Month: February 2014
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my Friday early evening Berlinale film: Huba (2014, in Polish) (in English: Parasite)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3522760 Polish films are one of my (not so) secret loves. Huba isn’t really a film to enjoy. From real life I happen to know, that life can get far worse than the film described it, so it was rather an average situation. I still don’t know, how is the parasite.
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1989-02-14 – a fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie (pictured) for authoring The Satanic Verses, a novel Islamic fundamentalists considered blasphemous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy
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from a Haaretz article on Asaf Avidan
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/.premium-1.573614 He’s an Israeli dude who sings like Amy Winehouse (really!) And now he’s about to kick off a U.S.-Canada tour.
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my Sunday evening Berlinale film: “As from afar” – Speer meets Wiesenthal – and guess what: they were friends – strange
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20147106 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein – I find the reference to Wittgenstein unnecessary and crappy and disturbing and just diversionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer – Hitler’s chief architect– to me he is a dubious creature, certainly not a Zaddik, ie. not a righteous person – although he himself keeps telling Wiesenthal (in these fictitious dialogues), that he should not make their relationship public…
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my Sunday afternoon Berlinale film: Pierrot Lunaire: Butch Dandy (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1824204 the main character was played by Susanne Sachße [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755212], I find her a terribly arrogant creep, just from her behaviour in the Q&A very nice 12-tone / atonal music, certainly difficult to digest for the average viewer: composer: Arnold Schönberg (“Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds ‘Pierrot lunaire’, op. 21”) actually the main target group of…
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my Saturday afternoon Berlinale film: The Better Angels (2014) – on George Washington’s youth in Indiana
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316868 nice, slow black&white movie my English is not good enough to understand it entirely
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Adaptavist’s “Content Formatting” plugin for Atlassian Confluence (the wiki etc.)
http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/CFP/Content+Formatting+Documentation It supports a table feature closer to HTML and far more powerful than the standard Confluence table feature.
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Lisa Stansfield’s seventh studio album “Seven”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(Lisa_Stansfield_album) After purchasing this MP3 album I also downloaded missing “artwork” and added “artwork” to all my Lisa Stansfield albums. Waiting to listen to all her music on the smartphone soon. It’s good to “have her back”.
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“don’t date a girl who travels”
https://medium.com/better-humans/802c49b9141c rather a good read – I had a good laugh