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Iron Man

July 31st, 2007 3 comments

    Dear comic fans, may I present to you the one and only Iron Man:

    Robert Downey Jr. is Anthony Stark, head of Stark Enter­prises and also known as Iron Man. Cur­rently the movie is slated for a release on May 2nd 2008. Unfor­tu­nately, the offi­cial site doesn’t offer any con­tent what­so­ever right now but there’s some infor­ma­tion to be found over at Marvel’s.

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    Back from vacation

    July 30th, 2007 2 comments

      Ha, long time no see. Or write. Or … what­ever. I just wanted to let you all know that I was on vaca­tion and I really had a great time with my girl­friend. We didn’t get abroad, though. Any­way, we spent lotta time out in the wilds, jog­ging, bik­ing, swim­ming, shop­ping – the usual stuff, I sup­pose. Not for once did I think of my com­puter and that’s quite a feat. How­ever, I got sore mus­cles, I lost some weight which in itself isn’t all that bad, and I’m fit­ter than I was before.

      Thing is, though we stayed at home I still man­aged to spend quite a bit of money on very dif­fer­ent things. I bought a new moun­tain bike and some acces­sory stuff. I bought a new Timex, my old Seiko wasn’t up to the task any more (Note to self: Don’t for­get to ask par­ents for guar­an­tee cer­tifi­cate). Spent a con­sid­er­able amount of money on food and tick­ets. Vis­ited the Fed­eral Pathologic-anatomical Museum in Vienna, also known as the Mad­house Tower, which was the first spe­cial build­ing for the accom­mo­da­tion of men­tal patients in the world. Of course, a more lit­eral trans­la­tion of “Nar­ren­turm” would be Fool’s Tower, but that wouldn’t quite meet the pur­pose of the building.

      Now, I’m at work again and it really sucks. Espe­cially if you got noth­ing to do at all. How I’d like to stay at home today …

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      1-18-08

      July 12th, 2007 2 comments

        You may have already seen the trailer in front of Trans­form­ers. Any­way, it’s awe­some. And, obvi­ously, a good kept secret since this movie doesn’t have a name yet. Cur­rently, all that’s known is the code­name dur­ing pre-production: Clover­field. And that’s all you get to know. So, it doesn’t have a title and the trailer doesn’t give you any clues at all. No won­der, peo­ple are crazy about this movie. Just head over to YouTube and do a quick search for 1-18-08. You will find some amaz­ing stuff about peo­ple try­ing to ana­lyze the trailer and try­ing to come up with some con­clu­sive information.

        Thus, what the movie actu­ally does have is plenty of buzz! That tells me that the mar­ket­ing guys did a remark­able job. Sim­ple but effec­tive. Def­i­nitely a crowd pleaser. And so they got lots and lots of atten­tion with a min­i­mal bud­get. Nonethe­less, the trailer looks damn nice.

        There’s also some­thing resem­bling an offi­cial site, if you care. There’s almost noth­ing there, though. If you’re look­ing for a HD trailer, visit Apple’s trailer site. I have to admit that I feel the ten­sion. I’d like to know more …

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        Writ­ing a book …

        July 4th, 2007 2 comments

          … should be fun. One shouldn’t write a book if it means hard work (look­ing up some facts hardly counts as hard work here). I always wanted to write at least one book and have it on a best­seller list. Nice dream, you say? Well, I know I’m good at writ­ing if I set my mind to it. Don’t let my not so per­fect com­mand of the Eng­lish lan­guage fool you into believ­ing that I’m bad with words. I have been good at writ­ing in my native lan­guage in the past and I won’t do bad in the future. That’s a fact.

          I should start right now because I’ve planned to start writ­ing before I turn 26. There’s only one prob­lem: I don’t know what to write about. Sounds crazy, eh? You see, I got shit­loads of ideas in my head and I sim­ply can’t pick one. Of course, I don’t have every­thing planned in advance but I have already a very rough out­line for every story I want to bring to paper. Right now, in this very moment, I’m try­ing to set­tle for the plot I’d like to explore the most, thanks to my multi-tasking capabilities.

          Inter­est­ingly enough, Evil Spock rec­om­mended the TV show Heroes not too long ago and since I’ve fin­ished it my mind is filled with new ideas. In fact, I feel like Peter Petrelli – like not being able to con­tain all my thoughts. I try and I try, but they des­per­ately wanna get outta my head, with explod­ing force. To accom­mo­date my writ­ing skills and my future pub­lish­ers, I will have to invent the Brain­link, enabling me to com­mu­ni­cate with my com­puter wire­lessly by thought only …

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