I Am Touched

I am so deeply touched. So deeply touched by all the care, love, attention and feelings that were put into the preperation of christams gifts for me this year. My Love, my friends, my family - you all put a lot of effort into creating something extraordinary, something I cherish truly, something that will stay with me for years to come. All the words in the world could not express how I feel right now. I love you all !!!

The Essential 2007 According To TJ

So again it's time for my year's round up of music and films that made the biggest impression on me in 2007.

That was a very good year for music as some of my favorite artists released their new albums.

Here's my TOP 5 albums released in past 12 months


1 PORCUPINE TREE - Fear Of A Blank Planet / Nil Recurring






2 NEAL MORSE - Sola Scriptura






3 BLACKFIELD - Blackfield II








4 ATAXIA - Ataxia II







5 DREAM THEATER - Systematic Chaos





There are plenty more albums that made me happy this year and are strongly recommended :

Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

Between The Buried And Me - Colors

The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands

The Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil

Cohead & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

Jordan Rudess - The Road Home

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Damo Suzuki - Please Heat This Eventually

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Buffalo

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet - The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Caliberation (Is Pushing Luck And The Key Too Far)

Grinderman - Grinderman

Marillion - Somewhere Else

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Rush - Snakes And Arrows

Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars

Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full

Hans Zimmer - The Simpsons Movie: The Music

James Blunt - All The Lost Souls

Pink Floyd - Oh By The Way (Box Set)

28 Weeks Later: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack





And now films. Again, pretty good year for movies. I really enjoyed some of the long awaited premieres but also was surprised by some unexpected productions. Some of them even got into my TOP 5
Here are five best movies I've seen this year in an alphabetical order :


28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)





300 (Zack Snyder)



Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)



Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino & Roberto Rodriguez)



Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)





Other great productions that made my day :

Halloween (Rob Zombie)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie



Still haven't seen those :

I Am Legend
Across The Universe
Beowulf

Polish history in 10 minutes

Very nicely done movie presenting most of the important historical events in Poland.

Normal

Here is my car
my phone
and my TV
I’ve got it all but you can see through me


But am I here?
It’s kind of hard to tell
I do a good impression of myself
But what’s normal now anyhow?


Prescription drugs they help me through the day
And that restraining order keeps me well at bay
But what’s normal now anyway?


Wish I was old and a little sentimental
You gotta see the waves, not the wine bottle


Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way they wish away each day

---Steven Wilson---

My Meeting With SBB ...

THE BAND

SBB's New Album "THE ROCK"

I've been waiting for that day quite a long time. Today I was finally going to meet the musicians from the legendary and critically acclaimed polish progressive rock group SBB. The band is playing a prestiguous gig tonight in Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice. Before that musicians were to meet with their fans in "empik megastore" in Silesia City Center in Katowice. So happy with the news I took a day off from my college and packed with CD's to sign and a digital camera to make some photos during the meeting I went to Katowice. The meeting was scheduled at 4 PM, 90minutes before the show. About 4:30 PM a very nice and eyecatching miss informed us that the band won't show up because one of the musicians has lost his way to Silesia City Center and the band was running out of time so the meeting was completely cancelled. I'm a bit sad because of the way the whole thing turned out, but hell, I love those solitary, winter excursions. No hard feelings gentlemen, we'll see each other next time :)


The Invisible Band

The Insurgents Monument

... shhhh !!!

Poland in UEFA Euro 2008

Well that's what I call a historical day. Finally polish football team is going to play during UEFA European Football Championship in 2008. After yesterday's victory with Belgium we'll have an opportunity to see our boys playing in this prestigeous championship for the first time ever !!! I wish it is 2008 already :)

Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories

"Stick Boy And Match Girl In Love"





Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.




But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.


Tim Burton

The Reason I Wake Up In The Morning

My dear younger sister Aleksandra :) My soulmate, my ward, my pride and one of the reasons I wake up in the morning. I've never understood why siblings have to be in the state of constant war. Maybe I'm too old to believe in this sort of bullshit. Anyway, here she is :)

We All Need Some Light

This passed week was a nightmare in a way. Constant problems with electricity made me so goddamn depressed and sad that I hardly had any strength to do anything. I used to hate the sunlight but these last couple of days I kept reminding myself a piece from Paul Gallico's short novel "Snowflake" which goes - "The Sun ! The Sun ! Dearly beloved Sun, how I'm glad to see you..." I really needed sunlight those days and it's lack was atoned by the music I drowned into. Amazing how we underestimate things we take for granted day after day, and then suddenly one sunny day, they're gone...