finished Breakfast at Tiffany's

A well written book.A lot of pleasant inuendo about unpleasant life facts. A story of a normal person meeting an unordinary person(a brush with greatness) and being changed for life(the picture of dorian gray,the little prince are examples I can think of).

North by northwest ; Night on earth

North by northwest- a great movie if you could get someone instead of cary grant - i hate that latent homosexual,with his fake tan and shitty humor.Hitchcock is obviously a great director


Night on earth-simple camera technique-great script and directing.A truly good movie looking like it's easy to make and reflects on th banalities of life.

Confederacy of Dunces ; Pet Cemetary

I have finished the above mentioned books.

Confederancy of Dunces(John Kennedy Toole)- a sixties classic,not very wide known to the general public today.A worthwihile bookhystericly funny,unlike the life of the author.

Pet Cemetary -introduction is not necesary - in short if you need a book that doesnt challenge you much to read on a plane or a bus to work(like i did) it's a good candidate - my "new" book for the ride to work is "Green Mile", my new bedside books will be either Kapote's "breakfast at tiffany's"(which I started) or Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast".Maybe rereading Lolita.

got the nikon fm2n!

feels great!now testing it with a loaned 50/1.4 ai and 200 sensia.

"The Aristocrats"

Comedy at its filthiest - features lots of comedians - most of whom are funny - Hilarious.

Coco Rosie - Noah Ark - Sucks

Listened to coco rosie's "Noah Ark" it sucks! Compared to Le Meison De Mon Reve it is reduntant and unintrested.

Last Emperor ; Broken Flowers ; Nosferatu 1979

Watched the last emperor - the long 200 minute version - it is a very good movie - which has suprisingly little anachronisms,and bitchin' acting. The advisors are reputedly the emperors brother(or cousin) and his biographer.

Watched Broken Flowers. A good movie but hardly Jaramusch at his best. Bill Murray found the golden middle between comedy and drama and towards the later years of his career shows his real talent.

Watched Nosferatu The Phantom of the Night(Werner Herzog's remake of Murnau's 1922 silent film) with Isabella Adjani and Klaus Kinski - I watched the german version - I know of a English one in exsistance with the original actors voices - it wasn't dubbed but shot parallel.

The movie is a perfect blend of the original Nosferatu and Dracula, leaning towards Nosferatu.If you take into acound that 55 years, color, sound,the copyright to dracula(which was the reason for the changed names in Nosferatu 1922),the 1979 version having a miniscule budget and being shot in Delft and West Germany(Instead of Bremen and Slovakia) are the differences between the original and the remake - the movie is still faithull to the origin. Even The added scenes(A lot of the scenes are one foe one)are in place.A great leisurely paced horror with a strong dramatic and humane emphasis - the horror being less important than the drama. I like the portrayal of Dr. Van Helsing as a older friend of the family and a Medical Doctor and not the bravado vampire hunter he is in the book. The actors are superb and their physical appearance fits perfectly with their roles.

Rumors of new toys

I am promised a couple of cameras. I dont expect leicas,but hope they are not point and shoots. One of them is a tlr if the description is right.
I love freebies.

Yashica is dead. Kurosawa's Dreams

Yashica was looking deadish and I decided to send it to Oleg Khalyavin.
After I let it lay for a week or so I tried to work the shutter-no response. I disasembled it and found the problem is in the copal shutter Assembly.That sucks.Hope Oleg can fix it.I ordered a Zorki 4 with Jupiter 8 from him.
Thats the second camera that died this month - the other is a practika mtl3.
I have noooo luck.

Watched Akira Kurosawa's Dreams(Yume)-you can see that the man was trained as a painter. The whole movie is like a series of paintings of different schools. To what level do you need to get in order to make your dreams into a movie(and not being in porn)?

Neil Young; Nikon FM2n; The Conformist

I started listening to Neil Young and liked it.

I have closed a deal on a Nikon FM2n Black.

Watched The Conformist.Great film.