Friday, April 18, 2003

Avventura i'm in lower-case today. have you ever seen this movie? when i was about eight years old, my big brother, who is eight years older than me, was a big fan of the new wave cinema. i could not fathom the topics of those books but i loved the pictures. while checking out jonno's blog, i noticed a link to avventura. something i might be able to rent at the video store around the corner that isn't the latest hollywood action flick, which is the main genre here in bulgaria..i am at times pretty starved for english-language entertainment. i do get hbo here - w/ bulgarian subtitles - and i'll watch "6 feet under" or a movie when i can pull myself from my CNN/BBC news channel addiction. i bought a dvd box set of the x-file's first season, which i really enjoy, and i just found the first two season of "friends" on my ISP's pirate file server. but soon enough, i'll finish the x-files disks, and watching "friends" is an appetiser, not the main course. perhaps i should start another band ;-) still cold here - 41 degrees. heard the birds chirping up a storm this morning, so it must be spring. but i wish the weather would behave! i travelled back to the States a few weeks ago, and the weather was beautiful in Nashville - daffodils already lining my brother's driveway, bradform pears blooming away (and stinking up the joint). 10:59:26 AM    comment []

Saturday, January 11, 2003

How to diet poorly I'm probably about 10 pounds over my usual weight. Too much travel, too much time in front of the pc, not enough time (or will power) to go to the gym. My friend convinced me that his mother "took inches" off her waist, and that her plan would help me. So, for the past three days, I tried the modified Bulgarian Atkins Diet: Nothing starchy at all. No bread, no cerial, no potatoes, no pizza, no sandwiches: the staple of my (bad) diet. No fruit. No orange juice in the morning. Nothing milk-related. No yoghurt. No beer. No Vodka. No fun. So, for the past three days I have eaten only the follow: Eggs *scambled* for breakfast. Eggs *mexicana* for lunch Chicken for dinner. Smoked, baked, and/or broiled. A can of tuna fish Water A watery juice called from a native plant called a "Chokeberry" which I found at the healthfood store which is "dietetic." I think it is a fruit (*berry) but since I bought it at a health food store, it's OK. Unfortunately my productivity has gotten worse and worse. Constant headache. Constant hunger pangs. A strange whiny sound passing from my lips. So, at 6:30 pm tonight I did the logical thing. I put on my coat, walked to the corner market, and bought a Snickers Bar and a loaf of bread. I am in heaven. But tomorrow I'll be in the gym... 6:59:31 PM    comment []

And we though Apple would be the first... Who would have thought that RCA would be the first to show a iPod-style video player? RCA LYRA Audio Video Jukebox *update* Linkrot (404 File not found error) - looks like they are making some architectural changes to their website... perhaps this product is vaporware??? 11:38:07 AM    comment []

Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Joe Strummer: RIP I was originally turned on to punk rock when I was in high school, seeing a movie about English punk, featuring the Clash and the Sex Pistols, at my hometown's only art cinema (Vanderbilt Univeristy's Saratt Auditorium). I went to see the movie with my best friend Tommy, who played bass in my first band, collaborated with me throughout my twenties, and is still one of my closest friends. We were so blown away by punk rock that we returned to the next showing with a tape recorder so we could capture those amazingly fresh sounds. (Finding fresh music in Nashville, Tennessee in the early eighties was very, very hard...) During the same period, I smoked for the first time with a girl who lent me her copy of Black Market Clash, listened to Combat Rock over and over on the way to a ski trip, and saw the Clash play at Vanderbilt's indoor auditorium. I still have pictures from that concert. At that point, they had become a bit of a caricature - big-time success did not suit them *at all* - but their music was still amazingly powerful, relevant, and melodic. Watching the TV coverage of his passing, I am still touched by the music he created, saddened by the loss of this life, and warmed by the positive effect his music had during my teenage years. - Joe Strummer Is Dead at 50; Political Rebel of Punk Era. Joe Strummer's raw voice and fervent songs for the Clash showed the punk generation that rebellion could be not just personal but also political. By Jon Pareles. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 6:33:16 AM    comment []

Always On Wow - broadband again! Well, not exactly a speed demon - it's a 64 kbps unlimited bandwidth always-on cable modem connection, but the operative word is "always on." Knowing that I was getting charged per minute for the telepohne modem connection limited my availability to projects which I am keenly interested in, especially scripting.com-related interest areas. 1:21:21 PM    comment []

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