This is a style of Korean cinema that could be called wonerful moments, beautiful shots. That kind of sums up the genre. You take a perfectly ordinary story with believable and well drawn characters, give them a problem to overcome and they do it, or don't. It is a great kind of slice of life cinema that no American director has seemed to get, and ( Read more... )

There are family vacations that seem like they are going to be great until you realize that where you are goingn is right down the road and you don't even go anywhere. This happened to me when we went to see the San Miguel mission and it happened to me again when I watched the movie Sonnyboy ( Read more... )

Next to where I currently work is a now in the process of clo0sing marketing company that makes materials for movies. Because of their closing status I now have access to over 50 posters of AI, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Above the Law. Who wants one?

Anybody who truly hates LA, deeply loves the rain. For the rain is all things that are not LA. Quiet reflection, meditaion looking at life and seeing the beauty, these things are not LA. But they are in every drop of rain that blesses our faces when we look up to the sky. One musn't rush in the rain, musn't plan their next move or be too busy to ( Read more... )

I'm making a list of my top five real life quotes. This is a list of the top five things I want to be able to say to people before I die ( Read more... )

Rules for Paranioics

Rule 1
Can't remember, can someone please tell me?

Rule 2
Although you cannot touch the master, you can tickle their creatures

Rule 3
They do not need to worry about answering your inquiries, if they get you to ask the wrong questions

Various pages in Gravity's Rainbow

Even giving your life over to chaos is a type of plan

I had a dream where Semore Cassel was going to give me his movie theater and another crusty old man was going to give me his video store when they both retired a year from now. And there was this pretty girl named Kelly with rotten teeth that made me shower in bed. My brother and sister were in it too somehow

It's odd. i've imagined the whole thing in my mind so often, and with such clarity that I don't even need a physical object to bring it into existance. And if I do have this physical object it is covered by my idealized version of what I have set forth in my head so often. There are no mistakes, no inconsitancies or nothing that is not fully ( Read more... )

my god, we're all dead