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Monday, June 28, 2004
Miami - The City That Keeps The Roof Blazin':
Tomorrow, I'll be heading towards Roskilde to work as a journalist at the festival for about a week. I'll be a part of a eight man crew, who will be doing interviews and writing reviews during the four day festival. It looks like I'll be doing most of the interviewing, so I'll probably add a few links here while were at the festival, so you can check out video clips of who I've been talking with. There are a few things that aren't completely taken care of yet, but I think we'll get most things in order today and if not then hopefully things will get worked out once we get over there. In other news I found a place to live today. I'll be renting an apartment in a part of town I haven't live in before, so that's sort of exciting. It's fairly close to the downtown area in a part of town, which I think has gotten a lot more interesting in the last couple of years. So it'll be fun to explore a new neighbourhood. I don't know how long I'll be living there as that sort of depends on whether I get a full-time job or not, but as a temporary solution I think it'll work out just fine. I consider myself somewhat of a moviebuff (or expert if you must), but there are several holes in knowledge when it comes to movies from when I was a kid and before. So this week I watched Mean Streets and Scarface as they're movies that have somehow slipped through the cracks on me. I guess I can see why Mean Streets made an impact when it came out, but I didn't think it held up very well. The story is non-existent, the production is poor, and I just didn't find it that interesting. Scarface on the other hand was cool from the get-go. Pacino was great and I loved his Cuban accent. However, I did think it was a bit on the long side and in movies like that the rise is always a lot more interesting than the fall. But either way it was still pretty cool and I can sort of see why people made such a big deal about the anniversary edition, which was released recently. I should probably also mention Denmark's loss to the Czechs last night. In 1998 we lost in the World Cup quarters to Brazil, who then went on to play in the final. That's probably also what's going to happen here with the only difference being that the Czechs will win the final and we played a great game against Brazil and had a chance of winning. So maybe the situation isn't that similar, really. [Update] I totally forgot to mention I went and saw Air Thursday night (review). It was a pretty brilliant show, but their version of La Femme d'Argent was beyond incredible. I think it's their best track and in the very long live version it was even better than on the record. So that was definitely a great show. Posted by John Fogde at June 28, 2004 02:35 PM | TrackBackPost a comment
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I've just taken a little break from the festival, since the opening night didn't really have any offerings I was dying to see. I'll be back again tomorrow however, but right now it's just good to be home, to shortly feel like a human being and not like some aardvark :-)
As for Scarface - here is a movie thats really easy to critise. You could call it overindulgent, opulent and a lot of other things. But then again, DePalma has a very subtle director. No, the main problem for me is Al Pacino, who is at his absolute worst here. He seems to be parodying himself or at least his past roles.
Posted by: Jacob on July 1, 2004 10:28 PM