DIX Daily, March 2004

Wednesday, March 31.
Becoming.
Quote: I love you 'cos you're sweet and I love you 'cos you're naughty
I love you for your mind baby give me your body
Queen - Tear It Up.

Monday, March 29.
Link: Dave Barry published an opinion on stuff he used to do when he was young and comparing it to nowadays - this included then eating ""calories", which are tiny units of measurement that cause food to taste good", opposite today when "virtually every product is advertised as being "low-carb," including beer, denture adhesives, floor wax, tires, life insurance and Viagra". And "The problem with the low-calorie diet was that a normal human could stick to it for, at most, four hours, at which point he or she would have no biological choice but to sneak out to the garage and snork down an entire bag of Snickers, sometimes without removing the wrappers." A little something for Iwchiq - Ninja Gaiden, unleash your inner ninja.

Friday, March 25.
SSDD.
Link: Kaspars Dimiters will release a new album.

Thursday, March 24.
Lotsa work. Both in figurative and non-figurative sense.

Tuesday, March 23.
Started to work on the design of Latvian Media Golf League webpage. As Gust would have put that - I am working on polluting the Latvian internet with one more page of my own.
Link: Sinfest takes on mornings: [Girls] [Boys].

Monday, March 22.
Point break.

Sunday, March 21.
Another moviewatching evening at DIX HQ was executed yesterday as the boys returned from Tallinn with stories. We watched Foolproof, a remarkably good con-artist heist movie with good twists and Ryan Reynolds and eternal Hercule Poirot David Suchet in the leading roles [see it!], the latest episode of Southpark and a couple of 'em Couplings. As for Sunday evening, Ingo arrived and after good manly soul-to-soul conversation we checked out a "0.7 Bonaparte for two" fueled Zatoichi - and after the first half an hour sadly it looked to me like Takeshi Kitano is going more and more insane as he is getting older and older... I went to sleep, but I will publish my full opinion after I see the movie until the end, but it does not look good. Ingo liked it, thou saying it was quite crazy. In other news, Home DSL by Lattelekom shows more and more frequent failures lately. Hmmm.
Link: Enjoy the comic and single player demo as Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow takes over the world. Sadly, my video card NVidia GForce MX400 is only partially supported so here comes the hated stuff with display switching. I should have listened to Dave Barry a long long time ago when he said: "don't trust people who don't know the basic principles of capitalization in English language".
Anyway, I've played the demo and it's good.
Quote: Jack Sparrow: The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?
From Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Saturday, March 20.
Kublinsh party me and Evita attended this Friday was really interesting, especially musically - at one point I heard some familiar tunes and went to check out the CD DJ was playing - and I was right, it was Parapops 2. The DJ praised the CD and admitted the tracks are pretty well compiled on this CD so you could play it from start to finish, not changing or skipping a song. I sent an SMS about the incident to the creator of the compilation, Check himself, to which he replied: "Charge him something like five lats. Per song. We'll split afterwards. Crazy Birds."
Quote: A blond at a party was telling her friend that she was off men for life. "They lie, they cheat and they're just no good. From now on when I want sex, I'm going to use my vibrator". "So, what when the batteries run out?" asked her friend "I'll just fake an orgasm like always."
Sent in by Pinx.

Friday, March 19.
Finally have completed the search through the 600 something photos from Iwchiq and Anna travel through Yurop [another version]. Check out Visions for new stuff as they take on such places as Brussels, Riviera, Museo and France, I guess. Finished watching Chicago - it took me two attempts, but I am finally through this pretty much a piece of crap. The message is somewhat interesting, but really did not need such a long and uninteresting plot to drive it. And the final - with obligatory [and awfully weak] plot twist and disastrous happy end drives the movie completely down the toilet. See it if you are maniac for musicals, otherwise - avoid.
Link: Hollywood goes on in the quest for originality, only this time it's good: Jumanji 2 and Be Cool, a sequelto Get Shorty. Join the maddness of Jeti Sports.
Quote: Bet tai dienā, kad tu pienāksi tuvāk,
Un mēs nerunāsim - mans vai mana,
Es būšu mierīgs, un tu tāpat -
Mums būs gana...
Prāta Vētra, Kaislības.

Thursday, March 18.
Southpark 801 - Good Times With Weapons is home where it belongs.

Wednesday, March 17.
Today my family gathers at a funeral to mourn my great-grandmother Berta Merklina who passed away Friday at age of
97.5. May God bless her soul. Giggleloop.

Tuesday, March 16.
Congratz to my bro Guntis on his namesday!
Finally received a proof of life from Vladimir Khozikov: It's just a short message: yes, I'd changed all: home address, phone, cell phone, and job as well. Nothing serious just a new step. Longer'll be a bit later."
Link: Latvian Putana.
As we wait for the next chapters of Ninjai, they've put up some silly little games to waste our time with. Also Mortal Kombat: Deception and a new game of Tenchu Kurenai [where Ayame plays with Rin on a search for Rikimaru who is supposed to be lost] are in development.

