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My Brute, webgame done right

Herman — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:30:18 +0000

Browsing on my Friday night, I encountered the web game My Brute. Normally I only play such games for a few days. But still its quite fun.

What I like about this game is that its so easy to sign up, you don’t even need a password if you don’t want to. Nice and simple. Contagious. Graphics are quite good as well.

Nicknames are a bit hard to find(most are taken) but you can battle my 1 hour old sambal inspired “brute” here: http://brandal.mybrute.com

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Chemical Brothers

Herman — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:29:16 +0000

I don’t blog about music much, mostly because it does not take a big place in my life. Well I do listen to music everyday, so maybe I am exaggerating. But I just don’t care much about the artists, genres, instruments and such.

But the Chemical Brothers is that one artist/group that can keep my attention and I think it is one of the few that doesn’t have any songs I dislike. Thats quite impressive if you look at their discography. So I was quite pleased to see they released a new CD on 1st september 2008, Brotherhood. Unfortunately only two (Midnight Madness, Keep My Composure) new songs but nonetheless a good CD. I didn’t hear the electronic battle weapons before, which are absolutely worthwhile.

In any case a recommendation. If you like them as well I would also like to note that hey have much more tracks then released on the albums, so looking a bit further can be rewarding. It is a shame I never experienced them live, they are supposed to be very good live. If they ever come nearby I should definitely go, else I’ll feel guilty to myself if they stop performing in the future.

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Movies

Herman — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:01:23 +0000

Lately we have been watching some movies for relaxation. I just wanted to say a few things about them:

Cloverfield: Nice change with the blair witch style of camera work. Quite cool too but the ending just sucked (sequel?).
Bee movie: Suck story in very disturbing reality.
National Treasure 2: My excuse is that I didn’t see 1. Avoid.
No country for old men: Very cool, the high rating and good reviews are totally at place.

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Movies to watch

Herman — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:10:05 +0000

There are many Asian movies that are really kick ass but only very few make it to The Netherlands, which is probably the same for most western countries. I recently read up about some movies coming up and decided to post the ones I intend to see.

‘Dai Nipponjin’
Comedy. Docu-style about the depressing life of a super hero.
Trailer – Review

‘Sakebi’
Horror.
Trailer – Review

‘Men in White’
Comedy. A story about five dumb ghosts.
Trailer

‘Invisible Target’
Action. Looks really cool.
Trailer

‘Ploy’
Drama. Not my favourite genre but looks good nonetheless.
Trailer – Review

‘Crows Zero’
Based on a Manga. Takashi Miike…
Trailer

‘Kantoku Banzai!‘
Comedy. Wacky, must be super cool.
Trailer

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The Bees

Herman — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:01:37 +0000

I’m not very active on the music front but I recently discoved a new band I like. I quite enjoy their album “Octopus”, I would call it a cross between Daryll-Ann and the White stripes but thats how far my sense of music goes. I did the discovery because I read a review in NRC-Next a few weeks back where it said it was a very diverse album. It supposed to be like having your playlist on shuffle with random music, I don’t know if I can agree with that but I like it.

Their website is also quite nice and allows you to embed a flash thingy on your site. Now normally I wouldn’t do that but one of the video’s is my favourite song from the album, so I tried. But it didn’t work (I blame wordpress), but you can check it out anyway with this link.

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A scanner darkly

Herman — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:39:29 +0000

On my spare Sunday night I decided to watch A Scanner Darkly. I had it laying around for a while because I didn’t like the first few minutes when I checked it out earlier, but I decided to sit it out today. Although I really liked Waking Life which has the same filming style, its a totally different story. I didn’t like A Scanner Darkly at all, its just about a bunch of people who are in a constant trip and suffering from psychosis. There is some plot but I think it got too little attention, too much centered around the crackheads. However the acting was quite good and I was surprised to see big shot actors in the movie like Keanu Reeves.

I can conclude that its a high quality production but that I just don’t like the type of movie, all the characters cracked up, annoying as hell (especially that Barris guy) and mixed with lots of depressive drama. Doesn’t make me enjoy a movie. Most annoying movie since I watched Crash. I’ll stick with a comedy or a thriller next time.

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Football

Herman — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:18:08 +0000

I will not be suprised if world cup related bribing scandals pop up. Suprisingly most world cup related deaths happened in China. 11 out of 50 world wide. Hurray for the end of this world cup. My interest in football is still surprisingly low. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.