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5Feb 08Lost - Via Domus
The LOST video game! It has my name in the credits!
I'm in the same credits as J.J. Abrams, Evangeline Lilly, a.s.o.!
Check it out:
http://www.lgs-event.de/LOST_credits1.JPG- Posted Feb 5, 2008 5:33 pm PT
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14Sep 07How can you work an average of 10 to 11 hours per day, and still have time to be bored?
The keyword to the answer is seasonbreak. I have about enough time to watch one or two episodes of anything per day, but everything I'm downloading is so slow, that it that I wait most of the time for it.
On the weekend, I'm so tired from all the work, that I just want to relax, not leave the house at all, just be a couch potato. Since my girlfriend tends to want some time for her own on the weekends I'd have a lot of time to watch something.
The problem is, there is nothing... nothing at all at the moment.
Where is Heroes??? Where is Lost? Where is all the other good stuff?
I want them back!!! Unfortunately, it doesn't look like all the good shows are coming back. At least Heroes will be back in one week or so, but what then?
So please, if anyone can recommend any good new shows, let me know.- Posted Sep 14, 2007 5:29 pm PT
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19Aug 07Well, yes, I'm still alive, I still surf the page... but that's about all.
Boring, huh?- Posted Aug 19, 2007 1:22 pm PT
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24Dec 06Ah right... today. Well, in Germany it starts with the beginning of November and goes on until nobody can stand it anymore when it's really there. Here in Canada no one really seems to care about it, therefore I might as well miss it this year.
Anyways, to all of you, who feel like reading this:
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Merry Christmas!
¡Feliz Navidad!
Joyeux Noël !- Posted Dec 24, 2006 8:28 am PT
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7Nov 06Well, time for a new blog. So let's talk about TV again.
From all the new seasons that started more or less recently I like the new season of The O.C. the best so far.
Lost disappointed me, it is not what it used to be, there is just too much 'Others' in there. The mystery of the numbers has almost vanished and it is not getting closer showing us more of the other mysteries. Although the smoke moster returned in the latest episode.
Desperate Housewives is as entertaining as I remember it, whereas I don't like the one thing or the other. Like for example Bree's new husband. He does not fit in the series, get him out!
The new O.C. is much darker and the season premiere totally rocked my mind. Yes of course, it has its new lowpoints too(like Summer going hippie), but with them I can live. Anyways, it is so cool the have Seth back. I can't wait to see more of the new season. Dark rocks. I also totally liked the cover of Within Temptation's Running Up That Hill, which they had in last week's episode. I just have to find out who covered it...
Well I also got completely hooked to Heroes. An amazing new show, also it sometimes seems a little like X-Men and like no one in that series was normal...- Posted Nov 7, 2006 5:40 pm PT
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22Oct 06Let me tell you something about my weekend. Now that Markus is back we had a "Welcome Back" party on Friday, what basically means that some people came buy, we sat on the couch and had some to drink. Saturday, which means yesterday, we got ourselves bus tickets to Montreal to watch a game of hockey. The whole season for the Canadiens is already sold out, so the best way to get tickets is the booming black market in front of the stadium. It's a bit expensive, but still better than missing the hockey. We were 7 people and actually found tickets for 7 seats in a row, for 80$ each. Our seats were close to the roof but still we had an excellent view. Colorado Avalanche vs Montreal Candiens was that night's top match. The first period was a little low and soon the "Habs", as the Canadiens are called here, were down 3-0. When all hope was almost gone at the end of the first period the finally scored a 3-1 which improved the mood essentially. During the next two periods the Canadiens managed it to turn the 3-0 into a 5-8 victory. Wow, a bunch of goals, a great mood and an excellent match made the 80$ investment pay off.
I hope to see another great match like this soon.- Posted Oct 22, 2006 2:14 pm PT
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9Oct 06Ok, there we go: Since a few days I'm a small wonder. Not that I wasn't before, but now that's my rank for getting to level 6. I hope to surpass this level soon, but I won't put much effort into it.
Today I realized I just posted my 500th forum post. Most of them in the BTVS forum. And you can expect some more in the future. Now that I'm finally winning some hangman games, haha.
