| Time is all we have |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|05:49 pm] |
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| | Time by Billy Porter | ] |
Time by Billy Porter
What is time?
Is it the autumn leaves that change?
Or the snow that floats from the sky
What is Time?
Is it the air we breathe?
Or the wings that teach
The new born bird to fly
Who can tell?
I don’t know
Will we change?
Will we grow?
What is time?
Is it eternity
In heaven
Or just a hope for peace on earth
Where’s the time
Gone in a blink of an eye
But with every blink
a birth
We live
We learn
We love
In time
We give
We yearn
We grow
In time
Time for change
Its time to care
It’s not too late
Don’t despair
Reach inside your heart
To find the joy and love
To share with all mankind
For all we know
All we have
Is time |
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| potato |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|12:24 am] |
the wonders of a capo. higher position chords sound beautiful and i can play arpeggios with hammers and pull offs. i feel like mark tremonti. single guitarist bands do work out after all. how come i can come up with awesome chord progressions, but when i start writing lyrics, i get a blank.
no, surely can one. just needs some getting used to. in my macbook therein lies a text document entitled 'Untitled', and in it sits a verse and a chorus to a to-be-named song. yesterday when i wrote it it came with a chord progression and a tune. now i forgot both. so when i remember it, and finish it, i shall name it.
also yesterday, i watched amélie, like, finally. actually i had that movie for a long time, without subtitles. so yesterday i had a brainwave to download the .srt for it, and turns out that i absolutely loved the show. one of the best feel-good movies of all time. i loved watching audrey tautou prance around making other people's lives better, and her schemes to get that nino guy. so cute. so so cute.
this is nice, this, sitting at home and letting movies wash over me thing. i even watched himym up till the current episode. saves money, and gives me an emotional high. |
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| new moon |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|05:56 pm] |
I had the pleasure of catching New Moon yesterday, the second installment to the Twilight Saga movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling chick lits. Having read the book, I already expected the movie to be dripping with sickeningly sweet 'I love yous' and references to Romeo and Juliet. All in all, as a movie adaptation, New Moon fares quite well up there with the likes of Harry Potter and the Dan Brown movies.
But see the problem is, movie adaptations almost always never matches up to their books. Yes, including Harry Potter and Dan Brown. How do you fit hundreds of pages of plot into a two and a half hour window? It calls for some condensation, some cutting of parts which to Chris Weitz is not as important.
The plot as a whole is very fast paced. When Jacob Black comes into the scene and reunites with Bella with a hug, we are expected to know that they both share a certain form of friendship. What we don't know is how Bella feels about Jacob. How eventually she comes to love him, her best friend in the whole world and someone she can never replace. The internal conflict between her love for Edward and for Jacob. In fact, much of the book takes place within the confines of Bella Swan's head, and the movie fails to showcase that. For me, that was why i liked the book so much. The struggles she faced with dealing with Edward leaving, the newfound kinship with Jacob that she's confused over; whether she's really in love with him or was it a brother-sister kind of thing or even whether he's just a replacement for Edward Cullen. Even her relationship with her dad is downplayed. In the movie she has little interaction with her dad save for the nightly screams and that scene where he wanted her to go back to her mom in Jacksonville. Truth was, she and her dad share a lot as father and daughter. Their relationship is actually formed on the basis of the fact that both of them are very similar, and the similarity comforts Bella. She takes after her dad, and doesn't express much, but that does not mean that they don't care about each other. Charlie actually gets bloody ticked off when Bella ditched him in Twilight and has yet to forgive Edward Cullen in New Moon. Heck, she cooks his dinner for him. They don't talk much, but they are comfortable. In the movie, they don't talk much and that's about it. Okay to be fair Charlie did say at the end that he doesn't want Bella to ever pull a stunt like going away for three days ever again.
The pack, got little airtime. They were supposed to be portrayed as a playful, young pack trying to live with their wolf transformations. And a lot of things weren't touched on much that i hope will get some prominence in Eclipse, like the pack mind, the Alpha, and the fact that Jacob was supposed to be the Alpha but turned it down for Sam Uley. About that whole "I want to tell you but i can't you don't know how tightly bound I am to this bladibladibla" the audience thinks that Jacob sincerely cannot divulge the secret purely to remain in the good graces of Sam, even though he was dying to tell Bella he was a wolf. Actually, in the book it's because of the Alpha order, the fact that in a pack once the Alpha dictates something, there is no way, no way that the order can be opposed, because of how the pack works they have to be obedient to the order.
Okay what I'm saying is, the book trumps the movie any day okay, simply because it lets us in to the thoughts of Bella Swan and is way more thorough in executing the plot. Plus, they didn't condense the whole Edward Going To Kill Himself scene into like 5 minutes. Come to think of it Edward was quite minor here, I would actually wonder why in hell would he want to kill himself over Bella, they hardly interacted in this movie. But then again I guess that was what Twilight was for.
Sad. I actually enjoyed Twilight as a movie. |
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| Broken hallelujah |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|05:33 pm] |
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i wonder what it must feel like to be sin-free and enveloped in such trusting, hairy arms. all my father ever did was brush his shy pubescent beard all over my forehead. there were a lot of itching in my childhood.
i'm going to a gay club this thursday, i hope something happens.
i've been having a couple of insightful, thought-provoking conversations with my colleagues, (the kind you can only have with 40 something year olds without a single reference made to facebook) and it has reaffirmed my one rule in parenting:
parents, please beat the shit out of your kids if they are rude/naughty. words aren't authoritative, a shower hose is. all this new age child abuse thing is ridiculous. i also heard that now, teachers can't lay their hands on students anymore. what rubbish. i was pinched, pulled at the ear, called a monkey (among other things) and it has served me well. never would i use a glittery green pen for corrections now. |
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