I went to see the Matrix today. Two hours and 25 minutes of pure joy. This film is almost like a comic book come to life. There are super-heros, kung-fu fighting, lot’s of shooting and a deep emotionally disturbed hero :)
If you like sci-fi, if you like kung-fu and if you like comic books like me, you’ll simply love The Matrix. The film is jam packed with great special FX, which don’t really take over the action, action which doesn’t really take over the story and a story which doesn’t really get in the way of a lot of shooting.
There aren’t many explosions, which is nice, because I’m really tired of those. There are plenty of guns and shooting, though… but there’s also a subtle sense of humour toward the shooting scenes themselves as well as throughout the entire movie. Meaning, it does not take itself too serious while keeping it serious enough not to become ridiculous.
This is by far the best movie I’ve seen in months. But don’t go see it if you’re a pseudo-intellectual or something, it ain’t worth it… you gotta enjoy having FUN! That’s what this movie is all about. Fun. It’s not deep, in the end only love saves the day, it’s corny enough but the settings, the characters, the story are just my cup of tea. It’s a comic book, pure and simple. I loved it.
Later on the day we had a presentation of the finalized CD-ROM presentation we’ve been working on… yes, we had a presentation on sunday, went to the client’s house and all.. anyway it went perfectly, the guy loved it so much he’s ordering two more CDs for September.
It’s 6:19, and I’m not up early… in fact I haven’t been to bed yet. It’s the fourth time this week that I don’t sleep in order to work. There is a high level of anxiety involved in the proccess.
As the clock moves merciless towards 6:00 a.m. I go into desperation, I twitch, I feel like crying out… I’m so exhausted I can barely sit straight, all my muscles hurt and my efficiency level is down 95%. I hate working like this, it’s the exact opposite of what work should be.
Now the animations are redone, but unfortunantely I have to upload them, and unfortunantely I have a crappy 28.8 connection which will take almost one and a half hour to upload 12 megs. So now I’m looking at the time, it’s 6:23, I know it’s all done and I could go to sleep, but I’m going to have to stay here until around 8.
In the morning we went to meet the client and show him the work and have him ask for 435 changes in it. I was exhausted and could barely move.
My wife went to to meet up with me and then we shopped around for a while, I bought a new black coat which fits really nicely on me. :)
At night we went to my aunt’s and had dinner there. Later we went to see “An Ideal Husband”, which is not really my kind of film… I haven’t much patience for long dresses, old furniture, gossip and tapestries. However it was humorous, the actors were fine and the simple storyline didn’t make me fall asleep as I feared, not out of boredom, but of sheer exhaustion.
I also found a drum kit with a bass drum, hi-hat, cymbal, two toms plus a floor tom for a mere 389 Euro… that’s what I call cheap! It’s a Power Beat drum kit… I’m thinking abut getting one, but I can’t afford it, even though it’s a bargain.
I just had a dreadfull weekend. We estimated this work at around 1.995 Euro and a three week deadline. The client requested we do it for 1.496 Euro and in 5 days.
Worked friday all day, Staurday, like a slave, sunday — didn’t stop. I didn’t sleep sunday, and ended up in bed aroud 7 a.m. Monday for a quick nap and then back to work until now, it’s now tuesday, 5:23 am GMT… I am now uploading the huge AVI animations, which should go on for a couple more hours… I’m probably not going to be before seven again.
Hence my title: why sleep, when you can work?
Yes, believe me it’s reaaaaally fun! My eyes can barely keep open and hurt, I’ve eaten so much radiation from my monitor that all my kids will turn out to be some sort of mutant super-heroes… all for the money, of course :)
On the brighter side I might finally be going to see “The Matrix” on Saturday (if I’m still alive)… I hope it’s as good as it seems.
Firstly, it has been my birthday, I turned 26 on friday the 11th. It was great. I got my first toy in ages! Yes! My parents bought me a Qui-Gon Jinn light sabre! It’s great, it has sound effects and all, I loved it.
I got a bunch of presents, and managed to cram 16 people into my tiny 4 by 3 metre living room singing “happy birthday”. There was a musical jam in my music room and everything went fine except that Quake 3 isn’t working any more, I have no idea why.
Then, yesterday, it was election day. We voted to elect 25 representatives for the European parliament. There was an apalling 60% people who didn’t bother to vote.
I voted for the Socialist party again, they won. Funny thing is, every party came out to say they’d won. Everyone won! Which ispired me for my political strip for this week, obviously. In my country no party ever looses an election, which is really funny, to say the least.
Well, I am older now, and wiser, of course. 26… on step closer to 30. I wonder what it’s like to be 30? I hear women have their sexual peak at 30… but, what can we blokes expect of it (I mean, besides being married to a 30-year-old-sexual-peaking-woman?)
I went to see the Matrix today. Two hours and 25 minutes of pure joy. This film is almost like a comic book come to life. There are super-heros, kung-fu fighting, lot’s of shooting and a deep emotionally disturbed hero :) If you like sci-fi, if you like kung-fu and if you like comic books […]
It’s 6:19, and I’m not up early… in fact I haven’t been to bed yet. It’s the fourth time this week that I don’t sleep in order to work. There is a high level of anxiety involved in the proccess. As the clock moves merciless towards 6:00 a.m. I go into desperation, I twitch, I […]
In the morning we went to meet the client and show him the work and have him ask for 435 changes in it. I was exhausted and could barely move. My wife went to to meet up with me and then we shopped around for a while, I bought a new black coat which fits […]
I just had a dreadfull weekend. We estimated this work at around 1.995 Euro and a three week deadline. The client requested we do it for 1.496 Euro and in 5 days. Worked friday all day, Staurday, like a slave, sunday — didn’t stop. I didn’t sleep sunday, and ended up in bed aroud 7 […]
It took me a week to write again. In the meantime two events have taken place. Firstly, it has been my birthday, I turned 26 on friday the 11th. It was great. I got my first toy in ages! Yes! My parents bought me a Qui-Gon Jinn light sabre! It’s great, it has sound effects […]
