Marillion - Hard as love (Acoustic version from L=M, 2009)

Kümme aastat varem - 13/09/99 - 19/09/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 13/09/99 - 19/09/99.

A week, full of nothing. Only brighter moment was a week-end when I was on my way back home from Pärnu and met accidentally good old friend of mine. He came back from Tallinn where he had some business conference and to my big surprise he had one of his bloodiest enemies in his car. I happen to know both of them and I had listened plenty of monologues about how bad other is plus more of that kind stories, they have against each other. And now they were like lovebirds on the wire, drinking coffee and having very sweet conversation...

This gave me a push to think about the "keep smiling" attitude. I am not very sure that this part of our civilization is something we have to be proud of. You have a nice talk with somebody and as soon as you turn your back, he or she might use the knife.

Rekord

Senine rekord pideval liikumisel punktist A punkti "kodu" on löödud. Oma kümnekonna tunniga. Teisipäeva õhtul kell kümme istusime sõprade juures meid sadamasse viivasse autosse ja täna kell kaheksa õhtul (ehk siis nelikümmend viis tundi hiljem) jõudsin kodutee lõpp-punkti. Statistika huvides võib ka märkida, et antud teekonna läbimiseks veetsime need toredad tunnid kokku kolmes laevas, kahes sõiduautos, kahes bussis, ühes rongis, ühes trammis ja ühes taksos.

Mujal oli tore aga kodus on veelgi toredam. :)

Kümme aastat varem - 06/09/99 - 12/09/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 06/09/99 - 12/09/99.

Peaceful week. For me, at least. I discovered again how much I am into music of eighties. (Right now Ken Laszlo's "Hey hey guy" is playing.) It is amazing how teenage years can have effect on one's future life. And thanks to these influences I am satisfied with music of last months and massive come-back of heroes from the past. They'd deserved every penny they earned.

Also I realized how fragile is our cyberworld. In the middle of the week I got an e-mail from a friend who asked about my health because I hadn't answered to his urgent e-mail. Well, but I never got it! It seems that either Geocities or my own ISP had lost it, so all the Internet gurus who speak that e-mails simply cannot lost, are liars or uncompetent. And even if this e-mail is flowing around somewhere in the cosy depth of our blue cyberspace, that knowledge won't help me at all, I need my information. So, everyone who had wrote me, sent e-mail or fill my form and I didn't answered so far, please repeat your message. Because for today I had sent out answers to every person who's e-mail I've received.

Another mess was with XOOM who closed my site without any notice. When I asked about explanation, all they could say was that they probably had some minor technical problems. Probably... Again, humans against machines. Or vice versa.

Some other things happened what gave food for thoughts. Thatboy's site has not been updated within two weeks, one great man from Canada disappeared from sight, another guy from Amsterdam had to cancel his already booked autumn-trip to Estonia and St.Petersburg... Ironic, isn't it? I couldn't go to gay-capital and he can't come here, at least not this year.

Saw a good friend who had fresh scar on his forehead. His story was so simple and disgusting that I have no words. It was about midnight in Tallinn, our great and safe capital, and he was going home. Walking. Few metres before his door he discovered that somebody's following him. As he turned and saw three men, he was hit...

Walking in Tallinn is dangerous, driving (with) taxi in Tallinn is dangerous, walking in Tallinn's night, especially when you're drunk and don't know the city, is suicide. In fact nobody is dealing with crimes there, all They do, is barking how good They are, spending taxpayer's money for their own sake and whining that not electing Them for next period would be disaster for whole country. They're nothing but shit! And anarchy is in town.

Have to finish with some brighter tunes. Met this week a man who collects ... his own experiences. He have four handwritten catalogues about these and he tries to experience as many different situations as possible. As he said: "I am too old for starting some other collection." He's 72. And he already tried bungee and he's planning jump with parachute. He's the man!

Now playing: Freddie Mercury's "My love is dangerous".

