Fantastic short: Father&Daughter

DVD shrink runs well in Wine

One of the few software that I have been missing from the evil windows world is the easy to use dvd backup software DVD Shrink. This was until I found out that it runs perfectly under wine

The Castle of Cagliostro

The Castle of Cagliostro is Hayao Miyazaki first full length feature. Miyazaki is one of the founders of Studio Gihbli and the director of several masterpieces as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and My neighbour Totoro. He is defintly one of my favorite directors and therefor I was looking forward to see this movie.

The story in this movie is about the thief, Lupin III, who tries to rescue Lady Clarisse de Cagliostro from the evil Count Cagliostro and to learn the true secret of her ring. The animation style is a little bit different than his Studio Gihblis productions, but it clearly shows that this is a Miyazaki production and the future waiting. A must see for Miyazaki and anime fans

Dette er folkene som har stengt ungdomshuset i Køben

Norsk presse har desverre kun fokusert på volden ved ungdomsopprøreret i danmark og lite om saken og Faderhuset sin kamp for å utrydde satan. Jeg kom over denne blogartikkel som refererer fra gudstjenesten etter opprøret. http://mrkab.com/2007/03/05/ruth-evensens-sejrstale-dette-er-kun-begyndelsen/


Ruth Evensen’s “sejrstale” til menigheden i Faderhuset: “Dette er kun begyndelsen”

Ruth Evensen jublede i sejrsrus til gårsdagens gudstjeneste i Faderhuset. De unge på Nørrebro er dæmonbesatte, men vi er lige nu vidne til at Gud sejrer over Satan. Næste skridt for Faderhuset er at bekæmpe praktiseret homoseksualitet, pædofili, pornografi, abort og satanisk legetøj. Hverken de autonome eller resten af Danmark kan undgå Guds kraft. Velkommen til Ruth Evensens virkelighed.

I går var jeg til gudstjeneste i Faderhuset. Jeg fik hilst på Ruth Evensen, hendes søn Simon Peter og alle de andre banditter.

Oplevelsen var især speciel fordi
» det var første gudstjeneste efter Ungdomshuset blev ryddet
» det var første gudstjeneste efter de massive uroligheder i København
» der var et forholdsvist stort opbud af politi uden om kirken (men ingen demonstranter)
» der var enormt meget sikkerhed ved indgangen og under gudstjenesten i form af et privat sikkerhedsbureau
» jeg og mine tre gruppemedlemmer efter alt at dømme var de eneste ikke-medlemmer af sekten, som var til stede
» fordi Ruth Evensen under hendes tale direkte adesserede mig og de tre andre og bad os om at bringe et budskab videre til Danmark

Vi blev ved indgangen kropsvisiteret, og der blev under gudstjenesten placeret en sikkerhedsvagt lige bag vores stolerække.

Inden selve gudstjenesten gik i gang, blev vi først budt velkommen af Simon Peter Evensen. Ruth kom derefter ned og hilste på og spurgte venligt til, hvem vi var, og hvorfor vi var kommet. Vi forklarede sammenhængen, og hun sagde, at vi var meget velkomne (vi skriver projekt på RUC om fundamentalistisk kristendom).

Lige inden Simon Peter startede gudstjenesten, blev vi spurgt, om vi havde optageudstyr med, tydeligvis fordi de ikke ville tollerere, hvis vi optog under gudstjenesten.

Ruths sejrstale

Efter en times lovsang og en times prædiken ved Martin Bergsøe om postmodernismens og humanismens forfærdentligheder, tog Ruth ordet. Her er et lille udpluk, lettere sammenskrevet.

“Det er jo sjældent, at vi taler om Ungdomshuset her i Faderhuset. Men i dag vil jeg gøre en undtagelse,” sagde Ruth Eversen.

“I fem år har I finansieret den månedlige husleje på 60.000, som vi har skullet betale måned efter måned, mens huset var besat. Jeg er stolte af jer, og jeg vil gerne rose jer, for jeres udholdenhed. Faderhuset har sejret!” Sektens medlemmer, der tæller ca. 40 personer, brød ud i vild jubel og hujende tilråb.

