Harte Jungs


Just watched “Harte Jungs” (also known as “Cool kids” and “Hard youngs”) on DivX at Hazard’s place. This is an excellent movie! This is a German, or you can say European, version of “American Pie” and sequels. It’s just that European kids grow up a bit earlier then their American peers. As usual, there is a lot of European humor and style in the movie which keeps one glued to the screen for the couple of hours.

This film, while being a nice comedy does rase few nice points about children’s sex education. Until recently there were not that many places that a kid could check for the questions that he has. Internet does save some time, but does one really want a child to learn by himself? Also, what is so uncomfortable in sex relationships that makes parents shy while talking about this particular subject. I don’t know. But I don’t have any kids yet either. :)

Birthday party

Me loves flowers
Since there was no way that I didn’t celebrate my birthday, I decided to bring few people to “Cleopatra” Lebanese restaurant. We’ve had an excellent dinner. There was some cultural program on behalf of the restaurant too. Balley dancer was again (as with Olga’s birthday last year) very enthusiastic and professional. I’ve made a bunch of pictures, but due to darkness I had to use manual mode with manual focus, which I am not sure was very good after all that wine. I will publish the pictures shortly, but don’t be too excited.

After the restaurant we ended up at Hazard’s place drinking some more wine and watching a movie.

mamchenkov.net and mamtchenkov.net

I’ve decided to make myself a birthday present and register a couple of domains – mamchenkov.net and mamtchenkov.net. Both of these will point to this site and are shortly and easier to type then www.leonid.maks.net. New email adresses will also work. Global DNS servers are being updated now so if these don’t just yet work, give them some time. Best prices for domains so far have been offered by Joker.com – $12 USD per domain per year.

JFK


Just watched “JFK” on DVD. This might be an all time classic, but I’ve missed it somehow when it was in the movies.

The movie is about assassination of John F. Kennedy. Directed by Oliver Stone and featuring all familiar faces you could get into one movie (Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, etc), this film is interesting. I am not very educated on the subject, so I cannot judge as to how real the story is, but it’s entertaining to say the least. People wearing tin foil hats should defenetely see this one. :)

Philadelphia


Watched a very good movie on TV – “Philadelphia“. Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump“) and Antonio Banderas (“Desperado“) play a gay couple, where Hanks gets infected with AIDS, while being an excellent lawyer in a somewhat concervative but powerful law firm. They eventually find out that he is gay and that he didn’t tell that he has AIDS, so they sabotage and fire him. He is a bit shocked with the situation so he decides to take them to court (“How do you call 10,000 lawyers chained together on the bottom of the sea? A good start”). Most of the people are afraid of AIDS and are not comfortable at all while nearby an infected person, so there is noone to help Tom Hanks. Until, of course, a good man Denzel Washington (“John Q“) decides to step in. Together they proceed in building up a case, kicking everyone’s butt and the court of law and winning 5,000,000 dollars (evil laught.. muahaha)! Tom Hanks quickly dies of AIDS in the end but everyone looks happy with a lot of money and a proven point: don’t f*ck with gay lawyers. Joke. :)

There are some interesting points and good acting the film, so people trying to build there opinion on the subjects of AIDS and gay sex should probably watch it. Lawyers might find it to be a nice comedy however.