Marillion - L=M (Less is more)

via marillion.com

Ab Fab ja pool Little Britain'it Mamma mia! uues versioonis

Just. Tänavuse Red Nose Day puhul korraldas Comic Relief mitmeid heategevuseks raha kogumise värke. Muidugi oli neil ka teleprogramm ja teiste seas astus eraldi kavaga üles ka Britimaalt kokku kogutud koomikute raudvara, kellede seast tasub eraldi ära mainida muidugi alati võrratuid Dawn French'i, Jennifer 'Edina' Saunders'it, Joanna 'Patsy' Lumley'd ja Matt 'The only gay in the village' Lucas't. Neist viimane on minu meelest muide paarkümmend kilo alla võtnud... Koos paljude väikeste ja suurte abilistega esitasid juba nimetatud naised ja mehed publikule hindamiseks uhiuue versiooni igihaljast muusikalifilmist Mamma mia!.

Esimene osa (5:28 minutit) - YouTube
Teine osa (6:29 minutit) - YouTube
Behind the scenes (1:34 minutit) - YouTube

Ong bak 2 (2008)

Ong bak 2
Lavastaja: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
2008
http://imdb.com/title/tt0785035/

Aasta 1974 budistliku kalendri järgi ehk siis meie mõistes 15. sajandi algus. Killustatud Taimaa valitsejakodades möllab võimuvõitlus, reetlikkus ja surmaoht. Sihadecho, kes on ka osav sõjamees ja võitleja, on ühe rahus elava provintsi üllas ja heatahtlik valitseja, kes saadab oma poja Tien'i vastu selle tahtmist (poiss tahab hoopis saada sama suureks sõjameheks nagu ta isa) ühe meistri juurde tantsimist õppima. Tagasi koju jõuab poiss parajasti selleks ajaks, et pealt näha, kuidas ta pere ja neile ustavaks jäänud võitlejad suures veresaunas mõrvatakse. Selle korraldajaks on endine ametnikunäru, kes nüüdseks on endale kogunud suure armee ning kelle ambitsiooniks on vallutada kas nüüd just kogu maailm aga igatahes suurem osa sellest. Muidugi ei saa ta lubada ka Tien'il ellu jääda ja poisi peale algab läbi aastate kestev klaperjaht...

Eelmise Ong bak'i filmiga pole siin midagi ühist kui just mitte ette kujutada, et Tien'i näol on tegemist esimese filmi kangelase vanavanavana... vanavanavaarisaga. Aga ega sellele järjepidevusele keegi kusagil ka ei vihja. Seekord on kokku kirjutatud natuke keerulisem lugu kui viis aastat varem ja kuigi minu meelest on uus osa oluliselt verisem, tahab see oma ajas tagasivaadete ja muude ülesehituslike nippidega, mis kogupilti vaatajale jupiti ikka selgemaks ja selgemaks teeb, olla midagi enamat kui lihtsalt üks madistamisefilm. Noh, nagu mu kadunud vanaema ütles: "Tahtmine on taevariik" ja ega sellest filmist ikka suuremat muud asja ei ole küll.

Lisaks on sisse toodud mõned müstikapoolsed elemendid (nt. suur "lind", kellega Tian elevandi seljas võitleb) ning iseenesest on lahe see, et elevandid nii suure rolli saanud on. Hispaaniakeelses maailmas ongi filmi nimi muide "Ong bak 2 : Legend elevantide kuningast". Ja siis on muidugi siin veel krokodilliga mudamaadlust ning loomulikult lõputult tubli koreograafi käe all valminud tantsustseene kisa, näoväänamiste, mõõkade, kaigaste ja kootidega aga kõik see väga palju ei päästa. Lõpuks jääb see ikka filmiks sellisest natuke metsistunud Nukitsamehest, kellele keegi on kusagil idamaiseid võitluskunste õpetanud.

Igatahes peaks see Helsinkis kümnekonna päeva pärast traditsioonilisel filmifestivalil linastuma aga ma ei ole väga kindel, et just selle filmi pärast sinna ikka sõita tasub. :)

5/10

Gay seks maksavorst...

Ma arvasin, et ma olen kas nüüd just kõike aga ikkagi üsna paljut siin ilmas näinud. Ekslikult. Sest ma ei suuda välja mõelda absoluutselt ühtegi põhjust, mis esiteks peaks keegi tegema pealkirjas mainitud otsingut ja teiseks sellega veel mu blogisse jõudma...

