samu't saring muni-muni

i thought of writing lots of thoughts but the days seem to whiz by so that's why i'm left on the sidewalk of soliloquy again. whatevah.

thought number one: kill bill volume 1 is hollywood homicide.
discuss.

ayoko na yata. daming friends kong type yung film, pero i just can't seem to get the energy to appreciate this tarantado-este, tarantino flick -- or any other flicks of his, for that matter. call it biased, but eh, there's the rub. so there. but o-ren is cool. yeh. maybe volume 2 will change my mind, but i still have to see...

and don't get me started on hollywood homicide. parang ito yung film na, 'dali, puwede na yang script kasi bukas na ang first shooting day at playdate na natin 40 days from now so no need to fuss over details like STORY and PLOTTING!'

hay hollywood. all that glitters is not gold, mostly, er, stainless steel.

which brings me to revolutions.

thought number two: the matrix revolutions is a war film. it sucked. discuss.

one word: chaka.
most chaka dialogue ever: what do you want sabi ng machine chuva, sabi ni neo: peace.

dude, sana nag-flash ka rin ng 'v' sign with your fingers, like totally. waaaah chaka! saka bakit niyo pinatay si---oops, sorry, don't wanna be a spoilsport. pero hindi rin. o sya sige eto na. STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS.

bakit nyo pinatay si trinity? okay, fine, tuyot look na siya from reloaded, pero bumalik naman ang glow niya dito sa revolutions. pero hindi pa rin. the sole purpose of her life chuva is to help this man ek with his messianic (tama ba spelling?) mission to be the one or to be neo or to be the neo one. waaaaaw not so very feminist, stand by my man ang drama nya, even if she's more kickass than him, and a better actor, better emoting face, better deliverer of dialogue, better costume (still love that shiny leather trench coat thingie thang, grl!) waah at namatay lang sya sa tentacles ng sentinels... waaah lugi, i want my money back! di man sya namatay in a kickass way! waaah lugi!

which brings me to: bakit nabuhay si niobe? kala ko may-i-type-type sya sa laptop nya sa reloaded tapos *wuft* biglang na-turn off ang power kasi tinira yung logos ship niya eklavu so we assume ded na sya tapos in revolutions here she comes just walking down the street saying 'hello, morpheus.' ngyah! tapos sya ang pinaka-kickass dito sa film, with her piloting technique, grabe kaka-- :)

which brings me to morpheus, who suddenly morphed into being keanu reeves! nahawa sya ng wooden acting, chaka emoting face, crappy dialogue, at sidekick na lang sya ever dito ni niobe. ano ba yun? where was the philosophical thoughts-spitting leader-leader-an nila ek? wow, true to his name, nag-morph talaga sya to keanu. baaaad.

which brings me to: persephone. walang role si ex-malena girl dito kundi ipakita ang gigantic boobs nya. bhakhet? mukha siyang animé fantasy. hello. pero i like the nightclub of the frenchman, ha, parang gay and lesbian babylon! harharhar! or haven't you seen the myriad of guy-guy couples and girl-girl couples in that scene? i kinda enjoyed that heheh. watch it again if you missed it!

haay tama na nga yan. dami pang chika pero the war is over, the war is over, neo did it. wengk wengk. waaaah gusto ko maglaslas. chakaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

now i can't wait for alfonso cuaron's harry potter 3 tuloy. heheh, y tu magician tambien ang drama ditoh heheh. and my favorite new zealander's third installment of the whyisthisliterature tolkien's series.

la lang...

which brings me to chloe sevigny.

