oo nga pala
to you: congratulations. all of a sudden i'm not scared any more...
to graph theory - i love you. i passed my math midterms because of you! (hindi to codename, i seriously mean GT)
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i remember trying to kill myself in second year high school. i'd just failed geometry by one point. one partial point my math teacher refused to cede. my ( Read more... )
to graph theory - i love you. i passed my math midterms because of you! (hindi to codename, i seriously mean GT)
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i remember trying to kill myself in second year high school. i'd just failed geometry by one point. one partial point my math teacher refused to cede. my ( Read more... )
party hard! you only turn 18 once... heh. don't go all out and have one of those fancy debuts, but do SOMETHING! hehe... even if it's like a week later... everything else be damned... have a little get-together with friends. heh. or go watch a good film. it seems like you haven't seen many movies lately, dearest. tsk tsk. now that is a crime...
i admit i haven't been reading your journal lately...but i'm sure to catch up to your musings soon enough. ^.^ if i can make time for my writing, i sure as hell should be able to make time to read your stuff.
hollywood is just a bunch of fat cats twisting the knife in the gut of creativity and blowing as much money as possible on numbing the senses by sticking to what's tried and true. it's sad. one day california is going to sink into the ocean and the global film community will get to begin anew. i can only dream until then... i will say this, though. while most books really get the short end of the stick when adapted to the screen, the best movies out there are exponentially better than any book that could possibly be made about them.
lawrence of arabia, taxi driver, citizen kane, seven samurai, 8 1/2... the best of all films ever made (and most of them, strangely enough, do have hunky dudes playing the lead) do more to stimulate the imagination, infiltrate the psyche and resonate with their audience than a book about the same subject ever could. and still others - like raging bull and akira kurosawa's ran, an adaptation of king lear - are able to stand side-by-side with their book or play counterparts as different sides of the same coin, and in the case of raging bull, surpass them.
i don't feel that great modern classics are necessarily reduced to pop literature because a movie about them has been made, though i admit that i wouldn't have remembered Ella Enchanted was based on a book until you told me so. it did have a kind of book-ish feeling to it when i saw it, which is a good thing. same goes for the princess bride too... was that based on a book?
and while it does piss me off when people think they know everything about a book because they've seen the movie, consider that a movie being made about a book is *always* good for the book's sales. would i have gotten into HP, narnia or LotR if the movies didn't exist? possibly, but not to the same extent. LotR in particular really hit me in between the eyes. it was because of the enresolved questions in PJ's films that i found myself digging through Tolkien's tomes. i must have scrutinized every paragraph of Two Towers and RotK back when I was posting on LotR Plaza and the LotR forums on RottenTomatoes.com... i mean, most people wouldn't have reacted that way; most who have seen LotR have pretty much condeded that they have seen all there is to see, but considering that those people weren't exactly likely to pick up the books and read them anyway (or if they did, they would probably skim through the lengthy parts and therefore leave from the experience with their views unchanged), i think it's a credit to the films that they have got its fanbase going back to the source material for more.
i reread hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right before and after the movie came out. i'm going to read oliver twist sometime before or after i buy the DVD version of roman polanski's adaptation. i bought and read 'speak' after seeing the movie. and regarding remakes, my grandmother, aunt and uncle all borrowed and saw my copy of the original King Kong before seeing PJ's remake of it. i guess my point is that if a film adaptation of a classic work spurs even one member of its audience to investigate the source material, then it was a worthy endeavor. kind of. as long as the n00b fools who think they know everything about LotR from fast-forwarding the elf scenes on DVD keep their fingers off their keyboards. ;)
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the funny thing is, for all the to-do i made about my birthday, it still feels funny saying "i'm an adult" now... i sure don't feel like one. my roomies staged a little "surprise" for me (and REALLY did, actually, which i'll blog about, maybe, in passing), and since it's a long weekend my parents took me home and we spent a day at Tagaytay Highlands, basically "chilling" (or irritating the heck out of my little brother because he wanted to be off playing Ragnarok).
i'll throw mayself a grand party when i turn forty. they do say "life" begins at 40"...
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and inez, really, don't you know me by now? i wouldn't flame you without letting you know it was me. i have too much of an ego for that. ;)
people still play RO?!? wow. i wish i could play from here. i miss MMORPGS so badly...
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