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GET INNOCUOUS! YOU CAN'T NORMALIZE DON'T IT MAKE YOU FEEL ALIVE. tugstugstugstugs. HAHAHA I'm so LSS with the soundtrack of Lagerfeld's Spring 2008 runway show. Maddie sent the link. So fahkeng addicting! Strut it strut it!
Anyhoo. I'm so gung-ho over over the Filmmaking and Cinema Studies graduate courses that the Singapore campus of NYU's Tisch School of Arts is offering. Maybe in three years? OH YEAH. Euro Cinema is showing in Shang (in Mandaluyong, to all of us Makati people), incidentally. From October 18 to 31, must find somebody to drag along. I want to spend the whole day inside the cinema, sunlight be damned! Scheds could be found here
(Hmmm I need to find out who of my friends are on Livejournal. HAHAHA. It just feels rather pointless maintaining this pseudo blog when I have my Multiply one, which more friends get to read. This is like, a random outlet. An unread one at that, haha. Oh well papel.)
I'm watching Letters from Iwo Jima online. I know, shame on me. I'm too lazy to buy a dvd. It really shocks me that Clint Eastwood directed it; I'll never be used to percieving him as a filmmaker. But so far, its good. It draws you in right from the opening scene of present Iwo Jima. It's very personal and intimate, an anti-thesis to the stereotypical formulaic violence in most war movies. And I think it's a bonus that it's all in Japanese, with English subtitles. It's all about the nuance, as my professor would say.
I'm not a big fan of war movies, but Letters from Iwo Jima would probably (and rightfully) be an exception. Plus (plus plus plus plus), Ninomiya Kazunari is one of the main actors. He plays Saigo. Who knew he could act so well? Nino nino nino, those sad beautiful eyes. YOU WERE SO STUNNING, NINO. He acts so well, I kept on expecting to subconsciously hear him sing J-pop Arashi songs (yes he's part of the Japanese boyband I so love) and see him fooling around with the boys like what is so typically him, but the moment never comes. He is completely and thoroughly Saigo during the movie.
I am completely engrossed with his story, and as with all the characters'. It's a different glimpse of WWII, a different perspective of the supposedly tyrannical Japanese during that era. They have stories to tell too. Wow carried away much? Hahaha I just love it.
Off I trot to lick off the melted remnants of Dutch pralines on my fingers. And eat more. YUM. I love pasalubongs! (Mum & Dad just got back from Europe, missed them.) Here are some pics from their trip.
But I want to go to Paris too! :(
This looks like Lucerne or Rome. Nice shot, dad. :)
:(( Prettiness! Nice picture again by dad.
The visual nosebleed that is Amsterdam. Still so breathtaking.
Just because it's such an unexpected shot. My dad might really be better at me in photography, which would be a shame because I'm studying it fervently, lugging around my SLR all day, while he's taking gorgeous pics with just a small digicam! HAHA.
And another!
GREECE! The ruins! Now that's one place I haven't been to that I have to see before I die.
Anyway. It was good for them to have a break. Just wish I wasn't in school and was with them instead, haha. I could just imagine how trigger-happy I'll be with just my digital SLR and a ticket to Greece or Switzerland. GOSH.
Anyhoo. I'm so gung-ho over over the Filmmaking and Cinema Studies graduate courses that the Singapore campus of NYU's Tisch School of Arts is offering. Maybe in three years? OH YEAH. Euro Cinema is showing in Shang (in Mandaluyong, to all of us Makati people), incidentally. From October 18 to 31, must find somebody to drag along. I want to spend the whole day inside the cinema, sunlight be damned! Scheds could be found here
(Hmmm I need to find out who of my friends are on Livejournal. HAHAHA. It just feels rather pointless maintaining this pseudo blog when I have my Multiply one, which more friends get to read. This is like, a random outlet. An unread one at that, haha. Oh well papel.)
I'm watching Letters from Iwo Jima online. I know, shame on me. I'm too lazy to buy a dvd. It really shocks me that Clint Eastwood directed it; I'll never be used to percieving him as a filmmaker. But so far, its good. It draws you in right from the opening scene of present Iwo Jima. It's very personal and intimate, an anti-thesis to the stereotypical formulaic violence in most war movies. And I think it's a bonus that it's all in Japanese, with English subtitles. It's all about the nuance, as my professor would say.
I'm not a big fan of war movies, but Letters from Iwo Jima would probably (and rightfully) be an exception. Plus (plus plus plus plus), Ninomiya Kazunari is one of the main actors. He plays Saigo. Who knew he could act so well? Nino nino nino, those sad beautiful eyes. YOU WERE SO STUNNING, NINO. He acts so well, I kept on expecting to subconsciously hear him sing J-pop Arashi songs (yes he's part of the Japanese boyband I so love) and see him fooling around with the boys like what is so typically him, but the moment never comes. He is completely and thoroughly Saigo during the movie.
I am completely engrossed with his story, and as with all the characters'. It's a different glimpse of WWII, a different perspective of the supposedly tyrannical Japanese during that era. They have stories to tell too. Wow carried away much? Hahaha I just love it.
Off I trot to lick off the melted remnants of Dutch pralines on my fingers. And eat more. YUM. I love pasalubongs! (Mum & Dad just got back from Europe, missed them.) Here are some pics from their trip.
But I want to go to Paris too! :(
This looks like Lucerne or Rome. Nice shot, dad. :)
:(( Prettiness! Nice picture again by dad.
The visual nosebleed that is Amsterdam. Still so breathtaking.
Just because it's such an unexpected shot. My dad might really be better at me in photography, which would be a shame because I'm studying it fervently, lugging around my SLR all day, while he's taking gorgeous pics with just a small digicam! HAHA.
And another!
GREECE! The ruins! Now that's one place I haven't been to that I have to see before I die.
Anyway. It was good for them to have a break. Just wish I wasn't in school and was with them instead, haha. I could just imagine how trigger-happy I'll be with just my digital SLR and a ticket to Greece or Switzerland. GOSH.