der Kleindarsteller. In der momentan bei Comedy Central gezeigten letzten Staffel ist Gervais’ Charakter Andy Millman nach langen Jahren der Notdurft mit einer flachen und komplett unwitzigen Sitcom endlich erfolgreich und mit ihm die befreundete Kollegin Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Nun kämpft Millman – da dürfte einiges biografisch sein – mit den Folgen des Ruhms und ringt auch mal um künstlerische Anerkennung, so wenn er unter der Regie Sir Ian Kellens in einem Theaterstück mitwirkt.

Der Clou der Reihe sind die Gastauftritte hochmögender Zelebritäten, die meist mit großem Spaß das eigene Image verulken. In den noch ausstehenden beiden Episoden tummeln sich unter anderem Robert De Niro, Talkmaster Jonathan Ross, Clive Owen, George Michael, der TV-Koch Gordon Ramsay (mit seiner 2004 installierten Reihe “Kitchen Nightmares” Vorbild diverser Restauranttester). Auch Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe, David Bowie, Ben Stiller, Samuel L. Jackson waren sich nicht zu schade, für Gervais vor die Kamera zu treten.

Was neben seiner großartigen Leistung für Gervais einnimmt: Er ist ein Mann mit Haltung. Wofern man einschlägigen Berichten glauben darf, lehnte er nichtsnutzige Nebenrollen in Hollywood-Blockbustern ebenso ab wie hoch dotierte Werbeangebote. Dafür lieferte er einen beeindruckenden Gastauftritt in der Serie “Alias” (derzeit in der Wiederholung samstags bei Das Vierte) und schenkt uns demnächst die Kinokomödie “Cemetery Junction”.

Und wo wir schon bei versenkten Programmgemmen sind: Die US-Serie “Arrested Development” (Comedy Central, samstags nachts gegen 1.00 Uhr) erzählte von 2003 bis 2006 schon von den Folgen der Wirtschaftskrise, ehe die überhaupt begonnen hatte. Grund genug, einen Spielfilm folgen zu lassen, der 2011 in die Kinos kommen soll.

10. The West Wing
“What Kind of Day Has It Been?”

The first season of the West Wing was a show full of spirit and good-hearted drama. Sure, it was somber at times and dealt withsome heavy themes, but it was also full of fast-paced energy and witty dialgue. Therefore, we were all surprised to see the season end in such a vilent and dramatic manner as a group of white supremecists opened fire on the president and his staff. We were left pondering all summer; who was hit? And who survived?

9. Friends
“The One With Ross’s Wedding”

The on-again, off-again love story between Ross and Rachel in the hit comedy Friends has become a legendary staple on network television. And just when audiences thought it way have died down and that the story arc may be over as Ross prepares to marry his new girlfriend Emily, they hit us with a bombshell: Ross says Rachel’s name instead of Emily’s during the wedding vows.

8. The Office
“Casino Night”

But enough about Ross and Rachel. They’re old news. Lets get on to the new wave of will-they wont-they TV couples, Jim and Pam. In the original British The Office, Tim and Dawn went striaght to the bitter end with their sexual tension. We assumed that the Jim-Pam relationship would be much the same, until Jim took matters into his own hands. He kissed Pam outside and expressed his true feelings, shocking viewers everywhere. But the real cliffhanger would come a few minutes later when he kissed her again…

7. 24
“Day 1: 11:00 pm – 12:00am”

When 24 aired in 2001, it was stretching the barriers of TV, and so the ending of their first season was no different. In the last few mintes of the last hour, Jack Bauer finds that his wife has been murdered. At this point, fans of the show knew that the producers of the show, from taht moment on, would not be afraid to take bold chances. What would happen with Jack now? How is his wife’s death going to change the fabric of the show?

This shocking conclusion is a cliffhanger for these reasons,, yet it is also, strangely, a resolution to the season as a whole.

6. Lost
“Through the Looking Glass”

Lost has always used flashbacks as a way to tell its character’s stories, and in their third season finale, Lost used this staple storytelling device to give us the show’s best cliffhanger. DUring the two-hour seaon finale we follow the cahracters’ exploits to get off the island, while following Jack’s flashbacks intercut throughout the show. It isn’t until the very end, when Kate appears in Jack’s flashback, that we realize thatwe were never watching a flashback, but that it was in fact a flash forward. Jack and Kate had made it off the island! But how? When? What about everyone else? This revelation shocked Lost viewers and gave them a plethora of questions to ponder over the summer months.

