Snapinho
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I don't really agree with all the ratings, but maybe that's just me. I liked the movie, but same as Rino, I expected something deeper to develop after the beginning.
I suspect this movie will be interesting to watch a second time as well, but the way the plot turned out wasn't completely unexpected to me and was kind of a letdown. Something else that struck me was that the protagonist (DiCaprio) didn't totally engage me. I wasn't feeling all that emphathetic with him... could've been me as well, of course, but I felt like something was lacking.
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By the way, this I'm jealous of. Damn. All of those artists... in that era. Makes me drool!Hux-Flux
Logic Bomb
X-Dream
Infected Mushroom
All back in 2000-2002 or something.
But seriously, when it comes to playing LIVE! I have never seen a psytrance artist who is as skilled and engaged and fucking musical to the bone as Eat Static. No song of them (him) played live is ever the same, he's focused and constantly plugging things in and out, twisting knobs, turning levers, heating fluids... whatever. The guy's a maniac.
I mean, LIVE! (LIVE!!!) sets without laptops are pretty rare these days anyway...
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About all of Eat Static's liveset I saw.
@Rino: you were there in London? Nice! I liked Younger Brother's liveset best there, I was completely surprised and didn't know what to expect beforehand.
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Their first full-length Abduction is most definitely a must-have. Classics as Abduction and Gulf Breeze still give me goosebumps. Implant (their second one) is also excellent, but to be honest, I'm a big fan and would say they haven't put out anything that's bad.
Try Science of the Gods for some more broken beat oriented psychedelic techno, Crash and Burn! for even more breaksy weirdness and In the Nude for yet more fun, breaks, jazzy, exotica mixed psychedelic stuff.
De-Classified is a return to more oldschool psychedelic techno and Back to Earth is highly varied chillout a la Eat Static.
I can recommend them all.
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That's one CD I feel really shitty about not buying immediately.How on Earth did I forget that at the time of writing?
:blink: I listen to it almost every week 
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Same here. Plus Movements, which I knew but didn't own.
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Pre-ordered too and also ordered Movements since I hadn't done that before.
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Actually, he played two brilliant livesets.2009 at the aurora festival in greece he played a kick ass live set! One of the things i will never forget!
But i don't have a live set of him on my pc. I would like some to
That was about the fifth time I saw him (also together with Joie) do an upbeat liveset but the first time I saw a downtempo one. Fuck. I get goosebumps talking about it. Fucking brilliant.
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Yeah, I know this will be deleted once Mars finds it, but in the mean time:
ENJOY THE REIGN OF CTHULHU.
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I cannot recommend this album enough. This is the one that has gotten the most playtime in my cd-player so far this year and that really is saying something. Go check this out!!What had I been listening to again?
Oh yeah, Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer is quite the special album.
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Nice one, Rotwang.
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Oh shit, I'm late already? Damn.
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Is there a larger version of the cover available? I can see that there on faces on 'em, but can't see enough to distinguish all of them. Would like to participate in this.
By the way, are you releasing this is a digital album only, or will you press physical copies as well?
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Some real gems to be found here.
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Hahaha.
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Except for that last one - haven't seen it - I agree completely. Damn Otto, sometimes I don't have to express myself adequately cause you did it for me. Nice.Fucking great movie. Loved how an otherwise traditional movie went artsy at the very end. Reminded me of Kubrick. And Daniel Day-Lewis was amazing in it. That was an unusually great time for films (I really liked No Country for Old Men, too). Another recommended one from that period is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Loved this movie, it might be time for a rewatch. Brilliant stuff.
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Hehe, that was my opinion of The Da Vinci Code. Well put.I read Angels and Demons about 7 years ago. It was thoroughly entertaining, and a hard book to put down, but I felt dirty after it, like after eating a meal at McDonald's. There was almost zero substance to the book beyond the plot's energy. This was after reading Eco's The Name of the Rose, which was, in comparison, a masterpiece of literature. I wanted more, so I did a search for similar books, and Brown's name came up.
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Sorry guys, I'm with Kiph here.
And yeah, they were most definitely all in a purgatory of sorts. Dead.
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I agree completely with rino, Dan Brown is an average writer at best, the books he became famous for are nothing special, in my opinion, and have been before by a lot of people. How he suddenly became so popular? I have no idea. It's just a thriller and not a very good one either, I think.You're kidding right? Dan Brown doesn't have a patch on Umberto Eco, not even in his dreams.
He's an entertaining read, with enough suspense to keep you attached to the book, no doubt, but it's not much more then a high octane adventure, so if you're expecting Eco, save yourself the effort and the delusion!
I mean, it kept me entertained for the time I was reading it, but that was it. Nothing groundbreaking at all.
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Hahahahaha. True.
Okay, opinions diverge widely over this matter and that's also a good thing, but I have no clue what the island really was (care the share your opinion?) in the end... I'd be curious to know what you think.
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No, not really. It was entertaining while it lasted (and lasted and lasted...) but personally I don't really feel satisfied at all. Sure, everybody now says that the series was about the characters, but come on: a huge part of Lost was about the mystery and the promise that any sense could be made in the end. And in the end, we are none the wiser about almost anything.look mate just look at it this way: was this the best series EVER or not? And if not, then what would it be? It's as simple as that...
Even the ending of Twin Peaks or The Sopranos made more sense to me (and I consider both much 'better' (subjective of course) series as well).
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^Hahahaha.
Just in case someone hasn't season the finale yet, I'll wrap it in spoilertags.
Doesn't any single one of you who liked 'The End' hate the effect that none of the seemingly big and important mysteries were revealed? I just found this parallel limbo-situation so incredibly lame...
And also:
Why the Egyptian stuff? Why did the transfer of power from the mother (who was she anyway? And who was his real mother? What was that all about? Why were there 'rules'? How could Jakob leave the island to make people come there?) to Jakob have to be so ritual and in Latin and with wine? And when he transfered it to Jack it was ok with some mumbling and some water? And then all the way to Hugo with some muddy stuff and no sayings whatsoever? Why the polar bears? Why the pregnancy bullshit? Why did they steal Clare's child? Whatever happened to Walt who supposedly had really important powers? Why the hell did Desmond have to keep pressing all those numbers in the hatch? And WHY did a goddamn Atom Bomb go off and detonate the island, but all that happened was some weird timetravelling? Hadn't the island sunk in the end of season 5?
Oh yeah, why would the smoke-monster leaving the island be so bad? Everybody just kept repeating that, but in the episode where they explained his origins, he was just a little boy cheated by his mother and others around him. Not quite 'evil incarnate'.
Seriously, even if they didn't explain what the island represented or what it was, it still would've been nice to tie some ends... instead they just left the whole thing completely open. And also the fact that there was some really small group of people who all desperately needed to find each other (like there were no other people in their lives [especially for those who did indeed manage to leave the island] but found some of the series' characters completely redundant... etc.
Anyway. I just read a nice interpretation on IMDB on what the final series was supposed to represent and I kinda like that, but still, you can't base your whole series on all these mysteries and then leave most of them unclarified. Didn't work for me.
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I really appreciate your reviews; usually the very super descriptive track-by-track ones turn me off - and only make sense to me anyway after I've listened enough to the album myself.
Professionally done, thanks dude!
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Also, the fact that they didn't even try to make up any even remotely reasonable explanations for what they were doing (like, how they connect dreams, or how they tap into the unconscious etc. etc.) irritated me.
Disappointment indeed. And as Basilisk mentioned: no genuinely original idea at all.