Mirrors was very thrilling to see. The story is not very different from most horror movies, but it’s a good one. It’s scary, brutal and the end is genius. Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson is my personal highlight of the movie, reminding me a little of Flatliners. A broken man that is doubting his senses and though trying to stand against his fears. The other world, the one behind the looking glass is described as dark and horrible in this movie. If you like horror movies, see this one. Beware, the 18+ classification for German cinemas is justified. 8 of 10.

• Mirrors trailer on Youtube

Peter Fox’ first solo album Stadtaffe is a nice mixture of interesting rythms and clever rhymes. I’ve heard Peter Fox voice many times before, listening to Seeed and I loved his new single Alles Neu right away. I saw it by accident on MTV (not happening often, but this time it was worth the cell phone ads). The egocentric album about pre-, post-, or only party, beginnings, life plans and a few things in between make a great mixture.

My favourite songs are Alles Neu, Lok auf 2 Beinen and Schwarz zu Blau. The topics new beginning or new chapter in your life in Alles Neu and the restlessness in Lok auf 2 Beinen are well known. Also being alone in an urban environment even though everywhere are people is familiar to me too. Schwarz zu Blau is brutally honest about Berlin and the song I’ve definitly listened to the most. I love my nativ place, the Ruhrgebiet and feel at home in most ugly and big cities.

The musical part is an unusual hybrid between orchestra, drums and electronical beats and the great voice of Pierre Baigorry aka Peter Fox.

So long:

Guten Morgen Berlin,
Du kannst so hässlich sein, so dreckig und grau,
du kannst so schön schrecklich sein,
deine Nächte fressen mich auf,
es wird für mich wohl das Beste sein,
ich geh nach Haus und schlaf mich aus
und während ich durch die Straßen lauf,
wird langsam schwarz zu blau.

Peter Fox – Schwarz zu Blau

Translation to German (bitteschön Shino )

I just found the magazine with which I got my first Linux CDs, so I thought I’d throw out a blog post about it.

I’ve started experimenting with Linux at the age of 14 in 2003 I think. I don’t remember exactly, had to check when SuSe Linux 8.1 came up, which I started to install on my first decent own machine. I’ve had been using computers since before my third birthday. My father allowed me to play some old DOS games on his computer back then. Later I started experimenting with a computer with Windows 3.11 and later Windows 95. I never really missed anything, because I mostly played games until I more and more read of Linux in various computer magazines.
I was a fan of share- and freeware and the concept of open source started to catch my interest. Since 2003 I’ve tried a lot of Linux distributions and various versions.
I had shorter installations of Knoppix, Mandrake or Suse and longer ones with Kanotix, Debian, Gentoo or Ubuntu. Right now I’m mainly using Sidux on my Laptop and mainstation because I’m basically a Debian fan who just loves apt but likes the scripts delivered by the Sidux team.
A saying I believe in, concerning distributions is: Ubuntu for users, Debian for servers, Gentoo for insanes. I don’t know if meadow is the creator of this saying, but if so: credits to him.

This weekend me and Shino aka Hans surprised Julia with him visiting us! The look on her face was just glorious. It was a nice time with these two shy personalities. We got to know Shino while playing World of Warcraft over half a year ago. We spend saturday talking, playing, watching movies and we showed him a bit of Flensburg too. This picture I took after he just woke up with my Thinkpad on his lap. Thought it was too funny to see sleepy Shino with the eeevil logo (He’ll kill me for uploading this)

The german production of Krabat (with some very cool german actors) was a disappointment. I expected a movie that was close to the book and not miles away like this pseudo romantic rape of the book model. The only nice adoption is the masters voice and force over his journeymen. A lot of conflicts, events and depht is lost compared to the book.
After all, I had expected more, but it’s 4 of 10. If you have the time to read the book, do it and don’t waste the money on the cinema (or bandwidth for the download).
If you know the book, the songs done by ASP on this topic may interest you. The album “Zaubererbruder” is dedicated to Ottfried Preußlers wonderful book.

Links:

• ASPs website