Month: April 2010

Lock Stock rock band is now online!

I am helping out my friends at Lock Stock rock band to get online.  They are performing hard rock music – Metallica, Sepultura, Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, and many others – all over Cyprus.  If you are a fan of hard rock and you are in Cyprus – chances are you’ve heard them before.

There is too much that we can do, but we have to start somewhere.  So, the first version of their official website is online – see it at Lock-Stock-Rock.com .   There are some band news, contact information, and a Google Calendar- powered schedule of the upcoming events.  Go check it out, subscribe, follow @lockstockrock on Twitter, and leave a comment.  Let us know what you think.  Let us know you were there.  Spread the word. And stay tuned.

We have a lot of plans and a lot of material to cover, so there will be some activity in the nearest future.

Do movie actors exist in the worlds of the movies they star in?

Kottke.org links to an interesting question (and discussion in the comments to the original post) – Do movie actors exist in the worlds of the movies they star in?

You ever think about how in, like, a Tom Hanks movie, everyone lives in a reality in which there’s no such person as Tom Hanks? Because otherwise, people would be mistaking the main character for Tom Hanks all the time? So either Tom Hanks doesn’t exist in the world the movie takes place in, or he does exist but he looks like someone else?

I do think about it sometimes.  And I think that the most elegant solution to this problematic overlap was presented in the “Last Action Hero” movie, where Arnold Schwarzenegger played an movie character who was getting back and forward between the world inside the movie and the real world.  And the solution for the overlap was Sylvester Stallone.  He was a replacement actor.  So, when Arnold was in the movie world, where he wasn’t an actor, all his films – “Terminator”, “Commando”, etc – existed in that movie world, but the main character of those movies wasn’t Arnold, but Sylvester.  Elegant.  Very elegant.

Trailer : The Expendables

“The Expendables” is my most awaited movie for the coming summer.  I’d pay twice the price of a ticket to see Silvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the same scene, even if that’s just for ten seconds.  Having Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, and Eric Roberts in the same film makes it … I don’t even know what it makes it … it never happened before.  And there are more names that you know on the cast of that movie.  Anyway, that’s something to do and see no matter how good it will come out.  And for now – the trailer.

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Unit tests with CakePHP

I’ve spent a large part of yesterday setting up the testing environment for a CakePHP project.  As always, every time I do something that I have done before, I wanted to do it better, using all the experienced that was acquired previously.  And this often leads to the discovery of new things – both good and bad.  Here is a record of what I’ve learned yesterday.

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