past Forward

four movies. twenty two hours. two parties. twelve highschool friends. three law21 case readings. one karL.

kinda sad really.

there's a post-prod party for bluereppers right now at gigo's in alabang.
there's also a post-birthday dinner thing for erika at gerry's in libis.
there's also me sleeping, sitting, typing, really by myself at home.

it was my choice to stay, get some rest. be anti-social. i also am tryin not to spend, not that the gatherings above need much money. i felt like i should stay, talk to myself, catch up on law21 readings, and take a nap in between everything.

so since around midnight last night, i was also catching up on movies i missed, right after mr80%'s last show [which was a blast by the way, foh had to sell standing room tickets at 50pesos. woohoo].

the interpreter. nicole kidman looks great even when she's freaked out or when she speaks a totally new language or when her brother just died. the movie speaks a lot about diplomacy and makes me proud i'm a pacifist. it aint the best sean penn movie, it aint the best nicole kidman movie, sure is one of the best u.n movie. at least for me. and just when you think kofi annan can't make any difference in this world.

madagascar. i heard it's a movie for kids but when i heard the monkey call the other monkey a fucking monkey, i had to check the unreliable subtitles [no to piracy]. the lemurs and the penguins and the hippo and the giraffe were cute. the lion and the zebra and the penguins were annoying. and the granny who was brave enough to hit the lion was annoying too. the makers of shrek never did anything better than shrek.

hotel rwanda. wow. and to think i wasn't able to see the last 20 minutes of the movie [no to piracy, wahehe]. i sure now know why i cried for braveheart- because hotel rwanda was to be shown only a decade later. i hate going mushy for movies but this one made me shed some tears. damn. the whole world can do great things after a natural disaster, but when it's political or religious, we shut up and become real cowards. i mean i laud all tsunami efforts and i admit i can be a coward myself but i thought we learned a lot from whatever happened to the jews. ohwell.

the terminal. saw this a year ago already. real light and oftentimes funny. it may never happen in real life for sure but if someone can build that huge an airport just for one movie then nothing is impossible. i watch movies that i think i like over and over and i re-judge them after and assess if i still like it. one criterion is if i realize something new after re-watching it. for this one, i had to think if tom hank's character was flat or round. really flat or really round. hmm... and i must say catherine zeta-jones is one of my earliest visions of an ideal woman. ya

and i move on as things [these movies, "diligence" and "negligence" from my law21 readings, greeting somebody for her birthday, catching up on your highschool friends, lots of highschool friends] move and unmove me. tomorrow i wake up

lisnin to this playlist that contains but five songs [Hale's The Day You Said Goodnight, A Key's Diary, Prince's Musicology, Miss Saigon's Please and N.E.R.D.'s She Wants to Move], my fave songs as of the moment, theyve been replaying for the nth time now. nice
feelin kinda in a reminiscin mood. past acquaintances, past gatherings, past verbal exchanges, past past past.