The first week in Canada is over and although I think I kinda settled in I still don't have a daily routine. Well, let's see how much overtime I'll have to work this week. The countryside here is just amazing and I love the lake behind the house. Yesterday and today I went down there just to lie there, listen to music, enjoy the sun and read some more of the Da Vinci Code. 175 pages done, more or less 400 to go... this is gonna take me a while.
Wednesday I watched the new season premiere of Lost. I was kinda disappointed by it. I expected way more. But after all I'm glad to have the series back and that I can watch it live on TV. Even though Canadian/American commercial breaks are super annoying, when the interrupt the show every 5 minutes and take me away from my beautiful Evangeline!
I still don't have a social insurance number, therefore no bank account and therefore no computer yet. Hopefully this will soon be settled.
Musically I fell back to the basics, because my current fav is Rammstein - Asche zu Asche again.
Well, that's about it.- Posted Oct 9, 2006 2:14 pm PT
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2Oct 06I know it’s much, but take the time to read it, ‚cause I take the time to write it.
So... These are the first news from Canada:
So I arrived here on Friday, there were a few complications but more or less it worked out. Sainte-Adèle is not a big place. The center of the town is a crossroad where 4 streets meet in the shape of an X. Therefore you really can’t get lost. There are two big super markets, a theatre, a video rental and a Subway. That’s about it. This is not the hometown of life. There is supposed to be a bowling place somewhere around here, but I haven’t found it yet.
At the mentioned crossing there is one street that goes up a hill, now guess where I live... Hills only suck if you go the up, downwards it’s ok. That’s especially great, because my employer is at the other side of the town. Walking = half an hour. Up the hills that’s exeptional fun, as I figured out today. I live in a small white house and when I cross the garden, about 30 metres, I reach the lake. Unfortunately summer is over, but when the lake freezes in winter, this is gonna be so cool. At the beginning I had two people sharing this place with me, a French and a German. But now I have the house all for my own because the French guy returned to France and the German is touring Quebec for his holidays. But he was so kind and left me his laptop. The day after my arrival, not far from here a bridge collapsed for no reason and fell on the highway, 5 people dead, 6 injured.
So far, Canada is kind of ok, except for the fact that everything and anything is in French. People are nice, the guy who owns this place is cool, food is good, downloads are legal, the beer is ok but causes head aches, stores are open 7 days a week 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., the only thing is, that it’s getting cold by now. Today was y first day at work and I already worked 3 ½ hours overtime. Well, it’s the high season when everyone wants their games to be ready by x-mas. I learned today that it sucks to play PSP, but what am I supposed to do? Except for the overtime I can’t complain yet.
Unfortunately I don’t get as much US TV as I’d like to get but the most important thing is that I can watch Lost an Wednesdays. The rest is gonna change once I have a computer to download stuff. I could list some more good stuff and some more bad stuff but I think I’ve said enough for the start. Bye, Sebastian!- Posted Oct 2, 2006 8:54 pm PT
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28Sep 06That's it, I'm gone. Tomorrow at 6 a.m. I'll be going to the airport to board the plane for Paris where I'll meet my corresponding flight to Montreal.
I can't tell when the next time will be that I can make contact, but I thank everyone for the good byes and the wishes.
I'll let you guys know about me as soon as I can. BYE!!!- Posted Sep 28, 2006 10:19 am PT
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27Sep 06I will be leaving the day after tomorrow, so my life is so much stress. I can't even think of all the things that I still have to do before I leave, I keep forgetting them :-(
I still have no confirmation that someone will be there to pick me up at the airport. Looks like I'll have to put my luck to a test...
Nevertheless I miraculously managed to cut off enough time to watch the complete 5th seasonof Alias, which means I'm finished. I know how it ends and I hoped for a better end, something just sucked about it...
I also edited my profile for mp3.com and gamespot *wonder how I did that*, maybe the reason for my unexpected time for Alias and profile edits is my current lack of sleep. Insomnia finally caught me even though I'm a person who doesn't really worry about what's to come. Seems like the change in my life subconsciously took oever my brain.
