Last week I saw Blade Runner 2049 at IMAX which some fellows from the RPG Review Cooperative. A couple of days later ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya and I went to see it at the Balwyn Place in a much smaller theatre. I am somewhat of a fan of the original, indeed I have lived much of its life with it being my favourite film, an advocate for its style and the cyberpunk subgenre it spawned, its themes, and of course, greatly enjoying the soundtrack. Thirty five years after the original, a sequel is released - most of the main actors in the sequle weren't even alive when the original came out. Anyway, I've let my two viewings sink in and given the sountrack several listenings and have felt brave enough to pen a review of the film on livejournal's cyberpunk community (even if I am apparently the last person posting there), and a review of the sountrack on Rocknerd. My summary version is that both the film and soundtrack are excellent, and give respect to the original. But there are some significant problems with both (poor dialogue in the film, immersion breaking and lack of movement on the soundrack).
It was the second post I have made to Rocknerd this week, the first being a few coments on the curious alliance between the Juggalos and the Democratic Socialists of America. On Sunday nightcaseopaya and I went to see Snog and Severed Heads at the Corner Hotel; surprisingly cheap tickets and a rather good concert as well. So ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
reddragdiva will be getting a third Rocknerd article soon in as many weeks. I do hope I can coax him to write one article for the Isocracy Network as well on his recent book. I also have a review in progress of Slowdive's relatively new self-titled album. Also, in absolutely astounding news (from my perspective anyway), The Chameleons will be playing in Melbourne next year.
The last three days I have been in Sydney for the OpenStack Summit and alas, I haven't had much to do except go to the conference, to the hotel, and take an occasional walk around Darling habour. Most visits I have managed to catch up with a friends this time and I feel somewhat guilty for not managing to do so this time. It is a big event although only have the size of the northern hemisphere summits and I did manage to catch up with a lot of people from that side of the industry. Stig Tifler gave me a physical copy of the book I contributed to. From the several talks I viewed, the two which really stood out where Andy Botting's Monitoring the Nectar Research Cloud (youtube), the Nova Project Onboarding, and Questions to Make Your Storage Vendor Squirm (youtube). Special thanks also to the generosity of Juniper Networks who hosted a harbour cruise and dinner on the Starship Aqua. whilst providing information about OpenContrail.
caseopaya and I went to see it at the Balwyn Place in a much smaller theatre. I am somewhat of a fan of the original, indeed I have lived much of its life with it being my favourite film, an advocate for its style and the cyberpunk subgenre it spawned, its themes, and of course, greatly enjoying the soundtrack. Thirty five years after the original, a sequel is released - most of the main actors in the sequle weren't even alive when the original came out. Anyway, I've let my two viewings sink in and given the sountrack several listenings and have felt brave enough to pen a review of the film on livejournal's cyberpunk community (even if I am apparently the last person posting there), and a review of the sountrack on Rocknerd. My summary version is that both the film and soundtrack are excellent, and give respect to the original. But there are some significant problems with both (poor dialogue in the film, immersion breaking and lack of movement on the soundrack).It was the second post I have made to Rocknerd this week, the first being a few coments on the curious alliance between the Juggalos and the Democratic Socialists of America. On Sunday night
caseopaya and I went to see Snog and Severed Heads at the Corner Hotel; surprisingly cheap tickets and a rather good concert as well. So reddragdiva will be getting a third Rocknerd article soon in as many weeks. I do hope I can coax him to write one article for the Isocracy Network as well on his recent book. I also have a review in progress of Slowdive's relatively new self-titled album. Also, in absolutely astounding news (from my perspective anyway), The Chameleons will be playing in Melbourne next year. The last three days I have been in Sydney for the OpenStack Summit and alas, I haven't had much to do except go to the conference, to the hotel, and take an occasional walk around Darling habour. Most visits I have managed to catch up with a friends this time and I feel somewhat guilty for not managing to do so this time. It is a big event although only have the size of the northern hemisphere summits and I did manage to catch up with a lot of people from that side of the industry. Stig Tifler gave me a physical copy of the book I contributed to. From the several talks I viewed, the two which really stood out where Andy Botting's Monitoring the Nectar Research Cloud (youtube), the Nova Project Onboarding, and Questions to Make Your Storage Vendor Squirm (youtube). Special thanks also to the generosity of Juniper Networks who hosted a harbour cruise and dinner on the Starship Aqua. whilst providing information about OpenContrail.
