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soundtrack: Don’t Ask Me - Ok Go
Since the day it began, I never understood all the hype, especially as it grew and then exploded, surrounding around Snakes on a Plane. I suspect that I’ll probably end up watching it one day on DVD with a bunch of other friends + some drinks because I’m simply not interested in the film itself.
However, I can’t, even after three viewings, watch Samuel L. Jackson’s interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart without grinning by the end of the thing. The way that Jackson and Stewart play and interact is so, dare I say it, cute. The two of them are such characters in and of themselves that watching them have fun like this just makes me admire them more than the other stuffy, full-of-themselves actors who are too afraid to let themselves go have a little fun or spend all their time trying to prove they are entertainers via loud offscreen lifestyles rather than actual onscreen talents (*coughHiltonLohancough*).
Jackson, I’m sure, knows what he’s doing, and being as seasoned an actor as he is, he has all the right to do so. He’s got a good percentage of a generation laughing along with him, and there’s nothing really horrible bad about that now, is there?
(A nice and decent blogger would post up a link to the interview video on YouTube, but as I am sick of the hype around YouTube, all you competent webnesters can go find it yourselves. You know how to use a search bar…no?)
August 17 2006 | Uncategorized and films | No Comments »
Somewhere during the last computer crash, a large portion of my bookmarks got erased/moved into new folders.
Majority of bookmarks lost were for shopping and manga. Wonder if I’ll ever find them again…T_T
August 14 2006 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Today, for no particular reason obvious to me yet, all of a sudden, I felt very plain.
I can’t define yet just what exactly I mean by “plain.”
Something - perhaps the same thing that led me to feel this way in the first place - tells me that I won’t be able to.
August 14 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
soundtrack: the squeaking roof
The internet and computer have decided to conspire against me and take turns misbehaving. This accounts for the lack of writings.
Apologies?
The upstairs neighbour is proving to be very squeaky. I’m inches from just knocking on their door and asking why they are so bloody squeaky? Is the neighbour particularly heavyset thus causing for noisy depressions as they step or is it a heavy bed or chair?
The apartment is still being compiled so there is a massive need for feng shuei here. The dishwasher repair request still hasn’t been answered after a week so there are dirty, albeit rinsed, dishes abound. We’ve taken to using paper plates and bowls and plastic utensils. Mr. Cat has also taken to mewling outside my door to wake me up when the roommates are asleep and he’s hungry/wants attention as well as camping outside the bathroom door if he’s asked for attention, but I, instead, walk out of my room and into the bathroom instead. He’s still super cute anyway.
A few days back, the ‘h’ key on the computer snapped off. I got it back on successfully, but it is ridiculously sensitive now. So pretty much any key I tap is at risk for setting off the ‘h’. Every time I tap the ‘h’, I am at risk of typing at least one more ‘h’ in the process.
Computer has also decided to not read the camera at all no matter how many different combinations of order of plugging the thing in I try. Thus, I can’t download any photos off my all-too-full card. Photos accompanying posts are from googleimages for the time being.
Got an ant bite on my foot the day before yesterday and my foot is swollen to twice its usual size and itching like hell.
good times.
On the other hand, and not as a result of any of the above but instead as a result of copious amounts of drama, frustration, loss of motivation, and lots of being shoved offs, usual happykiyo is giving way to one who feels more useless and lonely than anything else.
Is there anything cheery and superhappy happening, you ask?
hmm….nope.
Regular, more useful and non-whiny posts due to return when things stabilize. Promise. Brainwaves under construction as they are suffering technical difficulties. Please pardon the dust.
August 09 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
soundtrack: This is Love - Utada Hikaru
Things don’t start hurting until they end. My current position is depressing, but more confusing, I suppose.
My biggest question has been answered, though, and that gives me a little peace.
Am I being too mysterious? Hehehe…I guess that may be the idea. I’m not really wont to talk about it online…
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Days have been more eventful than I expected. Details in the other writingspace. It’s not really important. However, in this time, I have watched many movies, listened to one new album, done atrocious amounts of shopping (meaning I’ve spent atrocious amounts of money as well *coughs at the $43 she had to spend on gas today), haggled with lots of technology and something else that I can’t remember right now. There’s always something else, ne?
