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Happy CHINESE NEW YEAR!
新年快樂!
Go rub out all that lixi from the palms of your relatives.
Just spent the day w/ my mom's side of the family. Well, not even really, since it was only for 2 hrs and not everyone was there, since they were off at the celebrations of their respective OTHER side of the family's. We ate a little, chewed the fat a little, and if you were me got ignored by grandma a little whenever you talked to her. :/ The majority of the time was spent watching this hella OLD video (shot 20 YEARS AGO! ha ..... in the car I blew off the "time really flies" attitude my mom had abt it but looking back yeah a lot of things did happen in 20 years. It's kind of funny saying that, That was 20 years ago, so neat a number like the space of two inches between the fingers of my hand. It's kind of hard imagining I've been alive this long, not cos I thought I was going to die before now but I never really think abt the passage of time itself or all the things I did or didn't do or happened or not to me that led to how I feel about myself and everything today.) ..about all the stupid things we did as kids.
Like. HAHA it showed my 9 yr old cousin, celebrating his birthday, allowed to wield a 12 inch BLADE. He was allowed to cut the cake himself, gesture at ppl (aka his fellow young cousins crowding him and eagerly hovering over the cake) when he ordered them for things (GET THE BOOOWLLLS, STOP SINGINNGGG HAPPY BIRTHDAY yousingsougly) himself, and all around pose a threat to the wellbeing of the inhabitants of his immediate society. ahahahhahaha. Even my grandma, in the video, gestured w/ the knife for things while standing in the midst of tiny running children.
and my cousin learned a song about being a cat that my uncle made her, for the benefit of his video, consecutively sing 6 billion times (a heady rounded-down number). He shot her singing it facing the camera, he shot her profile singing it, he shot her WITH the accompanying dance routine, he shot her WITHOUT, he shot her w/ her fellow bros being cats with her. And yes, since it was a performance, without a doubt, the routine included her opening with a curtsy, shouting ACTION!, doing her song and dance, and then running at the camera screaming when my uncle told her "Ok 3 more times and then we're done!" (which he artfully edited so that the shot started with her wildly screaming and running at him to suddenly singing the song again HAHAHAHA.)
I've been rereading books that I remembered that I loved from my childhood- so far, Ella Enchanted (still so good), and The View from Saturday (by EL Konigsburg, of The Mixed Up Files of...whatever her name was). Without a doubt I will never stop loving Maniac Magee, never ever, never ever ever.
Then I came home and watched Winds of September. (lovehkfilm review)
It's another coming-of-age movie featuring the loss of innocence and follows the friendship of 7 guys. I thought of Blue Spring while I watched it, but it's way less flashy and not so overtly stylish. It was very charming and very fine and feels down to earth. Its subjects were handled sensitively, and the film is a first in a planned trilogy that I'm excited to watch.
The aesthetic of its cover really appealed to me.
新年快樂!
Go rub out all that lixi from the palms of your relatives.
Just spent the day w/ my mom's side of the family. Well, not even really, since it was only for 2 hrs and not everyone was there, since they were off at the celebrations of their respective OTHER side of the family's. We ate a little, chewed the fat a little, and if you were me got ignored by grandma a little whenever you talked to her. :/ The majority of the time was spent watching this hella OLD video (shot 20 YEARS AGO! ha ..... in the car I blew off the "time really flies" attitude my mom had abt it but looking back yeah a lot of things did happen in 20 years. It's kind of funny saying that, That was 20 years ago, so neat a number like the space of two inches between the fingers of my hand. It's kind of hard imagining I've been alive this long, not cos I thought I was going to die before now but I never really think abt the passage of time itself or all the things I did or didn't do or happened or not to me that led to how I feel about myself and everything today.) ..about all the stupid things we did as kids.
Like. HAHA it showed my 9 yr old cousin, celebrating his birthday, allowed to wield a 12 inch BLADE. He was allowed to cut the cake himself, gesture at ppl (aka his fellow young cousins crowding him and eagerly hovering over the cake) when he ordered them for things (GET THE BOOOWLLLS, STOP SINGINNGGG HAPPY BIRTHDAY yousingsougly) himself, and all around pose a threat to the wellbeing of the inhabitants of his immediate society. ahahahhahaha. Even my grandma, in the video, gestured w/ the knife for things while standing in the midst of tiny running children.
and my cousin learned a song about being a cat that my uncle made her, for the benefit of his video, consecutively sing 6 billion times (a heady rounded-down number). He shot her singing it facing the camera, he shot her profile singing it, he shot her WITH the accompanying dance routine, he shot her WITHOUT, he shot her w/ her fellow bros being cats with her. And yes, since it was a performance, without a doubt, the routine included her opening with a curtsy, shouting ACTION!, doing her song and dance, and then running at the camera screaming when my uncle told her "Ok 3 more times and then we're done!" (which he artfully edited so that the shot started with her wildly screaming and running at him to suddenly singing the song again HAHAHAHA.)
I've been rereading books that I remembered that I loved from my childhood- so far, Ella Enchanted (still so good), and The View from Saturday (by EL Konigsburg, of The Mixed Up Files of...whatever her name was). Without a doubt I will never stop loving Maniac Magee, never ever, never ever ever.
Then I came home and watched Winds of September. (lovehkfilm review)
It's another coming-of-age movie featuring the loss of innocence and follows the friendship of 7 guys. I thought of Blue Spring while I watched it, but it's way less flashy and not so overtly stylish. It was very charming and very fine and feels down to earth. Its subjects were handled sensitively, and the film is a first in a planned trilogy that I'm excited to watch.
The aesthetic of its cover really appealed to me.