Monday, March 15.
Iwchiq The PinXenior returns this evening 21.35 to Riga back from his trip around Yurop with stories, hopefully photos and greetings from Anna. Evita brought my mind to books I've read this year. Hactually I must say I've read them pretty much more I've done last year. In two and a half months we've already lived this year [damn, time flies fast!] I've already read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, The Protector by David Morell, The Alchemist by Paolo Coelhu, How to be loved by J and Beatrix Bedtime Stories by Dace Rukshane. Currently I am reading Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut. As for the movies, I started to watch How To Deal and was pretty much disappointed - the movie ran veeery slow at the start, things happening onscreen did not bond quite well together and during the first 10 minutes a basic setup was ready - a girl who does not believe in love changes her mind during a half-an-hour of the movie. Looked like the creators of the flick weren't that enthusiastic to make the piece, so it went out half-baked, so 15 minutes into the movie I switched it off and came back here to tell you this. As for WuTang, we have started practice American football during the off-season time. As you may already know, the cat is very very fond of small crumbled pieces of paper, preferably cash machine checks that are thrown to random places in the apartment leaving him with a mission to return them to the thrower. To diversify his favorite activity, I now fake a throw to make him run out in the field like a wide receiver and then make the actual throw at about two times his height. He looks, jumps, catches the ball with both paws, falls over the end of the bed - touchdown!
Link: Dedication to economists worldwide.
More on movies - somehow we let this one slip by us: Osobennosti Natsionalnoy Politiki. Got to get our greedy little hands on it to see it. I know, the next to last installment in the series, Osobennosti Natsionalnoy Okhoty V Zimnij Period was pretty weak, and the conclusion, ONP, isn't even directed by Alexandr Rogozhkin, but is still written by him and features the full cast of characters reappearing in their beloved roles.
Thought: The two principle currencies of the world were the Yen and fellatio. By Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus.

Sunday, March 14.
Dimster called me the today to say that I should mention here KGB would have celebrated or is celebrating its 50 year anniversary today. I suggested he send me some information or at least a relevant link regarding the event, since I am too damn lazy to search the net for stuff like that. He hasn't shown a proof of life ever since. Hell if I know his phone call was some kind of secret message of him being abducted or something?

Saturday, March 13.
Me, Pinx and RayNiz went to Ventspils to see the all star game of Latvian Basketball League. Pretty fun, although my favorite Jarvis Mitchell was injured and could not play. In other news, I have acquired all episodes of the BBC hit show Coupling and a new episode of Southpark will be released in four days.
Link: Unusual fine. Mr. T vs. Dirty computers. Crazy fashion. Data knives. Trailers for Shrek 2 and I, Robot.

Friday, March 12.
I have finally completed the photofilm WuTang attempted to destroy a month ago. So here are the new pictures - ranging from January parties at Pink place to Evita's birthday in Birds. Not getting to test a shell replacement for Windows Explorer - Aston.
Quote: Gabriel and I no longer discuss God for the same reason - people express themselves via means as divergent as spirituality and operating systems, so as soon as the topic starts to get interesting it invariably becomes personal. Obviously, that has a tendency to occlude rational dialogue. There might have been a point where I had a surplus of energy to invest in philosophical cul-de-sacs. I no longer remember it. From Penny-Arcade.

Thursday, March 11.
We watched a crazy french porn movie - La Marionette the other night. What cought our attention was a breathtaking brunette - and we immediately placed her on the top of our porn heaven to share the first place with Lacey Duvalle. However, we were unsure of her name, although we searched all of IMDB for answers, but sadly, the database provided too little information to judge whether she was Fovéa or Oceane, Emanuelle or Anastasia, or somebody else from those beauties named as the cast for this movie. So we waved her a sad goodbye, hoping to meet her in another movie where whe probably will have a role big enough to have her on-screen name so we could ŗecognize her at least from that. And - guess what - a day later our internet porn expert RayNiz [who was responsible for finding the unique, now sadly unused domainname Pornozhopa.com] has found her - the 1.73 m tall Hungarian beauty Anita Blond! Now we have something to look forward to in porn, because the gorgeous [92-58-92, 51 kg] has starred in more than 50 movies with seductive titles - the day she decided to join porn business was a celebration for men worldwide.
Link: The Book of Sexual Discoveries. Alternative [sick] jokes. Hussar club. Capoeira in Latvia. MaKo on marijuana, something for RayNiz, penguin beauty, Lenin in exile, books like internet, download the internet, Happy New Year, ladies, blonde jokes, Russian accountant poems, pupil diary of the future, get rid of insects, New York, Legalized, Chat can be sexy. Internet addiction in Latvia. Muchacho on robots. Ducks. Antimult. Vinnie Buh, the Alcoholic. Writings on the walls of WC - on the left wall: For toilet tennis look right. On the right wall: For toilet tennis look left. Internet tennis. Sex or else? Kittens. Trojan movies [1] [2] [3] - damn I hate when they make them in flash. Bunny love. Type Your Sexy Name. A big free porn gallery.
Quote: A remake of an oldie: Michael Jackson transports a small crowd of "his children" via plane from New York to his rancho Neverland. While airborne, the plane crashes and starts to fall. The pilot jumps out of the cockpit and hands a parachute to Jackson: "Yo, bro, we got only two parachutes, for you and me!"
Jackson: "What about the kids?"
Pilot: "[Expletive deleted] the kids!"
Jackson: "Do we have time?"
***
Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center, where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones was having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the recruits he advised. Rather than asking him about this, the Captain stood at the back of the room and listened to Jones' sales pitch. Jones explained the basics of GI Insurance to the new recruits, and then said, "If you are killed in a battle and have a GI Insurance, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. But, if you don't have a GI insurance and get killed in battle, the government only has to pay a maximum of $6000." "Now," he concluded, "which group do YOU think they are going to send into battle first?" Sent in by Pinx.

