Thursday, July 22, 2010

Marion Cotillard

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
Marion Cotillard 

“I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. And it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where a train will take you?” -As Mal in Inception


I don’t know if we have many lives or if I will be reincarnated into a next life, but I really do think that when you die, it doesn’t stop. -Interview Magazine

In the advent of a new era of my long forsaken heart

I am still in love with you. I had a speech written out for you all this time, yet I don't want to tell you because it doesn't really matter now. 
And WTH! 
I will not be emo!
NOT!
I love you anyway.
Love you! Love you, love you, love you, love you.
There. I'll say it over and over again because it matters to me.
I love you. *sigh*
I don't mind if you don't love me too...I'm happy anyway.
Remember that song you once sent me, 
"I want you to love me, but I don't think you will." I wander around as I repeat this to myself It's the only answer I have, even if I'm scared of getting hurt. I'll say "I love you" to the one I love Do you love me or not? I don't care what the answer is, I just need to know! No matter how badly I desire to be with you There are many unchangeable things in this world and my love for you can't be stopped by anyone As 1000 nights pass, I long to tell you I have to let you know "I want you to love me, but I don't think you will." I wander around as I repeat this to myself It's the only answer I have, even if I'm scared of getting hurt. I'll say "I love you" to the one I love Putting these feelings into words is so scary but I'll say "I love you" to the one I love The happiness we chance upon in our lives can't be expressed in words That's why we can only smile Why we sing "do re mi" among the vivid autumn colors With winter at our backs, and the spring sunbeams peeking through the leaves as to protect someone who's just been reborn As I looked at the road I'd traveled and the path ahead, my eyes were filled with cowardice I wanted to look into your eyes, but was afraid I wouldn't be honest I didn't want to know that you didn't love me and live the rest of my days alone That day, I kept on loving you without getting hurt As 1000 nights pass, I long to tell you I have to let you know "I want you to love me, but I don't think you will." I wander around as I repeat this to myself It's the only answer I have, even if I'm scared of getting hurt. I'll say "I love you" to the one I love Even if my feelings aren't returned, I can say "I love you" to the one I love And that's the most beautiful thing in the world


HELL YEAH! It's MY SONG NOW. 
I Love you.
Xoxox



You Need to Dream A Little Bigger: My first IMAX experience





I am psyched that Cebu finally got an IMAX theatre! And Inception is showing! I'm terrible at making movie reviews (I over-analyse, over-criticize, over-worship, I can never be un-biased) so I'll refrain from reviewing this movie and just tell you to WATCH IT to get a dose of "high", only Inception+Imax can offer. 

Okay, so that was a review. Darn. I can't resist. 

Okay, whatever. 

The movie displayed amazing cinematography and Cristopher Nolan has a vision that (hopefully) will change heist movies forever. The movie combines the magic that brought Matrix, Dark Knight and Memento to great heights and delivered it in this movie. Only, sometimes, they did it too well and I feel that they could have further explored the intricacies of the characters' mindsets and psyche. It could have made a better psychology thriller movie than a heist movie, but then, I can't complain since I loved the way Nolan did it anyway. Leonardo DiCaprio is already one of my favorite actors since he has long shed his Titanic(Hollywood cute guy) skin, I think his choice of movies are the best and I can easily compare his tastes to that of Johnny Depp's eccentricities which they both portray so well in each movie they choose. Marion Cotillard, whom I loved as an actress in The Good Year and Nine, was brilliant in her role as the wife. She was downright creepy, I can feel her underlying craziness underneath the facade of outer fragility. She was crazy, yet she made it so that the audience finds it hard to believe she was that, the ultimate pseudo-protagonist-cum-villain. Joseph Gordon-Levitt..well, since when has he ever failed me?! I adore him. This time, he was the hot Point man. Hot. He.Is. He also showed his action skills in the movie via ala-matrix-like elevator scene which was one of the movie's biggest crowd-WoWer! These three made the biggest impact on screen. Ellen Page was negligible, she could have milked her part better, and the others roles were too constricted to really put too much brilliance on screen. Oh, wait, there was that guy who played the target. He did pretty well too! 

One bad thing about IMAX, it can get too noisy. LMAO. And the seats were packed too tight in SM, we weren't in the aisle seats so when I had a full bladder, I had to wait for like 30 minutes because I don't want to miss any good parts and I don;t want to embarrass myself by blocking people's views. Darn. New rule: No Iced teas during Movies. haha!


How do I hate thee? Let me count thy ways...



It was shown in 1999 and I've seen it only in 2003 but it immediately became my favorite. The Shakespearean twist gave it a fresh angle and made it memorable. It was also based from one of my favorite Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. It also features 3 of my favorite Hollywood actors; Joseph Gordon Levitt, Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. 


Snapshots: Girondins De Bordeaux

Snapshots: Maradona and Messi

They're More Than Just Written Words.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Waka Waka and the Champions

Spain NT players vowed to do the following if ever they would win the World Cup, which they did win, wonder if they did go by their word?! Or for some of the more obscure ones, maybe not!

1. Iker – he preferred out of superstition not to make a promise.

2. Albiol – learn English.

3. Piqué – go all out celebrating.

4. Marchena – promised to carry out what he promised in the Eurocopa – walk the Camino de Santiago. He also promised to go on a cruise with his family.

5. Puyol – left the envelope empty because he doesn’t like to make promises.

6. Iniesta - walk the Camino de Santiago, but didn’t say when.

7. Villa – he wrote “let the celebration be bigger than the Eurocopa one.”

8. Xavi – shave all our heads, including those of the journalists.

9. Torres – walk the Camino de Santiago, but didn’t say when.

10. Cesc - he wrote, “I will invite all my friends because I’ve never lived anything like it and I feel like one of them.”

11. Capdevila – get a tattoo of the World Cup.

12. Valdés – go all out celebrating with the team.

13. Mata – do the ruta del Cares in Asturias and travel to California.

14. Xabi – go around the world.

15. Sergio – get a tattoo of the World Cup [he’s might actually go through with it.]

16. Busquets – go on vacation to Punta Cana with his friends.

17. Arbeloa – go one year without drinking Coca Cola.

18. Pedro - celebrate with his loved ones, travel to Tenerife and somewhere else with his family and friends.

19. Llorente – go skydiving.

20. Javi – dye his hair neon pink and go skydiving (naked and without a parachute).

21. Silva - walk the Virgen del Carmen route to thank her.

22. Navas - return to Johannesburg with his family and his girlfriend.

23. Pepe - grow a goatee until Aug. 31 and compose an updated version of “camarero.”
 As part of the country's celebrations as champions, some fans edited a La Furia Roja version of Waka-Waka...this video is pretty good!
LINK:
LA Furia Roja's Waka Waka

Snapshots: La Furia Roja, the 2010 WC Champions