Arghh!! Unplugged!

[yakalskovich]

T-Offline's DSL network has gone dead for much of Munich since the early morning today. I would be offline, only I kept my old modem cable around and am now hooked up by a dialup connection. But arghh!! No leaving everything open to wait for someone to react on discworld_rpg. Back to the bad old days of Pay Per Minute. I hope they fix it soon; I feel so truncated.

The good news: Falk the Metropolitan sold me his old DVD player and VCR combination gadget (old => 6 months). There is officially room for new DVDs and CDs now. And the thinggy can deal with almost anything (including burnies with mp3s), copy DVDs on video if it feels like it (i.e. no copy protection), plays Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in colour (which my old one didn't on account of some technical weirdness in that DVD from India), and does everything apart from actually making coffee. It won't copy Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, though, on account of said copy protection, which is regrettable, as my cousin Dorothea so loves that movie, and I had promised her to try make a copy.

And the DVD of "The Pianist" duly arrived today. Now I can watch the admirable Mr Brody being Oscar-worthy. Strange, I only got my hands on two so deeply serious movies containing him, when what I first noticed about Adrien Brody on Oscar night was how hilarious he was...

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[wiebke.livejournal.com]

So if you're listening to Wladyslaw Szpilman, is that a tie-in with the movie or not? (Er, that IS The Pianist, yes? Or am I going nuts?)

[yakalskovich]

No nuts, Wiebke! None at all, rest assured. It was a tie-in with the DVD: that special editon contains a) the movie on DVD, b) a DVD of additional material, Making Of etc, and c) the CD with a Wladyslaw Szpilman recording and some music from the movie.

As for the movie itself, I haven't watched it yet; I had the Nazgul over tonight (I wish she'd get a livejournal), and we watched "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Velvet Goldmine". I very much felt it would be extremely unsuitable to double-feature "The Pianist" with either of them.-

"Fear and Loathing" did evil things to our brains. That's not a movie about drugs, it is a drug.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about certain films not mixing. I once watched Farewell My Concubine followed by Hard Day's Night.

[yakalskovich]

Ouch!! Mega-ouch! So not right for your mind.

The Nazgul and I sometimes like to mix weirdly, but that would only be something like mixing a sweet, fluffy Brit comedy with some artsy movie that drips blood, or so...

Today's double feature was Two Of A Kind, and it was perfectly matched, apart from the fact we blew our brains to hell on that trip that was "Fear and Loathing".

The movie ends with a road sign: "You are now leaving Fear and Loathing, population: nil."

::rolls on the floor laughing at the mere thought of that::