oh lately it's so quiet

I've downloaded Journler. For any mac users out there, this is THE cool. so ok it's just a dated word processor, but amp'd up like a crazy mother fker. fully integrated with smart folders, tagging, all your iLife files, and it exports to blogger. which is how i'm doin' it now. and since mac is so good with bring its spell checker into any box you type in, my blog entrys are gon be spell check'd an all tha.

geeky goodness aside. yes i went into hibernation a bit, being forced write endlessly right before easter break i decided to boycott typing at my computer for as long as i can take it. so now, three weeks later, (and i know that because i'm three weeks behind on my lists) i think i've caught up. a bit.

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current music: Oh Lately It's So Quiet - Ok Go

i'm currently back-loging five movie reviews waiting to be typed up and posted, so that is coming (i think it's gonna be Syriana, Matchpoint, The Weather Man, Tsotsi, and Kokoda, so you get a good mix of your token foreign oscar fodder and the token australian film along with your hollywood whatnots. oh i'm such a hypocrite, i love hollywood whatnots and i know it. besides, tsotsi wasn't so flash. but more on that coming up). oh and i watched The Promise, that chen kaige bomber. i mean i heard how bad it was, but i felt it was my duty to experience it first hand before passing judgement. it was... ... aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhooowwwwwwwww

to make things easier, lets break it down.

Plot: Ludicrous, from the get go. The actual promise that the entire movie rests on? I don't know how he did it but somehow he managed to make a totally unoriginal and juvenile plot device unconvincing. and it just keeps unravelling into the gloopy globby mess that it was.

Effects: why is Chinese CGI always so crap? we're smart, we're nerdy, why the hell can't we work the graphics? Two years ago we saw how Warriors of Heaven and Earth has that horrible ring of green light that looks like it's drawn onto the goddamn celluloid by some kid, and two years later with a MUCH bigger budget, nothing. NO IMPROVEMENTS WHATSOEVER

Acting: i understand the appeal of having an international cast. but you really can't have the cast of leads all speaking chinese when they're Korean, Japanese and honky. Beside the fact that it sounds shit and immediately breaks any illusion, you can see the actors thinking about the words.

i honestly dont want to waste anymore webspace on this, it's painful. i mean it was really pretty, and we all know how much i like pretty, but i...i..... So the two worst films i've ever seen in my life, both chinese films and both really big budgets as far as chinese films are concerned. Heh, and people are worried about the Australian film industry.

lets step away from the car crash.

another year, another comedy festival completely missed. actually i still have a few more days left, but god, what's left now?

let's just wrap this up with all 3 missing 5ives

5 thing i tried, and now i'm over it

1. sudoku - what the hell kind of a crazy mindless fad is that? do a crossword you white collar shits
2. big brother - i've successfully sidestepped all 5 previous incarnations, so i decided i've earned myself an episode. couldn't finish it, even watching the E! News crew trying to figure out what Suri really means and whether Katie was really silent was a heck of a lot more interesting
3. maintaining a manicure - to hell with nails, being able to do stuff with my hands is way cool
4. finding the prefect winter boot (that i can afford) - just because i've failed
5. second life - sure being able to strip in the middle of a crowd is fun, but being able to function normally away from the computer is still better

5 ways to get happy

1. an hour long shower (or until the hot water runs out). seriously, a bath takes too long to prepare and sometimes you just need steaming hot water to pound your skin
2. sitcoms with milk and cookies. Having being deprived of this in my childhood (cookies not being available in chine and my aversion to milk) i'm making up for lost time
3. a midnight stroll with decent walking music and enough cigarets to chain it the whole way. it's the only time i smoke, so i make the most of it.
4. re-reading all the Jasper Fforde's the Thursday Next series and the Big Over Easy, can't wait for the Three Bears to come out in June, oh and he's coming down for a book tour too!
5. shopping, still the number one solution. buy stuff that i don't need just because I CAN.

note: the above list is exactly what's been keeping me away from updating this blog, that and podcasts. *sigh*

5 memories i cherish

1. The first time i had pomegranates, it was summer, i was five, and i fell in love with the squiggy seeds.
2. when i went to hong kong properly (not tagging along to mum's business luncheons) someone's pretty secretary took me around, and i spilled all my secrets to her.
3. 1996, Michael Jackson HIStory tour. daniel was living with us then, and i kept on stealing his CDs
4. the second time i watched a beautiful mind. the movie was the same, but the people were different, and that made all the difference.
5. That time i had that date with Ryan and i decided to bring Jazz, Cary and Francis along. We laughed, then went and saw Lost in Translation. It was a beautiful day.

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tired...but i'm still here. a more substantial post shall be up soon.


paul robertson rocks. go watch his video. links can be found here


by the way, ben lee has his own podcast. it's a crazy crazy world we live in. there's a beautiful song in the first ep by a guest host, some Jen Cloher. might be worth the free subscription.

and "cashback" was available for sale in the US itunes music store for $1.99, but because i don't have a yanky credit card i don't own it yet. i need to own this, who can help me out?

now bed

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bill gates with napoleon

funny funny stuff.

