Bucharest Live I: Grimus @Laptaria lui Enache

Again from the "retroactive" category a gig from almost a month ago.
It's a band I've been meaning to see for quite a while now, mostly 'cause I kept hearing about they have gigs and we don't have all that many bands that do a lot of gig that one actually hears of. Plus the songs on their myspace sounded promising , despite the sound not being of top quality.


Grimus is a band from Cluj, that have been playing for a while now which is quite obvious in their live performance and stage presence --trust me, after one very painful afternoon in Live Metal Club I know all too well about poor stage presence-- , romanian winners of Global Battle of the Bands, only recently singed to a label -- maybe one of the reasons all the songs you can track down on the internet by them don't do them justice-- from Italy -- and a good thing since I doubt a romanian label would do them justice -- with an album on the way and more developments on the way, according to the guys.















It's been almost a month since I saw them live and I couldn't actually say something in particular about it, specially since I just saw Coma live last week , however I am going to their next gig in Bucharest , on the 28 at Suburbia, which should be a good evaluation of their previous performance ...and this time I'll be able to sing along with what seemed a decent fan base that they seem to have here .

so yeah...work

nu vad
nu inteleg si nici nu vreau
sa mergi la munca, in fiecare zi, fara finalitate
working, day in day out. It might be even for a project. You'll finish that task and another one will come 'round.
not to even mention, doing the same tasks every day. what is the point of it all? if it doesn't bring joy? and driving yourself into appreciating your line of work is not pleasure.
but is in the end?

I just don't know what is more important. If you have to lie, t alter the point of view to be at peace or even happy with doing something , does it matter? Is it worth it? I can't even find the question.

To some point I am just scared of failing. I will try looking to myself and see if I find that drive for a career., for a professional plan to my life. I don't see it, unless someone convinces me that management is a form of artistic expression.
I want to write! ...or draw...doodle , paint..whatever. That is how I want ot make a living.
A reviewer. Go see plays and concerts and exhibitions and and broadcast my point of view...which in the end comes down to writing

O'sullivan, Ronnie O'sullivan

Just saw Ronnie qualifying for the Final of the Maplin UK Championship against Mark Selby and it was beyond breath taking.
I missed the first half of the match...and a good thing it was for I wouldn't have been sick ,literally, seeing Ronnie behind 0-3 or 5-3 .

The rest was breath taking . Ronnie was transfigures. Frustration, repressed angers, polishing spoons( OCD or the next attempting a Uri Geller type feat, we will never know). I do dislike profoundly that Ronnie's awkward behaviour drove the Romanian commentators to talk about how shrinks have analyzed he's adversity to playing abroad..etc. . The match ended up in a decisive frame, one can imagine how tense it was and they talk about his mental condition?! That's respectful! *sigh*

Luck was not a big part of this game. Both players had quite a few bad shots.Ronnie was very much not himself and I was worried sick. He wasn't even doing the tap-tap-tap thing he does with his middle finger when he's following the ball.

As for Selby's playing, guess I missed most of his stop light moment, however I did see a bit of his game against Fu. True, Fu is no 17 and Ronnie is no 2 and a bit more intimidating that most players.
After a final against Higgins, Selby said something about it being like a dream and the honor and so on and so forth. I am curios to see what he'll say about playing against Ronnie. It is after all he's 3 defeat by Ronnie.


O'sullivan should be thankful to Selby pushing him to the final frame. With the pressure on and a few good frames behind Ronnie gave us a well awaited finally. Clearing the table with a 147 brake!!!

And to make things even better on a personal note: Up until last night Ding held the highest brake of the championship, but then Murphy did a 144 before loosing to Maguire , this in addition to defeating Ding in the previous match. So Ronnie avenged Ding , beat Murphy's brake, took down a previous high brake record and we get to see him tomorrow in the final.
So sending good vibes Ronnie's way tonight; hoping "Rocket" will continue what he started in his last frame against Selby in tomorrow's final and grab a fast win .

GO ON RONNIE!!!

Au secours pardon by F. Beigbeder

"Love lasts for 3 years" I experienced as a play and fell in love with it .Maybe it was the "in bar theater" though it wasn't the first ...either way. I liked it.
My second encounter with the his work was with another play in a similar location, made after "99 francs" . Decent. Guess I'd seen one to many bar-plays and had higher expectations. Still I like the idea of it , despite not agreeing with it one bit. Too much of the "Advertising people are people too".
Oh please!
Plus, now the "HR" people are the new "advertising people"
So Beigbeder picked up on this and thus a new book popped up "Au secours pardon".
Long story short, bought it the day it hit the shelves.
And what better place to read it that on a plane? Bucharest - Brussels.
I expected to get threw it like it was an Anne Rice book...I should have figured it out .Maybe this was his "Memnoch" .
Threw the first half of the book everything word I read in my head reverberated in the voice of a "HR" guy I met and had to brush off(of course he'd read the early books, so I wouldn't know if he was a product of Beigbeder's or.... well some other day).

Uhm... if the subject of his book was Moscow or some for of criticism on modern french society that was successfully achieved. And I appreciate it immensely .
As for ....the story. No. Not really. Not for me.
It would have been a bit simpler to classify if it was shocking. All the gratuitous porn . The excessive description of excess .Just doesn't work for me.
So, like the message as opposed to the means of delivery.

Stardust

Saw the movie and like it for being an unpretentious fantasy movie.
I am subjective, seeing i adore a good story and the story wasn't even that good and the lines and dialogs weren't even that witty or the characters handsome ... still i love it
i walked away from it with a nice happy feeling
So this is what I wanted to say about it: it's very good for what it is!

I haven't heard any bad reviews about it. It fact I haven't heard much about it. And that is utterly unfair.It is a good movie.
An with all the larger than life fantasy epics out in the last few years (starting with LofR and ending with the fresh Golden Compass* ) Stardust seems to be lost in it.

Seeing I saw the movie over a month ago I lost most of my points since i kept trying to write about it . Well , seeing I'm still impressed by it after quite a while...I'm putting it down as one of the movies as like




*I already don't like the Golden Compass for a number of reasons: Nicole Kidman is it (and i so like Michelle Pfeiffer better) another being something I heard on the BBC about all this religious subtext it's suppose to have and lacks . It was described as an average, blank movie if you hadn't read the book and appalling if you had.