Angels and demons (Inglid ja deemonid) (2009)

Angels and demons (Inglid ja deemonid)
Lavastaja: Ron Howard
2009
http://imdb.com/title/tt0808151/


Harvardi ülikooli professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), kelle erialaks on religioossed sümbolid, saab enda kätte tõendeid, et maailma võimsaim salaorganisatsioon, illuminaadid, on endiselt täies elujõus. Ning et see organisatsioon on käivitanud plaani, mille abil hävitada oma vihatuim vaenlane, katoliku kirik. Püüdes päästa kirikut viitsütikuga pommi eest, ruttab Langdon Rooma, kus ühendab jõud kauni ja mõistatusliku itaallannast teadlase Vittoria Vetraga (Ayelet Zurer). Koos alustavad nad meeleheitlikku jahti suletud krüptides, ohtlikes katakombides, hüljatud katedraalides ning maailma kõige salajasemas võlvkeldris... illuminaatide ammuunustatud peidupaigas. Nad liiguvad mööda 400 aastat vanade sümbolite rada, mis võib osutuda Vatikani ainsaks lootuseks ellujäämisele.

Nüüd juba veidi rohkem kui kolm suve tagasi sai vaadatud silmi pungitavat ja poose sisse võtvat Hanks'i "Da Vinci koodis" ja nagu Trash vahel kirjutab, oli see paras jurts. Et filmitegijad olid suuresti samad, siis tuleb neid kiita mõningase progressi eest. Hanks poosetas ja pungitas vähem ning kui Vincis oli pilt professor Langdoni targa jutu ajal kaunis staatiline, siis seekord pani lavastaja oma tegelase lobisemise ajal tavaliselt liikuma. Selle dünaamika eest täiendav plusspunkt.

Nagu ka eelmise Browni raamatu järgi tehtud filmi puhul, mille üle ma blogis kunagi targutasin, oli ka siin huvitav vaadata kohti, kuhu ma seni sattunud ei ole (Rooma on mul jah täiesti avastamata maa ja Vatikani arhiividesse või väidetava Peetruse haua juurde katakombidesse ei pääseks ma niikuinii ühelgi seitsmel juhul - mis sest, et filmis see kõik tegelikult vaid originaalile sarnanev butafooria oli :) ) ja et mulle on ka nunnu Ewan McGregor pea alati meeldinud, siis see päästis päeva. Muidu aga thumbs down.

4/10

Ela nagu Oscar Wilde! Peaaegu...

Keset Londonit asub udupeen ja luksuslik Cadogan Hotel, mis on ajaloos tuntud peamiselt kahe seal elanud isiku tõttu. Üks neist oli briti näitlejatar Lillie Langtry, kes lisaks oma professionaalsele kuulsusele tekitas omaaegses Londonis skandaalset kõmu ka asjaoluga, et tema suurilma kuuluvate armukeste seas oli ka tulevane kuningas Edward VII. Ja teine, veelgi skandaalsem isik oli muidugi Oscar Wilde, kes 6. aprillil 1895.a. just selles hotellis, toas number 118 arreteeriti.

Tänaseks päevaks on mõne aja eest oma 120. juubelit tähistanud hotell täielikult renoveeritud ja kõigil soovijail on mõningase rahasumma vahetamise järel võimalik sellessamas Oscar Wilde'i toas elada. Hetkel on seal näiteks eripakkumine 'Green carnation', mille raames saab 399 naelsterlingi eest kaks inimest luksuslikku elu ja sööki nautida kahel päeval ja ühel ööl. Võrreldes Oscar'i aegadega on hotellikülalise kasutusse lisandunud muidugi olulisel hulgal moodsaid masinaid, luksuslikke abivahendeid ja muud sellist ning samuti on garanteeritud, et vähemalt samal põhjusel, millega omal ajal Wilde'i arreteerima tuldi ("committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"), politsei sellele uksele enam ei koputa.

Ajaloo keerdkäigud on tegelikult ikka ülimalt iroonilised. Nüüd reklaamitakse seda tuba suurepärase elukohana tsiviilpartnerluse sõlmimise (mida saab teha muide sealsamas hotellis - neil on olemas kõik vajalikud litsentsid) järgseteks mesinädalateks...

