I always heard that a book is 100 times better than a movie based on the book. After reading Memoirs of a Geisha and Interview with a Vampire I came to the same conclusion.

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

I first read the book then I saw the movie. Arthur Golden describes the poor house, the village, Chiyo’s mother in a dramatic way and her sister a bit older. When I read the book I imagined a house that’s one second away from falling apart, a sick woman that looks more like a skeleton and Chiyo’s eyes lighter. In the movie the house doesn’t look at all that poor and the girl’s eyes are not Blue-Grey as Arthur described. Also the thing I hated about the movie was the fact that they gave little attention to the tea ritual and the art of make up and kimono.

There were also misinterpretations of mizuage, the ceremony which Arthur Golden said in his book that consists in deflowering the geisha. In fact the truth is that this ceremony means that the geisha has come to adulthood which consists in changing her hairstyle and clothing.

Anyway, I liked the book better.

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

I read the book after I watched the movie. When I first saw Interview with a Vampire it gave me the chills. The room was dark, everybody was asleep, outside a storm was messing with the town and I was watching Brad Pitt as Louis and Tom Cruise as Lestat sucking blood out of young ladies. Yes, the movie is great but there are things in the book that are much better described and some interesting scenes were cut out of the movie. I guess the movie is just too long and they had to cut something out to make it shorter.

Yes, the book is way much better than the movie. That if you still read books!

If you hate Valentine’s Day and you want to let everybody know that here are some perfect Valentine’s Day presents.

If you’re a man and you’re involved in a relationship, you could give your girl a heart mouse. It shows that you love her and the subtle message is something like “I think you should stop bugging me with all those <what is that girl doing in your Hi5 account?> questions!”

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Qtrax is going to allow people to download and keep about 25 million song from all over the world. from: TimesOnline

Unfortunately, three major music labels have denied having some sort of agreements with Qtrax upon file sharing free service. I bet they fear they’ll be all out of jobs. from BBC.co.uk

Michael Jackson tries a new career comeback. The train wreck singer wants to remind people about one of his greatest hits The Girl Is Mine and he will release a new version of the song. I guess we’ll have to see how the public will react to Jacko’s comeback. also from TimesOnline.

Britney had another breakdown. It seems that Sam Lutfi thinks that Brit’s new boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, has a negative influence upon the wrecked singer and if he stick’s around more he might even get her killed. Besides, even Sam admitted Britney is suffering from “mental issues” Oh, well just leave Britney alone … with her dog! Poor creature! from theDailyMail and Yahoo News!

Nicole Richie is skinny again! Somebody please hand this lady a mirror. She looks dreadful like that. I wonder if she breastfed her baby! from theDailyMail.

If you were wondering what can journalism learn from porn, here’s your answer. From 10000words.net.

On Weburbanist.com you can see 7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union. This site is just amazing, I fell for it the moment I entered it!

Angelina Jolie and boyfriend (or should I say hubby?) Brad Pitt went to the Screen Actors Guild Awards and her outfit left room for questions. Is she really pregnant? Is she really going to have twins? So many questions and no answer. I think the media should leave them alone have their babies in quiet. from omg.yahoo.com

Take a look at who was hot and who wasn’t on the red carpet. On ABCNews 

His name is Dan Berte and he’s the man that has launched Givedanabuck.com site.

What is it about? He’s trying to make a million bucks from people around the world (yes, that means that one million people would have to give him a buck).

What is the point of the site? Well as far as I read on his site I really don’t think he wants to make all that money for a new car and a five level house. After he will succeed with his project he wants to invest the money in a new web project (I don’t know any details yet, but I’ll keep you posted).

So, the point is: if you want to help just give Dan one dollar, that’s all he needs. It’s very easy and he accepts PayPal.

By the way, this reminds me of the guy that wished for 5 million visitors on his page so he could get laid. But I think Dan is not a virgin anymore and gets laid anyhow!

Isn’t it fun? I must admit, I really thought PayPal looks different, more like a business man.
I’m feeling lucky!

• Steve Jobs and Co. launched the new MacBook Air. It’s slimmer, looks much better, it’s more flexible and light and … it’s Apple. You can see a video about the new slim MacBook Air.

• Also the Congress Library has posted many photos from the archive on Flickr. Apparently it’s some sort of project to show the world what great pictures the Congress has in the Library. Here’s one of those awesome photos already posted on Flickr.

• If you love your dog but cannot understand him this is your lucky century. Some Hungarian scientists have developed a software that translated your dog’s crawls, barks etc. I would suggest you to be careful with this brand new discovery because I’m sure some dogs will not feel comfy now that people can understand them. I wonder if Paris Hilton’s dog could talk what would he say? Or will he be able to act like a normal dog? Read the article on BBC. Woof!

• Fans of Scrabulous have put out campaign to save their favorite game from being removed from Facebook. Why would they want this popular game removed?! I tell you, this seems to be more serious than the writers strike. By the way, why did the writers go on strike? Oh, money … must be funny in a rich man’s world! The Facebook users have nothing to lose but their favorite game. Read more about Scrabulous and Facebook on BBC!