5. The Simpsons
“Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 1″

No one is better at homaging and spoofing great movie and televison moments better than The Simpsons. And so who better to do a spoof of the infamous “Who Shot JR” moment? This time, Mr. Burns was the gunshot victim, and everyone in town was a suspect. The producers also played up the mystery by giving clues throughout the summer and having cans write in their thoughts on who was the guilty culprit. This was the only time in the SImpsons twenty year run that theyended their season on a cliffhanger, and it was a good one. (even though it just turned out to be Maggie, but oh well)

4. Star Trek: The Next Generation
“The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1″

Usually the best cliffhangers are the ones that hit us with something completely unexpected. Something like the main characters becoming one of the enemy. That is what happened at the end of TNG’s third season, where Picard is not only captured by the Borg, but is made to be one of them. And when Picard turns toward his former crew and says “I am Locutus of the Borg”, geeks everywhere were on the edge of their seats.

3. Alias
“The Telling”

Alias was a show which seemed to end every episode with a cliffhanger. Therefore, when it came time for their season finales, they had to find ways to step up their game and bring those cliffhangers to the next level. The first season finale was okay; she was captured by who turned out to be her mother after years of believing she was dead. But the second season finale was when the producers of Alias really outdid themselves.

After all o fthe events of the final episode transpired, Sydney found herself exhausted after a fight with the agent who was doubling as her best friend, passing out onto the floor. When she awoke, however, she was in an entirely different city; Hong Kong. It was only until after she contacted the CIA and Vaughn that she, and we the audience, discover that she has been missing for two years.

2. The Sopranos
“Made in America”

Here we have a unique sort of cliffhanger; a cliff hanger in the final episode of a TV shows run (a purposeful cliffhanger, as opposed to a show which just got canceled. David Chase ended the Sopranos’ 6 season run with a scene where Tony and his family meet for dinner. Against the backdrop of an old Journey tune, a shady figure comes out of the bathroom, looking ready to make a hit. And just when we think something is about to happen, the screen cuts to black.

Fans were split on what they thought of this ending; any were angry while others thought it was a brilliant and original way to end the series. We don’t know what happens at the end, and we are never going to find out. It is a cliffhanger without a resolution, and a stroke of genius.

1. Dallas
“A House Divided”

Its hard not to put this one at number 1. Back in the days of Dallas, a season finale was simply the last episode of the airing season. There was nothing really special about them. But suddenly Dallas comes along and has their main character shot in the closing moments of the season, making TV audiences everywhere wait a whole summer to learn who the culprit was. “Who shot JR?” became a cultural phenomenon in 1980 and it built the trend of television cliffhangers which TV audiences now enjoy almost every May.

There have been too many non-geek posts this week. There’s even sports and stuff… amazing… for 6 biochemists…SO! To get back the honour and pride!

When using Linux and more specifically the command line, you often use rm. rm means remove. And it does remove. There’s no recycle bin nor Trash folder to move things to. But we can make it happen. I found this script in the Ubuntu forums:

#!/bin/sh
# trashit

# original script
#    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030217172653485
#    author: Shane Celis <shane (at) gnufoo (dot) org>
#
# Sun, 20-May-2007; 06:47:22
#    minor changes...

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
 echo "usage: trashit <files...>" >&2
 exit 2;
fi

for file in "$@"; do
 # get just file name
 destfile="`basename \"$file\"`"
 suffix='';
 i=0;

 # If that file already exists, change the name
 while [ -e "$HOME/.Trash/${destfile}${suffix}" ]; do
 suffix=" - copy $i";
 i=`expr $i + 1`
 done

 mv -vi "$file" "$HOME/.Trash/${destfile}${suffix}"
done

You basically save this file to your home folder under the name trashit, then edit your .bashrc file and add a line to the end of it saying:

alias rm='~./trashit'

From now on, every file you delete with rm will be instead moved to a directory called .Trash in your home directory. Don’t forget to create it first! But since this will pretty much be full if you remove things often, you should have an auto cleaning method.
Edit your crontab and add the following line:

* * * * 1 /bin/rm ~/.Trash/*

This makes your “Trash” directory to be cleaned every first day of the week. And that’s it Remember to set the ‘trashit’ file executable with chmod a+x trashit otherwise it won’t work!

When it strikes you feel no pain

I’m just satisfied trying to recreate when we laughed last

I hold the sign in wooden boards and neon paint rain.

You are walking home. It is early morning and few people notice you. Hoodie up, backpack on, headphones drowning your ears in sound. This is the time to listen to Alias.

Tarsier really liked Alias’s muted. So much so she contacted the producer by email and suggested a collaboration. They bantered back and forth and from this banter emerged Brookland/Oaklyn – a collaborative from two artists from opposite sides of a nation.

Alias is, in my honest opinion, a fantastic DJ/producer/beatmaker. His beats tend to be rapid fire but ambient with an ability to pause, to hold off, to step back before kicking a rousing, head-nodding few bars. Of course, he also weathers criticism of being too dense, too layered, of not simplifying things enough. On this album, without having back-listened to any of his solo work, he has constructed some of his finest pieces, with help from anticon stalwarts Telephone Jim Jesus and Dax Pierson (of Subtle), filling out texture with a very ‘Hurt’ sounding guitar part and sporadic keys.

