Team Zissou

If anyone has seen a red beanie like the one above please tell me. Life Aquatic is an aquamarine lovely beyond-the-sea movie. Just as queer as rushmore and the royal tenenbaums. I am fascinated with Bill Murray (Steve Zissou)'s belly. I really am. I'll post a picture of him standing on his high deck with his protruding belly amidst a wave splash and blue sky. Team Zissou (and that's zee-soou, not sow) wears a red beanie, powder blue uniforms and have blue and white striped speedos and metallic blue and green diving suits. The ship (Belafonte) has lots of compartments like the greek sauna, personal rooms, library, cutting and editing room (because Zissou films his adventures and makes them into movies for the rest of the world. he's an internationally famous oceanographer), and the lowest 'compartment' is this place where you can lie down and look at the sea through different round windows that are everywhere, in front of you, below you, beside you. you have to lie down though, because that's all the space there is i think. he said he thought it up in a dream. it's called the observation bubble.

What have I been doing? Watching movies, at least one a day. It's getting too crazy. Watching so much that one drowns out the other. On friday I watched I Am Sam with my cousins. After the prelims ended I felt like being alone so I went to cut my hair (and since then I have been subjected to irritating criticism from almost all members of my family except my mother's mother and my psychotic cousin) and then I went to my auntie's house to hang out with my cousins, which I've never done before. I just missed them. So I took a long train ride and my cousin cycled to meet me at the mrt and ate half my jellybeans on the way there. He's the psychotic, violent, sentimental, crazy, flamboyant, sometimes sensitive one. Out of all my cousins we're probably most alike. So almost everyone was home (reuben, his sister natalie, his other sister the 3-year-old, their father, the auntie maid) and i watched I Am Sam with ting han (reuben). He cried and cried. The baby kept smiling at me. Later my auntie came home with the younger brother seth, a bald hyperactive yoda. And of course they ate up all my jellybeans.

That very night I watched Life Aquatic. The next day (yesterday) I watched a quarter of The Royal Tenenbaums and I simply loved it. Especially when they play Hey Jude at the start and Richie releases his special eagle on their rooftop near the dark grey brick pillar with the robinegg-blue and pink tenenbaum flag. Then I watched Be With Me in the afternoon. And Nurse Betty at night. I'm going mad. I'm just so hungry for movies. I haven't been exercising, just bathing and bathing. But not bathing away sweat. This is the time where people's lives are going to change. Getting jobs, going to clubs, dyeing their hair, earning their own money, having all this free time and needing to know what to do with it because they will be faced with all the time in their lives very soon after the a-levels are over. Basically, growing up. Its obviously exciting but it kind of sucks. I just want to be a kid who paints all day. I can still paint all day but I wouldn't enjoy it as much if I were a kid, if ye know what I mean. I'm get upset with people who grow up, I really do. But the thing is when you're a kid you're somehow always waiting to grow up and do things that only adults do like write a book or invent something or deal with money or travel the world.

HEY JUDE

"I got my hair highlighted, because I felt some strands were more important than others."

Monday, September 19, 2005