Movies

SysAdmin’s Day

Today is the last Friday of July, which means only one thing – it’s a System Administrator Appreciatoin Day again! Yes, this is the day to thank all system, network, database, SAP, Exchange, and whatever-else-you’ve-got administrators for their hard, but invisible work.

Such a day calls for celebration, so we (Lev, Hazard, Olga, and I) end up in the Cleopatra lebanese restaraunt for an excellent meal, and nargile afterwards. Then we picked up Alexander Avanesov and continued in the brewerey, which was still out of beer (but they promised that next Friday it’ll be there!).

After few pints the evening was practically over, but it suddenly continued with new enthusiasm at Hazard’s place with watching the “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood“. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the original copy, but there were two translated ones. One was the “noname” translation and another was done by Goblin. Somehow, Goblin’s translation was much worse then the noname one, so we switched in the middle of the movie. :)

Just Married

Just Married (2003)

Somehow, day-time work is much more difficult after two night shifts in a row. I barely made it home and didn’t think of going anywhere, but Olga and Hazard were persistent enough for me go to the movie and see Just Married. Overall the film was OK, or even good. The part about childhood dreams of weddings was the best though, and was worth the whole movie. Also, the ashtray thrown in the head and the monologue after it were excellent! :)

Limassol Beer Festival

Work…work…work. Last day of work for this week, though :)

After the work, I’ve picked up Lev, Hazard and headed home for Olga. Then, all together we went to Germania restaraunt for some real good food and real good beer. Places like this are empty these days, due to so called “Beer Festival”.

Now, let me tell you something about beer festival in Limassol, Cyprus. First of all, Cyprus has nothing to do with beer. It’s a wine place. To prove this, Limassol hosts wine festival every year for last 20 or 30 years. And it’s kind of cool – all wine makers present themselves in one place. By “all wine makers” I mean really ALL wine makers – from individuals to factories. And all of them gather in one place. You pay a pound or two for the ticket and you can enjoy all the wine you can. This is, though, very different from the beer festival. Originally, there was no beer festival in Limassol. Niether was any in Cyprus. But, there happened to be one successful bar, called “Chesters“, and you know it, if you’ve been on these pages at least once. I am a regular there. Anyway… The owner of that bar decided that it would be nice to start a good tradition for beer lovers. So, he started hosting “Chesters’ Beer Festival” every year right in front of his bar. Many beer importers were putting their tents around the place, live music was playing and hot dogs were cooking. Anyone who thought they were missing something, could pretend to be vising the bar and just going in for a good old whisky or something. So it was for three or four years aucasinosonline. Then, Limassol municipality decided that most of the city is missing it, and that it would be good to have some extra money instead of giving it some rich guy who already has a proper bar, so they started their own festival. I knew from the very beginning that it will suck, so I didn’t go. But Lev did. And his impressions were much worse then what I was expecting – no draught beer, no Carlsberg, no food, no proper sound. Rap music mixed with greek traditional music, announced by DJ for small, but expensive bottles of beer. Everyone ended up in the brewery, which is nex to the festival place.

So, since everyone was on a festival, we had a great time in empty German restaraunt. Then we went to Hazard’s place for some more beer and a movie. It took Hazard some time to reconfigure his Nvidia to spit things out to the TV, since his last upgrade, so we had a pleasent game of chess with Lev on my newly aquired Sony Ericsson P800. :)

After Hazard managed to bring the vision back, we watched “The Animatrix“, which was good, but boring enough to not stop me from falling asleep right in the middle of it. Give me a credit – I hate Japanese animation, so I was very strong to stay until the middle. Though it was exactly Japanese, but it was very close. :)

By the good old tradition, after falling asleep at Hazard’s place, I get home and continue sleeping there… :)

Final Destination 2

Off to cinema with Olga for a rather random movie, since all the cinema guides stopped updating at least 1 month ago. Random movie today appeared to be “Final Destination 2. Neither me, nor Olga have seen the first part, but that was not much of a problem. Olga liked the movie. I consider it to be more or less OK. It’s a bit boring with ideas and story telling, but it has some very nice shooting of car accidents. It’s like watching few case studies for a book of safety instructions. :)

The whole idea though on cheating death and extending your life time by doing random stupid staff is kind of lame. The black guy with the idea of totally controlling his life is also lame – that was pointed out in the Matrix about 4 years ago, but I guess he hasn’t seen it. :) On the other hand, the movie creates the atmosphere for thinking about the life time, death, control, cause-effect, and a bunch of other semi-phylosophycal staff, which we happily did sitting in Kanika, eating Sophies ice-cream. :)

Ripley’s Game

Planned trip to Ladas fish tavern with Olga to celebrate the day. Excellent food, excellent time.

Some time killing around the city until we met Hazard and went to the movie to see the “Ripley’s Game” which was excellent. That was a rare luck for an excellent movie – original, funny, with action and acting, with soundtrack, and lots of nice , thought-through details. John Malkovich was excellent. Lots of quotes will make me remember the movie for a long time. A couple of favourite moments:

When they were closing the house and checking all doors and windows and Jonathan ask if Tom Ripley was scared and Tom goes like: “No…[long pause, while checking some more locks]…I am fucking terrified!” ;)
And another one, when they were persuading the guy to call his boss and tell him some bullshit, Malkovich says with an extremely calm face and intonation: “If you will do it, you will walk away, AND we will give you half a million dollars. If you will not do it, I will run my truck over your head for the rest of the day.” :)

Anyway, what can be better then a couple of Warsteiner pints in Chesters after an excellent film? :)