Χωρίς πολλά λόγια, ο Φραγκίσκος Αλβέρτης αποτέλεσε μία από τις σημαντικότερες προσωπικότητες στην ιστορία του ελληνικού μπάσκετ. Μπορεί τα στατιστικά του να μην ήταν πάντα εντυπωσιακά (όπως και του Διαμαντίδη), και τα τελευταία χρόνια να μην έπαιξε ουσιαστικά μπάσκετ, αλλά η παρουσία του και μόνο, όπως επίσης και το φονικό του σουτ μπορούσαν να αλλάξουν ένα ματς.
25 τίτλοι σε 17 χρόνια, για έναν άνθρωπο που δεν είχε πρωτάθλημα Ελλάδας τα 8 πρώτα χρόνια της καριέρας του. Σε άλλα αθλήματα στη χώρα μας θα το βγάζαμε loser, αλλά ευτυχώς για όλους μας, οι άνθρωποι του Παναθηναικού ήταν πιο υπομονετικοί.
Σημαντικό και το γεγονός ότι αποσύρεται η φανέλα με το #4, για πρώτη φορά στη χώρα μας. Ελπίζω να γίνει και με άλλους παίχτες στο μέλλον.
TL;DR version:
Από σήμερα, το Tales of the Bored θα έχει posts αποκλειστικά στα ελληνικά. Αυτό δε σημαίνει ότι θα γράφω πιο συχνά από ότι τώρα (μια φορά στα 32 χρόνια) πάντως.
Sunday, October 11
Thursday, April 2
[Greek] Οι 100 μεγαλύτεροι μαλάκες Έλληνες
Αν έχετε βαρεθεί, όπως και εγώ, την απίστευτη παπαρολογία τελευταία με την ψηφοφορία για τους 100 "Μεγαλύτερους" Έλληνες του (παλιότερα σχεδόν αξιόλογου) τηλεοπτικού καναλιού ΣΚΑΙ, τότε αυτό το blog είναι ό,τι χρειάζεστε.
Δεν συμφωνώ με τις απόψεις τους για όλους τους υποψήφιους, ακόμα και αν δεν είναι να πάρεις την λίστα στα σοβαρά. Όταν βέβαια από την άλλη, στη "σοβαρή" λίστα βρίσκουμε γνωστούς δικτάτορες, τότε τρέχα γύρευε.
TL;DR Version
Τι κόλλημα έχουν με το soundtrack του Street Fighter IV σε αυτόν τον ΣΚΑΙ τέλος πάντων?
Δεν συμφωνώ με τις απόψεις τους για όλους τους υποψήφιους, ακόμα και αν δεν είναι να πάρεις την λίστα στα σοβαρά. Όταν βέβαια από την άλλη, στη "σοβαρή" λίστα βρίσκουμε γνωστούς δικτάτορες, τότε τρέχα γύρευε.
TL;DR Version
Τι κόλλημα έχουν με το soundtrack του Street Fighter IV σε αυτόν τον ΣΚΑΙ τέλος πάντων?
Saturday, March 21
[TV Saturday] To Galactica!
You had a good run, old girl.Shit got a bit weird at the very end, but as always, there were the moments of absolute brilliance that made this show what it is. Anders' speech beautifully captured the spirit of the show itself.
It's all about these brief moments of perfection.
TL;DR Version
There must be some way out of there.
Though dancing robots ain't it.
Monday, March 9
[Movie Monday] Slumdog Millionaire
I saw Danny Boyle's latest yesterday, in the midst of all the post-Oscar hype, and as a fan of his previous work, I was prepared to like it a whole lot. Little did I know.
Holy crap, how overrated is this film? I don't mean to sound like the typical Internet critic douche, but come ON. Far from Boyle's finest, let alone the best film of 2008. Sure, it's better than the Beach, but what the Hell people.
My main gripe is the fact that it feels like there's a huge disconnect between the two parts of the movie, kind of a reverse La Vitta é Bella, in a sense. In this case, the first part is a gritty, dark and realistic drama, while the second part is something of a Bollywood farce with an old-Hollywood forced happy ending. But between the two, there's no real link, nothing that glues them together. Even the characters feel like completely different people.
I feel the need to emphasise just how forced the happy ending is. Of all the horrible clichés storytellers can use to pull their characters out of the shitholes they've dug for them, fate and predetermination are amongst the very worst. I don't mean to get all philosophical about the nature of choice and whether we are in control of our destinies, but as a storytelling technique alone, it's just lazy. It sends out the message that if you're meant to be awesome, you barely have to try. The right answer will come to you anyway. Of course, if it wasn't written that you'd be awesome, you're royally butt-fucked. Hooray!
Now, I don't mean to sound grumpy and imply that happy endings, especially forced ones, are necessarily bad. They work just fine in goofy movies such as A Life Less Ordinary (incidentally, another Boyle film) but in a gritty, realistic drama, ehhhh... that's asking too much from poor ol' Ms. Suspension of Disbelief.
Don't even get me started at the dancing scene at the end.
The Final Verdict:
2 out of 5 (Zelda) rupees.
TL;DR Version
Academy awards are becoming more and more like mercy fucks lately.
Holy crap, how overrated is this film? I don't mean to sound like the typical Internet critic douche, but come ON. Far from Boyle's finest, let alone the best film of 2008. Sure, it's better than the Beach, but what the Hell people.
My main gripe is the fact that it feels like there's a huge disconnect between the two parts of the movie, kind of a reverse La Vitta é Bella, in a sense. In this case, the first part is a gritty, dark and realistic drama, while the second part is something of a Bollywood farce with an old-Hollywood forced happy ending. But between the two, there's no real link, nothing that glues them together. Even the characters feel like completely different people.
I feel the need to emphasise just how forced the happy ending is. Of all the horrible clichés storytellers can use to pull their characters out of the shitholes they've dug for them, fate and predetermination are amongst the very worst. I don't mean to get all philosophical about the nature of choice and whether we are in control of our destinies, but as a storytelling technique alone, it's just lazy. It sends out the message that if you're meant to be awesome, you barely have to try. The right answer will come to you anyway. Of course, if it wasn't written that you'd be awesome, you're royally butt-fucked. Hooray!
Now, I don't mean to sound grumpy and imply that happy endings, especially forced ones, are necessarily bad. They work just fine in goofy movies such as A Life Less Ordinary (incidentally, another Boyle film) but in a gritty, realistic drama, ehhhh... that's asking too much from poor ol' Ms. Suspension of Disbelief.
Don't even get me started at the dancing scene at the end.
The Final Verdict:
2 out of 5 (Zelda) rupees.
TL;DR Version
Academy awards are becoming more and more like mercy fucks lately.
Monday, March 2
[WTF Monday] A new blog
It's been a long time coming, but I've finally started to finalize the changes I was talking about in my last post here, approximately 3000 years ago.
I decided that instead of changing this entire blog into a gaming-only blog, I would start a new one, and keep TotB for those occasions my brain feels like farting. So, I won't be abandoning this blog completely, but it will definitely not be updated as often as my new one which you can visit here:
Playing With Words
Catch you there!
I decided that instead of changing this entire blog into a gaming-only blog, I would start a new one, and keep TotB for those occasions my brain feels like farting. So, I won't be abandoning this blog completely, but it will definitely not be updated as often as my new one which you can visit here:
Playing With Words
Catch you there!
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