Sherlocki ja Watsoni ühine voodielu

Sherlock Holmes
Lavastaja: Guy Ritchie
2009
http://imdb.com/title/tt0988045/


Tänavusel jõuluajal linastuv, Madonna eksabikaasa poolt lavastatud uusversioon Sherlock Holmes'i ja doktor Watsoni seiklustest on tekitanud juba üksjagu furoori. Nimelt teatas filmi nimiosa täitev Robert Downey Jr. (jah, ärge uskuge, mida meie lapsajakirjanikud kodumaistes naistekirjades väidavad - ma juba olin sunnitud vaidluses ühe tütarlapsega kasutusele võtma resoluutsemad meetmed ning must-valgel tõestama, et Jude Law mängib siiski mitte Sherlock'it vaid doktor Watsonit) mingil ajal ühes intervjuus, et "we're two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass." ning hiljem ühes teises intervjuus väitis ka Jude Law, et "Guy wanted to make this about the relationship between Watson and Holmes. They're both mean and complicated."

Selle peale ärkas kunagine New York Post'i tuntud konservatiivist filmikriitik (ja üks vähestest, kelle puhul on teada, et ta kuulub sellesse mansasse, mis annab USA-s filmidele reitinguid ning sellega sisuliselt otsustab ka nende kommertsedukuse) Michael Medved, kes deklareeris, et see saab sel juhul olema suur viga, mis võtvat filmilt ära kaks kolmandikku vaatajatest. Sest ta ei usu, et naisi huvitaks, mismoodi kaks meest koos elavad ja heteromehed lihtsalt ei tahtvat seda näha. Paraku jättis Medved küll täpsustamata, millisesse kategooriasse (peale naiste ja heteromeeste) kuulub see kolmandik vaatajatest, kes tema hinnangul seda filmi ikkagi vaatama läheksid...

Ning muidugi võiks keegi Medvedile rahustuseks öelda, et hoolimata Downey ja Law' intervjuudest, on filmis sees ikkagi ka mitmed naissoost isikud, sealhulgas ka Watsoni (tulevane?) abikaasa Mary Morstan. Samas jällegi, millal naise olemasolu enne on abielumeestel seganud teiste meestega üle aisa löömist?

Cheech and Chong's Up in smoke (1978)

Up in smoke (a.k.a. Cheech and Chong's Up in smoke)
Lavastaja: Lou Adler, Tommy Chong
1978
http://imdb.com/title/tt0078446/

Ühe Kalifornias elava jõuka perekonna karva kasvanud hilis-hipist võsuke Anthony 'The Man' Stoner (Tommy Chong), kes on lootusetult narkotsi küüsi langenud, visatakse lõpuks kodust välja. Topib siis mehike oma trummid ja muu koli Rolls-Royce'i ja asutab end suvalises suunas teele. Väga kaugele ta küll ei jõua, sest masin annab mingis pärapõrgus otsad ja peale lageda taeva all ööbimist on mehel selge, et edasise suhtes tuleb kasutusele võtta radikaalsed meetmed.

Ja siis on selles universumis veel üks mees, Pedro De Pacas (Cheech Marin), selline isehakanud elumees, kes oma päevi ja öid täidab oma autologu poleerimise, bänditegemise ja (enamasti edutu) naiste taga ajamisega. No ja muidugi ka kanepiga kuigi võrreldes The Man'iga on vähemalt selles vallas tegu täieliku amatööriga.

Saatuse tahtel meeste teed ristuvad ja järgnevad seiklused, mis seisnevad põhiliselt uue narkoportsu leidmise muredest (tegelikult kõlab see inglise keeles palju poeetilisemalt: "searching for the green grass and high tides") ja viivad neid kõrvalepõikena korraks ka Mehhikosse ning lõpevad L.A. kuulsas Roxy Theatre's, kus parajasti kari pungisugemetega bände omavahel mõõtu võtavad. Ei saa ka Pedro ja Anthony sellisel juhul ju lavalt eemale jääda ning kuigi viimane on nii kivis, et ei suuda kuidagi oma trummikomplekti ühes tükis hoida, rääkimata siis veel selle mängimisest, viib ootamatu pööre asjad nii kaugele, et mehed panevad oma bändiga kogu ürituse täiega kinni. Võimalik, et oma osa on selles ka kena valge pitsivahuga roosal balletikleidil. Ja et asi veelgi põnevam oleks, on neil kogu selles tohuvabohus pidevalt kannul ka natuke äpud võmmid, kes jahivad ühte kõigi aegade suurimat marihuaanalasti.