Tuesday, March 09.
Due to recent and intense involvement in life I have forgot to mention a important fact - Iwchiq the PinXenior is currently on a trip to Brussels to meet Anna. We await him back with pictures. Also Christine now works the West Bank.
Quote: There's a student in medical school who wants to specialize in sexual disorders, so he makes arrangements to visit the sexual disorder clinic. The chief doctor is showing him around, discussing cases and the facility, when the student sees a patient masturbating right there in the hallway.
"What condition does he have?" the student asks.
"He suffers from Seminal Buildup Disorder," the doctor replies. "If he doesn't obtain sexual release forty to fifty times a day, he'll pass into a coma."
The student takes some notes on that, and they continue down the hall. As they turn the corner, he sees another patient with his pants around his ankles, receiving oral sex from a beautiful nurse.
"What about him?" the student asks. "What's his story?"
"Oh, it's the same condition," the doctor replies. "He just has a better health plan."
Sent in by Pinx.

Monday, March 08.
Quote: Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop. Sent in by Pinx.
Link: Ninja Gaiden difficulty settings by Penny-Arcade.

Sunday, March 07.
The movie we watched yesterday after some quality hours of basketball with me, Pinx, RayNiz and Martins Dzenitis was the complete opposite of The Reckoning - Mindhunters. It was a really flawed movie with big plot holes and no sense. Avoid it at all costs. Nevertheless, the Visions section has been reworked and in addition to 2004 and 2003 now sports excerpts from years 2002 and back, now thumbnailed in color.

Saturday, March 06.
Congratulations to my brother Guntis and his wife Christine on their birthday!
Link: As we watched The Reckoning [a very good detective from middle ages, rent it] I paid my attention to an actor who looked an awful lot like Spud from Trainspotting, minus he was put in a monks habit here. And IMDB suprised me once again - that really was him, Ewen Bremner, the guy who started his carrer 30 years ago in some TV movies, was virtually unseen as Junior Angel in Stallone's debacle Judge Dredd, and with Trainspotting rocketed his carreer into a couple years of mediocre drug movies, concluding this stage in his life with Acid House, where he plays Coco, pretty much resembling his role from Trainspotting. Then came his hour of glory at Hollywood with bigger or smaller roles in blockbusters like Snatch, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, The Rundown and The Reckoning. Guess what - next he's starring in Alien Vs. Predator and opposite Jackie Chan and in Around The World In 80 Days [which also happens to be Mr. Schwarzeneggers last movie] as Mr. Fix. My gut tells we will still see this guy pretty often in the future.

