Well, here I am with another large article no one will read just because I feel like writing it. This time it’s about movie adaptations. The title itself comes from the spanish title of the movie Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002), which is a movie about adaptations from another medium to cinema. But, instead of doing some large essay about the theory of adaptations, how they have been implemented, and putting some examples at the end, I’ll do something different. I’ll just write about my opinions on some adaptations, why I have such opinions, and the relative merits and faults of such adaptations. (more…)
Well, today is the day of various things. First, it’s Valentine’s day, an artificial and commercial celebration, but a perfect excuse to have some time with a significant one, if you have the luck of having one. Every day should be Valentine’s, but since it is not possible, well, there you have.
Second, it’s the chinese new year. Happy new year to all the people who celebrate it; regardless of your culture, new year is always an important moment to think about the past and the future and the booze.
Third, it’s the day I’ve decided to dedicate to “thank” the genius who decided that blu-ray disc cases should be different in height and thickness than DVD cases. Since sarcasm and internet don’t go very well, I’ll say plainly that it’s the second worst thing about blu-ray (first being the price). The cases, shorter and thinner, make my original movies collection look awkward, the blu-rays disappear unless I decide to put them apart (and why if I don’t want!), and in general it just messed up a standard case size which is now 15 years old. Whoever decided to change the case to make the blu-rays to “stand out”, well, commited a humongous mistake.
Stage one: badly used space.
Stage two: little corner for software(z). The bottom image gives a better view of what I’ve put there for now. I’ll have to dig up my really old software (made before Links) to complete the space. The other wall will be for old books and stuff.
I hope you have a nice Groundhog Day. As usual, I’m watching the movie again. Did you see your shadow today?
It’s not the first package I got from overseas this year; I got the Animusic and Animusic 2 DVDs from Chris in mid January (and I’ll have to write about them!) But this package deserves an instant mention. I got it from Bwlag (real name is confidential), a great guy who is helping me in my Links golf sim series collection. Since he spent a significant amount of money in acquiring items for dumping and preservation, I offered to buy some from him so he could recover a bit. However, as you can see in the side picture, he has sent me much more than I expected. (more…)
La violencia es el último recurso del incompetente
— Isaac Asimov, de 'Fundación'
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