Ma nägin seda filmi esimest korda millalgi väga ammu ja siis, keskkooliajal, tundus see pööraselt naljakas aga kui ma nüüd seda eile õhtul üle kaesin, siis pidin möönma, et mõnel juhul oli vanasti tõesti rohi rohelisem. Tegelikult on tegemist üsna tüüpilise seitsmekümnendate-kaheksakümnendate filmiga, mis teistest omalaadsetest (kõik need Terence Hill'i ja Bud Spencer'i koomilised spagetivesternid, Smokey ja Bandiidi lood jne jne) erineb jõulise narkokoomika ja üsna kohese kultusfilmi staatusesse jõudmise poolest. Mis takkapihta oli veel ka stuudiole rahaliselt nii edukas (jäi üsna napilt tolle aasta kassaedukuse TOP 10-st välja), et sellele vorbiti kokku vist lausa kuus järge. Mingit osa neist järgedest said kah omal ajal üle vaadatud aga et esimene neist juba siis kõige parem tundus, siis ma ei usu, et ma nüüd end järgede otsimisega enam vaevama hakkan.

5/10

Kümme aastat varem - 30/08/99 - 05/09/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 30/08/99 - 05/09/99.

In many ways very important week for myself. Some situations and happenings guided me to serious thinking about my own life. I tried to found out what I'm doing right now and what I want to do in future, find my own preferences. I hope that I can say after five or ten years, THIS was the important moment when I made decision, a right one. We'll see...

It was also something else. Renovating the house was continued, now we have walls up and hope to put it under the roof again in a week. Monotonous work-routine followed with very few brighter moments. On Friday I spent 19 hours on the road, driving through southern Estonia, making some deals and trying to find new business contacts. Had normal results. Half Saturday was spent with solving other's problems, sadly not very successfully, I have to say.

1st September was the first schoolday here. I watched the kids, marching by my house, and suddenly realised that summer is over. Again. And I didn't noticed how it flew away, it was like yesterday when I looked through the same window at boys, wearing short pants as a sign of warm spring. And it was really four months ago and I don't know how I spent these days. Just the weird and probably empty feeling, best described with the words of somebody else:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

(Time, Pink Floyd)

Sõi end peldikupaberist surnuks

Meerikamaal otsustas üks 32-aastane ja Jonathan Campos'e nime kandev US Navy meremees hiljuti oma hea teenistuskaaslase, mustanahalise August Provost'i maha kõmmutada ning siis veel ka põlema pista. Ilmselt seetõttu, et ta oli kusagilt teada saanud, et Provost oli gay.

Noh, võeti siis see püstoli- ja välgumihklikangelane ning pisteti kinnimajja. Ja kuigi ametiisikute väitel ei olevat mingeid tõendeid (tõepoolest, kui mõrvar ikka ei ulata oma ohvrile enne tulistama hakkamist notariaalselt kinnitatud seletuskirja oma teo motiivide kohta, siis on ju tegu näiteks hetkelise meeltesegadusega...), et tegu oli hate crime'iga (ehk siis karistuse määramisel kasutatav paragrahv oleks tulnud sellevõrra leebem), otsustas süüalune oma võimalike timukate töö kergemaks teha ning hoolimata pideva valve (suicide watch) all olemisest, suutis ühel kenal õhtul paarikümne minutiga, mil valvurid oma ringkäiku teiste kinnipeetavate juures tegid, alla neelata niipalju kempsupaberit, et andis tunnike hiljem otsad.

Inimeste fantaasia on tõepoolest piiritu.

Kümme aastat varem - 23/08/99 - 29/08/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 23/08/99 - 29/08/99.

Monday was like a bad dream. It started with surprise in the wreck of house (which will cost me additionally about $1400), then I heard that my friend's friend (whom I know too) have tumor in his brain, then I hurted my leg pretty badly and in the end I had to deal with a nice person from one private company who by government was given the right to control one specific field of businesses and he decided that we're breaking the law...

Otherwise routine continued. Tuesday a parcel with catalogs of glass arrived and I discovered that they sent me wrong books, not the ones I ordered.

