Archive for June 2nd, 2008

Powerful Vocal

June 2nd, 2008 -- Posted in music | No Comments »

I can’t help posting this youtube! This lil girl’s voice is AMAZING!!! Charice Pempengco from the Philippines was only 15 when this was recorded.

Added: on Ellen DeGeneres Show

Cashback

June 2nd, 2008 -- Posted in movies | 3 Comments »

Following blinkymummy’s post on the movie Cashback, I finally got myself a copy over the weekends and watched it.

I had initially associated the time-freezing plot subject with the book Fermenta by Nicholson Baker, but the stories turned out different. Fermenta is an erotic novel where the protagonist stopped time to take the clothes off women and masturbated to the nakedness. In Cashback the protagonist is an aspiring artist who stopped time to enjoy the beauty of the naked female body and draw them on his sketch book. The plot looks similar but the ploys are different.

Can the admiration of a naked body be non-erotic?

Let’s not start a Freudian arguement with that. Nudity in this movie is shown with such casualness though the subject of sex was closely discussed, there was no explicit sexual scene. The mood was more romantic than erotic.

I particularly noticed the beauty in Emilia Fox. You’d probably noticed her as Jane Seymour in the TV mini-series Henry VIII... or as the younger pregnant Rosie Jones and her large bloody body-filled trunk in Keeping Mum.

Blinkymummy discussed the compartmentalization of time, which can only be done when one’s life is routinized. That will be the last thing I want in my life… getting myself ritualized to a set of predictable patterns. That’s probably why I’m switching my passions around over different seasons. I’m always seeking of new chapters in life. I would be a hardcore watch aficionado at a time, I can be a health freak in another. Because of that, the compartmentalization of one’s time can keep changing.

Overall, the MV-like cinematography of this movie makes it a nice pick for the melancholic. I love the lightworks and photographic effects. I would recommend it for a lazy Saturday afternoon entertainment.