Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

9.08.2015

Of Love and the Fiction of It





I cannot help but write this for her.
To tell her:
"I'm sorry for every word I wrote to change you.
I'm sorry for so many things.
I couldn't see you when you were here.
And now that you're gone, I see you everywhere."

"One may read this and think it's magic...
...but falling in love is an act of magic.
So is writing.

It was once said of Catcher in the Rye:
'That rare miracle of fiction has again come to pass.
A human being has been created out of ink, paper and the imagination.'

I am no J.D. Salinger...but I have witnessed a rare miracle.
Any writer can attest in the luckiest, happiest state...
...the words are not coming from you, but through you.

She came to me wholly herself.
I was just lucky enough to be there to catch her."

(from the movie Ruby Sparks, 2012)


6.24.2015

Screens: Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy

I saw Mary Is Happy a few months back, but only recently I've decided to write a review-ish. A friend influenced me to screencap movie frames and upload them. With Mary Is Happy, I had LOTS.

IMO, this movie is impossible to watch then take in at face value. The absence of an audio bed, gives lots of quiet moments and helps you to think deeper and reflect. I recommend watching this movie alone with earphones on.



1.24.2015

A step you can't take back

So you find yourself at this subway
With your world in a bag by your side
And all at once it seemed like a good way
You realized it's the end of your life
For what it's worth

Here comes the train upon the track
And there goes the pain it cuts to black
Are you ready for the last act?
To take a step you can't take back

Take in all the punches you could take
Took 'em all right on your chest
Now the countless back is breaking
Again, again
For what it's worth

Did she love you?
Did she take you down?
Was she on her knees when she kissed your crown?
Tell me what you found

Here comes the rain, so hold your hat
And don't pray to God, cause He won't talk back
Are you ready for the last act?
To take a step you can't take back



You know what? I'm also taking a step I know I can't take back. But for the first time, I'm not afraid. I think I may actually even be ready.

Je suis heureuse à l'idée de ce nouveau destin.

11.22.2014

The best damn thing

Where are the hopes, where are the dreams
My Cinderella story scene
When do you think they'll finally see

That you're not not not gonna get any better
You won't won't won't you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And yeah yeah yeah I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen



7.03.2014


"It's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful.
It confirms my low opinion on people."
- Dexter Morgan

5.28.2014

R U Mine?

Dunno why, but lately I've been listening to indie rock. Here's an Arctic Monkeys song for you guys :)


I'm a puppet on a string
Tracy Island, time-traveling diamond
Could've shaped heartaches
Come to find ya fall in some velvet morning
Years too late
She's a silver lining lone ranger riding
Through an open space
In my mind when she's not right there beside me

I go crazy 'cause here isn't where I wanna be
And satisfaction feels like a distant memory
And I can't help myself,
All I wanna hear her say is "Are you mine? "

Are you mine?

I guess what I'm trying to say is I need the deep end
Keep imagining meeting, wished away entire lifetimes
Unfair we're not somewhere misbehaving for days
Great escape lost track of time and space
She's a silver lining climbing on my desire

And I go crazy 'cause here isn't where I wanna be
And satisfaction feels like a distant memory
And I can't help myself,
All I wanna hear her say is "Are you mine? "

Well, are you mine? (Are you mine tomorrow?)
Are you mine? (Or just mine tonight?)
Are you mine? (Are you mine? Mine?)

And the thrill of the chase moves in mysterious ways
So in case I'm mistaken,
I just wanna hear you say you got me baby
Are you mine?

She's a silver lining lone ranger riding through an open space
In my mind when she's not right there beside me
And I go crazy cause here isn't where I wanna be

And satisfaction feels like a distant memory
And I can't help myself,
All I wanna hear her say is "Are you mine? "

Well, are you mine? (Are you mine tomorrow?)
Are you mine? (Or just mine tonight?)
Are you mine? (Are you mine tomorrow, or just mine tonight?)

4.09.2014

Falling in love with love


Music peeps! How about a classic Disney song?

Rendered by the stunning and really-just-plain-awesome Broadway actress
Sierra Boggess (who, actually, is the Broadway Little Mermaid, by the way).


Falling in Love with Love is falling for make-believe! 
Falling in Love with Love is playing the fool!
Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy! 
Learning to trust is just for children in school.

