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With his typical dry humor, Derren Brown shares surprisingly much information about his ‘Tricks Of The Mind‘ in his bestseller with the same title. If you’re fascinated by Derren Brown and want to know what makes him tick, this is your chance. He gives away tricks where you can amaze your friends with, even without feeding them some strong drinks first.

In a pleasant manner he reveals very amazing memory and card tricks. He gives a very useful insight into hypnoses. You discover what a damn clever person he is. More important is that you will be amazed by your own ability of memorizing. For example: write a list of 20 words and number them from 1 to 20. Give it to somebody and let them read the numbers in a random order. Just like the other person wants. You will be able to name every word what stands behind every number. You can also do it with 100 or more words. There are no limits.

I can absolute recommend it, just like Derrens award winning British tv-show ‘Tricks Of The Mind’. If you never heard about this guy you should go right now to Youtube and watch some of the video’s. There are many and be warned it’s addictive, so it can happen that you go to bed very late tonight!

Unbelievable, but this short haired guy on this picture is me precisely one year ago. It’s taken of my ‘Happy 2008′ video I published on Viddler. Even though my positive behavior I remember that I was shaking deep inside, because I knew there where some challenges ahead I wasn’t sure I could take. My situation was on the edge, because I was waiting for my tenants to leave. Even though they were a guarantee that I could pay my mortage I decided to say good bye to them. Because I knew that I wouldn’t get a monthly paycheck until the end of the year, I knew I had to build my own business and use all my creativity to face those challenges.
To be honest, while I was doing all the best wishes to my fellows of NaNoWriMo, Viddler and Twitter, I was afraid that I wouldn’t get the chance to do so one year later. (more…)

Of course I wish you all the best for the new year, but I guess you could get tired to read it as a headline in the most first posts of the year all over the world. That’s why I want to start this blogging year with the a short experience I had with the German police on the evening of December 27:

On the “third” Christmas day I had to go home by train from Heemskerk (what’s in the north of the Netherlands, I think) to Heerlen (that’s where I live). Simone and I were in Heemskerk during the Christmas days at her parents place and because I had work to do, I decided to go home earlier. The trip home went well. When I arrived in the evening I noticed that I was completely forgotten to eat. Yes, this happens on a regular base, but I don’t ignore my belly when it makes weird noises. (more…)

If you read this title of the today’s Wednesday Movie Review, you can already guess that I watched recently the 1997 remake of the literary movie LOLITA with Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain.

Together with my girlfriend I enjoyed every single one of the in total 137 minutes of the movie. Just like Leone would have done, Adrian Lyne took these shots that told the story together with the music, written and orchestrated by Ennio Morricone. This is one of the reasons that this movie made a lasting impression on me. The story by Vladimir Nabokov, the acting, the music, just everything bit is a masterpiece. That’s why I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars if you ask me. And you do ask me (smirk).

After watching the movie I was searching like a maniac for a trailer on Youtube and other places on the web, but I couldn’t find any. But luckily I found something else for you: some users on Youtube were so friendly to share some lost scenes and screen test from the movie. This way I can embed in this last post of the year some extra material.

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