Haje’s Brain

Having driven quite a few cars that have manual transmission (I am from Europe, after all), including a few street legal and almost legal racing cars (and having only recently gotten my first automatic transmission car), I think I have a few things that might be worth pointing out on this topic.
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TV Licences. Everybody loves to hate them. “I never watch the BBC anyway”. “I don’t like what the BBC does” or even “The BBC is only for old people, to keep them from getting bored until they die”. My view somewhat differs: I think the TV licence is one of the best things that ever happened to television, and I offer a few arguments as to why it should stay.
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Asimov would be violently convulsing in his grave, had he seen the new I, Robot movie that is supposedly based on his work. With Will Smith as the mighty tasty consumerist god in the lead role - how could this become anything but a complete and utter disaster?
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Bresson’s passing away on the 5th of august 2004 brings the death to 95 years of photo history. To say that the man singlehandedly invented the genre of professional photojournalism would not be much of an exaggeration - he will be sorely missed.
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I haven’t seen my sister for ages, as she lives in Australia. She decided to grace me with her presence, and hence I decided to take her out for some fun. Shock! Horror! What kind of fun stuff can you show someone in Liverpool? After we did the Beatles Museum and the Tate modern, we kinda sorta ran out of ideas, until I remembered the fact that there is a safari park only a few miles up the road, in Knowsley. (more…)

This essay will discuss to what degree the media can be blamed for the United States’ loss in the Vietnam conflict ending 1975. It will be based predominantly on key written resources on the subject, but it will also contain - by means of an interview - certain first-hand observations from a Vietnam War veteran.
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Most anglophones, sadly enough, know this movie by its English name, Life is Beautiful. Just - for the love of the movie - do not see the redubbed version of this film. You won’t die from a few subtitles, and the Italian spontaneity in this movie really adds to its value.

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Jeepers Creepers starts off when two college students, Darius (Justin Long) and his sister Trish (Gina Philips) leave college to go home - they drive on a desolate highway, and are attacked by a truck. Next, they see a guy dropping some sheets down a pipe. Roped sheets. Blood-stained, roped sheets. Of course, they decide to go back and have a look. (bad move.. Bad bad move)…
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The books start off slowly, by painting a vivid portrait of Lyra, the books’ main character. Lyra is a 12 year-old girl with a heavy prophecy hanging over her. Early in the first novel, the reader learns that the existence of everything - in the widest possible sense of the word - depends on Lyra, and Lyra alone.
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Filth is about a less-than-charming Scottish Detective Sergeant, Bruce Robertson. He is an angry young man who is betting high on his upcoming promotion in the Edinburgh police force, and is willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal..
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