Tarsier’s contribution is what I struggle with the most on this album. Her alto carries the album along through the tranquility of a homeward walk but it never feels like it’s going anywhere. Her melodies shimmer, but they shimmer with a sameness, a sense of deja voux (?? is that how it’s spelt), of it all being sung before. Her voice at times reminds me of a less powerful Björk or Beth Gibbons. And this frustrates me.

This album could be amazing. It could be incredible. It could be a real favourite. But at the moment it’s not, although it is undoubtedly growing on me. The moment when it shows true greatness is when Dose One cameos. Opening five year evewith gravelly whispers over a staccato beat, Dose launches into his machine-gun, sing-song delivery with Tarsier maintaining the background, adding texture and harmony beneath his chaotic rap. And it is here that it shines. It makes me feel that, and this is not a detraction, as an accompanying singer, Tarsier could sound genius, but here for the most part solo, it is not.

That does not mean that I do not like this album. I really do. A part of me just wishes it was better.

]]> http://caletoseo.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/darmowy-alias-domeny/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:57:36 +0000 caletoseo http://caletoseo.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/darmowy-alias-domeny/

Strony zapleczowe dość często stawiane są na dość dziwnych, czyli długich adresach. Związane jest to z maksymalnym wykorzystaniem domen i  zakupionego miejsca – po prostu biznes, to biznes i musi nam się zwrócić.

Czasem też nie chcemy puszczać w eter adresu na którym stoi zaplecze. Co w takim wypadku zrobić?

Należy użyć darmowy alias domeny…

Jednym z nich jest for.pl.  Jak piszą sami właściciele:

Domeny sa to nazwy np for.pl , multi.pl kierujace najczesciej na jakies strony.
Aliasy to sub domeny czyli przedrostek domeny kierujacy na inna strone.

Jak to wyglada? Zakladamy ze masz juz strone internetowa o przykladowym adresie: http://super.strona.pl/kontomoje/fajne/index.html
DLUUUGA nazwa dzieki naszemu serwisowi bedziesz mogl zalozyc sobie alias na ta strone w postaci twojanazwa.for.pl lub twojanazwa.multi.pl i Twoja strona zamiast dlugiego adresu zyskuje krótką nazwę. Na tej stronie mozesz uzyskac taka nazwe ZA DARMO! Wystarczy ze nazwe zarejestrujesz!!!!!

Krótko i zwięźle

Instalacja i przekierowanie jest dziecinnie proste, więc bez problemu sobie poradzicie.

En esta Oportunidad les Traigo una recopilación de lo q yo concidero son los comandos más, utiles, importantes y usados tanto en Ubuntu como en muchas otras distros linux

• Adduser: Se utiliza para añadir un usuario.

Uso: adduser <nombreusuario>

• Alias (este esta bien explicado en un post anterior)
  

Uso: alias nombrequeledamos=’comando’

• apt-get install nombredelprograma =  instala el paquete.

• apt-get remove nombredelprograma = Borra el paquete. Con la opción –purge borra tambien la configuración del paquete instalado.

• apt-get update = Actualiza la lista de paquetes disponibles para instalar.

• apt-get upgrade  = Instala las nuevas versiones de los diferentes paquetes disponibles.

• cd = Cambia el directorio.

Uso: cd nombredirectorio

Continuar leyendo el resto de comandos:

• chmod: Cambia los permisos de los archivos.

r:lectura w:escritura x:ejecución
+: añade permisos -:quita permisos
u:usuario g:grupo del usuario o:otros
Uso: chmod permisos nombrearchivo

• chown: Cambia el propietario de un archivo.

Uso: chown <nombrepropietario> <nombrearchivo>

• cp:Copia archivos en el directorio indicado.

Uso: cp archivoorigen archivodestino

• deluser: Elimina una cuenta de usuario

Uso: deluser <nombreusuario>

• exit: Cierra las ventanas o las conexiones remotas establecidas

• fsck: Sirve para chequear si hay errores en nuestro disco duro.

Uso: fsck -t <fs_typo> <dispositivo>

• ftp: Protocolo de Transferencia de Archivos, permite transferir archivos de y para computadores remotos.

Uso: ftp <maquina_remota>

• grep: Su funcionalidad es la de escribir en salida estándar aquellas líneas que concuerden con un patrón. Busca patrones en archivos.

grep: grep <patronabuscar> <nombrearchivos>

• ifconfig: Obtener información de la configuración de red

• kill: Termina un proceso

Uso: kill numeroPID

• ls:Lista los archivos y directorios dentro del directorio de trabajo.

