Category: Sharing

  • You know you’re a cinephile when…

    … you realize you spend all your time watching movies in your room with the lights off, while ignoring any form of communication, including real people.

    You’re tears well up and hear heart jumps into your throat when you walk into a store with more than a hundred dollars ear marked for Criterion.

    90% of your friends haven’t even heard of any of the films on your top ten, aside from you ranting about them. – Except the cool ones, of course ;P

    you realize you like fictional people more than real ones.

    everything in the world is seen as a film to you.

    You spend more time on a certain film site any given day than you do talking to any member of your family.

    you lecture people on what to watch and what not to. –  Of course!

    you tell people about the inner working of film and they look at you like your a circus performer. With awe and confusion… and keep talking of how hot such and such looked.

    You start to notice the names of directors… – You are lost. xD – *sighs* ever since I was a kid, even with music videos. what can you do, eh?

    you come off like a pretentious jackass, even though you aren’t. when the subject of favorite films comes up.

    You use your lunch break to buy movies instead of actually eating. – Oh man, I used to be that person when I began living alone hahaha.

    you go to browse DVDs on a weekend night, and spent over 1hr just browsing through them even though you’re only picking three or four… a week. LOL – BAWWW I miss my friends.

    the numbers of movies you own equals or surpasses the number of movies your entire other five family members own (combined). – SNAP! Guilty! I probably can put my whole family and friends “collections” and I would still have more.

    you want to shoot yourself because you accidentally purchased a “full screen” version. DOH!

    you would rather spend the evening sitting in front of the big screen with a good DVD than go out dancing with the significant other.

    someone asks you what would you do if you had a million dollars, and you say “Buy every Criterion DVD” and an old drive-in theater to fix up and show nothing but the great films. – though I also want this sweet bike, but it turns out the bike is from a film… so~~~

    your DVD collection suddenly has become too large for your set of shelves… – seriously~~~

    everything on your Birthday list is a movie, or movie soundtracks~~~

    LOL, many more reasons over at TheAuteurs.com! Come and join me =D


  • Yu doesn’t drink…

    but plays a great drunk. LOL – Okay, maybe she does a little if I read right the interview aoinohoho sent me.

    Actually, this clip I found made me want to watch Tiger & Dragon. xD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ00MQZoVlQ

    should I?


  • Watched this May’09! and some June~

    Didn’t watch too many films either… I did re-watch some though, with subs or just plain re-watching. I still haven’t made it to 20 films released in 2009 though… I’m getting worried how my Experiment Awards will do, if I can’t even made it to my own voting rules. LOL

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  • May 2009 Music!

    *legasp!*

    I didn’t blog for two days!!! My perfect two-month-everyday posting record is over~

    T.T – and…

    Didn’t really listened to much music either~~~ just a few couple albums that just came out.

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  • Keeping my iTunes in Order

    I can’t remember the last time I did a music backup, and that’s a bit worrying… but not as worrying as the last time I made a backup of everything else. That’s another scary subject. I’m here to show you how neat is my iTunes library~~~

    iTunes Library - June05 '09

    See? Neat~~~ almost everything with a cover, but that’s because I ripped that from a YouTube video, which is lame… but I couldn’t find a proper mp3 of Sedated by the Young @ Heart Chorus. Do you know where can I get it?

    Then… circled albums are the ones I don’t own, and want to buy physically… the ones marked with a “2” means I would be thinking of getting them physically as well. I really, really have fallen in love with the Hana & Alice OST, it goes with liking the film more and more.

    The rest, as you can see is filled with Chris Lee, Coeur de Pirate, David Tao, Dirty Projectors, Green Day, The Sounds, St. Vincent, La Patere Rose etc etc… Shiina Ringo, Seo Taiji. When is Seo Taiji’s 8th album coming out??? I’ve been waiting for it since October last year – I remember because I was complaning too many albums coming on Oct/Nov.


  • L Magazine: Yu Aoi and Stationery

    To make up for the lame previous post, I found this Yu Aoi cover for L Magazine for January 2009.

    Yu Aoi - L Magazine - Cover

    Crap, she does look young there. I hate her. *laughs*

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  • Japanese 101

    The most basic 101 you’ll read of Japanese. Why? Well, because I’m writing it, and I am pretty sure I don’t cover the basics… but I try my best to, so if I can do it – you all can. The basic stuff that is~~~

    My background? Let’s see… when I was little (maybe 5 years old) I heard Sukiyaki. Hahaha – that’s my only memory of Japanese then. Then… because of some friends I did my venture with JPop without much success. However, I always sort of liked Japanese… after all TNP (Television Nacional del Peru) always showed NHK educational-dubbed programs.

    In 2006 I did a crash course (is that how it’s called?) of Japanese. That means, I studied a month of Japanese and basic grammar… then stopped. And came back to it after getting all Japanese cinema crazy, haven’t stopped since then.

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  • Ooh la~ Actor Spotting: Anton Yelchin

    Well, he is hardly a spotting… more of a re-spotting, since I first saw him on 2001’s Heart in Atlantis with Anthony Hopkins, and later I recognized him on Along Came a Spider (with Morgan Freeman and Monica Potter). He later showed up in my radar starring in 2007’s Charlie Bartlett.

    Well, look where he is now~~~

    Anton Yelchin

    Where you will see him now? Well, he was on the latest Star Trek (as Chekov) and is now competing against himself at the Box Office with the recent Terminator Salvation where he plays Kyle Reese. All grown up. Who would’ve thought?

    He does look a bit dorkish (in a funny… you can probably say he can rock the dorkability), but this photo I thought was pretty decent. And let us all forget that he was ever involved in that god-awful You and I movie (aka. Finding t.A.T.u) with Mischa Barton.


  • I “Kick like a Girl” Too!

    LOL’

    Kick like a Girl is a 30-min HBO documentary of a team of girls that play (NOT soccer) football that totally creamed the boys in a match… or something.

    Back in my school days… I played football. I think I rocked it~~~ as a hobby of course. Back then, girls didn’t rock like this. I wish I had a girls football team T.T

    When I was 10-ish, there was a school match… between girls, but I’m pretty sure I was the only one taking it ‘seriously’. I even had my friends over for a practice. You know, I used to play with my cousins… one of those things you do when all your cousins are guys you see~~~

    Best in the trailer? The boy admitting getting creamed (in the field) by a girl. And the girl saying “I’m not going to be one of the girly girls, who put on lipgloss everyday, dresses in tutus and goes to ballet.”

    Yu Aoi - Kid
    What’s wrong with tutus and ballet?

    You know… you can still end up like this~

    Yu Aoi - Travel Sand
    Just in case you don’t know, that’s the same person. ;)


  • Multilanguage Dubbing~

    I know I’m often unkind to dubbing – right?? – but I particularly think Disney does a decent job at doing multilanguage version of their musically-animated films… perhaps not actual full films, but their musical sequences. I was watching a Russian animated short that linked me to the Russian-dubbed version of the Halloween song on The Nightmare Before Christmas.

    I particularly think the Russian dub has a lot of personality, and kinda scarier vibe~~~ and, what do you think of the Japanese dub of Halloween? Kore wa HAROUIN~~~ xD

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