Be Kind, Rewind
October 12, 2007Hell yeah! I've been waiting for this film for quite sometime now. Two reasons why I'm so psyched: Jack Black and Michael Gondry.
Well, you all know Jack Black. Michael Gondry, on the other hand, is the director of one of my favorite films of all time: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He's twisted, but he's a genius. Hehe.
This is gonna be one awesome comedy. Here's the plot and the trailer:
-JekyllJerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike (Mos Def) works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer, a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality (Mia Farrow) from realizing what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. From Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy, RoboCop, Rush Hour 2, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Boyz n the Hood, and The Lion King. Jerry and Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in the biggest movies ever made.
Jesus Etc
October 9, 2007I'm going on a YouTube frenzy. Haha!
This is a great song. Somewhat country-ish, but amazing enough for me to like it so much that I'm blogging about it.
You can read into the lyrics any way you want. Some say it has something to do with 9/11 (although it was supposedly written before that)… some say it's social commentary… your guess is as good as mine.
I couldn't find any good quality version of Wilco playing the song, so I got cover versions by YouTube users instead. They do justice to the real thing anyway. One of them even has a little "how to play Jesus Etc" tutorial going on.
Of course, the original version is even better than these, seeing that that one has the full arrangement (which includes the violin accompaniment!).
and this is the one with the tutorial:
and here are the lyrics:
Jesus Etc
by WilcoJesus don't cry
you can rely on me honey
you can combine
anything you wantI'll be around
you were right about the stars
each one is a setting suntall buildings shake
voices escape
singing sad sad songs
tuned to chords
strung(?) down your cheeks
bitter melodies
turning your orbit arounddon't cry
you can rely on me honey
you can come by
anytime you wantI'll be around
you were right about the stars
each one is a setting suntall buildings shake
voices escape
singing sad sad songs
tuned to chords
strung(?) down your cheeks
bitter melodies
turning your orbit aroundvoices whine
skyscarpers are scraping together
your voice is smoking
last cigarettes
and all you can get
turning your orbit aroundour love
our love
our love is all we have
our love
our love is all of Gods money
everyone is a burning suntall buildings shake
voices escape
singing sad sad songs
tuned to chords
strung(?) down your cheeks
bitter melodies
turning your orbit aroundvoices whine
skyscarpers are scraping together
your voice is smoking
last cigarettes
and all you can get
turning your orbit around
-Jekyll
Feeling Grey, Feeling Blue
October 7, 2007I have a terrible headache.
I feel tired… I have cough, colds and bloodshot eyes… I have to be at the office early this entire week… I haven't made Bhel and Cherick's testimonials yet (sorry)… and DLSU just won the championship (here is an amusing article BTW).
So bat di na ako matulog?
Well, pasaway ako eh. I want to finish this blog entry first, and then gusto ko pa panoorin yung season 1 finale + season 2 premiere ng Friday Night Lights.
Anyway, on to what I initially wanted to blog about:
One reason why I love watching Grey's Anatomy is the voice-over that starts and ends the show. You could call it some sort of "reflection" on what the theme of the episode is, and it makes for great blogging material since more often than not, I find myself able to relate to a number of these thoughts or reflections.
I watched episode 1 and 2 of the new season already, so I guess that's what I'll feature here for now:
GA s04e01 - A Change Is Gonna Come
(start of the episode) In the practice of medicine, change is inevitable. New surgical techniques are created, procedures are updated, levels of expertise increase. Innovation is everything, nothing remains the same for long. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind.(end of the episode) Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But heres the truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes change is everything.
I am a comfort zone person. Anyone who knows me will say that I am a comfort zone person. I find my comfort zone and I stay there. I generally don't like change.
For 16 years, my comfort zone was Ateneo. When I graduated from college in 2004, I was kind of excited, yet very scared of stepping out into "the real world". I admit that we Ateneans are a sheltered lot. As much as our school tries to teach us how to reach out and "bumaba mula sa bundok", we will always be a sheltered and pampered lot within the confines of our campus.
Right now, my office has already become a comfort zone. Even though work can be a pain most of the time, the familiarity with the place…. the people… the routines… it all makes me comfortable enough not to leave. The downside of this, of course, is that constant nagging thought if this is really where I should be. Just because something feels comfortable, it doesn't mean that it is what's right for you. Actually, what is comfortable and what is right have little to do with each other, imho.
That's why change is scary, I think. It's both about: 1) taking you out of your comfort zone; and, 2) presenting you the possibility that what you once thought was right for you wasn't right for you after all. I think it applies to everything in life: Graduating from school and going out to find a job; resigning from a job and then taking up a new one; moving out of your house and into a new place; breaking up and finding someone else; dropping a friend and finding a new group; uninstalling windows and shifting to unix (hehe); and the list goes on and on…
Personally, I'd like to keep that list as short as possible… but… well… you know… the realities of life…
GA s04e02 - Love/Addiction
(start of the episode) In the hospital, we see addiction every day. It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes. I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right? Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.(end of the episode) The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.
Oh god, addiction… I wonder what most people would answer to this question: What would you rather be addicted to? Cigarettes or Love?
Most people would be thinking: "Oh, what a dumb question… smoking kills, man!"
And my answer to that is: "So… love doesn't?"
Anyway… I don't think I have anything much to add on what's already quoted above, really. I just hope that if ever I'm addicted to anything, I'd have the good sense to quit while I'm ahead.
Ooooh interesting, I feel better. The headache's gone. Weird.
Maybe the vid below had something to do with it. Sabi ni Cami, pampagaan ng loob daw. Hehe. Congrats LaSalle, but I doubt any of your championships could be any sweeter that this.
Win or lose, it's the school we choose!
One Big Fight!
\m/
-Hyde
I Will Follow You Into The Dark II
October 6, 2007 Whoa, i.ph supports YouTube vids! 
Haha, ngayon ko lang nadiscover ito. I'm so happy
-Jekyll