• make: Crea ejecutables a partir de los archivos fuente.

• man: muestra el manual de un programa o comando si este esta disponible

Uso: man <nombredelcomando>

• mkdir: Crea un nuevo directorio.

Uso: mkdir nombredirectorio

• mount: Monta una unidad.

Uso: mount -t< sistema_de_archivo> <dispositivo> <nombredirectorio>

• mv: Este comando sirve para renombrar un archivo.

Uso: mv <nombrearchivo> <nuevonombrearchivo>

• netstat:Muestra las conexiones y puertos abiertos por los que se establecen las comunicaciones.

• poweroff: Apaga el ordenador.

• ps: Muestra información acerca de los procesos activos.

• rlogin: Conecta un host local con un host remoto.

Uso: rlogin <maquina_remota>

• rm: Remueve o elimina un archivo.

Uso: rm <rutaynombrearchivo>

• rmdir: Elimina el directorio indicado, el cual debe estar vacío.

Uso: rmdir nombredirectorio

• sudo o su: Con este comando accedemos al sistema como root.

• umount: Desmontar unidades montadas anteriormente

Uso: umount <nombredirectorio>

• wc:Cuenta los caráteres, palabras y líneas del archivo de texto.

Uso: wc nom_archivo

• whereis: Devuelve la ubicación del archivo especificado, si existe.

Uso: whereis nomb_archivo

Larga vida a la consola!!

JUAS!!

Por favor, no dejen de acceder a los dos vídeos que cuelgo abajo, excelente retrato de José Luis Perez Díaz, “Carod”. De manera que Carod es su nombre artístico. Como Prince. Carod es más español que yo, que me apellido Medina. ¡Juas! Es gracioso ver que Pérez Díez “Carod” cojea de la misma pezuña que su hermano político, Adolfito Hitler, que ocultaba su condición judía, o como su otro hermano político, Josep Lluís Ahmadineyad, que oculta también su condición de judío.

Si bien Hitler y Ahmadineyad ocultaban su herencia genética falseando partidas de nacimiento y Carod, simplemente, gritando, como un cerdo al que le retuercen la oreja, que se llama Josep Lluís. Con eso les vale a sus votantes. ¡Cullons!

Paletos de pueblo, como turistas en Disneylandia

Y es que Pérez Díaz “Carod” se alimenta de la figura del renegado. Carod es un renegado que se chufla en sus orígenes. Y con tan burda maniobra del nombre artístico, se chufla también en la inteligencia de su electorado, ¡con excelentes resultados electorales!

Éste Carod es un impostor, y es pernicioso. Utiliza el dinero español en detrimento del idioma español en Sudamérica. Perjudicando a sus protejidos indios, confinándolos a su idioma original, sin proyección. La excusa: el arraigo cultural. El motivo real y obvio, hacernos perder influencia idiomática. El sueño de Carod es hacer del español un idioma de minorías. No es casual, que ya zonas no tan limítrofes con cataluña se quieran acoger a la influencia idiomática catalana para gozar de unos presupuestos sensiblemente más abultados, como ya está ocurriendo en municipios aragoneses, que se ven tentados a plegarse al catalán para recibir nuevos presupuestos, ayudas para el catalán, más dinero para la escuela, un negocio de rótulos para el cuñado del alcalde, y la protección de una mafia institucional que trae negocio y se lleva tu alma. Pérez Díaz “Carod” es un enemigo político real. Un catalán de chichinabo, pero un enemigo real. Lo mismo que Otegui, el día que decida escenificar el rechazo a la violencia. Ambos gustan, por cierto, de rodearse de terroristas.

El aragonés (ab)errante ya metió a político a varios terroristas de Terra Lliure. Hizo de mamporrero de la ETA, pero apuntando para acá. Y se caga en la teta que le ofrece Zapatero y su mamandurria barra libre, cada vez que tiene ocasión. Ni como compatriota ni como huésped tiene perdón. Como vecino, su mezquindad no tendrá, o tendría, límites.

No dejéis de ver éstos dos vídeos sobre José Luis, Pérez Díez “Carod”.

Un Político Carroñero I

Un Político Carroñero II

]]> http://dilarairmak.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/alias/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:15:02 +0000 dilarairmak http://dilarairmak.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/alias/

This design creates my interest due to its style and color. This identity belongs to Seb De Poortere in Paris. I reallly like curvilinear style in this design and its continuity. Also the trick of a and s which is pink attracts me.

For a private project I try to use nexus behind apache and ssl. I used a self-signed certificate.

But each nexus repository request ends with a security exception:

[WARNING] repository metadata for: 'artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin' could not be retrieved from repository: nexus-plugin-releases due to an error: Error transferring file: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target


I found many site for that problem and they describe always the same solution

import the self signed cert in your local truststore!

