Category Archives: Hobbies

Clockwork Orange and Be Kind Rewind

Movies


Another two ‘interesting’ movies … the first one, ‘Clockwork Orange’ directed Stanley Kubrick, was certainly special. Even though I read the book, I was still kinda surprised. I guess you either like it or you don’t. And even though I liked the book, in case of the movie I would fall in the latter category.
The other one, ‘Be Kind Rewind’ … well, it has its jokes, but … after all another low class comedy.

Addendum in movies

Movies

Due to my recent illness I completely forgot to write posts about some of the movies I have seen recently …

We started out with “Bladerunner” … a classic by Ridley Scott with Harrison Ford based on the book “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” (see previous post) by Philip K. Dick … old (and one always has to get used to it again) but nice movie …

Next one was the “The Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two old guys at the end of their lives trying to do as many of the things they always wanted to do but never did … unfortunately kinda lame movie …

And the last one was “L’ Auberge Espagnole” … a movie about some strange economics student and his Erasmus year in Barcelona … unfortunately not really to recommend, just as the previous one …

Well, sometimes you’re lucky and sometimes you’re not … let’s hope we’re more lucky with the next one …

Unlock Deezer

Music, World Wide Web

Just patched a little Greasemonkey script to unlock the full features of Deezer!
Which was until they locked all songs in Germany my most favourite web radio.
Now we’re back at that point … ;)

Here you go:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Deezer Version 2 Unlocker
// @namespace Enables disabled songs on Deezer
// @description Enables disabled (grayed-out) songs on Deezer. This script replaces the GeoIP location with French, but leaves (most of) the actual Deezer application in English.
// @include http://www.deezer.com/
// @include http://www.deezer.com/*
// @include http://deezer.com/
// @include http://deezer.com/*
// @include http://*.deezer.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
document.getElementById("flash").innerHTML = document.getElementById("flash").innerHTML.replace(/geoip=DE/g, "geoip=FR");
document.getElementById("player").innerHTML = document.getElementById("player").innerHTML.replace(/geoip=DE/g, "geoip=FR");
document.getElementById("focus").innerHTML = document.getElementById("focus").innerHTML.replace(/geoip=DE/g, "geoip=FR");

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Books


Just finished reading George Orwells’ classic dystopian novel describing a dark future under a repressive, totalitarian regime.
Looking at today’s increasing surveillance and restrictions on the rights of the individuals, it’s quite interesting to read this story already published in 1949.
Certainly readable, even though not always entertaining just because of the topic it’s about …