I fell in Love with Love one night when the moon was full 
I was unwise with eyes unable to see! 
I fell in Love with Love with love ever-lasting. 
But Love fell out, with me!

Falling in Love with Love is falling for make-believe! 
Falling in Love with Love is playing the fool! 

Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy! 
Learning to trust is just for children in school. 

I fell in Love with Love one night when the moon was full 
I was unwise with eyes unable to see! 
I fell in Love with Love, Love ever-lasting! 
But love fell out, with me!
Actually this isn't the scene, but you get the idea.


9.09.2013

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines



Tonight I can write the saddest lines.



Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'


The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.



Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.


Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.


She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.

How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

6.24.2013

(HIMYM) Lunch with an Ex

Four possible motives behind an Ex Lunch

1) They want to get back together

2) They want to kill you

3) They want to give your stuff back

4) To rub your face in how great they're doing

- Barney (Season 4, Ep 16: Sorry, Bro)

6.09.2013

Allison Cameron, Immunologist (House)


Allison Cameron, M.D, Immunologist.
Part of House's team of handpicked specialists in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton Plainsboro.

In real life, she's Jennifer Morrison.

I've always liked her character. She's this humanist and thoughtful doctor who always try to fix people and relationships. She is known for her honesty, sincerity, idealism and strong ethical center. She has a lot in common with Dr Masters (season 7)

Anyway, here are some of Cameron's quotes throughout the series.

"Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago." (from Occam's Razor)

"I still think true Love's out there it's just very far away. Possibly in another galaxy. We may need to develop faster than light travel before we can make contact."  (from Insensitive)

"Despite the wisdom of pop songs. there's no point in putting our lives on hold 'til love comes along." (from Insensitive)

"You can't control your emotions...just your actions." (from Spin)

"You're not gonna get everything right. But you're never gonna get everything wrong." (from Whatever It Takes)

"If you have to do something, do it. But don't think it's the right choice because there isn't one."

5.22.2013

Trust, Sir


Henry: You both know that I have a partner on the force, right?

Young Gus and Shawn: Yes sir.

Henry: Well we couldn't do our job if we didn't trust each other completely. There are rules to our partnership and they are the same rules to our friendship. Even Battleship. But those rules don't work without what?

Young Gus and Shawn: Trust sir.

Just Friends

House M.D. Season 6, Episode 20 - "The Choice"


Cuddy: "I just want us to be friends"


House: "Funny, that's the last thing I want us to be."

4.18.2013

I Won't Say I'm In Love

I love this song, for some reason. Hahaha. Enjoy! Aaaand here's an HD vid for all those Disney princesses out there haha. And a video of my favorite cover of this song :)

If there's a prize for rotten judgement
I guess I've already won that
No man is worth the aggravation
That's ancient history--
Been there, done that!

Who'd'ya think you're kiddin'
He's the Earth and heaven to you
Try to keep it hidden
Honey, we can see right through you
Girl, ya can't conceal it
We know how ya feel and
Who're you're thinking of


No chance, no way
I won't say it, no, no

You swoon, you sigh
Why deny it, uh-oh!

It's too cliché
I won't say I'm in love

I thought my heart had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming get a grip, girl
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out, oh

You keep on denying
Who you are and how you're feeling
Baby, we're not buying
Hon, we saw ya hit the ceiling

Face it like a grown up
When ya gonna own up
That ya got, got, got it bad

No chance, no way
I won't say it, no, no

Give up, give in
Check the grin, you're in love

This scene won't play
I won't say I'm in love

You're doin' flips
Read our lips
You're in love

You're way off base
I won't say it
Get off my case
I won't say it

Girl, don't be proud
It's ok, you're in love
Oh...
At least out loud
I won't say I'm in love

4.17.2013

Simpson love





The Simpsons is one of my favorite series of all time.

Here are a few quotes on love I've collected from rewatching The Simpsons this summer:







You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons. -homer

"Moe, this is a great thing for you. You went from sitting on the sidelines to getting in the game. Sometime, when you least expect it, you'll realize that someone loved you and that means someone can love you again, and that will make you smile." - Homer

"Who'd have thought that such a little woman could make me feel so big?" -Moe

Marge: "Aww, young love. Were we ever that stupid?"
Homer: "Of course we were."

