Gio's Blog

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Cyber Terrorism

Yesterday I had my first attack on my homepage, the soul that posted the death-threat also started to spam my guestbook and eventually the guestbook collapsed. I guess he (or she) fulfilled his/her goal. But I also fulfilled my goal too – to make people think about Cyberdemons. I’m sure he/she spent some time on my homepage, he/she took the time to post an entry in my guestbook and also managed to spam my guestbook. All I had to do to clean up that mess was to restart the guestbook , which took me no longer then 30 seconds.
I can handle some bad behavior. The truth is inside.

Monday, August 30, 2004

My first death-threat

I found this in my guestbook today, my very first "death threat"!

Some unknown surfer had to say this about me:
You are all simple retard's if you belive this rubbish Giovanni Aureel talks of. Giovanni Aureel is the demon and needs to be eliminated asap. i am going to enjoy torturing Giovanni Aureel for the rest of time. so go and kill Giovanni Aureel so i can do this sooner to Giovanni Aureel so that Giovanni Aureel will be sent to hell which is where i live hahahahahahaha 0_0

I'm not afraid, I will keep on fighting the cyber-demons!

Sunday, August 29, 2004

Chocolate and the old grumpy lady

I was just told a very funny story from a friend of my cousin. The event takes place a couple of years ago, when this friend was a little girl.

She was asked to help the neighbour, an old grumpy woman. She had to mow the lawn. After a full day of work, she was called inside the house, and the old woman told her that she would receive something for the assistance. The old lady then opened a box of chocolate, where one piece was left. The old lady ate the choclate and said: "This beautiful box is for you, you can keep it."

Of course the little girl was very angry.

If you ever mow the garden of an grumpy old woman, negotiate about the payment before you start working!

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

A little prank...

I and my workmates are planning a little prank on a fellow colleague of us. He is on vacation right now and received a package yesterday. Today we scanned the address field and modified it, so it now looks like he received a huge package from an online sexshop. On the day he returns we will put the package to the incoming post at the main entrance of the building and tell him to pick it up. LoL - I'll keep you updated on how the prank turned out!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

The mouse is in the house - part 2

Good news for all the people out there who thought the mouse-storie was gross! Today again I had an encounter with two young mice. I'm happy to report that both are still alive. I catched them and released them to a nearby meadow. I just hope they don't find the way back to our house...

I’m a murderer!

Today I killed an innocent being. Not human, not a demon, apparently a little mouse. I went to my brother’s house, to help him with some computer problems, when I saw a little mouse, trying to enter our house through the cellar. The mouse ran away, and I wasn’t able to catch her. When I returned, I slipped into my shoes, walked up the stairs, when I realized that there was something in my right shoe. I was scared, and kicked the shoe away. When I picked the shoe up again and looked into it, I saw the little mouse, she was DEAD. I still wonder what killed her, if it was the smell of the shoes, the fact that I slipped into them, or the fact that I kicked the shoe away.

If I would have caught her before, she would still be alive, as I would have taken her to a nearby woods or something.

Monday evening

What a wonderfull Monday evening, the sun is shining and I can finaly lay back and relax. I will watch the last episode of Alias, third season today and might work on my homepage again. The Exorcist "The Beginning" did well at the Boxoffice, despite the harsh words from Critics. I'm looking forward to see both versions, the one that was directed by Paul Shrader and rejected by the studio execs and the final "cinema" version, helmed by Reny Harlin.

Saturday, August 21, 2004

The Exorcist: the review

This is what CNN has to say about the new Exorcist! Sounds like someone was angry because he did not get a advanced screening...

By David GermainAssociated Press
Friday, August 20, 2004 Posted: 11:55 AM EDT (1555 GMT)
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AP) -- A new "Exorcist" flick must have seemed like a good idea three years ago, with a director's cut of the original having just pulled in almost $40 million, a huge payday for a re-release.

