Entries Tagged 'Movies' ↓

Update: go directly to the web instead. I got a majestic white cat lynx! I think the flash animation intercept this page to be loaded correctly using Internet Explorer.

I’ve seen the movie when I was still in Reading. A cool movie, not too good, but OK. I don’t usually follow this viral marketing thingy, but the idea is great. Please help me to determine what my final dæmon would be like by clicking on the animation above and participate in a simple 5 questions questionnaire.

If you are reading this from RSS reader or aggregator site and can’t see any flash animation above, go directly to my Dæmon’s page, Eumelia.

You’ll have the chance to have one of them yourself, after you do the questionnaire.

Got this from sandclow.

I just want to tell that I’m missing home very much. Back when I was still in Bandung, studying and after that, working, I had the chance to go home at least once in a year, and I often take that opportunities for granted. But now, I’ve only been abroad for just less than four months, I’m missing my home very much. Continue reading →

Kind readers, sorry for not updating this blog for quite some time now. So without further ado, here is a quick recap about what I have done in UK. Continue reading →

I have not been writing for a couple of years (go and see the date of the previous entry) and I am planning to yet start again. In the midst of searching a decent topic to write and finding the right time, I came across the movie “Man of The Year” starred by Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, and Laura Linney among others. Tina Fey, apparently a famous comedian in the US, also appeared as herself co-hosting the Saturday Night Live show while in Indonesia I only get to see her during the commercial of a comedy series, 30 Rock, on the cable (nope, I don’t have cable, my office does, and this interference is starting to get a little annoying; straight to the point please, I hear you say).

Okay, on to the main points: while I can’t really pinpoint what genre the movie “Man of The Year” was in, I thought it was a little bit conspiracy-thriller than the usual satirical-political-comedy (Wikipedia’s entry also agrees) (main point please, I hear you shout, sorry, can’t help it), the movie quite succinctly showed the political condition of the United States and to my surprise, it can also be about Indonesia. Robin Williams played Tom Dobbs, an American comedian whose show was typical with the Jay Leno show or the Conan O’Brien show. He was consistently mocking the political condition of his own country, making it laughable for his viewers while spontaneously gave insights to what the politicians should be doing. In one act he jokingly while literally attacking a US senator for his inconsistent speech about energy efficiency while the senator was campaigning for presidency backed up by major oil companies. Continue reading →

Last night, we: myself, Bowo –the new likeable guy in the dorm-, Anto –the landlady’s only son-, and Novi –Anto’s girlfriend, soon to be wife- all went out on a ride quite around Bandung road at Saturday night. We were going out for hunting neon billboards. Continue reading →

When I was reorganizing stuff in my room yesterday morning, I sorted out a comic entitled Kingdom Come. The comic has four books in total [I bought them all, since I knew there would be only four books] and they all have black-classy-cool cover. The comic was published by DC Comics, the story was done by Mark Waid, and the masterpiece drawings were painted by Alex Ross. Alongside the DC logo and the title, there was also another logo, Elseworlds. I don’t really know whether Elseworlds is another publisher or just a division of DC, or just a nickname created by DC to label some of its comics, but at the inner back cover, I found something interesting. It said,

In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places-some that have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow.

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Van Helsing or Vaness Wu? Continue reading →

Whenever I get gloomy with the stage of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport.
General opinion started to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed. But I don’t see that, it seems to me that love is everywhere.

Often that it is not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there: fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.

When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge; they were all messages of love.

If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that
love actually
is
all around…

[Hugh Grant narrating as British’ Prime Minister in “Love Actually”]

In the past three years, I and the rest of movie goers [so they say] are awed by the world of JRR Tolkien, the Middle Earth, thanks to Peter Jackson. “The Lord of The Rings”, all six books of the story [yes, it is six books, but divided in three volumes, two books in each volume] have been brought to silver screen. As the result, the main characters in the story all have their face and, well, they actually live. And the Middle Earth is built to entertain the world. Continue reading →

Until it’s gone. Continue reading →