“Det er kun lykkedes, fordi der var en kvinde, en Guds kvinde, som turde stå fast. Kun fordi der var en Ruth Eversen, som ikke rokkede sig en millimeter, men hele vejen igennem holdt fast i det, som Gud havde pålagt hende - dvs. mig. Mange medier, og også Ritt Bjerregaard under mødet på Rådhuset, har spurgt mig, hvorfor jeg dog ikke bare sælger huset og høster gevinsten. Jeg griner af dem - hvor dumme er de? Vi har oplevet at Gud har pålagt os, at købe det hus, og fordi jeg har holdt fast i hans løfte, har vi nu sejret. Det er den magt vi har, når vi tilhører Gud.” Vild jubel og stor klapsalve.

“Medierne har hængt os ud. De autonome håner os, og påstår, at de forsvarer en kultur, som vi angriber. De kaster med sten og sætter ild til uskyldige menneskers biler, går i mod politiet og spærrer gaderne, så fødende kvinder på Nørrebro ikke kan komme på hospitalet. Undskyld mig, men hvis man opfører sig sådan, hvordan kan man så påstå, at man forsvarer en kultur? Det er ikke kultur, men bare Satan, der kæmper en håbløs kamp mod Gud.”

“Gud har store planer med Faderhuset. De fleste tror, at vi snart kan ånde lettede op. Men sådan bliver det ikke. Er det ikke fantastisk, at en menighed af rettroende og disciplinerede kristne, har kunne have sådan en samfundsforvandlende kraft? Vi er eksponeret ikke bare i hele Danmark, men også det meste af verden. Hvad siger I? Hvad synes I det næste skal være? Hvad med homoseksualitet?”

Ruth hævede stemmen mere og mere.

“Danmark har tilpasset sig tidsånden, og Folkekirken vier i dag homoseksuelle. Det er ikke naturligt for to mennesker af samme køn at være sammen. Undskyld mig, men vi er bare ikke fysisk indrettet til det! Og hvad med lesbiske, som åbenbart skal kunne få kunstig befrugtning? To kvinder, der får børn? Det er ikke Guds vilje!”

“Og hvad med pornografi, hva? Hvad med abort? Hvad med incest, hva? Det bliver det næste. Vi har styrken, og vi har troen. Vi lever i et samfund, hvor børn leger med satanisk legetøj. Leger med monstre. Faderhuset vil forandre Danmark. Vi har kraften til det, den samfundsforvandlende kraft. Hvorfor har andre kristne ikke den magt? Fordi de er lunkne. Vi kan kun sejre ved at have et stærkt lederskab, og en disciplineret menighed.”

Det var nu, at Ruth henvendte sig til os fire: “I gymnasieelever (Ruth Evensen tror åbenbart, at RUC er et gymnasium) kan godt gå ud og fortælle alle de andre, at det er sådan, det er.” Hun pegede ned på os. “Det er sådan vi er. Vores kraft vil forvandle Danmark!”

Atter henvendt til sektens medlemmer: “Det er klart, at når man oplever forfærdentlige ting, som det der sker på Nørrebro, så bliver man lidt bange. Men det skal I ikke være. Nørrebro har ikke en chance.”

Gudstjenesten sluttede med sejrsjubel, dans og kristne rocknumre om at kæmpe Guds kamp i denne verden.

Jeppe Kabell, kabell@gmail.com, www.mrkab.com, 5. marts 2007.

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Eolomea

The second movie I saw at the 70mm festival at Cinemateket was the east german sci-fi movie Eolomea made by Herrmann Zschoche in 1972. The movie is about 8 space ships which suddenly disappears near the space station Margot. Maria is a researcher who finds out from a rival researcher about a legendary planet called Eolomea.

This movie is not about special effects and I am grateful about that since I find most movies with space ships and good special effects boring. Still I enjoyed this. It is funny, got a great soundtrack and the movie is more about discussing moral questions we might have to take and this is done than flying a space ship.

2007 – New year, new movies and some old ones

2006 is history and for me it was a year when I watched some fantastic movies. My top five list of new movies is:
Water
Pans Labyrinth
Elsa y Fred
Grizzly man
Taxidermia

2007 have just begun and will try to update this site with movies i have seen this year.

Started this year with a dvd i have got in my collection for a couple of months. Seven Sword by Tsui Hark is a Hong Kong action adventure. 7 warriors with 7 swords comes together to defend a city from an army which are after to kill everyone knowing martial art. This movie got some great fighting scenes and a pretty good story. It feels a little bit slow and long, but overall it is a very good movie.

