lundi 24 février 2003

Orchestra Baobab So some of the real veterans of the African music scene are among the winners in the BBC Awards for World Music 2003. In my halcyon years with Auntie Beeb, back in the '70s, you'd be lucky to hear any of that kind of thing broadcast before 11 pm at the earliest! 10:17:34 PM  link   your views? [] Seeking Big Brother? With zero expertise in HTML and blogging a belated discovery, once I'd found NetNewsWire steeped in hot cocoa, it took me a week's looking and then a day's doing to set this one up. iBlog got me interested as one means of putting a .Mac account to good(?) use. It's a great idea, but - for now - falls short in the implementation. It'll be a while before I graduate to MovableType. Blogger was another easy way to start doing something, but there are aspects of the recent takeover by Google that have me alarmed. Mildly. Just where is the Matrix? 8:11:40 PM  link   your views? [] Solaris When Tarkovsky's Solaris hit the screens, I saw it twice in as many days. Still it lingers, three decades down the line. It takes guts to try a remake of a film like that! I'd give 7/10 for Soderbergh's effort. It grew on me overnight. Not a movie which insults the intelligence, sometimes it's very beautiful indeed, and who really cares whether it's completely faithful to the book? Most of the Paris critics love it, but the film-going public doesn't agree. I hope it works out: George Clooney hinted in an interview last week that if it doesn't, we could see a "Batman and Robin 2" after all. 6:30:04 PM  link   your views? []

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