The leather-clad figure behind the wheels of steel was DJ Double R, aka Rick Rubin, the hirsute co-founder of Def Jam, who later gave the world Slayer.
hirsute (adj) : having or covered with hair [syn: hairy] – source: Seven Years of Plenty, p. 155
Archive for huhtikuu, 2004
Discoveries made by an ignorant person
My god! There’s a proper class for all things celluloid! Why didn’t anyone tell me about before? What sort of conspiracy is this? The orgastic joy of finding new books rapidly reached its apex as I realized I’d once again hoarded way too many books to actually a) fit into my bag or b) have time to read.
This finally brings me into my true subject today. Now in case you want to read a general, introductoryish book on modern Finnish cinema, you can choose (at least) between Levottomat sukupolvet and Lyhyttä ja pitkää. Here’s a friendly word of advice: don’t touch the second one. It’s a collection of mini-bios, written by various authors, so there’s no coherence, no style and almost no substance, either. The first one, on the other hand, is an enjoyable romp that’s been organized thematically rather than chronologically. It’s written by the editor-in-chief of Finland’s national filmography, which is the kind of merit that qualifies one for writing these sort of books. I recommend the book highly, but others have had differing views.
In completely unrelated news, here’s my contribution to the old tech beats new tech discussion: I used our old-school timeshifter to record a telly program on Asterix. The show was broadcast on FST, was made by Germans and the interviewees all spoke French. Unfortunately there was no subtitling because of the binary wonders of DVB-C and Yle, so the program was a no-go.
On blogging
The gist of the article is perhaps best summed up in this excerpt:
Those already bored with the phenomenon – particularly the techies who started blogging years ago as a way of sharing boring stuff about computer code – claim that the golden days of blogging are over, that what passes for blogging nowadays is the most banal wash-up of aimless lives, millions of pages slowing the internet and clogging Google. What they really don’t like is that publishing on the internet is not just for geeks any more.
Sound familiar, hmm?
My perfect Sunday
Classics & modernity
Brown envelopes
Then she paused for a moment before asking with a smile on her face what on Earth it was that I was always ordering.
Obviously it’s taken her some time to build up the courage to ask.