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02:15 am
[Link] | Dollhouse ep. 11 was pretty awesome. Seriously, this show keeps getting better and better, and Saturday's episode was something that I'm sure any Firefly fan would enjoy. If you like Whedon, Firefly or dark pseudo sci-fi thriller shows you should definitely give it a chance.
Oh, but take into account that you should begin watching the show on ep. 6. The ones before were basically... Forgettable (to say something).
Tags: dollhouse, tv shows
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03:47 pm
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Some thoughts on Heroes Vol. 4 ending
I've just seen the end of the volume 4. What can I say? It could have been worse. I mean, I just completely, utterly and absolutely hated the solution they came up with, but in the other hand if this means that the cancer that was devouring the series (you know who I'm talking about) is over, I'll happily accept it. Actually, the worst thing is that the next volume doesn't look particularly promising. On the whole, I think Bryan Fuller did a great work saving the show. I've found more pathos, emotion and interest in these last few episodes than in all of the second and third volumes (btw, if you're ever interested in watching the show, you can skip those completely). And what's more important the themes that the series dealt with (brilliantly introduced in the openings and endings with Suresh's voice overs) were moving and thought provoking.
Surprisingly this ending seemed to deal a lot with the meaning of personal identity and death, something that seems to be present in the Caprica pilot and last week's Dollhouse episode.
So to sum up, do I recommend this volume? Not really, unless you were already into Heroes and want to give it a chance again. Did I enjoy watching it? Definitely. It wasn't as good as the first volume, but at least it had some moments of grandeur. Keep your eyes on Fuller. So far, everything he's done is very interesting to say the least.
Currently watching: The West Wing S1, Dollhouse, Michiko to Hatchin (anime), Legend of the Seeker.
Tags: heroes, series, tv shows
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01:48 am
[Link] | I'm posting this from my brand new Ipodtouch. In life, some things stay the same, some change. Well, I have to say that being able to post my thoughts directly from this little magic machine is one of the things that has changed for the better. It's like discovering blogging again... Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Tags: via ljapp
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01:47 am
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There are some days when...
... All you want to do is to stay at home listening to Chet Baker, dreaming of a rain that isn't falling on the street.
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... You realize you haven't found time to write lately which isn't good. I'm way behind my current NSR asignment and it doesn't make me feel proud. Specially since it gets in the way of starting new things (both gaming and non-gaming).
Of course, the fact that the graphics card of my laptop has decided to stop working doesn't help either.
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... You decide that ep. 2 of Dollhouse was better than the first. Lost, BSG, and Heroes are ok. Not half as good as they should, but certainly entertaining. I really do miss something deeper though.
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... Are looking forward going to San Francisco.
Current Music: Chet Baker of course...
Tags: music, san francisco, tv shows, writing
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12:40 am
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We're not only what we run after, but what we run from:
I saw Dollhouse.
And I thought that the first 15 minutes were terrible. And by terrible I mean that it felt like I was watching some sort of bizarre show about luxury professional escorts... But oh wait! That was exactly what I was watching!
The good thing is that it sort of improved from that moment onwards. Also I find the central idea for the show is very promising and full of possibilites, and I think that there were glimpses of brilliance in it (the discussion in which they explain why they design the personas with flaws in them was very thought provoking), so I guess it's a matter of waiting and seeing what direction the next episode takes.
As for Lost, Battlestar Galactica and Heroes, the three of them are having so far very interesting seasons. I just miss the "soul" in their stories.
In the past I used to enjoy them in a different way. They used to make me think, to wonder about a lot of things, but today (and sadly) they're just entertainment.
Great entertainment but just entertainment after all. I'll have to look for inspiration and enlightment in other places I'm afraid.
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03:10 pm
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Heroes is back...
And this first episode of the volume 4, is definitely the best I've seen since the first season. So in case someone wants to get back to watching the show, this is the time to do it.
And, oh skip the 2nd season completely. It doesn't influence the plot of the show in anyway.
Tags: heroes, procrastination
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01:25 am
[Link] | I didn't finnish Nano this year either, but I spent so much time with it that I've completely forgotten about some of my typical procrastinating activities, like checking Lj. And well, wow, the world doesn't stop moving just because you close your eyes.
In a way it's inspiring, and yet at the same time, scary.
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02:14 am
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Choose your own way of changing the world:
We should really record what art pieces make us feel. The other day I was talking to my friend dzalreck, about the "Choose your own adventure" books we had read when we were kids and what recollections we had of them. It was amazing, their stories are so alive still in my head... I find really depresing that all of those images and moments will die with me. Even if someone reads one of those books, he won't experience them in the same particular way I did... And all of our stories, the real, and the fictional should live. Forever.