What else? I had my 400th post in the forum, so I think I'm not a newbie anymore and I hope to be level 6 by the end of this day.- Posted Sep 27, 2006 1:40 am PT
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23Sep 06
I got punked! Yesterday night, extremely...
As I had written in my last blog, my good bye party was to be tonight. Yesterday was supposed to be for bowling.
As agreed I arrived at the youth club at about 9 p.m.. The others were already there, except Stefan and Nadine who arrived right after me. We boarded the cars and got going. Schulzky the first car, Andy the second...
Kulla's cell rang and he mumbled something about his father and an assembly and that he had to go there once again to say a few words. So we turned and went to the grill hut.
As we arrived I was asked to get out of the car and so I entered the hut, where the surprise had already been waiting for me. Everyone had pooled money and gathered together to make a final good bye party at the grill hut possible.
I did not have the slightest clue of an idea. But apparently EVERYBODY else did.
Anyways, It was an amazing party and I'd like to say a real big THANKS to everyone. The surprise was a complete success.
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UPDATE: Here are the photos http://www.lgs-event.de/nikeblog/abschied/index.html
You can easily recognize me, I'm the guy in the purple jersey, which was given to me as a present that night.- Posted Sep 23, 2006 11:50 am PT
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22Sep 06Today is Friday, Friday means weekend, but today means something else to me. In exactly one week I'll board the plane to Montreal. Wooo... scary, new life and so.
So, this is my LAST weekend in Germany, the last chance to drink and party with my friends who I will not see for a rather long time. Plans for tonight are an extensive bowling session and god knows what will follow.
Tomorrow then finally... tomorrow there will be my good bye party. I'm gonna organize some beer and stuff and I'll see if I can stand long enough to the sun rise and afterwards I hope for breakfast followed by about 4 hours of sleep until I'll have a last sunday lunch with my family.
I'm slowly, slowly mentally preparing to leave... Well, I hope this weekend is going to something to remember (in a possitive way).- Posted Sep 22, 2006 10:03 am PT
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20Sep 06Yeehaw, yesterday it jumped up from just a few % to 91% and today I finally reached lvl 5 what officially makes me a caveman lawyer now.
To see how long it takes to get me to lvl 6 I just wrote my first review on Alias 4-14 Nightingale and now this blog here. NO, that's not the only reason I'm writing this here. A blog is supposed to take care of all your braintrash, all the crap that's onyour mind and that you need to let out.
Oh, what a wonderful transition to my next point: I found new 'friends', whereas one could see a difference between "I track you and you track me" and really beeing friends. Nevertheless, the Buffy forum has the nicest people checking it and now I can feel like a part of it. Thank you so much guys!
Speaking of which, the Buffy forum has now for 2 days or so been a place where I constantly hang out. And when I say constantly, I mean constantly. I'm not trying to get my number of posts up, ok maybe I am, but to get to know all the regulars a little better. I don't have anything important to do at the moment and so I spend most of my time enlarging the posts with Isa.
When I'm not checking the forum I continue with Alias episodes. I hope by the end of this week I will have finished season 4 so that I can go for the final season and finally learn how it ends. Once I'm done with Alias I still have Prison Break and Angel on my list. And the coolest thing is that the new Lost season starts right about that time when I arrive at Canada, 4 8 15 16 23 42.
Then I wanted to say a big THANKS again to everyone who visited my blog page and left a comment/gb-entry. I hope you'll keep checking that site every once in a while.
To everyone who doesn't know how to go there:
http://www.NikesBlog.de
or direct link: English http://20six.co.uk/nike German http://myblog.de/nikedragon
You can find for example my FAITH FANFIC there. Should you read it please tell me how you like it.
The page doesn't have much traffic yet, especially not the English one, but I hope that's gonna improve.
Bye and thx for reading,
Sebastian- Posted Sep 20, 2006 9:06 am PT
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18Sep 06One thing that always strikes me about TV is that sometimes translations and synchronization are really, really bad and tend to ruin TV shows or movies.