"marge, I hope this day is as perfect for you as the day we met was for me. You'll always find the one grain of sugar in the salt shaker that is I. with each marriage, I get a little better. maybe after a thousand, I'll be worthy of you. I miss you." - Homer

"You know something, folks, as ridiculous as this sounds, I would rather feel the sweet breath of my beautiful wife on the back of my neck as I sleep, than stuff dollar bills into some stranger's G-string." - Homer


4.11.2013

If you're leaving to get away from something

"If you're leaving to get away from something that you did, emotionally maybe you want to run away, but in my experience, if you're staring at a pitbull in some guy's back yard, you're better off staying right where you are. Face the problem. That way it can't bite you in the ass."
- Lucas, House M.D.

4.02.2013

Would you like to learn French?


Bonjour!
Hahaha. “Bonjour” means good day, so if it’s evening then, “bonsoir!” which means good evening.


I have been posting a LOT of French stuff all over everything: Facebook, Twitter, and even here.

Let me tell you something, mon lecteurs.
I'm not French. But I fell in love with them.

It all started when a friend told me to listen to Voir Sur Ton Chemin, a soundtrack by Bruno Coulais from the French musical Les Choristes. Here’s the song:


If it doesn't work, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWxu8S6QdqU

Really awesome, right? I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. I downloaded all the other soundtracks looked for a copy of the musical itself. I searched for the lyrics, but I realized knowing the lyrics is not enough, I had to understand. So I went searching for the translation. Apparently there are hundreds, and of course, I wanted the most accurate. That’s when I realized I wanted to study the language and be able to apply it.

I went for self-tutoring. Alangan naming mag-lessons pa ko. First I searched for common words and phrases, and then downloaded recordings. I also bought a French-English dictionary. On my spare time I studied French grammar online.

Self-tutoring went on for 3 months, after which I became very busy. I can only give little time to study. Moreover, I don’t know anyone who speaks French fluently, so I wasn’t able to really practice. Currently, I'm back to French 101.

Perseverance pays. Studying, practicing, preparing is the way to success. Whoever told you you have limits, they’re wrong. Everything can be done and mastered with practice.

If didn’t practice enough and given it enough time, I wouldn’t be fluent in French. But I'm not, because I didn’t study and practice enough. See the point?

Also, tres bien means very good. Hahaha.

3.15.2013

I'll Cover You - Rent

Due to popular demand, or just random occurrences in my life telling me to write something like this, I will now share this song Ralph and I love from a rock musical we love so much. As in. We love it so much he cries every time we watch Angel die *oops spoiler* :)) This is our official strolling song. Hahahaha. Enjoy!

Live in my house, I'll be your shelter
Just pay me back with one thousand kisses
Be my lover and I'll cover you, yeah

Open your door, I'll be your tenant
Don't got much baggage to lay at your feet
But sweet kisses I've got to spare
I'll be there and I'll cover you

I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are my love
On life, all my life

I've longed to discover
Something as true as this is
So with a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
If you're cold and you're lonely
With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
You've got one nickel only

With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
When you're worn out and tired
With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
When your heart has expired

Oh lover, I'll cover you, yeah
Oh lover, I'll cover you

2.23.2013

Everybody lies


"Everybody lies."

"I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do."

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what."
"Truth begins in lies."

"I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone that someone is probably the last person you should ask."

"You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little chemical teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat."

- Dr. House, MD

The Alchemyst

Nope, not misspelled. It's a novel by Michael Scott, and it tells of the story of an immortal guy named Nicholas Flamel and the twins Sophie and Josh Newman. Full of history, magic, and really cool twists. I actually like this more than Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist basically because it's fast paced and I never got bored. Lol. Anyway, I really recommend reading these books. :)

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Warlock: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Enchantress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Apparently, there is a book trailer of the Alchemyst on Youtube. (Not a very cute opening frame but what the hell)
If it doesn't work, click here. You can check out other book trailers, there are about a hundred of them.

Also, if you have a 4shared account, you may download the series here.
Enjoy! :)

2.22.2013

The Assumption Song

Have you heard the Assumption Song? LOL. First time I heard this I got LSS. Not because it triggered my neural impulses and heightened secretion of certain neurochemicals in my brain but because it was really catchy. =))

Here's the video. If it doesn't work, click here. Have fun!


LOL.