Friday, November 12, 2004
Psychedelia!
I went to best denki today with my father to get a video camera which will start an interesting adventure to film anything and everything. i can't wait to zoom in on people's nostrils, buttocks, everything!!! but don't worry, the one he will probably buy will have a 'soft skin' function, making anyone's facial skin look nice and smooth. i looked around and realised that best denki is for adorable, grumpy middle aged men who get excited by technology to visit. these men, usually balding, with a frown, otherwise buck-toothed, bespectacled, slightly hunched and smiling like a fool, gain a lot of pleasure from chatting with salesmen about products like video cameras, cameras, hair dryers (!), vacuum cleaners, televisions, stereo systems, microwave ovens, actually, anything there. it is their form of escape, escape into the world of technology where they are free to frown or smile gullibly like happy little boys again. yes, i saw one man especially, he was with his little son who was captivated by a lcd screen television set of ocean fish and bubbles. anyway this man, he was slightly hunched (poor thing, probably not even 40 yet), with spectacles, a white colourful t-shirt (no doubt gayly purchased by him in a perth-western-australia tourist shop) and he was buck-toothed, and he suddenly spoke to no discernible human being but perhaps the display of video cameras.
early today i also discussed my dramatic sequence (THE SUMMER OF LOOOOOVE) with mister lofthouse. very exciting buzzes!!!!! i love simple ideas, like his suggestion of being in skin suit with daisies placed at strategic areas of my body and then i pose for the entire ds, and at the end a bathtub is wheeled in, i splash into it and i am wheeled away. anyone who has a portable bathtub please tell me. maybe this gives me an opportunity to advertise on classifieds!
hallelujah, esmonde just called me to ask me to go to his church again!!!!!!!!! to see his new hairstyle, from REDS which is apparently veyr very different. HA. and i said i dont want to go to church!!!! and it went on and he said he will ask me again another day.
BEATELS CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but note.
it's beatELS, not beatLES. its apparently the best tribute band or something, from Australia, they play beatles songs, and i heard one of them from the site, sounds almost real. and this concert will be on 26 and 27 november at the singapore indoor stadium. its not so much a concert as a hippy event!!!!! meaning go in hippy costumes, there will be face, body painting, tarot card reading, aura reading, psychedelic meatpies, retro videos and the beatels' performance. groovy, baby. who wants to go!!!!!!!
i just found out my name means aphrodisiac in indonesian or some other language. fascinating.
i am enjoying all my dreams. lovely weird dreams almost every night, always with the people in my life involved. and then i wake up to happily interprete it and remember every detail of it to write in my diary so i can always remember every single dream i have had. oh, please, let me have a dream tonight where i sneak into a boys school, unrecognized and have a whole day adventure there!
moled at 11/12/2004 05:38:00 AM
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
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Still on amazon romp. I typed 'hippy' and got amazing results. there were hippie handbooks, music etc. there was a hippie handbook that said: we'll teach you how to braid your hair, when to flash a peace sign and other essentials for leading the carefree life. i used the 'search in the book' function and found a hilarious page on hair saying not to ever cut hair, if ever, get friend or hitch-hiker to do it, and never shave any part of body and so on. then, i searched the beatles and found amazing shirts and ties. and scrubs, malcolm in the middle, garden state, eternal sunshine (where someone called the dvd 'unbelievable'). now i am at john mayer and i cant believe how much i am enjoying this!!!!!!! yaaaay! i love hearing positive comments about dvds and music, like the royal tenebaums, eternal sunshine, john mayer. they are not moronic, simple-minded comments like: "this rocks!" but really detailed and interesting.
ON JOHN MAYER'S LIVE CONCERT CD-ANY GIVEN THURSDAY :
cough, ahem... ok this is what I think..., March 7, 2003
Reviewer:
Andrew Ioussoufaki "function zero" (New York) - See all my reviews
To start off this very positive review, id like to say that I've heard hundreds of albums released over the past year and this is surely one of the top 10.
The majority of my friends don't like John Mayer (for some reason) and that's a shame. I don't see how you can not find this album incredible. It's acoustic for the most part but there is so much energy. John has a very soothing, full voice and the live recordings show off his band's amazing talent... songs like "3X5" and "Neon" evolve and expand into nearly ten-minute jam sessions. And every song has great, catchy melody.
The live recordings are very good (almost, studio-like quality).
If you like Dave Mathews, you will also like John Mayer. He's a breath of fresh air in the midst of all the [stuff] you hear on the radio these days.
The 2 cd's have a total play time of about 1 hour and 43 minutes...
it's a great stress reliever (a nice alternative to cigarettes or alcohol hehe)... give it a spin, close your eyes and let it take you away.
MORE: THIS IS MADDER, ALSO ON JOHN MAYER'S LIVE CD:
One song is worth 13 bucks, September 4, 2004
Reviewer:
David Chen (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews
You have to buy this cd if only to listen to one song. And that one song is Covered in Rain. If you have never heard Covered in Rain, you have to buy this cd, because it is honestly the best song ever written by a human being. I finally understand why he did not put this song on heavier things, and that reason is because an album version could not capture the pure emotion and clarity this song conveys. Buy the cd, listen to Covered in Rain and you'll have a new favorite song.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS DVD REVIEWS:
An excellent fare!, March 13, 2003
Reviewer:
Shashank Tripathi (Duly atilt from prime meridian) - See all my reviews
If you have seen and enjoyed movies like Rushmore or Forget Paris, which dont pander to a mass sense of humour, i.e. of the the slapstick 'Spy who shagged me' genre, then it is quite likely you'll love the Tenenbaums. I found this movie delightfully funny, the characters have very well conveyed inner and outer conflicts, acting is superb, you'll find yourself empathizing with the characters and hoping for their successes...Tenenbaums is even more surreal and eccentric than Rushmore. Similar flavor and setting, a kind of dreamlike zen journey for meaning for various characters against a backdrop of the disillusioned/dysfunctional educated middle class, with themes of lost and found relationships/selves/true-loves.