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sun, sun, sun

just a quick update on the goings on of this blog. since it went screwy for the a couple of days. yup, i left the template page up for too long and someone (namely a 12 y/o girl hell bent on pissing me off) came in and tamper tamper...and since i don't visit my own blog i didn't realise till yesterday. good time to purge my links! changed a couple around, added good old stereogum etc etc.
got rid of site meter too. i know the numbers, it just got depressing.

mid semester essay time. can feel my life force ebbing away one theorist at a time. i should really do some of the readings during the semester. but that doesn't leave enough time for all the crap TV i watch, which contributes to my course donnit?

at this point i would just like to say Rock to Rave? the most pointless subject ever. a whole tute spent talking about where you stand at a gig relates to how you interact with the music. NOOOoo. i'm seriously uncomfortable around people who talk about linkin park like that, seriously, stop it.

and there's a lot of movie reviews waiting to be written, just haven't gotten around to it yet, need a solid block of time to churn them all out. and i feel an entire post dedicated to Scarlett Johansson coming on, it really hasn't been mentioned enough, just how sexy this woman is. i want to buy the matchpoint dvd just so i can watch her smoke and lick her lips over and over again... very ditzy star crush coming from here.




what's left? oh the fives...ok ok

5 things i could really do without right now:

1. the three bags of chips i bought for "provisional purposes" coming up stairs with me willing me to open them, damn you sour cream and chives, damn you to hell!
2. the little blue dot next to my podcasts telling me i haven't listened to them yet
3. my throttled net speed (yeah turns out we're down to dial-up speed because we've netted up to 30 gigs this month, just me and a little 18 y/o girl who really shouldn't be THAT interested in porn, freaked me out too. ok maybe not so much porn.)
4. mum all of a sudden trying to be the good mother and coming in every couple of hours ladened with food asking me "how the essay writing is going?" so i have to cover up whatever it was i was doing and tell her, "yup, just one more to go!"
5. writing these damn lists.


oh and i planned out this whole geeky post on Apple's 30th but now i think it'll be better placed in my cybersocieties essay rather than this blog, shall increase the interest factor of both, i think. And plus, they didn't release anything, so happy 30th you old hag (poo poo to you too)

my computer needs rebooting. i need rebooting. can't find the damn button.

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on loop: Sun, sun, sun The Elected

sun, sun, sun, stay with me
don't go behind the clouds
I know that you'll go down
but while it's day, let your light hit me
cause if I lose you now
I fear I could bow out
and I don't know where I'm going to
when I get there, i'll send for you
and I'll know when i see it, but
be patient, I swear, I'll come through

so ride, ride, ride, ride your pony
but please don't ride him far
no, stay within the yard
it played out just like you told me
I'd scratch your pretty eyes
I'll put out those little lights
but your heart, I did not break it, no
it was taken from you years ago
and the hole those older men pulled it through
it's still aching
let's be patient, you'll pull through
you'll pull through
pull through
won't you?

and I've made
I've made up for my mistakes
cause of the pain of what I'd caused
can't be shit next to what I have lost
and I hated being fucking patient
so you waited
you waited
you waited
but I never ever came to

so sun, sun, sun
what are you doing?
you went behind the clouds
but all the rain came down
my old house is in ruins
if you would come out again
and dry up all the rain
then I'd climb right up again
like that spider in that nursery rhyme
and these tales, well they're not meant to
but it's time that we make them, come true
come true
come true
for me and you

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taking back sunday

last thursday. it was the day the music died. quite literally. i actually saw the sad ipod face. yep, hardware crash. took my baby straight into the apple store within 10 minutes hoping for some miracle and no, no such luck. and three months after my warranty wore out too, bummer. it would cost about the same to fix it as to buy a new pod. and i bet you any money that the moment i get my hands on enough cash to get the damn thing a newer and infinitely better model will be released. i'm a bitter bitter woman without my backing soundtrack.

today was when i felt the first hit. i was seriously unwilling to leave the house because i felt so naked without my backing track. i was so confused facing the world, not sure how to react to things because generally my music dictated my emotions and i was always so safe in my bubble. it was terrifying actually. i smoked a lot more than i usually would have done coz, well, at least i could control the smell of the air surrounding me right? eww...i just realised how that sounded.

but apparently i'm more approachable to a far more normal set of people without the white ear buds. cute honky girl came up to talk to me today, then again so did no taste anne (no her name isn't anne, i don't know what her name is, i just vaguely remember her talking about linkin park...or was that the other girl next to her? may or april or another name of the month, or was it a flower?) now i'm babbling. i have a tute paper tomorrow which i haven't yet done the readings for and i'm babbling on my blog. not a good habit to get into.

so so, my list for the last week (it's getting worse and worse...easter break soon, it'll all get back on track i promise)

5 songs i now have going around my head as some crazy mashup because of lack of pumpin' walking music

1. yummy yummy yummy i have love in my tummy - (yes again, and i just realised why i got it last time, it was in super size me, and i just saw it again...)
2. kokomo - (THAT kokomo, my subconscious has bad taste too, i had to watch the music video twice over the week end)
3. Easy - because that's what i hear walking up my hill. but i don't know the words, and it's hard to sing, and so i only have the falsetto bits going on loop and it's bugging the shit out of me
4. i hear voices - or something like that. you know, the puff daddy one back when he was still puff daddy, it's horribly disturbing when you hear voices inside your head singing "i hear voices inside"
5. and that song from that addidas ad. you know the one, the karen o one...

...whenever i wake up
try and take the shape off
turn into the whole wide world i made up

it's crazy being me lately

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