Archives for "December, 2005"

Posted by Markus on 30th December 2005

Itching Mind

Nar-nee-aa. I actually never intended to have so much movie stuff going on in the blog, but since people seem to read it and I enjoy writing it – what the hell, hasn’t killed anybody. I won’t ponder long with the whole Narnia issue, just to make the point that it was pretty good, visually [...]

Posted by Markus on 27th December 2005

March of the Pigs

Ham. Nightmares. The Pigs take up resistance, barricade themselves to the slaughterhouse. Chaos ensues. This Christmas was rather nice actually, even though we had to drive quite a bit to meet all family members, but it’s just that easy when you have the right company with you. And not just Christmas, there have been quite [...]

Posted by Markus on 16th December 2005

Skype, Wikipedia and a world of ignorance

Seems like I’ll never get to my Christmas ranting, but I promise it’s on its way. Hello from Finland! Just arrived last night and after a cold beer, sauna and some traditional Finnish food (tacos) I got to bed and spent a lot of time watching the good ol’ Superman (the Gene Hackman-bad-hairdo-version) and damn [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th December 2005

King Kong

Oh my, oh my. Unlike Doom, there are some movies that I have a lot of expectations about. King Kong is a classic, there’s no denying that. Its strength lies behind a great story, that cannot be spoiled no matter how poor the movie would look. But this something Peter Jackson has done for King [...]

Posted by Markus on 10th December 2005

More Doom and ranting

Continuing on the topic of Doom – no, not the crap disloyal movie, but the original classic and especially its music. I was asked to perform on a few songs on the Doom 2 remix project, and since usually remixes are pretty crappy similar to the loyalty of the movies I went out to check [...]

Posted by Markus on 5th December 2005

Go out once in a while!

Do you remember when we were kids and our parents told us to go out because we were spending too much time with the computer? (I’m guessing that those kids like me and my friends are also the ones reading blogs.) Little they knew, that we would more or less be making our money by [...]