… here are the steps:

1. download the certificate
2. create a local truststore and import the certificat
3. call maven with the correct security properties

The import is simple  (java keytool):

keytool.exe -importcert
            -alias nexus-xxx
            -keystore xxx.jks
            -storepass secret
            -file xxx.crt

For maven I’m using a cygwin bash alias:

alias mvn_xxx='/cygdrive/d/maven-2.2.1/bin/mvn
-gs "d:/maven-2.2.1/conf/settings-xxx.xml"
-s "d:/maven-2.2.1/conf/settings-xxx.xml"
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=d:/maven-2.2.1/conf/xxx.jks
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=secret'

I point the global config  (-gs) and the personal config (-s) to the same file to ignore other configuration from my default maven config file (i.e. common mirros settings / repositories etc.).

And at least here is my complete maven setting-nexus settings:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/settings/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

  <localRepository>D:\maven-repository-xxx</localRepository>

  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <id>xxx-nexus-snapshots</id>
      <mirrorOf>nexus-snapshots</mirrorOf>
      <url>https://nexus.xxx.com/content/groups/public-snapshots/</url>
    </mirror>
    <mirror>
      <id>xxx-nexus-snapshots</id>
      <mirrorOf>nexus-plugin-snapshots</mirrorOf>
      <url>https://nexus.xxx.com/content/groups/public-snapshots/</url>
    </mirror>
    <mirror>
      <id>xxx-nexus-releases</id>
      <mirrorOf>nexus-releases</mirrorOf>
      <url>https://nexus.xxx.com/content/groups/public/</url>
    </mirror>
    <mirror>
      <id>xxx-nexus-releases</id>
      <mirrorOf>nexus-plugin-releases</mirrorOf>
      <url>https://nexus.xxx.com/content/groups/public/</url>
    </mirror>
    <mirror>
      <id>xxx-nexus-releases</id>
      <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
      <url>https://nexus.xxx.com/content/groups/public/</url>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>

  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>xxx-nexus-mirror</id>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
      </activation>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>nexus-releases</id>
          <url>http://foobar</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
        <repository>
          <id>nexus-snapshots</id>
          <url>http://foobar</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>nexus-plugin-releases</id>
          <url>http://foobar</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>nexus-plugin-snapshots</id>
          <url>http://foobar</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>xxx-nexus-releases</id>
      <username>foo</username>
      <password>bar</password>
    </server>
    <server>
      <id>xxx-nexus-snapshots</id>
      <username>foo</username>
      <password>bar</password>
    </server>
  </servers>

</settings>

You can replace xxx with your personal domain-alias.

O que esperar de um filme baseado na coleção de figuras de ação da Hasbro, os ‘bonequinhos’ do G. I. Joe? Explosões, gente bonita, e claro, te deixar com aquela vontade de entrar na primeira loja de brinquedos e comprar um bonequinho do Storm Shadow e outro do Snake Eyes assim que a sessão terminar!

Com direção de Stephen Sommers, que é conhecido por seus filmes que entretem sem compromisso, como Van Helsing e a trilogia A Múmia. Stephen brinca com o filme como se estivesse realizando seu sonho de criança. Os atores atiram, levam tiro, saltam, caem, brigam, beijam (beijos ridículos, só pra constar), e tem flashbacks. Vários. Sofridos. Na chuva, porque não tem como fugir do clichê.

O filme começa em um futuro não muito distante. O exército transporta uma nova arma com nanorobôs que destroem tudo o que é aço e só param quando são desativados por um controle remoto. O transporte segue bem até osCobra, um grupo de vilões com armas de tecnologia e treinamento superior ao do exército, atacarem o comboio atrás das tais armas. O capitão Duke, interpretado por Channing Tatum (que já foi stripper mas sem tirar a cueca, só pra deixar claro) e seu braço direito Ripcord, Marlon Wayans, que você provavelmente conhece pelas comédias Todo Mundo em Pânico, são salvos pelos G. I. Joe, uma divisão super secreta do exército internacional de inteligência, armas, tecnologia e treinamento tão avançados quanto os Cobra. É dado o ponta pé para várias reviravoltas, explosões e muita coisa acontecer ao mesmo tempo. Lógico que para haver uma, duas ou três continuações.

Com atores conhecidos, como Arnold Vosloo, interpretando o vilão camaleão Zartan e Brendan Fraser em uma participação muito rápida comoSargento Stone. Pois é, Imhotep e Richard O’Connell em lados opostos de novo! E claro,  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (quero assistir uma entrevista com alguém dizendo o nome dele completo!) que os fãs de Lost conhecem como Mr Eko, interpretando Heavy Duty. Das gata-garotas temos a lindaSienna Miller, interpretando Ana, a baronesa. Sienna já deu vida a Victoria em Stardust. Rachel Nichols, é Scarlett, a nerd dos Joe. Rachel já atuou no seriado Alias, de J J Abrams. Será que isso pesou na escolha da atriz para a personagem?

