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Ring 2

Large movie theatre full of idiots: giggling girls, jackass guys - both talk through movie, which is worse, I can't tell. From now on, we'll stick to smaller theatres and untypical screening times.

Decent movie, much better than Ringu 2 but inferior to original Ring which we loved. Not as scary, but this one certainly had it's moments. There was also pretty heavy stuff in the end - Rachel is faced with a very tough task in the end. There's also really weird deer, which was odd, in a good way (and not hilariously funny, as some seem to think).

Ring 2 is worth seeing, if you enjoyed Ring and can keep your expectations low enough.

25.03.2005 klo 09:43 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Sad state of album promotion

I understand not everyone speaks or writes fluent English. However, if I was in a position where I'd have to send lots of promotional information to receivers around the world, I'd put some effort to writing well.

Here's an example I got from Austrian CCP Records. "The songs are very varied but very catchy and will be hooked in your auditory canals, although they are a manifest of hardness. Thy Nemesis are still immune against commerce and will always stand for the old spirit of Black Metal."

I mean, that might sound perfectly alright in German, but in English it's just silly. And what's that, the band's still immune to commerce? How on earth they've gone and published their album and even try to sell it to people, then?

I think the most outrageous claim so far was made of Entwine's album, which was declared as a superbly original masterpiece - which was simply a ok-if-not-exceptional attempt to ride on HIM's success, with absolutely nothing original about it.

24.03.2005 klo 09:45 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Blog spam control

My anti-spam combat system has two new weapons. I read Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse (New anti-spam plugins) and found two new plugins for Movable Type.

First one is Chad Everett's MT-Moderate, which adds TrackBack moderation to Movable Type. That's neat. Perhaps that will block the TrackBacks that go through MT-Blacklist from showing up, as they are an embarrassment for me - most of them are nasty porn, which I don't want in my blog.

Second simple and useful tool is MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities, which blocks all comments with characters replaced with HTML entities. Blocking is the way to go, as that's almost 100% certain sign of spam.

21.03.2005 klo 16:45 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)