Film:Heat

"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

I've been watching some Micheal Mann films lately and so far heat is my favorite.
It's an action movie but not the cliché of a testosterone and explosion filled action film. No annoyingly fast montage or explosions all over the place. It has an excellent cast : Robert De Niro AND Al Pacino (+young Natalie Portman !) and a great director of photography.
I especially loved the scenes at night in MCcauley's apartment with a wonderful view of the ocean.

The story is rather simple : Neil MCcauley is a career criminal with a love for big heists.
When a job goes wrong he is hunted by diehard cop Vincent Hanna(Pacino) . While Hanna is closing in on the criminals MCcauley wants to pull off one last big score...


The apartment with ocean view.

One Love Roller Dolls

I had the best Fresh meat day ever this sunday with the One love roller dolls ! No kidding :D.


I first read about roller derby about a year ago on Will Wheaton's blog ,
I thought the sport looked awesome but had no idea that you could play it here in Belgium.
So when I saw articles appearing in the newspaper about a Belgian roller derby team in Antwerp I was so exited that I decided I absolutely had to try this sport.


A bit nervous but very exited I went to the long awaited Fresh Meat day.
After the welcome and the getting the gear on it was time for our first training.
Because it was most people's first time on traditional roller skates we mainly concentrated on learning how to stop , fall and turn. The turning and falling weren't a problem but damn those stops are hard :p. And after a few games we got to play a simplified roller derby game,which was the most awesome thing ever.

I think I'm hooked to this awesome sport & fantastic team , can't wait for the next training (tomorrow).

a group picture of that day :

Spirit

just read this on the Nasa website :

"PASADENA, Calif.
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010. "
full article

The spirit landed on mars in 2004 for a 3 month mission , but three months became 6 years . They lost contact with the little robot on 22th of march 2010 , chances are big the machine didn't survive the last hard martian winter

Aww poor robot , it kind of looks like wall-e and xkcd made a comic about spirit a while back:
(click for bigger version)

Kiff

A few months ago when the last of my pet mice died , my grandfather bought me a hamster (he didn't like mice).
I choose a hyperactive teeny-tiny Roborowski dwarf hamster, the smallest and fasters of all hamsters.
At first it was impossible to take any pictures because she was so fast and terrified of the camera but now I finally managed to take a non-blurry picture.
So I present you : Kiff (named after the green squishy thing from futurama)

the movie challenge completion : first and last movie you have watched

first movie you ever remember watching :

I'm not sure about this but I think it's snow white.




Last movie you watched:
Yesterday I saw blade runner again, I love the whole look of the film and how they styled the big rainy city. Favourite scene has to be Roy's speech right before he "dies".

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those … moments will be lost in time, like tears…in rain.
Time to die"

day 28 : movie with your favourite Hero

The ultimate hero has to be batman

day 27 : movie with your favourite villain

Villains are awesome, and this is a tough choice but I'm going for a more unconventional approach of a villain here :
Unbreakable - M night shyamalan ,
with Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price

I loved his speech at the ending of the film :
"In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be?
He's the exact opposite of the hero, and most time's they're friends, like you and me. I should've known way back when. You know why, David?
Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass."