Well, it's that time of the year when my wife and I meet up with her colleague and her husband for dinner. We've dined at MeMu (a now-closed Michelin-starred restaurant) and Vedelsborg (also closed) in the past. This year, we opted for Restaurant Nögen, located at the same spot as MeMu.
Read more…I've seen this post by Haris Pašović, a theater director, in which he mentions Damir Uzunović, a Bosnian poet, and his poem Nokturno:
Read more…Here's the list of some of the media I consumed in April 2024. Mostly, it's films, books, articles, and videos.
- Skeptic: Paul Halpern — Extra dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and the sense that all we see might not be all there is. In short, we can’t stop thinking about the multiverse.
- The last crimes of Caravaggio. My favorite painter, but also a troubled character.
- 12 Ways Gen X’s Views Clash with Millennials and Boomers.
- Badinerie - Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Here's the list of some of the media I consumed in March 2024. Mostly, it's films, books, articles, and videos.
- Stop Filming Everything You Do For Social Media. The title says it all - don't sell your life off so cheaply to strangers and corporations.
- 5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity.. Linux has been my choice of operating system for almost five years, and apparently it is slowly gaining more popularity. It's good.
- Book Recommendations by famous people.
- 30 Movies So Bad, They're Actually Really Good. Yeah, The Room is the legend!
- Bayon - Stell dich mitten in den Regen. I like this song from Bayon, a prog rock band from DDR.
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Amra and I went to a concert in Kolding last Friday. It was the concert where an orchestra played many Hans Zimmer soundtracks from movies like Top Gun, Dune, The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar and others.
It was fun listening to many fabulous tracks from one of my favorite film composers, but the orchestra also played a few compositions of Ennio Moricone (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly).
My favorite Hans Zimmer soundtracks are Gladiator and Interstellar. Hvala, Amra!
Krajem marta ove godine i početkom aprila sam bio u Bosni, jer za vrijeme Uskrsa imam kraći odmor. Te dane sam iskoristio da sa ocem odemo do našeg rodnog grada, Bosanskog Šamca. Jedan dan smo otišli u Brčko, a kadgod svratim u "glavni" grad Posavine, navratim i u knjižaru Knjigoljubac. U knjižari sam sreo zaposlenika, pa smo tako upali u priču. Ispostavilo se da se radi o pjesniku Almiru Zalihiću, te da je taj dan pomagao u trgovini svome sinu, koji je zapravo vlasnik knižare. I tako su dva pjesnika pričali o svemu u tih petnaestak minuta.
Read more…I drove 1,750 kilometers from Denmark to Bosnia with my dad. It went really smoothly, without any issues on the road. The trip to Bosnia took only 18 hours. We visited our hometown Bosanski Šamac. We stayed there for about eight-nine days, and then we drove back to Denmark again. We were together with my uncle, who still lives in the town, and we also visited Gradačac and Brčko. We had a great weather in Šamac, it was between 25 and 28 degrees.
View at the eastern part of Bos. Šamac.
Quo Vadis, Aida? is a touching and powerful film that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in recent European history. Directed by Jasmila Žbanić, this Bosnian war drama takes us back to 1995 during the Bosnian War when the UN-designated safe area of Srebrenica was tragically overrun by fascist Serbian forces.
Aida doing everything to protect her family.
Here's the list of some of the media I consumed in February 2024. Mostly, it's films, books, articles, and videos.
* Kafu mi draga ispeci performed by Damir Imamović. Dad used to sing and whistle this song occasionally when I was a boy, and that's why I love it so much. The image of my father humming this old song as he prepares to leave the apartment is deeply, deeply etched in my head and evokes pleasant, warm emotions. It reminds me of my wonderful childhood, my good father and my late mother whom he always loved immensely. I also remember an early dawn. I was six or seven years old. It's still dark outside, and I woke up in my grandma's apartment, who was probably preparing breakfast in the kitchen, and Predrag Gojković Cune is singing this remarkable song on the radio.
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In religious studies, few topics are as controversial as the origins of Christianity. One of the most interesting figures in this narrative is the apostle Paul. His influence on the early Christian movement is undeniable. In his book, “The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity,” Hyam Maccoby delves into the historical context surrounding Paul's life and teachings, offering a critical perspective on his role in shaping the Christian faith.
Read more…Ovo je tekst o mojoj mami, koja je napustila ovaj svijet 15. maja 2021. Znači, trebalo mi je preko dvije i po godine da se saberem, konačno smognem snage da napišem ovaj tekst o njoj. A nije da nisam imao želju i prije. Zapravo, samo nekoliko dana nakon njene smrti, počeo sam pisati bilješke, činjenice o njoj i male detalje, jer sam se bojao da ću ih vremenom zaboraviti. Vjerovatno sam, podsvjesno, htio na taj način da je “zadržim” duže u životu, kroz sjećanja i pominjanju nje i njenih djela. Čak sam pravio plan da napravim podcast od tri-četiri epizode sa bratom u kojem bi govorili o mami, ocu i generalno o našoj porodici od našeg djetinjstva do danas, ali bi polazna i centralna tačka bila mama, jer je upravo ona to bila u našoj familiji. Mama je uvijek znala kada neko ima rođendan ili godišnjicu, i uvijek je podsjećala oca i nas sinove kada neko ima rođendan da se sjetimo da mu čestitamo i sl.
Read more…When I decided to switch from Windows to Linux sometime in late summer of 2019, my biggest gripe was that I would not be able to play Far Cry 5, a video game that I was very much into at the time. However, it didn't prevent me from switching. Well, almost four years later, I can report that the game works fabulously in Linux.
A true first-person shooter.