Living in Germany made me grow up with US shows and movies translated and synchronised for German viewers. I mean if 80 million people want to watch a show in their language, hell why not? I never bothered because I never payed attention. I just watched it as it came and it got me hooked to certain shows or movies anyway.
The whole thing started bugging me once my English skills had developed to a way-above-average level, for a German. I mean most people my age can't hardly say anything but yes and thanks (unless they are drunk and talk to someone who doesn't speak German ^^)although they had English classes in school.
Now, back to the topic: Some day I started watching episodes and movies I had seen before in German now in English. I wanted to know how they said certain things in English or what certain quotes sounded like. That's when I realized that most of the time the English expression was much more accurate and fitting to the scene, that there were jokes and plays with words that I had never become aware of before.
DVDs changed my life, for that matter. I started watching everything only in the original version, as far as possible and as long as I wasn't watching with friends or live on TV.
Good shows turned to great shows, good movies became great movies; so I wondered: "How come the quality drops with the translation and synchronization? Who are the lazy, 'incompetent' people who translate wonderful quotes and joke into crap? Why do they change intended facts?"
The most annoying things about translation and synchronization are (in no particular order):
1) Title mistranslation, subtiteling, change of names:
This has about three different levels. The first level is the simple translation of a cool sounding English title into a lame sounding or misleading German title. Examples would be: 'Gone in 60 Seconds'- German title is 'Nur noch 60 Sekunden' (Only 60 Seconds Left); or 'Phone Booth' in Germany 'Nicht Auflegen' (Don't Hang Up), or 'National Treasure' in German 'Das Vermächtnis der Tempelritter' (The Legacy of the Knights Templars)and almost every single episode title of BTVS
The second level would be the most common one. You take the name of the movie/series and add something German for example the exact translation to it. Examples: 'The O.C.' in Germany is called 'O.C., California', BTVS in German is 'Buffy - Im Bann der Dämonen' (Buffy - Under a charm/spell of the demons), 'House' in German is 'Dr. House' and so on...
The third and worst of all is when they change an English name into an English name. Example: Vin Diesel's 'A Man Apart' is in Germany called 'Extreme Rage'
2) Missing or left out jokes and word plays:
Of course you cannot translate all jokes and especially not the word plays into a different language because they simply don't work in every situation. But there are times when I can tell what would be a better translation for the scene without having a seceond to think about it, and that sucks really. Examples would be like every single episode of The Simpsons, you just cannot put them all into German. One quote that I don't even dare to watch in German is from 'The O.C.' and goes something like: "This is the last night before our last day of our last year of school, so let's make it last." No way to get that one right in German...
3) Changing facts:
Ok, sometimes you don't want to offend your audience so it might seem to be a good idea to change the German porn website in 'Southpart: Bigger, Longer, Uncut' into an English website and instead of speaking fake German they speak fake English (-Eat my poo poo! -With pleasure.)
On the other hand it is pointless and stupid to change the German terrorits of 'Die Hard' to nationless terrorists when they still have their German names. These are annoying little details, believe me.
4) Synchronization sucks:
Actors are picked for a reason, including their voices and verbal abilities like intonation. Now sometimes a cool actor's voice can improve a movie but it could also be the other way. A good thing to synchronise is Schwarzenegger's voice for example. Nobody wants to hear his normal voice and thank God the Terminator doesn't have his Austrian accent in German. Also I can hardly stand the American Simpsons voices, the German ones are much better for the characters, but that's just my personal opinion. A negative example is 'National Treasure'. I really love that movie in English but in German is sucks totally and just because they gave the female supporting actress (sorry I forgot her name) an awful voice, high and squeaking. It ruins the whole movie.
Then sometimes, what happens on BTVS very often, the intonation is just wrong. The same sentence with the same meaning is said in two different ways by the actor and the German voice. I mean, well, the person whoever has to say that sentence doesn't have a clue how it is originally said and therefore gives his/her best interpretation of it. Most of the time things just get lost because of that and this is what I hate...
5) Multiple voices:
When you watch a TV show you get used to the characters or the actors voice. It only gets weird when they substitude the voice for whatsoever reason. You start to dislike the new voice and therefore the character. It is also pretty weird when an actor has a different voice from movie to movie. Normally you associate a face and a voice so changes should really be prevented.
