Year: 2005

watched.got dissapointed.I was intersted in Ozon after Sitcom but that film I didnt like.Even the good actors didnt save it.

watched El Angel Exterminador and the short Bunuel made with Dali.
There’s surely something in the soilwaterair in Spain.

Books are to expensive around here.Yesterday I saw “Midnight’s Children”(with Henri Cartier Bressons “Punjab 1948″on the cover) in paperback for 20$!
Mayaoto Musashi’s book of five rings pocketbook for 10$!These books used to cost 40-50% of their current prices here just a couple of years ago.

Just watched:
almodovars “la Ley del deseo”.Good script,shitty direction.Very old fashioned.
Funny to see Banderas as a gay obsessive youth and not the usual suave latino lover.
“Турецкий Гамбит” – an epic piece of shit.A russian try to outholywood holywood.

yesterday I finished reading The Devils Verses-it is a good book,I should look up more Rushdie’s book in bookinists stores,bough a couple of Herman Hesse’s books(the “last summer of klingzor-three early short stories” and “the glass bead game”)one by Julio Kortasar(don’t remember which).

Klingzor is the name of the wizard in Wolfram von Echenbauch’s “Percival” and other european tales of chivalry.

Finished watching the two seasons of Carnivale.Good show..Suprising how a bunch of shitty actors can create a good movie.Good directing and a HUGE budget I guess.

Carnivale is an italian word(16 century) from which the english one is derived.
It means “the taking away of meat”(Webster).That explains the weird spelling.

Will go to Barcelona in the end of the month with Anna for a week.Will clean my head.

just finished watching “La Mala educación” almodovar films keep oscilating around a decent level,some are a fall and some are a rise(like a sinus function).
The best one is “Todo sobre mi madre” in my opinion.

I like post new wave european cinema(Francois Ozon,Almodovar,some Kostarica).
It is not as blatant as Pauzolini.I want to watch some new wave films Benuel,Godar.We live in an age when only the zitty movie buffs still know those names but thmselves dream to produce the next Lord Of The Rings which they consider to be a masterpiece of epic proportions.

The interview was some kind of test and CV exchanging hands. Answer in a week. I am not optimistic. Got a load of old film and a skylight filter for my canonet to drown my mysey. Seen a Rolleiflex in shitty condotion for too much money.
Took some pictures but it’s hard to be inspired with a 3 kilo shoulder pack in 35degree celsius and 80% humidity.

And I sure hope getting the job.I am slightly nervous.

today i fixed the minolta x-300!npow I have an slr I dont need!It will probably go to Anna for now.

finished the fall and rise of miser y.
not bad.
Now it all you and me mister Rushdie

PHOTO:
Got around today to do this http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-165.html to my canonet.It works wonders making it focusable anywhere.Thank you Rick Oleson!
I ran around like a maniac and shot a roll of PAN F.

When I entered a store (which a friend tipped me had an enlarger in the display window) I found an Iskra 1,Lubitel 2 laying on shelves amidst film and difital point and shoots and a FK(13×18 or 18×24 I dont know) in the corner. I asked if the cmeras are in working condition and the salesperson(and owner of the store)said yes.When I said I would like to purchase the Iskra he said it’s there for ornamental purposes only. A working Iskra in excellent condition not for sale(sob). And the Enlarger(NEVA)he gave away a couple of days ago. God is playing tricks on me.

BOOKS
Yesterday I practicly finished “The Fall and Rise Of Mister Y”.It is a short collection of stories(a compilation of Y.Geffens columns 2000-2005)and it is very good allthough too political for me.

I started reading Salman Rushdie’s Devil Verses and quite enjoy it so far allthough it cryptic and requires my full concentration.