Anyways, some thoughts on things…potential spoilers, of course, but I’ll try to keep them down:
Album: Black Holes and Revelations by Muse
thoughts: The album seems to be reaching for some far off jewel, but right before they reached the prize, all three band members looked around and said, “Not quite yet, mate. Let’s snatch it in the next work.” I didn’t find it as BRILLIANT as many of the reviews I read, but Muse is definitely up to something daring and new. And damn do they do it well. The album feels groundbreaking in the manner that you toss a floatie into a still pool - it lands, splashes a bit, and then sends ripples of emotion through you - and perhaps the rock world as we know it - and it’s going to stay like that. Some songs offered breaths of fresh, interesting, and alluring air, while a few are stagnant, but of no fault of their own. The album as an entirety, is mostly confused and disjointed at first. Songs don’t lead into other songs well, but after a few listens, it’s not as jarring. I admit having cheated and listened to a bunch of songs off the album before I heard it as a whole, though, so that may have a hand in the thought. However, by the time the album ends, I felt like it functioned even despite its obvious flaws, which slowly fade into memory.
All tracks stand alone very well. Starlight is a particular gem while others such as City of Delusion and Knights of Cydonia make you giggle as Muse tosses you into philosophical and tastefully overblown, overdone corners. Supermassive Black Hole is decidedly sexy as Assassin portrays the Muse that fans know and love so well. Never does Bellamy’s vocals fail and his driving force of a voice added to the complete artistry of the songs, only when taken out of the context of the entire album, makes this album very much worth its listening time. Yes, flawed, but still deserving respect and its own place in musical rock history.
Film: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
thoughts: Fun and entertaining (and relatively old, I know). I enjoyed how there was just the barest bones of romantic development and instead, the focus stayed on the wedding and its effects on the family…which is the point. Right?
Good writing and acting was convincing. Nia Vardalos in particular was delightful, but I won’t deny that I spent a large portion of the movie hoping that John Corbett would eventually wash his hair.
Film: Shaun of the Dead
thoughts: The film has its moments and is quite brilliant in some ways. And since I still can’t decipher British accents as well as I’d like, I would probably want to see it again with subtitles. After all, the writing is very good, but I just couldn’t enjoy it after one particularly horrible and scarring scene regarding organs leaving bodies. Which makes me question if I still want to watch it again…with subtitles. I never was a horror, even in its tiniest bits, fan.
Recommended if you can take that sort of thing anyway.
…and that’s enough of that.
Film: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
thoughts: Haven’t finished it yet since I started watching it at around a few minutes past midnight, right after Shaun of the Dead, as to…cleanse, my mind, so to speak. Sadly, I was too tired to really enjoy it as it probably should be, so I shall finish it in the near future with hopes that I won’t be so tired then.
Thus far, opening sequence is hilarious, the actress playing Trillian is a bit distracting because she’s so pretty while I always imagined Trillian somewhat plainer and not as perky, and Martin Freeman…well, I just like him. Alan Rickman as Marvin was fantastic move. I have a lot more to say about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the movie) but no right to say that much since I haven’t seen all of it.
Film: Brick
thoughts: An excellent and rather amazing film in all its own right. I must watch this film again with subtitles, but I wonder if it will still be as gripping as when I saw it…oh, about an hour ago. The language, perhaps the most notable trait of Brick, is not new to the movie world (They talk in old 1920s-30s film noir lingo.) but in the present day setting created the creepy, but dazzling, sensation of watching a dark underworld, as it indeed is a story of one. Here, I can state without hesitation that while it may seem odd at first, the film eventually winds itself into something quite brilliant indeed.
Rian Johnson does not shy from artistry in the least. The frames are shadowy, reflective, symbolic, and beautiful. The images stick with you just as much as the engrossing, but slightly predictable story. Even the promotional posters are gorgeous. The evidently young cast is talented and Joseph Gordon-Leavitt cannot go without note for his work.
Highly recommended.
August 03 2006 | Uncategorized and films and music | No Comments »
