Archive for July, 2007

ah, life.. again!

Yes! I think I’m getting my life back. Not that it has gone away. My body was too busy in past few days and it seemed that my brain was getting bored and decided to go on vacation. Today I finally returned (well, it’s the first time, but it counts!) to my usual routine, sitting in my Roladin and drinking my cold coffee. Can’t really put my finger on it, but suddenly I feel like everything is just going to get better (spit! spit! don’t want to jinx it!!).

I noticed something funny in my google analytics, check this out: 298,000,000 (that’s two hundred and ninety eight million!) pages, my www.dumpr.net is ranked first! I wouldn’t try this query if it weren’t for several hundred people who used that string to get to my site. How cool is that? :)

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Simpsons: The Movie. My 2 Cents

So, here are my two cents about the new Simpsons movie. I’ll start with a fact: I’m a Simpsons buff. I watch repeats and laugh from the same jokes a dozen times. I have a Simpsons poster right above my bed (note: I’m 27) and I have collected most of the videos ever released (including the shorts prior to the series.)

A couple of days ago I went to see the premier with a friend. We got a couple of tickets to the 1AM show, which was packed. It was very exciting and we couldn’t wait for the flick to start. Do not continue further if you haven’t seen the movie already, spoiler alert.

My judgment of film is biased. I was expecting the unachievable. And why is that, you may question yourself. I’ve been watching the tv show since day one (and still remember that lovely day.) I have noticed when the artwork changed, voice acting improved and plot became a template. A while ago I was asked, on a scale of one to ten, where would I put this movie. My friend was waiting for a typical “eleven” answer, but I replied with 7. Don’t get me wrong, this movie is incredible! It’s hilarious, it’s epic (all the way to Alaska), it’s clever and I loved every frame of it. So why the seven? Because it’s a 90 minutes episode. It had the same template from the tv series (start with something funny and unrelated, there’s an event that twists everything in one minute, and the rest is a moral story for all human kind.) FHM magazine noted that the first half hour of the movie is just pure genius. They based that on the first part of the template — being completely hilarious.

My problem with The Simpsons: The Movie, is that I was expecting it to do to the series the same thing South Park: BL&U did to its series. SP:BLU is by far one of the most incredible and best(est) movies ever made by a human (imho). What made it so great, is that the realized they have an opportunity to do things on the big screen that they are not allowed to do on tv. Curses, racism, anti-patriotism, sex offends, and generally PG13 material. It just blew my mind; it was intense and fulfilled every minute with grace. Simpsons, on the other hand, did the opposite. The series has always been on prime-time on Fox (which was relatively young at the time) and aimed for adults. It’s not that kids didn’t enjoy it, it’s just that there was an additional layer of story that appealed to parents with kids; to people with social difficulties, and to people who realize something is wrong with this world. When the movie was about to be released in Israel, Fox got it DUBBED to Hebrew. Note that no English shows have ever been dubbed (aside kids shows like Bratz and Pokemon, but this is a different age group.) And the reason they did that, is that they wanted the movie to appeal to the younger generation — read: buy Simpsons toys at McDonald’s.

I think I’ve ranted enough. Don’t listen to me. Go watch the movie; I can’t wait to see it again, and again, and own the dvd eventually. It’s movie well done. Eleven screenwriters (out of 14,) including David Silverman. Now, how can you go wrong?

(Thanks for listening. Sorry for bitchin’)
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I’m back and beautiful!

I think I’m back, not sure yet.. Maybe it’s a good time to blog, I don’t want to jinx it.

I have landed a week ago (yay!), can you actually believe it’s been a week? I for sure can’t. I’ve been jetlagged like never before. Had a red-eye flight from NYC at 3pm, with a layover at England, so for sure I won’t have sleep for 30+ hours.

Yeah, so now I’m here. Haven’t blogged for ages. It’s annoying, cause I’ve been through so many emotions, ideas, social networking and general shit for the past 4 weeks, and none of it made it to The Diary.

I love writing in muh blog. Without noticing, it already spans over four pages, which means it supersweet. Makes me feel as if I’m doing something with my life! :o)

I just posted a job on eLance, in hope to get dumpr.net translated to Portuguese and Chinese. Two huge markets that have been using dumpr for ages now (and emailing me in languages I cannot read..) I hope it works well, because auto-translation surely makes a nice Christmas wish: “To give welcome to dumpr to the amusement with its homepage of the photos. You f it it one of the coolest places in the Internet! Here you it will find things cool to make with its photos.”

Anywho. Here’s a wee-man of me! How rocking of me?
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Two Weeks And No Updates

Hey gang! How goes it?

I’m having a blast in USA! It has been such a great time so far, that I never got a chance to go online and write a blog post. I’m writing now from Apple Store in SF (I think I’ve been to 6 applestores around the globe already.) Say Hello to iphone! That’s what everybody here is wearing on their shirt. iphone rocks and megidish.net looks GREAT on it!

I’ve been thinking a lot, about what to write when I get to my blog. I had so many cool experiences that I don’t really know where to start. I just returned from a LONG walk to Pier 39 in SF, where I had 3/4 lbs of shrimps and a boat-size basket of french fries. It’s crazy, it was under appertizers and I barely finished it! I walked 2 hours in 45 degrees incline to get there. 2 hours in freezing temperature and in THE WRONG DIRECTION. Yes! I’m THAT smart! They said it’s going to be *hot* today, way above 100s; in retrospect, I should have taken long trousers, I’m about to freeze to death.

So, here’s my though: I’ll just write some tags. Things that I’ve done in the past few days, and if I get comments on them, I’ll post more. I wish I could connect the camera, I have award winning photos waiting for yo’all !

New York: long journey * lost luggage * top of the rock * nbc studio (snl and conan o’brien) * meeting amit & mike for business talk * new york facebook hackathon (rocked your pants off! turned down a tv interview though..) * a day in central park with jo * proper japanese dinner * squid for that dinner (chew chew) * ordered 10 megidish.net and babemod.net shirts

San Francisco: sweet hotel in Japan Town (japanese hotel!!) * walking 30 blocks in the wrong direction * china town * cartoon art museum (with 1935 disney cels) * was in art bookstore, found my pen exploded in my pocket, ended buying all the books I touched ($80 damage ;) * weird japanese dinners * awesome sushi * daruma gifts * walk to pier 39 * climbing up and down in san francisco.

Hmm. I think I better go take another nap. They are building a biodrome or something outside the hotel, so I hope I’ll manage to get some sleep. I miss you all, wish you were here!.

Tomorrow I’m trying to go on a tour to Muir Woods (4000 years old trees). It’s going to be expensive and I need my dudek for it; but I’ll try to manage by myself.

A big hug for everybody! (expect you, yes, you know who you are!) ;)