Yesterday I watched the epic classic Lawrence of Arabia at the 70 mm festival here in Oslo. It was the first time I saw this movie and what a movie. It blew me away. Especially the 70mm version. It was some of the most beautiful movie I ever have seen. 4 hours and every scene made sense. Just cannot believe that I have never seen this movie before.

Sideways. This is a charming movie from 2004 got nominated for the best motion picture in the academy awards. Miles and Jack having a stag week in California where they gonna taste wine and play some golf. Miles is a depressed, divorced, unsucsessfull writer with a love for pinot wine. Jack does not know anything about wine, but wants to have fun drinking and chatting up women before he is getting married. This was the second time I saw this movie and I found it funnier this time. The movie is fulled with good quotes and funny situations and everyone of them could easily be true.

Sider med julekalender

Det er advent og dermed julekalendertid. Tid for å kaste bort litt tid for å prøve å vinne noen premier:
Amobil.no – konkurranse
gamer.no – konkurranse
hw.no – konkurranse
Komplett – Konkurranse & tilbud
Start – Konkurranse
PS Data – tilbud
Apotek 1 – konkurranse
Aftenposten – konkurranse
VG – Sjuves julekalender – konkurranse & mattips
akam – konkurranse
Kulturo – konkurranse
Apertif

Noen andre?

My imdb rating

For several years I have been given IMDB rating to movie. This is a pie chart overview of my ratings.

Some interesting numbers:
13.11 % of the movies got top rating
49.81 % of the movies got a higher rating than 8
10.11% got the lowest rating.

With background of these numbers then it looks like I only watch good movies or rate movies too high, but can I trust the data? Not really.

The first thought was when do I vote for a movie. Total movies I have voted for is currently 267 and I have been voting since 2000. During a period of 6 years this should be 44.5 movies a year. This number is way too low. I reckon that I at least see 200 movies a year where at least 150 of them is movies I never have seen before. So when do I actually decide to vote for a movie. Movies who have got high ratings is movies who is either made from some of my favorite directors or was fairly unknown to me when I watched it. Usually a reason for me to read more about the movie after seeing it. Either memorable quotes or the discussion board.

Second thing i notice is that most of the movies on the list I either seen at an art cinema or watched home on dvd/vhs. Movies watched home got a higher chance to get a vote from me since it is very easy to go from my sofa to my pc and give it a vote. I also notice that the DVDs I bought when I did not have access to IMDB never got a vote. Art cinema movies again also get a vote since they usually makes me think about it and therefor remember it when I have access to a pc.

So if anyone is interested to see my vote history then it is accessible here. Please note that I probarbly would had given some of the movies a different vote today.

Norway says no to Afghanistan

For the first time ever am I happy that we have a socialistic politic party in the Norwegian goverment. This is because the goverment have decided NOT to send military forces to south parts of Afhanistan as requested by NATO. It was expected that they wanted to send 150 special trained soldiers. I hope that this is the beginning of less involvement for Norwegian soldiers in operations where NATO is the attacking part and more involvment in operations where NATO have a role as an inspector.

Film from south festival

Film from south (Film fra sør) festival in Oslo is recently finished. This year festival focused on the Iranian director Kiarostami. Unfortuantly I have not been able to see any of his movies yet, but will try to see some of the the next couple of weeks at Cinematektet in Oslo. Still managed to see other movies and 2 of them made huge impact on me.

The first one was the Argentinian movie Elsa and Fred (Elsa y Fred). Elsa and Fred is a warm and funny movie about 2 old people falling in love with each other and behaving like teenager. I was very sceptical before seeing this movie. Is it one genre of movie I really hate then it is romantic comedy. This movie proved me wrong. I do like romantic comedy if the movie is like Elsy and Fred. Mainly because of brilliant acting. characters, script and cinematography. This movie also ended up winning the viewers award for best movie and got a honorable notice from the jury.

The second movie was a deeply disturbing film from India. Water is the last part of a triology by Deepa Metha. The film is set to the 1930 and is about Chuyia, a 7 year old girl, who becomes a widow and is sent to a house for widows. When a husbond dies then half of the wife dies and they must live a life isolated from the other world. Chuyia becomes a friend with one of the other widow, that one days meets and falls in love with a follower of Gandhi and vica versa. What I really liked with this movie except of the story was all the colours. Sometimes you almost want to cry because some of the scenes are so beatiful. Additional I really like the story. I find it very interesting that it is set during the period Gandhi protested against the English. One of the best movies I have seen.