Tuesday, April 08, 2008

• Today is lazy day, and thinking-about-subtitle day.

  Part I- Painting

  I woke up early this morning for no reason at all and resumed my painting. I have been working on the details of one of the person there, and it took me hours and hours. Ironic, since it was roughly about 4-5 inches long. That's my painting waterloo: miniscule objects and details. The smaller teh subject, the longer and harder it is to finish it. 

  Part II- breakfast and cliff hangers

  I stopped for breakfast and eagerly anticipated to call University of the Philippines Manila to finally know if the course they had for me was worth replacing Ateneo. And to my sadness and slight frustration, the told me to call within the day since their boss just arrived. Then I did the groceries (yep, the youngest of 3, 17-year old son, do the grocery for the whole family. Just for the summer though, an opporuntistic endeavor my mom did since I was soon entering the busy busy college life. Her way of steering my remaining bumming days to her advantage), then I called again after that, and to my utter depression (slight exaggeration), they told me to call this Friday for they are still "in the process". Tha'ts quite a lot of extension of the deadline they gave me on the acceptance letter, April 7.

  Part III- Movie binging

  

  So, perhaps subconciously or whatever, I spent the rest my day bumming around, watching movies. First was Penelope (Christina Ricci), which sadly lost grip of its entertainment factor by the end. I do appreciate them taking Christina Ricci for the role, and am surprised that they picked her, her being more suited to a dark character, and the role of Penelope being more---blondish. It was really queer, and it's as if there were two directors who did its two half. Its a total complementary juxtaposition, entertaining and messed up. The second movie I watched was Ocean's eleven. That perhaps, by far (or perhaps because it is the only smart movie my mind can conjure now), is the smartest movie I saw. Thank God for subtitles though, if it wasnt for them, I would probably be lost on the intricacy of it all. I am a subtitle person. A lot of the movies I like has that certain style of low volume dialogue, which perhaps is an attempt to set the mood or lure the audience to sudden increase of volume to assist the thrill and suspense impact. I do not get it though. Aren't they jeopardizing the movie by choosing effects over dialogue? Hmm.... My brother hates me for turning the subtitle on, he thinks its a "distraction", though from time to time succumbs due to the reason he cant understand the plot anymore. The last film was "The last king of Scotland". I heard it's a great movie, you tell me. I only watched 30 minutes of it. I got bored and thought it was too serious for the day's parade of comedic movie. 

  Part IV- Aftermath of headache and Xanga time

  Self-explanatory.

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