heheh ang layo. wala lang, we watched IF THESE WALLS COULD SPEAK 2 last night, finally! tagal nun no. at tuwang-tuwa ako kay chloe kasi ang cute-cute niyang butch fafa!!!!!! for those who don't remember her, she's the jowa of brandon teena, that character na portray ni hilary swank sa BOYS DON'T CRY film which won her an academy award for best actress. yeba! si chloe yung girlfriend niya dito. anyway, talagang wow! kami kagabi kasi ang galeng galang nyang mag-play ng butch! sobra!! and hey, ganda nung topic ng segment nila kasi 1972 and they set it on the brink of the clash between feminists and lesbian feminists, yung ine-exclude ng feminists yung lesbians kasi iba naman daw ang issues ng lesbians sa feminist. like, helloooo, pero yes, admittedly, this is the biggest glitch of the feminist movement, even here naman eh. oh well. dapat ipalabas nila ito sa isis watch it series. cool din yung una, nakakaiyak at talaga po namang pinipiga ang puso mo, story of lola lesbians na namatay yung isa at pinapa-evacuate yung other ng relatives ng namatay kasi yung bahay na tinirhan nila for 40 years lang naman ay inaari ng legal family. sucks to high heaven, but rings a painful familiar bell and strikes home talaga. argh. yung third, okay sana, i love ellen degeneres' wit as always, pero the episode was marred by the thought na ick, written and directed by anne heche ito. psycholo numero uno. wah. but sharon stone was cool.

hey another film i just got to watch lately is HULK ni ang lee. as usual, ang lee rules!!!!!!!!!!! galing ng film, loved loved loved the editing technique, best i've seen in the last 3 years or so from hollywood editing. galeng! makes you look at the images like you\'re reading comic book panels, creative way of showing two or three sides of one scene all at once. galeng!!!!!!!! the hulk looked real, eric bana didn't. ano ba to, kapatid ni keanu? o kaklase niya sa wooden school of acting? fotah. batchmate din nila si david duchovny i'm sure.

which brings me to...


hoy, please vote:

CNN QUICKVOTE
Should the Massachusetts Legislature move to allow same-sex marriages?
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YES! si bush dine-defend na naman ang sanctity ng marriage at dapat daw between a man and a woman lang daw ang marriage at family. fotah. parang season 3 ng QAF. hay, to quote justin "if only there were a real Rage to change people's minds..."

ding, ang bato!

*phooof*

got a lotta lana

was thinking of doing tons of stuff here today at home but i ended up vegging out in front of the tv. the out-of-this-world lure of pirated dvds engulfed me, and i had to succumb to disc one of SMALLVILLE season one. and here we are.

yes, i finished all four episodes, interesting history there, and quite a playful story arc to develop. can't believe the story ran on simple rules, energized by possibilities beyond reality. diba, x-ray vision, man of steel, FLYING! after all, it is superman's story. but that's how you take an old, if not tired, thing and spin it back and give it new life. that's what they did here. also what they did with other stories, series, and all, like DARK ANGEL, CSI, and ALIAS. unlike here. been also monitoring QUEER AS FOLK season 3 (yes, i have a copy na!!!!!!! vcd nga lang. henryyyyyy!!!!!!!! exciting! pero di ko pa mapanood lahat kasi i've to wait for m to come back from a trip). bakit sila nakakadevelop ng mga ganoong shows? unlike here, the first sign of difference or originality shakes the execs to the core. isn't film and television about reinvention? after all, television is indeed a reinvention of film. oh well, i could go on and on about that, but i don't want to.


it's always nice to write something right after i've seen some stuff, a new movie or play or tv show, because the energies flow like crazy, like now. it's just that sometimes, other things bug you down, but i know i shouldn't let them. or else, i'd be forever stuck with the first 15 sequences of my myriads of scripts and first couple of paragraphs of my myriad of short stories. speaking of which, i just discovered the other day that those sparks of stories i had before stashed somewhere in my pc got wiped out. my beb told me not to worry about them for i will think of some new ones. yeah, but i just regret some of the sparks i had there, they were really very good, not to make buhat the bangko or anything like that naman here ha. even i am amazed that i produced them, 'lam mo 'yun? and as i recall, some of those sparks were made under the influence of some liquid or other. haha. strange, in an edgar allan poe-ish or ernest hemingway-ish kind of way. oh well. why can't i be like virginia woolf who was contented with a stick of cigarette as she wrote great opening lines?

