I'm excited because I have just learned that the 1973 movie Shurayuki hime [修羅雪姫] is being shown at a movie theatre here! I have never seen it on a big screen - last time was about 10 years ago and on VHS. There seems to be a growing interest in this kind of movies since the success of Kill Bill. I don't remember too much of Shurayuki hime except ( Read more... )

After I had this event in my LJ already back in 2002 and again last year, I'm lazy this time and I'll just recycle last year's pictures:


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My musical taste is quite broad. Basically, I like almost any kind of music as long as it's well played, authentic and soulful. So, my CD collection [and my iPod] offer a vast variety of styles and grooves... However, one genre I always love and collect is gipsy(*) music of all kinds and origins. Sometimes, I'm really not in the mood for it, but ( Read more... )

   
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Recently, I was at the movies watching 'Comme une image', a french movie. It was quite OK, nothing special, but well observed and full of funny dialogues. Much more, I was impressed by the trailer of Un Long Dimanche De Fiançailles, the most recent movie with Audrey Taoutou, probably one of the cutest women in the world and a great actress. Most of ( Read more... )

Alongside with the new Final Cut Express HD, iLife '05 and iWork '05, Apple introduces two brand new gadgets. At first glance, they look quite nice:


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Are you bored? Thanks to another LJ script, I have learned that I'm a member of one clique of six people:

bastion, topski, tyarky, hungryalien, tank_boy, sanggumay

Now what's the use of my UMTS-capable mobile phone [SonyEricsson V800, Demo] if none of my friends has a compatible phone to give me video calls? Fortunately, I know some people in Japan who are using this technology for years already, but here in Europe, it's just being introduced... I was testing UMTS during the first pilot phase in 2002, but ( Read more... )

I have to share this in my LJ... [click images to see bigger version]


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This is kind of old, but I just found it on an old laptop of mine and put it here and there. The second link may be faster, especially if you're in Europe.


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