But this depiction is subtle. In fact, the movie's greatest assets rest in the untold and unexplained bits of the film and the tongue-in-cheek stabs at all of the characters, people (with the exception of Pagoda, The Butler) who have been taking themselves way too seriously for way too long and their discomfort around their father, a man who never took anyone seriously in his life, least of all himself. The characters in Tenenbaums are kind of like caricatures
At the same time, the movie is touching in many ways, visually beautiful, and if you have any sort of taste in music, you can't help simply loving the soundtrack.
Absolutely 5 star material and one for your collections.
ANOTHER ON THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS:
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Whoah, September 6, 2004
A Kid's Review This is the most BIZARRE movie I have ever seen, and it is waayyyy messed up.
ON ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND:
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
HORRIBLE, November 11, 2004
Reviewer:
K. Medina - See all my reviews
This was the worse movie that I have ever seen. It's pretty bad when you have to shut the movie off 30 minutes into it. It just didn't go anywhere. All this movie had going for it was all the great actors and I can't believe they risked their careers for such an awful movie.
WHAT A MORON!!!!!!
boogie boogie woogie hippy hippy shake. i hope this teaches everyone to always use amazon.com. i could search and read on forever.
moled at 11/10/2004 10:41:00 PM
Oh, Amazon.com is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!! I go there and search The Royal Tenenbaums, and they show me the dvd of it, which has such convenient reviews there by people who own it, and it has amazing special features!!!!!! commentaries, interviews, deleted scenes, artwork, a lot more! plus they also grouped it with a dvd called rushmore, and if u buy both it will be cheaper. rushmore is another film by wes anderson (creator of royal tenenbaums, together with owen wilson) and it sounds just as queer and intriguing. then i saw the royal tenenbaums soundtrack with the songlist, queer songs. and then i searched for the almost famous dvd, and it sounds great too, and it is coupled with american beauty! wonder how they coupled that together. and there is also punch drunk love in related buys, and in the left column they feature eternal sunshine of the spotless mind dvd. amazon.com is all i need for happiness today. maybe forever. you can find all you need, all the comments, detailed reviews and opinions on most books, movies, dvds, clothes, even items like the ipod. what is thrilling too is if you order, it means that, YES!, you will get a parcel in the mail soon, and that is very very exciting to anticipate and receive and enjoy the items inside. anyway this british woman called booga (who has a hilarious online diary) quit her job as a vet to sell things on ebay. she buys things, and sells them there for about a ten dollar profit. she works from home, and once in 6 hours she made $500. isn't that an amazing job?! you don't have to earn too much, i mean for me, just quite enough and that job sounds lovely. just sitting in front of the computer, conversing with people around the world getting them to buy your things. and best thing is, you can choose what you want to sell.
yesterday i spent a few hours writing the script for my dramatic sequence in my red cosy sweater. i just squatted in front of the computer and typed away referring to mad magazine and all tha research. writing a script is very hard, fun and an extremely delicate process. anyhow i hope the ds can turn out authentically western, with 'groovy' and 'peace, baby' lines. oh, frivolous bathtub scrubbing and singing. i am lolita starshine! what a silly name! starshine! i am quite sad that i will have to conclude that the hippy dream cannot be fulfilled, and i cannot add as many elements of the 60s as i would like, but more of the hippy elements, of course.
back to amazon. peace.
(has anyone noticed that channel 5 pronounces 'deepavali' very oddly? they say something like 'dee-wah-li')
moled at 11/10/2004 07:41:00 PM
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Oh dearest, most adorable Ultraman, you noseless moron,
I have had a miserable first half of the day with pw. I hate the independent checklist and I hate pw. I hate it so much that everytime I try to do it I sense some sort of heart seizure coming on. I am weak, I let pw give me a minor heart cramp. Then it was the ogl interview, a very very queer thing in a red room. But it was all better when Mister Harris and I had a little marching excursion to the library with a hop and a wink in the dusty musty shelves where you can only breathe, whisper and look hard at book spines. In the evening, Carol, Yuhui, Conan and I took a delirious gaspy taxi ride to godeatgod's venue and giggled about doing something mad tonight, like cutting granny's hair or using internet to access dirty stuff. I just want to lounge around and fantasize about my bathtub and bubbles in 'Let's Lick Lennon's Lemons', my dramatic sequence and make divine progress from that very opening. I may sound dreamy and deluded but I am not!!
Anyway, how odd. The idea of people asking people psycho-analysis questions out of the blue is queer and intriguing. at the interview they asked me what the weirdest thing i have ever done is. everyone, think about this a moment. anyway, i answered hair collection. oh my! there has been weirder! the things i want to forget! it has to do with mucus. anyhow i am absolutely amazed at what khairul said the interviewers thought of me, that they were able to pick it up in 15 minutes, that when something that i am inclined to or interested in pops up, i perk up and get very excited and enthusiastic, but when it is something i have no interest in, i just drop and drop and become subdued. that is rather true.
FELICITY SHAGWELL
moled at 11/09/2004 07:36:00 AM