On Friday my brother was in Tallinn, trying to find solution to that breaking-the-law-thing. Possibly we'll got our temporary licence on next Thursday. The most interesting thing is of course, that nothing will change in our practice, except that this private company will start getting each year a nice little money transfer to their account for one sheet of paper. Officially legal racketing, I say.

Saturday a cute guy came into my working place, waited until we two were alone in room (it took ages, meanwhile I began to think, he's trying to steal something), watched at me for a while and then asked: "You're ancientboy, right? Can I sleep with you?". Straight shot. And I was speechless.

Üks hää blogilugu...

...millele erinevad inimesed siin-seal juba on viidanud. Olgu siis veelkord ka siin. :)

Noormees ja meri

(NB! Hoolimata pealkirjast on tegu ingliskeelse kirjatükiga.)

Kümme aastat varem - 16/08/99 - 22/08/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 16/08/99 - 22/08/99.

Routine. All week, except Sunday. 9 AM in post office, sending different materials to our worldwide customers, from 10 AM to 4 PM in job-places, meanwhile short shuttle trips between different companies and our (still) wreck of house, then from 5 PM to 10 PM reading and answering daily business letters and e-mails, completing parcels which I'll send next day, then some time for personal fun and one needs few hours for sleep also!

That killing routine is one of the reasons why I discovered almost a week later that I had forgot to update this Ancientboy's section. Apologies, my dear readers!

As said, Sunday was a bit different and I was invited to my friend's daughters (they're 7 and 9 years old) pre-school party. I don't know why they decided to have such party almost three weeks before school, but that's their life... Anyway, everything was very solid until kids had to go into beds but then grown-ups party in garden-house started. And I (like anybody else) was stupid enough to drink a deadly mix, made from strong rum, gin, whisky, red Cinzano, crushed cranberries and blackberries with sparkling wine and ice - could you imagine? 1 AM we had a improvised striptease, performed by school teacher (she was not only very drunk, she's also very bad stripper - hope she's not reading this), then we had to save one guy from drowning because he decided to sleep in kids pool and in the result we were all wet, meanwhile neighbour's dog found out that we have some lobsters left on the table and he could like these too. So he made a mess on the table, ate something and broke the glasses...

Not so routine after all.

Homo promo (1993)

Homo promo
Lavastaja: Jenni Olson
1993
http://imdb.com/title/tt0107133/

Tegu ei olegi õigupoolest mingi korraliku filmiga. Lihtsalt Jenni Olson on kokku kogunud ja üksteise järel enam-vähem kronoloogilisse ritta ladunud veerandsada treilerit eelmise sajandi viiekümnendatest seitsmekümnendateni tehtud filmidest, mis vähemal või suuremal määral tegelevad gei-, lesbi- ja/või transuteemaga.

Kümnekonnast filmist (mis küll enamasti lesbi- ja transufilmid) polnud ma tõtt-öelda midagi kuulnudki aga ega nende mittenägemine nüüd endast ilmselt mingit katastroofi ka ei kujuta. Ning mõne filmi puhul (nt. "The boys in the band", "Sunday bloody Sunday" ja usutavasti tobedateks farssideks osutuvad "The Ritz" ja "Norman... Is that you?"), mis mul kusagil küll olemas aga endiselt vaatamata, tuli jälle meelde, et võiks need millalgi ikkagi ju ka masinasse panna.

Kuigi mõned allikad väidavad, et seal peaks olema 27 treilerit (pluss mõned omaaegsed kinos näidatud vahepalad, mida ilmselt pop corn'i müümise ajal kedrati), suutsin mina kokku lugeda täpselt 25 filmi:

1. "I changed my sex" (a.k.a. "Glen or Glenda"), 1953
2. "The third sex" (a.k.a. "Anders als du und ich"), 1957
3. "Victim", 1961
4. "The children's hour", 1961
5. "No way to treat a lady", 1968
6. "The sergeant", 1968
7. "The legend of Lylah Clare", 1968
8. "The killing of sister George", 1968
9. "The fox", 1967
10. "Staircase", 1969
11. "The gay deceivers", 1969
12. "The damned" (a.k.a. "La caduta degli dei"), 1969
13. "Something for everyone", 1970
14. "The boys in the band", 1970
15. "Myra Breckinridge", 1970
16. "The Christine Jorgensen story", 1970
17. "Death in Venice" (a.k.a. "Morte a Venezia"), 1971
18. "Sunday bloody Sunday", 1971
19. "Some of my best friends are...", 1971
20. "Andy Warhol's Heat" (a.k.a. "Heat"), 1972
21. "Andy Warhol's Women in revolt" (a.k.a. "Women in revolt"), 1971
22. "Female trouble", 1974
23. "The Ritz", 1976
24. "Norman... is that you?", 1976
25. "Outrageous!", 1977

Kuna sellist "vaatame üle ja võtame teadmiseks" klipikogumikku hinnata pole eriti võimalik, siis jääb see tegevus siinkohal ära.

Tsitaat. Geniaalne.

"Ma katsun sest jubedast fopaast nüüd kuidagi üle saada, et ei juhtuks nagu Durrelli raamatus kunstnikuga, kes oli sügavas masenduses ja jõi kaheteistkümnendat aastat, sest tuul oli kunagi ära viinud kirsiõied, mida ta maalida tahtis. "

Kõige mittesoovitum kirjanik Dan Brown

Brittide "teise ringi" kauba poekett Oxfam (peamiselt kasutatud riiete müügi ning heategevuslike ettevõtmistega tuntuks saanud firma, kes on samaaegselt ka üks kogu Euroopa suurimaid second-hand raamatute müüjaid) avaldas paar edetabelit, millest selgub, et kirjanik, kelle raamatuid britid kõige rohkem Oxfam'i kogumispunktidesse ära annavad, on Vatikani õrritajate kroonimata kuningas Dan Brown.

Loovutatud raamatute autorite tippviisikusse kuuluvad veel (teisest kohast viiendani) John Grisham, Ian Rankin, Danielle Steel ja Helen Fielding.

Muidugi ei ole kõigil neil toredatel inimestel põhjust ka sügavasse masendusse langeda, sest teine edetabel, mis kajastab nimetatud firma poodides enim müüdud raamatuid, on esimesest viienda kohani järgmine: Ian Rankin, Dan Brown, Bernard Cornwell, Stephanie Meyer ja Terry Pratchett.

Tähelepanuväärne on muidugi ka asjaolu, et Vatikani lemmikraamat, kaheldava autorsusega Piibel, ei figureeri kummagi nimekirja esiotsas. Ilmselgelt on see märk sellest, et kusagil struktuurides on kallutatud jõud.

via The Register.

Neeger sõjaeelses Tallinnas

Vintagepostcards.com on müügile pannud Tallinnas Alex.(ander) Teppor'i poolt ilmselt 1920ndate teisel poolel tehtud foto mustanahalisest jõumehest. Ilmselt on tegu mõne siinsetel rammukatsumisvõistlustel või tsirkustes esinemas käinud tegelasega. Üliharuldane on see foto igal seitsmel juhul.

Marillion tuleb oma uue plaadi "L = M" tuuriga ka Eestisse

Kontsert toimub pühapäeval, 8.novembril (ehk siis isadepäeval), uhiuues Nokia Kontserdimajas (s.o. Solarise keskuses, mis asub endise tellistest "paekivist" Sakala platsil "Estonia" vastas) ja pileteid hinnaga 390 kuni 550 krooni saab alates homme hommikust osta kasvõi Piletilevist.

Viimati andis Marillion Eestis kontserdi 1992. aasta Rock Summeril.

P.S. Tallinna nime valesti kirjutamise pärast nad mu käest juba said kolaka, eks näis, kaua see parandamine aega võtab. :)
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edit (20. augustil kell 10:33). Selle asemel, et täna hommikul pileteid müüma hakata, on piletilevitajad praeguseks üldse kogu kontserdi info maha võtnud. Koomikud...

edit 2 (22. augustil kell 08:59). Nüüd on Piletilevi Marillioni oma andmebaasidest uuesti üles suutnud leida ning piletite müük tundub toimivat.

Kümme aastat varem - 09/08/99 - 15/08/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 09/08/99 - 15/08/99.

I need more time. I just discovered that 24 hours in a day is not much, I think I want 40 or so hours...