Now changing the subject, the Google 10th anniversary contest of changing the world is probably the best thing since... well, ever. I'm definitely sending some ideas, because even if I don't get to the final (and I'm gonna do my best to be there), I sure will hope to raise the bar, which again is a way of helping to create a better world.
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Tags: life
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03:01 am
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Wanted
Wanted was unexpectedly cool. It's pretty much the bastard son of Matrix and Nightwatch (and therefore if you didn't like them you'd pretty much hate this film), and it's even directed by Timur Bekmambetov, the director of the later (Oh, and by the way, in case you're wondering why I'm suddenly commenting on a film that was released like two months ago in USA and UK, the reason is simple: distribution in Spain is crappy. Sometimes movies arrive with months of delay to our cinemas. I'm still waiting to see "In Brugges" for example...).
I didn't have any intention of seeing it (mostly because the trailer made me think it was just another superhero-crappy-action film), but luckily my friend Juanjo made me change my mind. It certainly was worth it. Probably it hasn't got anything to do with the comic in which is based, but I couldn't care less. Probably the comic isn't precisely a masterpiece, and besides I'm not Mark Millar's number one fan.
It's true that it's got a lot of action sequences, but on the bright side it also is pretty different from most superhero movies. But what I liked most was that the film isn't as dumb as it might seem. And sometimes it even manages to slap you in the face in a way that very few movies (or any other works of art) dare to do.
Definitely worth checking out if you're up for impossible gunfights and a main character closer to Fight Club than to Spiderman.
Current Music: The Little Things - Danny Elfman
Tags: movies
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01:14 am
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To Baltimore and back:
I've just seen the last episode of the Wire, and what can I say?
It was certainly worth the ride.
I've often said that The Wire is the best TV show ever filmed and I don't really think I'm exaggerating a bit: It's touching, discomforting, and yet, at the same beautiful.
Now, every time I look at the city at night, through the windows of my living room, I can see it alight, but in a deep silence, with the dark sea looming on the background. And all of that reminds me of The Wire, because watching it was looking through a window into the archetypal modern city. Except for that through that window we could see into places usually forbidden and catch a glimpse of how our Universe really worked (at least on a local level).
I wish I can someday create such a masterpiece.
For the moment this just means getting back to writing. And of course, waiting for Dexter to come back and fill that huge vacuum in my waking hours ;D.
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01:10 am
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A weekend of beginnings
On Friday I went to an international forum of technology based companies which might help to shape the world of the future. On Saturday it was LightArtisan's wedding: beautiful, magical, and above all true.
And today the first thing I find when I get back home is that the last number of the NSR E-zine is online, and though maybe some would see this as the sad ending of a marvellous journey, I can't help but see it as the beginning of a new and inspiring odissey.
The last two years I've been writing for it have helped me to grow as writer, gamer and person. And I'm sure that somehow it's been just the beginning. This time there's not just a lonely sun rising above, but a sky full of stars, dreams and promises.
Let's make it happen. Now.
Current Mood:  ecstatic
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08:58 pm
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Life after the CON:
I've just spent the last few days living in the marvellous world of Las Palmas' Anime CON. And what can I say? As always it's been refreshing and magical.
I wish I could spend my life in a perpetuous Anime/Gaming Convention. Cosplayers, karaoke, larps, japanese food, gothic lolitas, playstations everywhere... Ah, that's life!
We ran a few larps there (for non-gamer teens mostly) and they went rather well. I still think that roleplaying has a huge potential as both art & entertainment for the masses, but we've been selling it wrong all the time. Anyway, we had fun, we met quite a few interesting people and we helped to create that unique magic that only the good CONs have.
Thanks everyone! It was a blast! As silly as it may sound, I really feel this is the sort of thing that make life really worth living for :-).
Current Mood:  happy
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01:41 am
[Link] | ( Dogville again... )
Current Location: Dogville
Current Mood:  pensive
Tags: dogville, life
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01:57 am
[Link] | Why having a Lj if you're going to hide from it? It's like having a radio just to broadcast static. I really have to find a new meaning for this place.
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02:23 am
[Link] | Lust, Caution
Hated it. Completely. I think I've never been a great fan of Ang Lee's work, but I found this movie utterly pointless. That is unless you measure a film's quality for the amount ot torrid sex scenes between asians it has.
