Stop; Think

My top Woody Allen films:
1. Annie Hall
2. Manhattan Murder Mystery
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. Bullets Over Broadway

I realized- most people that inspire me are imperfect and sometimes destructive. I always think there's a key element in someone's personal life that presses the genius button. Sometimes I wish I've stopped digging a long time ago. It's hard. I don't want to just accept a person for his or her creative success. I want to read biographies, learn what had shaped their lives, understand the work they create. Sometimes I forget why I became interested in the first place. I always end up falling in love with their faults.

Current Music: DeVotchka- Queen of the Surface Streets

Vanity Fair

Selected few from the latest:







Sam Jones, Norman Jean Roy, Annie Leibovitz

Slow Show

I'm listening to The National and trying to study for my mid-term. I've been researching job posts on various sites, just to get an idea of the direction I'd like to head towards. It's all like, "Eh, don't like this, don't like that" on repeat. It's really hard for me to focus on what I want. All I know right now, is what I don't want.

I really hope I don't end up hating my life.

Martin Scorsese is planning on making a documentary on George Harrison. I know many people are probably thinking "Wow, another Beatles tribute?" But you know what? In only a few more decades, the Beatles generation will fade away and be replaced with text, memorandums, and my-grandma-once-told-me-stories. As much as I wish I could've experienced the '60's, I'm glad to know people who have lived through the psychedelic craze. I'm glad I can listen to the stories of ex-hippies & artists and enjoy the share of their memories.


Explosion, Martin Sharp

De Splat

Rumor has it-

Alexandre Desplat will be scoring the music to Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr.Fox!

Music makes up life. My cherished memories are as fluid as the simple notes of Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1. My greatest turns in life are as triumphant as Handel's Sarabande. I get ridiculously excited when great filmmakers and composers team up to create for the rest of us.

Oscar Season

I left my night class earlier tonight because I was dying from sickness. I keep thinking that it's almost Friday. 

I usually take time to evaluate films and predict the Oscar winners. Last year, I was pretty close... got about 2 or 3 categories wrong. I was mostly disappointed when The Diving Bell & the Butterfly didn't win anything. About 2 months prior to the awards, I posted a piano cover of the song Falling Slowly from Once. The day after the Oscars (when it won for best original song), my view count went up to about 20,000, haha. 

2009 stage model

I don't like how all the films hungrily bunched up during this season. Everyone is desperate to win. All the good people already got their praise (ie. Danny Boyle, Sean Penn but enough is enough!) The upcoming awards show is just getting redundant now. 

My thoughts sloppily noted:

1. Man on Wire is great.

2. The Wrestler is my favorite out of this bunch.

3. Michael Shannon is amazing. 

4. Meryl Streep/Viola Davis makes a great team.

5. Hair & Makeup goes to Benjamin Button. I thought The Reader was a joke.

6. Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack is so good!

7. Gus and Darren are as always, awesome.

8. Brad Pitt... hilarious in Burn After Reading.

I'm really excited to see Hugh Jackman! haha. 

Semester backstroke

I love backstroking! I don't have to worry about breathing under water or choking on that chlorine crap. All I have to do is stare at the ceiling up ahead, stroke and kick! I can do it for hours (yeah right) and not think at the same time. Then before I know it I'm passing by that clock hanging on the wall, which tells me that I'm close to the end of the pool. Take a look at the entry title and guess what I'm drawing this analogy to. Less than 3 more months, WTF.

Did I mention how much I hate the suburbs? I feel like I'm being swallowed by a blue stomach with slimy gooky shit crawling into my ears. And I hate storming home in the cold.

Bird streaming on NPR

brooklynvegan

Listening live now to Andrew Bird & Lonely Dear in concert from the 9:30 Club in D.C.

This show was one of the places I considered going to when I couldn't get his Carnegie Hall tickets in New York. Just when I accepted the fact that going to Bird's show wasn't meant to be, I had a dream about him. In the dream I was in an auditorium, a bit early for a concert. Andrew came out and tuned his violin while the rest of the crew were doing sound checks and last minute preparations. Unfortunately, I woke up a bit too early.

A few days later, I found out he was opening a second show due to high demand! Whoo-hoo! haha. The show was great. And he looks good in every angle, by the way.

man on wire

olly moss

seabear, fleet foxes, grizzly bears, band of horses...

and of course our favorite, b-b-b-birds.

Random note: Cat Power should consider the poor people who likes her stuff too. What happened to $10 tickets?

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I can't stop listening to "Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap. It transcends me into a world of nirvana.  The Curtis Vodka remix is okay but it still makes me feel like I'm running through a jungle. With lions running with me and stuff!

There's a line from Goodfellas that goes something like this: "...cowards have too much to prove." I can think of a few people that qualify. I don't understand why some people purposely not listen or do something stupid just to feel a tiny bit superior. Or the fact that they'll abuse their slim-to-imaginary power just to step over others (ie: a bawling episode over at the DMV 2 years ago). I hate people who constantly curse for the sake of cursing and I hate people who put others down for no reason. I don't like inequality between male and female. I don't like having my voice drowned out purposely only because I don't have that extra limb. But it's good to know that those are all just cowards who are desperately pulling others down just so they won't drown. 

It's funny to say that I watch movies to regain inspiration and creativity. I rarely look at other graphic design to learn and draw ideas. And yet I have no interest in motion graphics or media as of now. Yes, I do hope to eventually learn a bit about it but I want to do it out of pure leisure and fun. I don't want to approach learned media in a school environment with film clips and assignments and have my brain run dry. I want a career path that will allow me to express myself as an individual. I need to permeate boundlessly into other fields and climb up my own ladder.