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David Eddings has passed away

Fantasy writer David Eddings has passed away at the age of 77. He passed away june 2nd.

He wrote some really nice fantasy series, including The Belgariad and The Malloreon series.

Taken

They kidnapped his daughter, now he is looking for her. He’s a bit grumpy and doesn’t let anything, or anyone, stand in his way.

The movie is about Bryan Mills (played by Liam Neeson) and his quest for finding his kidnapped daughter Kim (played by Maggie Grace) and bringing her safely home again. Being a former CIA agent, Bryan knows how to find people. And he’s got connections.

It all starts when Kim wants to go to Paris with a friend, Amanda. Since Kim is only 17 she needs Bryan to sign a paper saying she’s allowed to leave the country. Bryan and Kim’s mother Lenore are divorced and Kim is staying at her mothers and her new husband, Stuart. At first Bryan says no, but the next day he visits them with the signed paper. He has a few conditions though, one being Kim calls him when they land in Paris, he even giver her a phone for the purpose. Kim being a teenager forgets about this. Bryan worries and even calls Lenore to see if Kim has called her. Lenore says not to worry, Kim is young and in Paris. They both think Kim and Amanda stays at Amanda’s cousins. They are, the thing is the cousins are in Spain so they are on their own.

Eventually Bryan gets a hold of Kim, so he starts to calm down and tell Kim that she promised to call. Then the worst thing that could happen happens. While on the phone with each other a couple men comes in and grabs Amanda. Kim sees this through the bathroom window, the flat is sort of L shaped. Bryan knows they will eventually get Kim as well….

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There should be no more downtime….

I switched to a paid plan at my host recently. I hope everything was transferred smoothly and that all things still work as expected. Should you ever run into any problems, be sure to let me know. You can use the form under Contact Us or send an email to: webmaster[at]annas-playground[dot]info.

Within the next few days I hope that I will relaunch this blog with a new and updated theme, it’s long overdue already.

Takida

The original setup was done in 1999 under the name Tender and had three members. In 2000 they changed to Takida and released their first record, a 5 track demo album named Old.

Currently Takida consists of Robert Pettersson (vocals), Tomas Wallin (guitar), Mattias Larsson (guitar,) Fredrik Pålsson (bass) and Kristoffer Söderström (drums).

In 2005 they were signed to their first record label and released their debut album, Make You Breathe (released in April 2006 in Sweden). They had before that released some material on their own, one full album and four singles.

Their latest album, Bury the lies was released in 2007 and they had a number one hit in Sweden with the second single, Curly Sue, from that album. Curly Sue was number one for 10 weeks.

You can view a couple videos at their MySpace page: www.myspace.com/takidamusic

Hancock

Hancock

When we first meet Hancock (played by Will Smith) he’s a sleep on a bench near a window that displays TV:s, and the TV:s does show a news clip where police are engaged in a car chase on the highway.

Hancock is waken up by a kid who wants to show him that there’s a car chase on the TV. Hancock slowly starts to wake up, showing very little interest in both the TV and the kid. Once he get up he takes a few drinks from a bottle he picks up from under the bench.

Eventually he fly of with the bottle in his hand, to help catch the bad guys.

Being in a state between hungover and drunk he doesn’t make the best choice in how to assist the police though. The bad guys are caught and put behind bars in the end, but the public opinion seem to be he should have stayed away and let the police do their job… Read the rest of this entry »