For those of you who don’t know, I finally graduated from college, moved to Munich and got a kick-ass job there (although not in that order ;) And it only took my ISP six goddamn weeks to hook up my internet, adding technical difficulties to my latent laziness as far as blogging is concerned. I was gonna write a review of the NAS I bought for my movie collection, but it crapped out on me about a month ago and that was that. Which also explains why there haven’t been any movie roundups for a while.

As for 2010, I think it’s gonna be a great year. I plan on putting my private little movie theater into practice, step by step as my wallet permits. There are a couple of fairly interesting projects at work that I wanna share with you once they’ve matured a little bit, and considering the fact that I do get paid for implementing them, there’s a pretty good chance that that is actually going to happen.

Also, I am definitely gonna post my “picks of the year” for 2009, but I won’t be able to do that until I’m back in Munich which will be in early January and chances are I’ll date it back to December 31st.

It appears that in 2009 all the stars have aligned to give us aural pleasure. So far it has brought us new albums from Aes Dana, Archive, Infected Mushroom, Muse, Pearl Jam, Third Eye Blind, Placebo and The Prodigy (as well as Solar Fields, although that was technically a videogame score). If we’re being generous and add Firewater’s latest CD in mix, which was released in late 2008, we’ve in my humble opinion assembled the créme de la créme of awesome bands. Or bands that used to be awesome but have somewhat slipped into mediocrity.

Sadly enough, none of these records has really impressed me all that much. They’re all very solid and by no means bad, but they left me somewhat dissatisfied nonetheless. Then again, Infected Mushroom’s last record Vicious Delicious was a god damn masterpiece which was more or less impossible to top. The Prodigy hasn’t really done anything worthwhile since The Fat Of The Land and Third Eye Blind’s debut back in ‘97 is still undoubtedly their best album. Maybe it’s just me getting older.

In any event, there’s one final straw for me: the most anticipated release of the century (for people with brains, anyway): Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland by Shpongle! A fairly retarded name, I know, but I’m so gonna pee my pants when I finally hold that CD in my hands. I wish I could see them live next month in London. Their debut Are You Shpongled? was awesome, the follow-ups Tales Of The Inexpressible and Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost were nothing short of spectacular, and I expect the new album to be absolutely mindbogglingly insane. It’s gonna be the first CD in years I’m gonna buy without even listening to it first. And if it sucks… well, I’m probably just gonna kill myself. Or at least go cry for a while and bitch about it on the interwebs. That’s what it’s for after all.

I’ve thought rather long and hard about what kind of jobs I should be applying for. I’ve worked with PHP, Java, C# and C++ and although PHP definitely has its quirks and shortcomings I do have a somewhat masochistic love/hate-relationship with it. It’s just a fun language. So for that reason I’ve been looking for a job as a PHP developer and it seems that there are plenty of openings and the offers are slowly trickling in. This is a very exciting time and I believe you can make or break quite a lot with your first job. Let’s see how things turn out, wish me luck.

There’s three things I’ve learned in Poland. One: as odd as it may sound, you can’t actually translate words into Polish simply by appending ‘-ski’ to them. Second, polish people apparently like their drinks luke warm, no matter how hot the weather may be (although I did see a few guys throw ice cubes in their beer…). And third, don’t let a zebra crossing fool you into actually crossing the road, that’s just plain suicidal. Those markings are merely a suggestion to the drivers as in “it’d be nice if you didn’t kill too many pedestrians here if it’s not too much of an inconvenience for you”. I frankly have no idea what the hell these things are for, it’s just convenient way to weed out tourists for all I know.

In other news, I’ve started looking for a job. Since I’m not bound to any particular city (or even country) there are plenty of opportunities. Of course, actually finding something is a whole different story. Wish me luck :)

Celina and I hung out with Guy Kemper last Saturday, and I tell you that man is a funny fucker, and a great story teller as well. I don’t claim to know much about art, but I’d definitely put some of his stuff in my apartment if I could afford it.

I’ll be in Poland for about a week starting Thursday, so there is my perfect excuse for not blogging anything. I’ve heard very scary things about polish weddings… so if you guys don’t hear anything from me for a while, I’m probably somewhat comatose and need some time to recover *coughs*. Should make for some cool photos, though.