While watching it I realized that I still haven't seen any good movie about undercover agents or spies. Oddly enough movies never seem to delve enough in the undercover agent's psychology. Instead they prefer to approach him/her from an external point of view, and deal with his actions more that than with his motivations. Skipping the most interesting part of all.
Dexter Season 1
Pretty much the opposite. The best serial killer story I've had the pleasure of watching ever (well, perhaps the Red Dragon comes a close second). Deep, new, refreshing and bloody. I really liked the way the show portrays the mind of a psycho.
Californication:
A brilliant Fox Mulder, I mean David Duchovny, in another unforgettable role. In the beginning it appears to be simply a story about sex, but instead it's a beautiful tale of love, growing up and loss.
I seem to be running out of shows. Fortunately the last season of the Wire has just started, and I still have a whole season of Dexter to watch. Life's good. Even if the grey rabbit-man says that the world will end in just 24 days :-D.
Current Mood:  amused
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03:09 am
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Time to face the past
As some of you might know, yesterday was my birthday. I didn't do anything really interesting besides splashing my face with sea water in the beach (a sort of night baptism into a new year of my life).
The main reason I didn't do anything is that I spent most of the day in the entrepreneurship program I'm taking right now. The good thing about the program is that it's opening some really new and amazing horizons in my life right now (the sky is the limit as they say). The bad thing, is that it's making me realize how much time I've lost those last few years with the state competition examinations.
I also by pure chance met in the street one of my old studies companions, one who still hasn't taken his exams. We talked a little bit about what he was going through and that helped me to see clearly how I've really moved on from that stage of my life. I guess I should be happy about that.
And I am. Somehow a new day is finally beginning.
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I'll probably be doing something to celebrate my birthday this weekend at some point (dinner maybe). So if anyone is interested just let me know.
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On an unrelated note, I must say that I saw REC and Hot Fuzz, and that I loved them both. Watching REC made me fail several helplessness and self checks (I reckon that the cameraman was called Pablo didn't help), but that's just what all great zombies movies should do . An american remake is on the way, but I think one should be done for every european country. Highly recommended viewing for those who want to feel really scared, specially in you live in a catholic country.
Hot Fuzz was great fun too. I think I liked Shaun of the Dead a little bit better, but HF was hilarious nonetheless (specially its climax).
Now I just have to find time to see Beowulf before it's off the cinemas. And probably the Golden Compass too (although again I'm a bit unsure of this one, I think I'll wait for some reviews before).
Current Mood:  calm
Tags: life
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03:08 am
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That time of the year again:
Tonight Donnie Darko was on tv. Again. I guess that it must be becoming sort of a tradition for them. A tradition I like, I might add.
It's odd, as the last time, the movie seems to precede a time of changes in my life. And also, again this time I watched it from beginning to end. It's interesting, I've seen it more than four times, I've got it in DVD but the movie still catches my attention like the first time.
I love the story, the acting (the Gyllenhall brothers are great, and so is Mary McDonnell), but what always hooks me it's the film's mood. That undefinable atmosphere of dread, melancholy and otherworldlyness that permeates everything, and that it's magnificiently created by the soundtrack.
The world definitely needs more movies like this one.
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Which reminds me that I've got to go to the cinema to see Jaume Balaguero's REC, and possibly Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The first one even being a zombie flick seems promising, the second one seems a little bit scary (well to be more accurate its depiction of Spain seems a bit scary), but I'm still interested anyway. I'll share my thoughts if I finally manage to see them :-).
Current Mood:  contemplative
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05:35 pm
[Link] | My current "sLAng" assignment keeps growing and growing. I was meant to write a mini-series for the game of no more than 12 pages long I believe. I think it might be well over the 20 pages mark right now, and it keeps growing.
The good things are that I'm both enjoying it and getting finally to understand how Los Angeles is (The Shield has been quite helpful for that).
Oh, btw I really should mention I saw an absolutely amazing production of Othello by Teatre Lliure the other day. I had never seen the play in stage (just in film), and I can assure you that it was magic from the beginning to the end.
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12:16 am
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Heroes S2 "Four Months Later"
I liked it. A promising season beginning so far. But the best thing was that one of the scenes was set in Cork, Ireland.
Really, I have to tell you, when I saw it I couldn't believe it and started laughing of joy :-D. Ah, that made my day ;-).
I'd really love to see more scenes set in Cork, but what would really rock would be an Irish "Hero" :-).
Btw, I know I'm not very good with the English accents, but didn't one of the guys had more of a Scottish accent than an Irish one?.
Current Mood:  pleased
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05:42 pm
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IF...
( So what now? )
Current Mood:  relaxed
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