Coming soon to a screen near you.

David Fincher is one of my absolute favorite directors ever. Since his debut with Alien 3 in the beginning of the 90ties, I have watched all of his following films, and seldom I have been disappointed.

His next film is out soon, and that is the US remake of Stig Larsons international bestseller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo".

Enjoy the trailer here today.

Awesome music, explicit dynamic editing, extreme talented; David Fincher.

In comparison the trailer from the Danish - Swedish version from back in 2008, which wasn't bad either, in fact it was a real good movie and I can only ask myself the question, why Americans always have to make their own version of successful european movies?

Correction.

The other day I posted a clip as being a trailer presenting the new Tin Tin movie, or rather I posted what I -wrongly- thought was the trailer for new Tin Tin movie.

Well as you for sure has realized; it wasn't.

What I posted was a teaser for the video-game coming out together with that new Tin Tin movie.

So now I want to correct this and present the real movie trailer.

I am sorry for any inconvenience caused by this mistake.

Comics as movies!

It seem to be a kind of trend that famous directors now turn their attention towards the old comics to get inspiration or new stuff for their films.

Yesterday it was about Spielberg and his view on Tin Tin, today it is Tarentino and how he has grabbed the 60ties comic icon "Modesty Blaise" and turned a film out of it.

Here is the trailer for that, but with no date of world wide distribution.

In the 60ties was another attempt to abduct Modesty Blaise to the big screen, and for me the whole look and the style from back then seem to fit more close to the comic and the style created by the author Peter O'Donnell.

Dagens musical flashback!

One of the absolute greatest ballades of the 70ties.

Advertising!

Yes it is a bit odd, but I do choose to bring this advert here on the blog.

If a movie trailer is advertising, which I guess it is, isn't it?

Anyway. In December 2011 Steven Spielberg and Peter Jacksons version of Tin Tin's adventures will be launched, and I am waiting in excitement. Nearly like back 30 some years, when it was library day at our little village school, and every one wanted to be the first in the library to secure a couple of the Tin Tin comics for him or her self. Or the excitement on a Friday afternoon after school, when the danish television had an about two hour program for children, and part of that was the animated adventures of Tin Tin. Awesome and great entertainment. And then now again this winter, a new era of Tin Tin.

Enjoy.

Music clip from back then...

From my colleague next to me I can hear Black Sabbath coming out of his speakers. Oh yeah, those good times back then. And I think Ozzy will say the same, even he might be more famous now with reality shows and s....

By the way: "S..." means SUCH and not what you thought first.

This one is just the classic Black Sabbath isn't it.

The video is awesome. The only thing I can say is; "please do not move, it is hard for the cameraman to operate and move those big cameras they used back then.

Notes from a house moving experience

My good friend Mr. Dufty told me that change is always good. He can be right, but there is always so much work related with the kind of change, which came to our lives on the 25^th of June.

On the 9^th of August. Our house was all packed up and put into boxes and stabled meter high in the living room.

There was only a couple of small things left to do before the removal guys would come the next day.

Left in the kitchen were some small plates, some cutlery, a toaster and the water cooker. As I got out of the bed that morning, I found Catriona in the kitchen trying to boil some eggs for our breakfast in the water cooker.

I couldn’t stop giggling, but had to ask why she didn’t use the toaster so we could get fried eggs.

Later the same day, I had to go to the new address to met some folks from IKEA who was due to come to set up the bunch of things we’d bought.

The former occupant had moved out 4 days before and we’d been there to take over the keys and settle the lease contract with the agent and the owner. The house had been cleaned, but needless to say, I found some dirt along the wall where a cable hider had been mounted. The only thing I could find to clean that up was some antiseptic tissues I had in my bag and a paintbrush I found left in a plastic bag in the Japanese shed on the roof top, so I found myself on my knees on the floor, cleaning old dust away with that before the new furniture could be installed.

Later that evening we traveled to the Hong Kong Asia Arena and enjoyed the opening of The Red Hot Chili Peppers new world tour.

A great concert was the event that settled our last night in Tai Wan Village.

Solutions and numbers!

My brother is a clever man. Again he could knack the Quiz about the Japanese sign posted recently.
Though he suggested it was the logo of a removal company, he was only partly right. The right answer is that the logo is from delivery company. But I guess that removal or delivery company is so similar so it counts. My brother has won a breakfast in our house, when he come to visit.
Yesterday I found the visitor counter on this number down here, and I just wonder who was the number 16.000.

If it was you, please let me know.

Getting online again.

Here is the first impression for you of the new view from our balcony and rooftop.
I know that it is pretty much the same like from the old place, even we are a bit further away from the water and at a different angel. Before we were facing east mainly, now it is mainly south.
Anyway, tonight the internet and telephone provider will come to our house, so I hope that our services will be relocated by later this evening, so I finally can work from home again.
Let's see.

Another view

Now it is a fact. We have not only got another view on the outside world, we have got a new house to live in.
Last week we got packed all the boxes and practically filled the whole living room with all our stuff.Wednesday the 10th at 9 in the morning, 8 guys from a removal company showed up at our old address and that was the end - or culmination - of a long and annoying task that had started on the 25th of June, on the first day of our summer holiday. Yes, that was the day our landlord showed his greed in a meeting we had with him about a renewal of our lease.
He demanded an rent increase of 45 %, and because we wouldn't accept that, the first 2 weeks of the holiday was spent on house hunting.
That was not an easy task, as all lease prizes has gone up rapidly in the last 6 months here in Hong Kong, and I guess that was also the ignition that started the greed to rise in our -former- landlord.
What we saw of houses in those two weeks that was on the market for the budget we were willing to pay, was for sure depressing and I will not even start to describe it. Only can I say that some nights when we finally got home from the hunt, we were absolutely depressed and disillusioned.
We were even ready to move away from the area we have been living in for the last 4 years and which we really like, but a lot of other people like it as well, and that is also a reason for the expensive rent.
Anyway to cut this short. We had an amazing lucky stroke after the first week, and now we have moved into a similar house as the one we had before, with a rooftop and a view -even it is not quite as nice, it is still a view and it is still nice. It is a bit similar to the former one as it is the same bay we are looking at now, just from another angle.
I promise to post a photo of that view soon. First of all I have to take one -photo- and second we have to have our internet and telephone sorted, but that will hopefully all be done by the coming week-end.
What I can do though, is to show a picture of the kitchen, we've kind of managed to put together from various items , found in a range of different shops and on top of that, a picture of my first cocked breakfast in that place.
Did I eventually mention that we got that place for the same amount as we've paid the last four years. That is the best thing that came out of all the stress.

Quiz of the day!

Guess what kind of company this sign stands for?