"Mrs. dalloway said she will buy the flowers herself."

and nicole kidman was such a great actor in that role. hay. bitin nga lang ang pelikulang 'yon. teka, di ko pa pala nababasa yung pulitzer novel na yun ah. but i digress.

well, back to my smallsikatunaville. it's already past 4p and i can't believe it. and yet i can. i woke up with another bad dream today and that's not always good for me for the rest of the day. decided to cancel my trip with mom actually, but that's mutual consent -- pareho kaming tinatamad. like mother like daughter. that's where i get it from, i guess.

well anyway, i guess the day is just starting for me today. i can't believe how much time flies by when you\'re on a relaxing-learning mode. i wish i could freeze time and just watch all the movies or read all the books i want. that's why i love carl sagan's CONTACT so much. aside from the bias for jodie foster my love playing dr. ellie on the film version, there's this eccentric millionaire genius character there, the one who financed the building of the second machine thing in japan. his death wish was to have himself locked up in a space ship, and that space ship is filled with all the good books, music and literature ever produced by humankind, and some life support system, of course, and he was blasted into space inside that thing. he said space slows ageing (did i spell that right?) and so he'll live long enough to enjoy his final days (he's dying of cancer kasi). di ba brilliant character???????? i thought i was the only one who had this crazy fantasy of being trapped inside UP main lib so i can read all the books there. heheh, dapat pala sa megamall ko na maisip ma-trap, at least doon may sine pa. :) pero hello ha, robert zemeckis reduced this character into an eccentric financier lang sa film. hay hollywood. but i digress again.

so going back to lana-ville, wala lang. what's up with her? she ain't pretty, man. or maybe she's just not my type. she\'s got weird eyes eh, and i don't like women with weird eyes, kinda hard to trust them. well, oo nga, lana's not my type lang. pero why am i enjoying this show? la lang. mukhang bading si clark? hey, he's prettier than lana!!! at parang exciting yung homoerotic undertones nila ni lex? kahit kalbo, fafa fa rin. at parang may possibility na i-develop ang lesbian undertones ni lana at ni chloe? uuy, queer as folk junior high ang dating nito heheh. pero seriously, minsan gusto kong sumigaw 'hoy clark kent wake up! paglaki mo, you'll lust after lois lane! junk that lana girl!' haha reality smasher there for him. but hey, he has to grow up din naman, so siya, sige, fine, lana ka na lang jan. for now.

hay the products of a sleepdebt-ridden mind. i need oxygen...


ps. oh hey para sa mga pupunta dito sa bahay, kasalukuyang kulay pula ang gate namin from being white. :) la lang. lana ko ma-sey, heheh.

psps. hey i also bought KILL BILL na nga pala! si lucy liu pala yung o-ren ishii ba yun? kia said watch out for that character. gosh, anything lucy liu does yata eh i like, maybe for lack of asian women representation on mainstream hollywood fare. but yes, that pirated version will soon be discovered. ah, the wonders of technological ripping. revenge of the third world, man! yeh! pero di ko pa siya napapanood. inuuna ko nga itong sikatunaville. saka hinihintay ko pa ang aking watching mate. :) at atatnaatatnakongmapanooditongqueerasfolkseason3ican\'tstanditanylonger!!!!!! nek, uwi ka naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!

raspberry cruiser

did you ever have one of those days when you just feel like stopping the earth from revolving so that you can just stop and stare at the sunset without thinking of what the past day brought you or what the night is going to introduce to your psyche next?

that was undas for me.

supposed to be relaxed, supposed to be happy, supposed to be comtemplative, supposed to be all things nice. but all things were not nice. they were so muddled. i felt like jumping to mars so that i can have just one whole planet of space all to myself -- and not worrying about others, just for once.

that's hard.

issues that stalk the mind pervaded. issues that haunted the soul hovered. issues that scarred the mind reappeared. issues that clouded the heart resurfaced.

talk about fumbling towards rhapsody, to paraphrase lola sarah.

hay.