G. I. Joe – The Rise of The Cobra (G.I. Joe – A Origem de Cobra) é uma rentável colcha de retalhos. Há diversos personagens que permitem diversas continuações tanto em grupo como histórias fechadas com um ou dos integrantes. Particularmente quero muito que façam um filme solo do Storm Shadow. Byung-hun Lee fez o personagem todo afetado, um verdadeiroElvis assassino from Japan!

This blog topic was brought to you courtesy of Winn.  Winn, who by now is already staring at this post, or at least the left side of it.  Either she’s staring at it dreamily, or with a throat-cutting motion because Michael Vartan has not yet started following her on Twitter.  Probably staring at it dreamily, much in the same way he is staring in the picture here.

I didn’t watch Alias.  Nor have I seen Hawthorne.  I did not see him in Monster-in-Law.  I do, however, remember him as Richard Burke’s son on an episode of Friends.  You know, The One With Chandler in a Box.  The meaning of the box was three fold.

Of course, if I’m going to enjoy looking at Michael Vartan, it’s going to be him as Sam Coulson in Never Been Kissed.  And it isn’t so much watching him as it is thoroughly enjoying that movie.  I can watch that movie over and over again.  I think every girl, and maybe boy, who was ever picked on or considered a geek, dweeb or spazz probably likes or could like that movie. 

I’m thinking it could be safe to say that any girl that felt any kinship with Josie Geller probably dreamed of one day meeting her own Sam Coulson.  I don’t know if the dream included a kiss in the middle of a baseball field with a crowd watching, but hey, whatever floats your boat.  But I know I wanted someone to see past the mess and like the inside of me and think I had potential.

And Josie didn’t find that until she was 25.  I was 26.  My Sam Coulson has blue eyes, too, but his hair doesn’t do that exciting spiky thing and he prefers the clean-shaven look.  But he does see past the mess and he likes the inside of me.  Okay, yeah, he likes the outside too, but one of his most endearing (and at the same time, insanely frustrating) qualities is that he often knows me better than I know myself.

Poor Winn.  All she wanted was a post about Michael Vartan and she ended up getting some mush.  That’s why I posted the picture, though.  I hope that made her happy.

Per quel che mi riguarda si tratta dello scorpione per antonomasia. Sto parlando del grande attore-scrittore-scultore-pittore-poeta-”musicista” romano Remo Remotti. Oggi Remotti compie 85 anni. Qui di seguito ecco il frutto di uno dei miei incontri con Remo, in questo caso un incontro professionale visto che c’era di mezzo un’intervista. La chiacchierata risale all’inizio del 2007 e una sintesi è poi stata pubblicata su Alias de Il Manifesto in occasione dell’uscita del secondo disco di Remotti, In Voga (ConcertOne, 2007). Eravamo a Livorno, nell’appartamento dove vivevo all’epoca. Buon compleanno maestro Remo!

Remo Remotti (foto di Romano Martinis)

