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Oblivion [movie review]

21/04/2013
Imax london

There is a hint of a good movie in a particular in the plot that I will not mention because it would be a major spoiler.
But it’s just a hint.
The movie is mostly boring and uninteresting. The designs of the floating home are interesting.

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The Look Of Love [2013] [movie review]

Being unable to find the words to describe my feelings towards this movie, I will borrow from Philip French’s review on The Observer, 28/04/2013:
“The Look of Love is a disappointingly crude and shallow biography of the self-made northern impresario Paul Raymond, who started out conducting a music hall mind-reading act and finished up as a multi-millionaire nightclub proprietor, pornographer, owner of much of Soho, and for a while the richest man in Britain.”
Click here for the full article.
Rating: 2/5

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Count Zero by William Gibson, audiobook narrated by Jonathan Davis

It’s hard to explain why I like so much William Gibson’s books.In his language, in his narrative, in the pace of his stories, in his characters and in the situations he evokes, there is something that resonates with me and my personality.

Thanks to the audio version of WG’s books, I can now listen to them while on the move, so as I walk the streets of London I can immerse myself in my  favourite books.

You need to be careful crossing streets, negotiating a busy junction or a busy pavement.

Initially I had to get used to the style of narration, where there is one narrator for all the characters, but I appreciate the craft, the skills of Jonathan Davis and his ability to modulate his voice in a different way for each character, given each his or her (or its) own personality, it’s own “mark”, making them recognisable.

I found the experience excellent and the quality of the voice narration is so good that very rarely I had to go back in the story to reconnect with the narrative. The biggest problem I had in early attempts with audio books was “disconnecting” from listening the story and spawning a train of thoughts or an external event requiring higher attention and causing a disruptive distraction from the book. With this book and some discipline, I managed to stick to the story almost all the time and never get distracted.

I recommend this audiobook at many levels:

-  because I love the book itself – and it’s not just for SF fans, William Gibson is certainly much much more than a SF writer, he is one of those writers who leave a deep mark in the century(ies) they inhabit.

- because of the excellent quality of the audio and of the narration and the great voice of Jonathan Davis.

Book readers who approach for the first time audiobooks should be aware that they will have to invest their attention in a different way, and possibly find a new and revolutionary way to enjoy their favourite books while doing something else.

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Molly’s girl [film review]

Part of the 2013 BFI Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
This is an indie movie, not a block buster, produced by Scott Thompson’s My Town Picture, a production company that engages smaller community in making films shot locally using local people and has produced already a string of successful movies and shorts.

“Scott Thompson started the original and innovative My Town Pictures brand of filmmaking in 2004, in which small communities have partnered with him to write, produce, shoot and edit feature-length films featuring actors and crew and locations all from their own small towns. This unique model in inexpensive filmmaking made accessible to anyone rewarded My Town Pictures with 15 national Telly Awards, 2 Awards of Excellence from the Iowa Motion Picture Association, numerous Awards of Achievement from the Iowa Motion Picture Association, Awards from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival and more than a dozen regional and local awards, and numerous film festival appearances around the country.”

This movie is a love comedy just not like the ones they make in hollywood. It’s a bitter-sweet story that casts a look at the gay marriage theme from an unusual and comedic angle using some interesting and eccentric characters, accompanied by an acoustic original score that couldn’t be more in tune with the story.

Continue reading Molly’s girl [film review]

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How to fix broken postfix on Mac OS X Mountain Lion (message “send-mail: fatal: chdir /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool: No such file or directory”)

I was trying to send emails from the command line of my macbook pro (Mac OS X Mountain Lion) and I received the following error:

<prompt>:~ neo$ send-mail: fatal: chdir /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool: No such file or directory

What I did to solve the problem:

1) sudo mkdir -p /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool

2) sudo postfix set-permissions  (this gives an error which I think can be ignore and I don’t have time to investigate any further, but if you know what it is, please leave a comment (the message is chown: /usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.gz: No such file or directory, clearly a man file missing)

3) searched the postfix service:    

sudo launchctl list | grep postfix

- 0 org.postfix.master

4) launch the postfix server:

sudo launchctl start org.postfix.master

5) check that it’s running

sudo launchctl list | grep postfix
10701 – org.postfix.master

6) execute sudo postfix reload   (this is redundant, I am almost certain, since the postfix service was not running, but just in case..)

Now postfix works and I can send emails from the laptop command line.

 

 

 

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