Friday, March 05.
I would like you to note that during current days dix.lv is undergoing some slight changes in design and file layout [especially the Old Site and Visions sections] so don't be surprised something is not quite what you expected it to be, current possible minor flaws will be corrected ASAP. Actually I would like you to take a few good last looks on the old site, since in a couple of moments it might just not be there... By the way, as I clean up my photo archive [which also will shortly appear quite thinner than before], I am terrified how awfully bad some photos are digitized... I must have been a pretty lousy Photoshop user a couple of years ago... That off my chest, off to new - yesternight Dagnis "Darkness Danzig" Dancitis called me from Morocco just to say hello and greet you, too, especially, if you are from [or in] Limbazhi [or Morocco]. Hiya there!
Quote: Later that night on my regular everyday trip around the net I became interested why Sinfest has not been updated since February 28. I started to wonder whether that guy Tatsuya Ishida has gotten sick or has been finally accepted by the syndicates [in his Futility Watch he claims to be rejected by them 11 times, "thus reaffirming his status as a renegade folk hero"] or whatever, so I started to check out Notes from the Resistance, as he prefers to call his weblog. I already knew that he has written some pretty interesting stuff there, so here are some excerpts for you to enjoy.
"On people. Some people are hard to get. Others are easy. Some people like to be got and stay got. Some people would rather do the getting and avoid getting got. Some people get one person and stick to them forever. Some people want to get as many as they can while the getting's good. Some people are very picky about who to get and by whom to be got. Some are not. They just take what they can get. Some people just don't get people. Some people read books and attend seminars on how to get people. [..] Some people get tired of getting each other and get away from it all. Some people think there's more to life than getting each other and are hard at work trying to get whatever it is they're trying to get instead. And some people have realized that people and things and basically everything in life is fundamentally ungettable so there's no reason to try so hard at getting them. Get it?"
Also it was appealing to me Tatsuya shared his opinion on life like a movie: "If life is a movie most people would consider themselves the star of their own feature. Guys might imagine they're living some action adventure epic. Chicks maybe are in a rose-colored fantasy romance. And homosexuals are living la vida loca in a fabulous musical. Still others may take the indie approach and think of themselves as an anti-hero in a coming of age flick. Or a retro badass in an exploitation B movie. Or the cable man in a very steamy adult picture. Some people's lives are experimental student art films that don't make any sense. Some are screwball comedies. Others resemble a documentary, all serious and educational. A few lives achieve blockbuster status and are hailed as a tribute to the human spirit. Some gain a small following and enjoy cult status. And some never got off the ground due to insufficient funding. [..] Much of our lives is spent on marketing. Make-up, exercise, dieting, clothes, hair, money, charm, attitude, the strut, the pose, the Blue Steel look. We're like walking billboards advertising ourselves. A sneak peek of upcoming attractions. Meanwhile our actual production is in disarray--we're over budget, doing poorly at private test screenings and focus groups, creatively stagnant, morale low. So we're endlessly tinkering, touching up, editing, rewriting, tailoring ourselves to best suit a mass audience. There's like this studio executive in our heads telling us to cut certain things out, make it "lighter," give it a happy ending, and put some explosions in there too. Kids love explosions. And the uncompromising artist within protests: "But that's not life!" Thus the inner conflict of our movie life: To be a palatable crowd-pleaser catering to the mainstream... or something true to life no matter what they say?"
Link: What on earth is a Sinfest?

Thursday, March 04.
So little time, so much to do. Ain't it always that way? Yesterday I spent a mutually beneficial evening with Gust, checking out what is and what may be and what will be wrong with his PC purchased under my guidance two months ago. Was fun.
Thought: A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Link: Best Pics of 2003 - some are truly amazing... A crazy guy. Also - while I was out there checking for the latest release of Mumiy Troll - Pohititeli Knig [recorded in Latvian studio Upe by Gints Sola and Kaspars Tobis], I stumbled upon the video those guys have filmed in Riga for their hit single Medvedica [which, interestingly, features the voice talents of Linda Leen and Yana Kay, and is edited in Latvian Studio Vilks Filma] - man, the clip is a blast! The CD is a soundtrack to a movie of the same title, starring Ilya Lagutenko, the singer of Mumiy Troll. The movie by director Leonid Rybakov was released February 2004.
Quote: В слезах парнишка, ему соврала я немножко.
Сдала подружка, должно быть, ей сейчас так стыдно.
А мне что делать? И мне теперь не оправдаться.
Найду другого, чтобы не плакал и не обижался.
Мерещится
То ли Большая,
То ли Малая Медведица.
From Mumiy Troll - Medvedica.

Wednesday, March 03.
Link: The newest co-creation of Method Man and Snoop Dogg. Peeing Mexcians via Benvenuto.

Tuesday, March 02.
The Oscars have been presented, Latvian Eurovision is over, so here you go for a short recap of events in DIX world: we finished Evita's birthday celebration on Saturday evening by watching some episodes of the show that will replace Sex And The City in our favorite sitcom everyday - Coupling and then Rundown [Welcome To The Jungle] a well filmed action movie with good humor. A must see. On Sunday we rested and yesterday [which was the namesday for Iwchiq The Pinxenior, by the way, congratulate him!] me and RayNiz burned some CD's for him and also some for Iwchiq to accompany him on the trip across Europe to Brussels to meet Anna later this week. As the culmination of the evening we watched a version of 50 Cent clip P.I.M.P. on First Baltic Channel - the video was unedited with beautiful bare breasted ladies but for some reason all the bad lyrics like [expletive deleted] were silenced out. Weird. In other news - there are also some changes in the Visions section.
Link: While we are waiting for the Russian translation for the third installation of Lord Of The Rings, meanwhile, you can enjoy some example of bad translation, presented by Goblin, the same guy who delivered the previous translations. Lusher test.