Remo Remotti (1924) ha appena pubblicato il suo secondo disco, In Voga (ConcertOne), a pochi mesi di distanza dall’uscita del suo secondo libro per un editore distribuito, ossia Diario segreto di un sopravvissuto (Einaudi). Un artista a tutto tondo, vulcanico, esplosivo ed esplicito come pochi altri sono (stati) capaci in Italia. Remotti urla quello che la maggioranza degli italiani dice sottovoce o ha paura di dire, anche per questo può dare fastidio, effetto che l’arte troppo spesso sembra scansare. Molti lo ricordano come il Freud del Sogni d’oro di Nanni Moretti. Lo abbiamo incontrato per parlare dell’album e non solo.
Nel nuovo album figura uno dei brani più belli del tuo libro Diventiamo Angeli (DeriveApprodi, 2001): la Lettera a Mario. L’hai scritta nel 1953, un momento storico in cui la tua generazione era molto spiazzata.
Nella vita uno dei problemi fondamentali è trovare la propria identità. In quegli anni vivevo un malessere dovuto anche al lavaggio del cervello di Mussolini – e una bella manina ce l’ha messa anche la chiesa cattolica, che andava a braccetto col fascismo. Nel dopoguerra ecco il baratro del lavoro: ero laureato in legge e terrorizzato dall’idea di finire in banca, così ho preso e sono andato in Perù, alla ricerca di me stesso; ci sono stato sette anni, ho fatto vari mestieri poi finalmente sono entrato in una scuola d’arte, ho cominciato a fare il pittore e ho capito che dovevo farlo (a più di trent’anni). All’epoca il mio amico Mario mi scrisse dicendomi “Perché non fai venire pure me?”. Gli risposi “Fai schifo né più né meno di me, non sei nessuno, non hai le idee chiare su niente e vuoi venire in Perù per salvare il salvabile?!”. Una lettera che già rifletteva il linguaggio di uno scrittore umorista, ma all’epoca non me ne rendevo conto.
Proprio dalla tua fuga in Perù nasce il monologo Mamma Roma, addio!…
Lì parlo della Roma anni Cinquanta, allora una città ancora più piccola, provinciale, fascistoide, borghese. Io sono nato nel cuore della borghesia romana e per certi versi è quanto di peggio ci sia in giro: penso all’avvocato Previti, che ne è esponente emblematico. Usciti dal fascismo, nell’immediato dopoguerra, da chi era rappresentata la cultura a Roma? Non si arrivava a dieci nomi: De Chirico (suo fratello era già morto), Giacomo Balla, i fratelli Bragaglia e pochi altri. Dopo tutto si è arricchito incredibilmente con Cinecittà e i suoi grandi registi. Ma Roma era, e forse per certi versi lo è ancora, una città pigra, in cui si investiva più in vestiti di lusso che in quadri o libri. Ero schifato da quell’ambiente.
C’è un altro brano notevole nell’album che s’intitola La guerra dei vecchietti, un paradosso…
È straziante pensare alle guerre e a quanti giovani muoiono perché il signor Bush quella mattina si è svegliato storto o peggio ancora perché i signori Hitler e Mussolini vogliono conquistare il mondo. Allora mi sono permesso di fare lo spiritoso dicendo ‘mandiamo a combattere e morire i vecchi, così ce li leviamo dalle scatole, le vecchie alla Croce Rossa, così se sparano sulla Croce Rossa non ce ne frega niente, e ai malati terminali facciamo fare i kamikaze, per ovviare all’eutanasia’. Si tratta di un gioco cosciente e consapevole; voglio ridere della tragedia.
Sei passato da Memorie di un maniaco sessuale di sinistra (altro suo libro, edito da Noubs nel 1996, ndr) a Diario segreto di un sopravvissuto.
Quando hai ottantadue anni sei un sopravvissuto; non ho l’età di Monicelli, Risi, Antonioni o Foà, quindi capisco di essere ancora un ragazzo, ma molti amici mi hanno preceduto in paradiso. Ho vissuto fascismo e guerra, ho fatto il ‘68, sono stato a Berlino con GianGiacomo Feltrinelli, Rudy Dutschke ecc… mi volto indietro e molti con cui ho vissuto belle e brutte esperienze sono morti. Riguardo l’altro titolo: per me il sesso è molto importante, penso sia saggio praticarlo perché mi aiuta a campare felice e contento insieme alle altre sorgenti di gioia, tra cui mia figlia, che ha diciassette anni.
C’è qualche giovane artista a cui ti senti vicino?
Pochi giorni fa ho visto a teatro il compagno Andrea Rivera: oltre a ricordarmi Guccini, è intelligente, arrabbiato e in qualche passaggio può anche ricordare le mie “filastrocche”.

The Hangover with Bradley Cooper

I really have to see this movie again. Not too soon, but after I forgot some of the jokes. I don’t know why a friend of mine said this film wasn’t that funny: I was laughing my butt off during the entire movie.

I like Bradley Cooper. I have been watching him act since Alias (2001-2006). The first role I had seen him was of a very nice guy. He played the best friend to Jennifer Garner’s Sydney. Then I saw him as the ultimate asshole in the Wedding Crashers that gave hell to Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson’s characters. His roles haven’t exactly been very difficult or diverse but he is believable and fun to watch whether he is a nice guy or the jackass. He has given the performance that his roles required him too. In The Hangover he is neither a sweetheart like his Alias character Will Tippin nor a psycho. He is a nice guy at school- he is a school teacher. And with friends, he is the ultimate party animal who is never shy of speaking his opinion or making fun of his friends.

The plot gives enough potential for a good time: The groom-to-be Doug, his future wife’s wacky brother Alan and Doug’s two oldest best friends Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Stu. Phil is married with a kid and there’s no way he is going to miss a bachelor party in Las Vegas. Stu has been with his dominating, bitchy and controlling girlfriend for 3 years and though he is planning to marry her, he is also more than glad to be in Vegas whereas she thinks he is in Napa Valley. Alan is….Alan is a hilarious sight to look at. He is not normal and not very predictable, to say the very least. Doug seems like the most normal man among them. He is ready to commit and is happy to be getting married, despise Phil’s ranting about how awful marriage is. So they get on the car Doug’s father-in-law gives him they head out.