Whole week (and previous and previous and...) was like on the caroussel - the world is turning round and round, faster and faster and so I can see only a small fragments from this crazy world. And I have to put these together, using my better knowledges. So I do but probably in wrong way because the feeling of sickness goes even stronger.

So, the world survived another fatal day, sun was gone for two minutes, came then surprisingly back and nothing happened, exactly as I had said. Am I now magician?

Renovating of the old house (see some more info about that somewhere below) at last started. Actually demolishing at first. If we're lucky, we can use the main constructions so it would be much easier to destroy whole thing and start from the foundation, but as half of this house is builded more than 200 years ago, destroying something is excluded. I already feel whole thing's becoming a nightmare. Thank heaven I know a man who's job is to fight against nightmares. (Hi, Pierre!)

Met another Estonian guy who found me through this site. He's young Eros himself but his behaviour is unacceptable. In some ways he remains me young Rimbaud, especially the screen-version of this genius, played by Leonardo... But I think, he will never say "Writing has changed me." just because he don't write, he's playing with souls. And he don't want to change. Sadly. But I still have hope, for his own sake.

On Saturday I suddenly found myself walking on the streets and buying a drink from every bar-pub-cafe-whatever which crossed my way. So in the result I was pretty drunk and when I met one of my schoolmates (who was drunk too) we had a major .... err.... difference of opinion. Something about who can sleep with who and so on... So one beerglass was broken and I had to pay for that although this wasn't my fault at all.

Yes, very eclectic week it was indeed.

Kümme aastat varem - 02/08/99 - 08/08/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 02/08/99 - 08/08/99.

So here I am, late for few days with this update. Here I am, tired and pretty happy because anything was just excellent, almost every small piece from this giant's jigsaw, we were trying to put together during past month, found its right place. Weather was nice and people had huge interest about this event, actually even much more than last year. So next year is possible, however it needs a lot of thinking from our side.

Another hysteria of Armageddon is going on: Grand Cross, Day of Destiny. Personally I don't believe in tragedies, told us by fortunetellers, with the leading role of Nostradamus. But we have less than 48 hours left before another deadline (could anybody remember, how many deadlines manhood had had?), so let's see...

Biggest happening in our family was my mother's flowering cactus. She had had cactuses for almost 30 years and never before any of these had flowers. Never. It was actually funny to see big red and white blossom, twice as long as cactus itself, wondering at brave new world... Sadly this beauty was gone after just day and half.

Kümme aastat varem - 26/07/99 - 01/08/99

ancientboy's weekly notes. 26/07/99 - 01/08/99.

Speed is the word, connecting the last seven days. If you had seen classic movie with the same title, then you know what I mean. Organizing some bigger event (fair of antiques and collectibles this time) would easily turn to personal nightmare, so I promised to myself (how many times I did this before?) to keep my hands off from any happenings in future except perhaps a dinner for two...

So what I had last week? Negotiations, phone calls, hunt for marquees, tables and chairs, solving customer's problems, refusing the kind offer of another way to spend my pennies on advertising (she was very good this time, it needed twenty minutes my time before she left), and more phone calls...

Thursday night I spent some quality time with my friend and his family in their nice garden. I sat under the apple-tree (which remained me of our old sins), not far from fountain in the centre of his small pond. We actually had the very last grill-party of July with excellent meat, beer and talk. And not so excellent phone calls (again!) to both of us, so in the end we switched our phones off. Poor callers!

Friday something mystical happened. Right in the morning I saw a young cute stranger walking down the street. Nothing unusual you say? Yes, but at first he was wearing T-shirt with small pink triangles and rainbow flag. Never before seen these classic gay-symbols on somebody's clothing here in Estonia. And secondly I met with him more five or six times during the day. Every time in different place.

One sad news for the fans of Ancient galleries. Next update will probably be made in the beginning of September. Sorry!

As you can see, I found at least few time to start with re-designing of my page. Although it's more like forming the original ideas I had, when I started with this page, into reality. In addition I want to say Thanks! to another fan of good design, Texas-guy. Without pressure and funny suggestions from his side it wouldn't happen so fast.

And last but not least. Thanks to you all! For your support, questions and feedback so far. Now I am asking something from you. What do you think, should I add a short Estonian gay-guide to my pages or not??