Me & You & Everyone We Know

When 'Me And You And Everyone We Know' started playing I thought, "Oh no. This is going to be one of those excessively artsy films with irritating quirky characters in it". But I was wrong and humbled. It was just right artsy, tastefully quirky and contains my now favourite boy-meets-girl scene. It begins when she follows him out of the department store and says, "I'm not following you". Fun to watch, each scene is also nice to just look at.

Pupil

"Okay, nobody smile. I want to be taken seriously."



Wow, I can't believe it took looking through a medical book to discover the word "pupil". And what was Ely Buendia doing with a medical book? Some light bedtime reading material no doubt.
It took me a while to finally listen to their 'Beautiful Machines' album which I eagerly anticipated. Bo - ring! Maybe I had high expectations but it sounded like Ely Buendia grew up and lost his sense of fun and humor. Awww, poor Pupil. Always being compared to successful big brother Eraserheads. It's not fair, is it? But nevermind. Pupil are still winning awards, endorsing fashion apparel, and writing hit jingles for dry goods. So there.

Stick around for the show...

"The sun is roughly halfway through its life, and in about 5 billion years' time will swell into a red giant The swelling sun is expected to swallow the innermost planets Mercury and Venus, and possibly the Earth too...
Perhaps our home will play host to the most beautiful nebula of all. It's a shame we won't be around to see it."

- Hazel Muir, "The Last Blast"
New Scientist 9 July 2005

(photo: Eskimo Nebula, Hubble)

Waking Life

If you haven't seen this yet, now is the time. I first saw it a few years ago, I guess when it was released. I'm not a big fan of Richard Linklater but he did something with "Waking Life". They all did something, all the characters, even (God forbid!) Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. I watched it twice several years ago. I watched it everyday this week. I'm going to watch it again tonight. I wish I could just remember everything, alas my capacity to retain information is extremely limited. Memories, on the other hand, I hold too long and too vividly. I would very much like to hold information and lose memories. Yes, that would be very nice. Yes, indeed.

Nancy, my fake plastic mouse, lives in my fridge under constant military surveillance. 

"We were so cool on Star Wars/Scrubs. Now what?!" 

Garden State Refunds

I just walked out of Garden State, Zach Braff's directorial debut whatever. Twenty minutes into the movie I was wondering when the storyline would kick in. It's a love story that fills the screen the way a fart would fill a room. You don't know it's there but when it arrives it's so bad you've got to leave. I thought I could stick it out till the end based purely on Zach Braff being so cute, but I couldn't. I was so bored. There were more stimulating things I could do such as laundry to take down from the lines before it rained again so I thought to myself- I better get home and do that. I walked out after Natalie Portman's character burried her dead hamster with Zach Braff's character in her backyard pet cemetary on the day they met at a Doctor's waiting room. I mean, come on.

Collective Thinking

It's been raining a lot in Brisbane and it's been just beautiful. It's the perfect weather for staying at home with a good book/DVD. When I was at work one rainy Sunday morning, my boss said 'It's the perfect weather to stay at home and watch videos'. I'm pretty sure Chef said something similar. It led me to ponder the collective consciousness of mankind on such days. Do we all really generally have the same feeling on overcast or rainy days? I can only conclude that on such days, Mother Nature is on commission by Blockbuster.