It all starts harmlessly but funnily enough. They get dressed, have drinks and go out. The movie cuts to the morning after. The room has been thrashed, there is a hem walking around, there are women leaving and when Alan goes to the bathroom there is real,life-size tiger waiting for him! In a panic he wakes Phil up. They are all suffering from the worst hangover, and worst of all Doug is nowhere to be seen. There is a baby in a closet and no one can recall anything!

So they put they heads together and try to trace their steps back. Three best-men and no groom!

When the movie finished, my stomach was hurting from laughing too hard. While the concept of a Vegas bachelor party gone awry is not original, what happens to the guys are. Another interesting thing about their story is that we don’t know what happened and they don’t know what happened. Every piece of the puzzle is more entertaining than the one before. Of course it is below the belt, crude and sometimes well…the movie takes it too far but it doesn’t matter in he end ’cause you just had a blast watching it! One of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

END NOTE: The movie was written and directed by Todd Phillips who also co-wrote and directed Old School and Road Trip. Road Trip was OK, and Old School was really funny. However I think I prefer Hangover. See it.

The Hangover: The baby belongs to a woman who....Nah, I am not gonna say it.

Tenkte jeg skulle vise dere noe. Her er en liste på hva jeg ser / har sett ferdig:

Bones

CSI

One Tree Hill

The O.C

Boston Legal – Tidenes beste dramakomedie med tidenes bromance (Varte i 5 og en halv sessong )

Heroes

Smallville

24

The Unit

Alias

Scrubs – Tidenes beste Sit-com. Fant opp meningen bak Bromance

Måtte bare ta med denne å

Californication

Prison Break

Top Gear

Family Guy

Dawsons Creek

Hvis du har sett halvparten av disse seriene så ser du kanskje et mønster. Jeg ser på det jeg finner appelerende for min smak. Humor messig må det for eksempel være ekstraordinært samt “smart” humor. Kan innrømme at Family Guy humoren er en dum humor, men den er “dumsmart” hvis du skjønner. Men ta foreksempel Alan Shore i Boston Legal, alltid vittige meninger;

You know I’m not about to go to Texas and not ride the mechanical bull, Chelina. That would be like going to Los Angeles and not sleeping with Paris Hilton.

Ellers så ser dere kanskje at jeg er en stor sucker for drama og parforhold. Dramaserien jeg mener er best den dag i dag er nok The OC. Anbefaller alle som har litt tid til overs å kjøpe evt laste ned Sessong 1. Du vil ikke bli skuffet. For å få meg til å se en serie må det være noe jeg finner intressant, evt noe jeg kan relatere meg til. Hvis jeg kan relatere meg så er jeg hekta. Men det trenger ikke å være personer, det kan godt være en bi handling i serien, sånn som “will they, wont they”.

Jeg er utrolig feig selv på den fronten. Hyklersk som jeg er går jeg rundt å irriterer meg når skuespillerene bare går rundt grøten? (mulig den ble feil, men jeg skylder på mine vietnamesiske gener de).

Men for meg har det aldri vært lett å stole på folk. Det er nok min egen feil. Jeg setter alt for høye krav, og ofte må jeg motsi meg selv da jeg realiserer at jeg kan ikke forvente så mye av folk. MEN, det er faktisk noen som klarer å fylle mine forventninger og vell så det. Det er personer jeg aldri vil gi slipp på. Utrolige mennesker. Men uansett om folk, kall det “skuffer”, så bryter jeg ikke kontakt eller no. Bare stoler ikke på de med de “viktige” tingene.

Ble kanskje litt alvorlig slutt, men jaja… til info lissom

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 Check out this FIERCE fashion spread by Chanel Iman for Deutsch Magazine, like I said before you do not f*cks with this b*tch the whole shoot is Hot!!. I’m loving the styling, the creative direction, even the hair, everything is on point. Plus I love the secret agent feel I’m getting from Chanel, it’s so Alias.

Check out some more shot’s from the shoot below:

Styling: Kasia Pysiak & Walter Schupfer

Photgraphy By: David Roemer

IMG|SOURCE: Fashiongonerouge

Very clever, V, casting one of the Cylon Final Five as a member of the V Task Force within the FBI.  I only wish I were a little more geeky.  My brain is telling my mouth to water over this bit of casting, but my mouth’s just not that into it.

Also, nice touch giving Erica nee Juliet’s partner’s widow a V-shaped necklace.

But on the whole, V, I think, as they used to say in the mental patient’s writing group: “You’re taking too long to get into it.” 

I want to be in pain that I have to wait a whole week to find out what happens next.  You know what show has good cliffhanger endings?  Look at early seasons of Alias.  Look at True Blood.  Yes, I’ll say it: look at BSG.

I wanna be a rabid fan.  Trust me, it’s either that or find something else to do to amuse myself during your timeslot.  And I am lazy.  But picky.  And with more channels than there are flavors of Fancy Feast, why shouldn’t I be?