6) Multiple faces for a voice:
Oh my God, that's something really strange. I can't really tell how many actors share the same voice because some only sound pretty similar, but for examples Buffy's voice is in many, many movies and shows. The most confusing moment with voice sharing that I had was when I was watching 'Phone Booth'. All the time I thought it would be Brad Pit making that call, because you don't see a face and he and Kiefer Sutherland share the same voice...
So then, that's what I wanted to say my opinion about. I'll keep watching shows in English and I'm glad to move to Canada where TV is not synchronised or mistranslated...- Posted Sep 18, 2006 11:21 am PT
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11Sep 06Not even three more weeks to go until I'll board the plane to Canada and start my new life over there.
This week is characterised by my moving out of my apartment. I've gotta get all the stuff to my parents house and clean this place here all up and so on.
As I'm going to Canada I sure as hell don't want to lose all the contact with my home. Therefore I established a new blog page. It's in German AND in English. Seems I'm not as lazy as I thought.
You can find it at: www.nikesblog.de or www.ewaldinkanada.de
Apart from news blogs I also post my Faith episodes there, every time I got one ready. 4 are there already and no. 5 is in process.
I'd like to ask everyone who has a look at my blog or my Faith stuff, please leave a comment or an entry in the guest book.
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This weeks favorite song: Stone Sour - Through Glass- Posted Sep 11, 2006 3:44 am PT
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7Sep 06Do you know the saying: If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around to notice, does it make a sound?
To paraphrase this a litte: If a blog is posted at tv.com and there is nobody to read it, does it have a purpose?
It occured to me this morning when I opened my eyes two hours earlier than I actually had planed to do so. Call it insomnia or sleeping disorder, this was the last night that I spent in my appartment before I'll move out, 'cause today is the day I'm finished with school and apprenticeships.
Anyways, I woke up and not much later I realized: Who am I writing to? Nobody is going to read your blogs on TV.com. The reason for this is simple: The ones who would read what I'm writing they don't speak more than 5 words English and/or have no affiliation with TV.com. And the ones who do speak English and are frequent bloggers on this page, they don't know me.
I looked at my friend list and I have the incredible number of two (I quote) 'friends' in that list(no offense). They're people I hardly know anything about.
I figured, since everyone else on this page appears to be here way longer than I am I'm gonna need something that really kicks me into the community. But when all I do is check the BVTS forum and contribute a limited number of posts I can't really get in touch with the others who are an established community of this forum and have known each other for quite a while.
I now want to keep track of the people who's names I encounter pretty frequently until someone notices: "Dude, there's a fallen tree." Let's see how this will be working out for me.
Now, to finish this off I'd like to thank anyone who felt like reading this and therefore prooved me wrong. Please leave a comment and feel free to add me to your friends, I then will gladly keep track of your posts.
Sincerely,
a TV.com newbie- Posted Sep 7, 2006 11:41 pm PT
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7Sep 06Well, I'd like to say hi to everyone who bothers to read this.
My name is Sebastian, I'm 23 years old and I come from Germany. I just finished my language based apprenticeship and in three weeks I'll be leaving for Canada to start working there as a "Linguistic Game Tester", no sh*t.
I speak German (native), English (as you might have noticed), Spanish and French. I'm a certified translator for English and Spanish to German and vice versa, so if you'll ever need something like that, just ask me.
I like to spend time with my friends or if that's not the case I play Warcraft III and Brood War online. I also really love watching movies and TV shows. But since in Germany they're all in German and their translations just suck, I have to go all for the DVDs.
My favorite shows are e.g. Buffy, Lost, Alias, The O.C., Married... with Children and my all time favorite The Simpsons.
I just started writing fanfic episodes for Faith, my favorite character on Buffy. So far I have finished 4 episodes, but ideas keep popping out of my head. I don't know where I'm going to take the story and I'm excited to learn what happens next, although I write it myself. Isn't that strange?
Ok, that's it about me. I think I'm going to post more in the near future.
Bye, Sebastian
PS: You can check out everything else about me by looking at my userbar:
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