A small, nice and very likeable slackermovie about Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer), a girl aged 23 who is looking for a boyfriend and a temporary job in Boston. Very authentic, very realistic, and sometimes funny indeed. Filmed on 16mm film this movie features very nice camera movements, nice lighting but generally lacks sound quality. Nevertheless it was - besides Kotsch - one of the movies I enjoyed most this year.

Andrew Bujalski who directed this movie in the year 2002 is now being referred to as the new hero of independent cinema and almost considered as the heir of John Cassavetes’ legacy.

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Legendary rock and former gothic rock band The Sisters Of Mercy are now playing a 25th anniversary tour in the United States and Europe. For the first time in history they also play Paris. More information can be found on the Sisters live news website.

This time I tried the well known Tom Kha Gai - but as you might have guessed from the subject, with vegetables instead of chicken.

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Oh my! Today I was told that all links to the mp3 audio files of the Fehlfarben concert led to 404 errors (there was a small typo in each link). Now I fixed them and added a jewelcase cover for those who want to burn the tracks onto a cd-r.

You can download high resolution images here: Front cover and back cover. The photographs of this radio session have been taken by Stefan Lachinger and used here with permission.

Do you think your firewall does its job? Download LeakTest, a simple utility that tries to establish a connection to an internet server. Within one second you’ll know whether your firewall protects you against any possibly dangerous application connecting to the internet or not.

You want to push the limits? Rename the file LeakTest.exe (for example ‘putty.exe’) and check whether your application-based firewall is smart enough to detect this ‘cheat’.

This is going to be the start of a series of “Asian cuisine” wok recipes. It took me one year to discover that I could eventually use my own wok. It remained on top of my hifi components (actually my old Sony MDS-JE520 MiniDisc deck) until I fully relocated.

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Yesterday I watched a very nice Japanese/Korean movie called “Himitsu”.

After a fatal bus accident, a mother wakes up to discover that she’s taken possession of her daughter’s body. Grieving husband Heisuke is more than confused-and can’t get used to seeing his beloved wife Naoko’s funloving personality in the cute form of his daughter Naomi. Heisuke and Naoko decide to keep up appearances as father and daughter, and embark on a secret life that brings as many laughs as tears in this tragicomedy of mistaken identity. This film received Best Actor/Actress Awards at the 23rd Japan Academy Awards.

Himitsu was screened in ‘Kunsthaus Graz’ space04.

Yesterday we (Nina and me) made our first experience with cooking pancakes. Kids, you can try this at home!

Basic ingredients:

• Eggs
• Flour
• Milk
• Salt

Put together flour and milk, add eggs, put in a breeze of salt - et voila - pour the whole thing into a hot pan - the rest is rather easy.
The most interesting part is to fill the pancake with stuff. I tried mushrooms, asparagus and hard cheese for one and different kinds of spread for the other ones. Tasty!

Comments and ideas for further pancake stuffings will be appreciated.
:-)

November 1979 in a small pub in London: Peter Hein and Thomas Schwebel were watching a gig of “The Teardrop Explodes”. TwoTone, a special kind of Ska music genre, was en vogue (and also driven by a label with a very similar name). Soon they decided to introduce this kind of music to Western Germany. “Fehlfarben” was born.

February 2006: After they realized that they completely forgot to officially celebrate their 25th anniversary “Fehlfarben” decided to launch a “Geburtstag vergessen” tour across Germany. They started this year’s tour with an exclusive radio session on Austrian radio FM4.

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This nice play in 5 acts comes from Claude Magnier, translated by Hans Weigel.

France. After a car accident René (Christian Linzbichler) finds a cottage house. Nobody seems to be in there, so he uses the telephone and calls the local service. Jaqueline (Agnes Julia-Redl) is constantly unable to get some sleep so she used water-dissolvable sleeping pills. Unfortunately she left half the glass next to the telephone. As a result both, René and Jaqueline fell asleep in the same bed without recognizing each other. Trouble arises when Jaqueline’s husband Robert (Norbert Hermann) comes back from work…

I went to the premiere with my brother and was pleasantly surprised. Very well acted, very entertaining and also very well written this play has all it takes to be your choice if you like theatrical plays of that kind.

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