Skillful guys among us

Crazy pocket pairs

Another my love is poker. No Limit Hold'Em in fact. Hopefully I will get into the other variants too, but I try to master NL HE first. I am still studying that game and it seems to me the more I study the worse I play :D I play online cause here in Switzerland are very strict laws concerning gambling. You can play poker in casino only (not in card room), but swiss casinos do not offer Hold'Em play. :/

My so far alone live experience comes from $2/$5 game in Sky City Casino, Auckland, NZ during my christmas vacation. (Shut-outs 2 Jan &Eva! Take care mates!) I was confused of chips and pot counting and actually everything and dealer did not help me at all. Very second hand I was dealt Rockets and my hand reaching my chips was shaking as I had parkinsonism :D I played it so badly that I can not believe it so far. I should fold that monster hand on flop (there was a guy pretty sure holding 2 pair or set on the flop re-raising all-in initial better and I was third (last) to speak) but I went all-in without thinking. However I was lucky as hell, cause I caught set on turn and full-house on the river beating his nines full(!) and more than dubbled my stack. After 2 hours I quit with 4x buy-in in chips, which was pretty nice.

I am looking forward to live play in CZ, poker is in boom there. I am expecting more tougher players there than in Auckland (there was a heaps of limpers) but I shall see.

Here is very nice illustration how this game can be beautiful and cruel at the same time. It is video of a crazy hand played during Party Poker European Open III. 5 out of 6 players are dealt pocket pairs! Great read and laydown of Kings! (although it would be winning hand) and Aces beaten by Ladies on lucky river.

Turn your brain off

Surf's Up (Chris Buck, Ash Brannon / 2007)

CZ dubbed

So cute and cool that I can accept that easy cliché story. "Time hole" movie - there does not exist time (and anything else) during watching. :) 4/5 goes for original version (which I have not seen, but for sure it is much more better)) cause I have to cut down one point for CZ version because of dubbing translation. "Kuře Joe z Pardubic" is horrible with respect to the movie. Big Z ruleZ. 8) Z is for Zurfing.
4/5

Superbad (Greg Mottola / 2007)

CZ dubbed

Dumb teenage moralizing comedy based on shit-n-fuck humour. One extra point for cops' and McLovin's nite ride, that was awesome :D If there were not the cops I would not watch till the end I guess. Without them it would be really superbad.
3/5

Swiss watch

12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet / 1957)

Oh geez, how I love this flick! Every single second! Nothing surplus, nothing missing. If you have good script and know how to shoot it, there is no need of billion bucks worth computer tricks. Just 12 men in one room. How could be such non-action, conversation based film so thrilling? (Another one is Who's Affraid Of Virgina Woolf? by Mike Nichols, 1966) Btw. George Voskovec starring here is CZ immigrant, very popular CZ stage actor before WWII.
5/5

La Môme (Olivier Dahan / 2007)

Almost unbelievable life story of Edith Piaf. Born on sidewalk, grown in whorehouse, singing on the streets for living, reaching the sky and shining like a star, drug addicted and dying alone. Full throttle edgewise life. Marion Cottilard as Edith is absolute, nevertheless I was amazed more by Edith's life than by the movie.
Btw. Last year, when I was in Grasse (charming town), I did not know she had died there. Now I am not sure whether it is good or not... :/
3/5

Transamerica (Duncan Tucker / 2005)

Very unusual story about respecting the individuality and finding mutual understanding among family members and people in general as well. Tragicomedy & originality themselves.
4/5

Last month in Geneve ahead

Today I know for sure that my appointment won't be extended any more and it means that my work on The Atlas Experiment at CERN and stay in Meyrin, Geneve, Suisse is over by the end of March. So I won't see Czech national soccer team playing against Portugal and Turkey here in Geneve in June as I supposed to, as well as I miss another June event - Fête de la musique. A 3 day in-city open-air music festival which was really nice experience last year.

So the last big event I am gonna visit (and which I missed last year) is 78th International Motor Show. I have never been on such huge motoristic event before (I've seen veteran car rally finish in South Park only) so I am looking forward to see some magnifique cars.

Hopefully the last month here will be nice and Mt. Blanc will show its beauty along with whole massif of Alps visible from here when it is clear weather.

Movie lover

I love films and I am gonna to write here some notes about those I have seen. I prefer to watch them with original sound - the atmosphere of movie is more or less always decreased when dubbed. For more I try to improve my english by watching english speaking movies, cause understanding makes me problem. Turn off the lights, the film begins.

