Monday, March 24, 2008

The 200th...

So, I had 200 visitors to this really bad blog. What were these people doing?, Why do they come here? Can't they waste their time with higher accomplishments? Surely your life must be miserable to come and see such a lousy thing.

Nevertheless, my last activities:


Finished reading "Junky" from William S. Burroughs. Great book, it really gets you on reading and reading. I understand his later books are quite strange and though to read, but this is very linear and you can almost feel that environment where he lived.


Almost finishing the "The Nuremberg Interviews". At least I've finished the defendants and passed to the witnesses. It's though. I think some who would read this, would think they are nice guys thrown into the madness by their leaders, and they have no responsibility (yeah right!). Others would point that they almost look like nice guys, but are liars, henchman's and surely guilty. I tend to the 3rd hypothesis: they are nice guys, and then it becomes even more frightening how nice guys can indeed become butchers and conduct genocide. Indeed, evil can arise from the hearts of the most common people. There are no devils or angels, only normal people doing good and bad deeds.
To those who are interested but not in the mood or patience to read, there was a documentary on google video some time ago, but it looks like it was removed. Perhaps you can find it by alternative ways.


In the middle of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". For those who do not recognize right away, it's the book that gave origin to the movie Apocalypse Now, and while that one is set on the vietnam war, this is set on the 19th century Congo.

Finished all the episodes of Jericho, so I'm anxious to this season premature finale (25 march I think). In my opinion I liked the series a lot and I'm sorry to see it's cancellation. I must say I was not quite fascinated from the start. But maybe it's good for it to finish now. In this way it had no time to decline, and perhaps it will be well remembered when people watch it later on.
Even so, I would like a good surprise in the end...

The Unit: it's too bad how this great series was 'put in the bubble' by CBS without mercy (lol, Jericho is a CBS show also...). If the last episode was it's end, then it's a really lousy end, since it was not supposed to be that! The story goes: the show was airing, the writer's strike put it and a lot of series 'in the bubble', the writer's strike ends, most of the series return, The Unit is still 'in the bubble'. Such a great show.