If there was any life left in the satanic franchise, though, director Renny Harlin has snuffed it with "Exorcist: The Beginning," a cinematic abomination that's about as bad as you could possibly imagine a prequel to "The Exorcist" might be (for good reason, it was not screened for critics until the night before its release).
Three-fourths of the movie is boring as sin, the other quarter is loud, crude and awash in repugnant imagery. There are no true scares, only clatter, commotion, guts and gore served up as a vulgar shock to the system that for all its excess, is not remotely shocking.
Often, what happens on screen is almost dreamlike in its incomprehensibility as Harlin besieges viewers with barbarity after barbarity.
The story -- the priest of "The Exorcist" as a younger man in his first encounter with Satan -- holds no intrigue compared to the movie's behind-the-scenes tale.
Launched after "The Exorcist" reissue proved a hit, the prequel seemed cursed.
Original director John Frankenheimer left the project and died shortly thereafter, and star Liam Neeson quit.
Stellan Skarsgard replaced Neeson, with Paul Schrader directing, but the producers didn't think the movie he made was scary enough. That version was shelved, Harlin came aboard, the story was tweaked, roles were recast, and the movie was shot again, with Skarsgard still starring.
His Father Merrin, the role originated by Max von Sydow in the 1973 original, has given up the priesthood in the late 1940s, his faith shattered by horrors he witnessed and was forced to participate in under the Nazis.
A British collector seeking a priceless artifact entices Merrin to join a dig in Kenya, where a pristine Roman Catholic church has been discovered, buried in the fifth century at a time when no Christian inroads had been made that far into Africa.
A young priest, Father Francis (James D'Arcy) accompanies him, seeking to lure Merrin back into the fold. Merrin finds temptation of the flesh with a beautiful doctor (Izabella Scorupco) and becomes a protector for a boy (Remy Sweeney) the local tribesmen believe is possessed by a demon.
The performances are wildly inconsistent, either piercingly shrill or hushed to the point of narcolepsy.
Harlin, whose clamorous and abrasive movies include "Driven" and "Deep Blue Sea," tries to emulate William Friedkin's grossly terrifying original, but all his images capture are the gross part. A bird pecking a man's eye socket clean. Crows feasting on other crows' innards. A stillborn baby emerging from its mother's womb coated in maggots.
On top of those, Harlin presents a Nazi officer shooting a girl in the head and a pack of hyenas ravenously tearing a screaming boy to pieces.
This is not horror. It's sadism.
Someone please send for an exorcist to cast Harlin out of Hollywood.

Friday, August 20, 2004

Ghost of Kurt Cobain

A 24-year-old bar manager from Essex, England has finally dealt with the Kurt Cobain ghost that appeared on her Compaq laptop, the Register reports. Only now it won't boot up!The trouble began when "Kurt manifested himself on her screen and demanded she 'give us a kiss, love.'" The funny thing is that the manifestation only occurred after turning her laptop off. In any case, the sightings unnerved the owner, who says, "I'm not a spiritual person...I had to do something."
The answer was a computer exorcism, performed by unspecified parties. Kurt no longer appears on the Compaq's screen and neither does anything else. The Register says that her machine has refused to run since the exorcism and blamed excess holy water.. .

Story originally published by •Applelinks.com

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Exorcist - Not for Critics

From IMDB Critics Will Have To Pay Again
For the second weekend in a row, the film regarded as most likely to win the box office crown will not be screened for critics. Warner Bros. has decided not to subject the prequel
The Exorcist: The Beginning to first-day reviews, which the studio apparently felt were likely to be overwhelmingly negative. Fox did the same last week with Alien Vs. Predator, which, as it turned out, exceeded box-office predictions. Reporting on the studios' decision to dispense with screenings for critics for the two films, New York Daily News movie critic Jack Mathews observed today (Wednesday): "The decision not to have advance screenings is invariably a reflection of how the studios feel their movies will be reviewed, and Fox was dead-on in assuming AvP would get slammed. Moviegoers eager to see the prequel to The Exorcist are hereby warned."

It is going to take a while till I can see the new Exorcist, since I live in Europe and it wont start until Dezember.

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

A true story

This happened to my brother and his wife a few years ago and it is a true stories I would like to share with you. My brother rented an old mill a couple of years ago, a very nice house with a small river next to it.
He used to tell the story that the house was haunted, that he could hear someone walking at night, water would appear occasionally on the floor without explanation and things would “move” around”. I did not believed him, and neither did the rest of the family, thinking that the house was very old and that it was just an oddity. He did not felt threatened and even used to call it “his house-ghost”. But he did found out that a woman had committed suicide in the house, a long time ago.
Then he went to Mexico, where he met his present wife, a native Mexican-Indian. They did get along very well and she decided to move to Austria with my brother.
In the beginning, everything was fine but out of the sudden, when she was alone at the house she started to hear voices, things started to move around and she freaked out. She came to the house of my parents and refused to return to the mill. She phoned her aunt in Mexico, which gave her the advice to put crosses, made of cinnamon sticks all over the house, which would provide some sort of protection from the ghost.
Since then the mysterious and unexplained phenomenon has disappeared.

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Demon in your PC?

Why should a demon try to occupy you when he can easily enter your hard disk and make life become one big mess? Think about it, a computer has no own will, usually no one really cares about him, no friends. Don't you think that would make even the strongest person become weak? A weak person is a prior target for demons and poltergeists, and so is your electronic friend.