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Malcom X (Spike Lee / 1992)

I was watching till the end only cause I wanted to know his story. I've heard a lot about Spike Lee's films (I've seen only The Inside Man so far - great one) and I've been expacting too much I guess. I was just following the story as if it is pure documentary.
2/5

The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington / 2007)

Another movie about Afro-American history. Contrary to Malcom X I say just - Wow! I have been watching without breathing. The Great Debaters is greatly shooted great story (based on true). Nowadays there are freestyle MCs battling for respect, trophies and money, back in the days of this film there were well prepared debaters battling for respect, trophies and a chance to change the world. What a flick, big up Denzel!
4/5

Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino / 1975)
[Pinchcliffe Grand Prix]
EN dubbed

"Well, well! String me up and stuff me in a hen-coop!" :D Greatly old skool puppet animated film.I prefer dubbed version here because when reading subtitles you do not focus on the picture fully what is crutial here. Simple good-vs-evil story, but millions of details in each shot make it spectacular. And Ludwig (Lambert in EN) - an always scared hypochondriac mole wearing hat, scarf and rucksack - is the biggest killa for me. :D
4/5

Jigureul jikyeora! (Jun-hwan Jeong / 2003)
[Save The Green Planet!]

The most unique film I've ever seen I guess. I recommend to have no information about this movie before watching. It is hard to describe anyway. Extraordinary mix of all genres in one flick. Be ready for surprise.
5/5

Ed Solo vs. 50 Cent

Ed Solo & Skool of Thought vs. 50 Cent ft Justin Timberlake and Timbaland: Sludge Technology (She wants it) - Prodee mashup

This mash-up kills me for few days already.

Sick mind strikes hard!

Well, my first post concerned a thing (music) I like. Let's have a look on the opposite. What I don't like (as lot of people I know) is getting up to job in the morning. To be in the job at 9AM is much more better than 6AM as it was in Czech, but it is still a mission. :)) But what I really don't like, actually WHAT SUCKS REALLY LOT (when one reaches his job of course, especially after oversleeping and then speeding as hell with no breakfast), is to find out that it is day off and almost no one is there!
Merde!!
First I thought it is some kind of holiday or something, hard to say, cause here in Switzerland there are lot of public holidays held in some parts of country only. Especially here in Geneve is everything completely strange :D (I'm kidding now of course.) Then I thought it is maybe a day off at CERN only, but my houselord was at home in the morning too, so it has to be something bigger :) When I came home my desktop calendar told me IT IS SATURDAY!!
Sick²!
In Czech we say something like this: Nothing warms your heart better than disaster or bad luck of other person. So feel free to laugh aloud. :)

OK, let's enjoy the weekend. Hopefully the rain will stop at least for one day. Otherwise it is gonna be a 2 day film festival. Either SUNday or laptop-fullscreen-home-cinema.
Btw. Is anyone able to explain me why is rain ALL THE TIME the heaviest near swimming pool and soccer ground in Meyrin? :D

Let's go sick!

What a perfect day for starting my blog!
29th of February - a day which almost does not exist :)
So nothing matters when this blog dies, cause it almost was not born.
Sick day!
And why sick mind? Simply cause it is :) Heaps of strange and sick thoughts flying inside and some of them hit this space since today.

I can start with something I like. If you ask me what kind of music I listen to, I am gonna answer instantly - black music. Rap, RnB, jazz, funk, gospel, soul... whatever style, but groovy black music which has feeling and balls.
Few days ago I tried to put togheter list of my most favourite LPs. I mean LPs that I love to listen from the very beginning to the very end, no skiping. There is not so many such albums (some of them are compilations, to be exact). The result was following (in order of release years):

The Doors [1967] The Doors


The Velvet Underground & Nico [1967] Banana cover by Andy Warhol


Lalo Schifrin [1973] Enter The Dragon (Complete Score)


Björk [1993] Debut


Nirvana [1994] MTV Unplugged in NY


Alanis Morissette [1995] Jagged Little Pill


Maria Joao Pires [1996] Frederic Chopin - Nocturnes - 2CD


The Prodigy [1997] The Fat Of The Land


Portishead [1998] Roseland NYC Live


Björk [2001] Vespertine


France Gall [2001] Long Box - 3CD


Paris Combo [2001] Living-Room


Ojos de Brujo [2002] Barí


Amp Fiddler [2004] Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly


Aaliyah [2005] Ultimate Aaliyah - 2CD


Dixxx [2005] Dixxx


Platnum [2005] Rock Me


Dudley Perkins [2006] Expressions (2012 A.U.)

There are not many "black" albums, are there? :D Female singers kick my ass much more obviously.