Iomega REV 70GB Disk 5-Pack - 33716

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 ""A kiss is louder than bombs"" 2007-09-03
By Patrick (Wisconsin, USA)
"If you want to blow your parents up I'll help you"
The dialog in this movie is just hilarious!!! They must have been cracking up when they wrote the script to this movie. I know I was when I was watching it.

$9.99 Poster Movie B 11x17 Josef Ber Tom Budge Joel Edgerton Leon Ford

Solar Shred

The Adventures of Agent Emes Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Pushka" [VHS]

Video display system user and maintenance manual: SPIKE system simulator (BER report)

Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill, Vol. 2

 "Lemper does Magnificant Weill, again and again and again" 2005-09-30
By B. Marold (Bethlehem, PA United States)
`Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill, Volumes 1 and 2' released in 1988 and 1993, plus the third album of Weill's two most important song cycles in German, `The Seven Deadly Sins' (`Die sieben Todsunden') and `Mahagonny Songspiel' released in 1990 unequivocally established Ms. Lemper as the leading Kurt Weill interpreter since Lotte Lenya, Weill's wife and the singer for whom many of his vocal pieces were written. These three disks, sample pieces from most major Weill works written in German, including his most famous musical play, `The Threepenny Opera' (`Die Dreigroschenoper').

The first disc has fourteen tracks with three from `Der Silbersee' with lyrics by Kaiser, three from `Die Dreigroschenoper' with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, two from `Berliner Requiem' with lyrics by Brecht, two from `Mahagonny' with lyrics by Mahagonny, `Je ne t'aime pas with French lyrics by Magre, and three from `One Touch of Venus' with English lyrics by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash.

The middle disc includes both works performed in their original German. After having listened to `The Seven Deadly Sins' done by several different artists, and having just reviewed a CD on which Anne Sofie von Otter does this work, I discover for the first time that the piece was written in two versions, one for a low voice and one for a high voice. Von Otter does the version for high voice and Lemper does the version for low voice that, I suspect, is the way it was originally performed by Fraulein Lenya. One service done by comparing Lemper and von Otter's performance is to see how much closer Lemper is to the original spirit of the work than is von Otter. Weill's venue was not the opera stages of Berlin or Vienna, it was the popular stage, actually much closer to what we see in the movie `Cabaret' than what we see in `Amadeus'. I enjoy von Otter's rendition, but Lemper stirs my heart where von Otter does not. Lemper also seems to have the benefit of a much better cast of supporting voices on the two works on Volume 1.

All albums are done with the backing of the RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta, conducted by John Mauceri who seems to get just the right tone of sleaze out of his ensemble to match the tone of the composition and lyrics by Weill and his various librettists, especially Berthold Brecht.

Volume 2 showcases Lemper's ability to sing with equal facility and understanding in German (Songs from `Happy End'), French (Songs from `Marie Galante'), and English (Songs from `Lady in the Dark'). While my understanding of French is far weaker than my understanding of the German and the English, when I compare Ms. Lemper's French interpretations with the French of Ms. Von Otter, I definitely prefer Lemper's treatment. She may not quite match Edith Piaf, but I feel she has a cachet all her own.

Lemper is a vocalist in that great European femme fatale tradition of Lenya, Piaf, and Dietrich and certainly to my lights the leading interpreter today of Weill's songs plus works by other European composers for the musical and cabaret (See her album `City of Strangers'). Compared to even some of the greatest contemporary American female vocalists on the stage such as Streisand and Minelli, both Yanks have their strength, but they can't or don't try to achieve the same depth of feeling behind the European `Weltschmertz' you hear from Lemper and her forerunners. The closest may be Minelli's performance as Sally Bowles in `Cabaret', but even there, she can't seem to hide her American innocence.

Of the three albums, the first of the three, `Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill' may be the best introduction, as it includes two of Weill's best English songs, `I'm a Stranger Here Myself' and `Speak Low'. The third, `Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill Vol. 2' has two of Weill's most famous German songs outside of `Die Dreigroschenoper', `Bilbao-Song' and `Surabaya-Johnny'.

If you encounter this review and have never heard Ute Lemper, I strongly urge you to try one of these albums. If the German and French turns you off, try Lemper's recent album, `Punishing Kiss'.

Very highly recommended.

Battlestations Midway

 "Great Game but lacking one essential" 2009-06-12
By Barry Weinzimmer (Jax, Fl)
The Good:
I bought this game last week. Installation went smoothly no problems there. I played a few missions and the hints that popped up were very helpful on teaching you how to play. The graphics I thought were excellent and the little movies of the war before every scenario were very engaging. Also, seeing sailors walking around the decks of the ship seem to give it a little more realism. You actually feel bad when you blow the ship up. LOL

I actually went online one time, waited a few minutes and someone joined my game. We had a huge ship battle, he beat me every time, but it was a blast.

The Bad:
Absolutely no joystick support for flying the aircraft. At least I couldnt find it. I have an X52 joystick and throttle control and there was no option to configure it. The only option was an XBox controller config. Go figure, its a microsoft game. There is a program called Xpadder that I heard you can download and configure your joystick. I will check it out and report back in.

Overall, it's a fun game where strategy and first person fighting goes hand to hand. I cant wait till I get better so I can play online more.
Very enjoyable game except for the no joystick support.

I highly recommend this game if you like strategy and fighting together.

Brother HL-2140 Personal Laser Printer

 "Small But Mighty" 2010-07-10
By Robert J. Greenberg
We use three of these printers for a small business. Although the printer is incredibly inexpensive, the cost per page (toner cost) is not the lowest. However this is an ultra reliable printer and the best we've seen for dealing with paper jams. Our employees are not very savvy at fixing paper jams, this printer rarely jams and when it does its easy to resolve by novices. We use the paper feed slot for occasionally printing full page labels and its hands down the easiest to use. We are phasing out our much more expensive Canon and HP laser printers and plan to purchase more of these.

Iomega Prestige 1.5 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34474

 "good product at a good price" 2010-07-21
By R. Siefken
Good product that arrived on time as promised. The included backup software is a bit annoying as it always runs on start-up/wake-up and is difficult to disable.