"When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am..." - Iris

16 December 2007

...you just can't understand how I could just kill a man

Just back from a concert at the Knitting Factory.  The main event was New Atlantic?  I think.  But my sister and I went there to see Charlotte Sometimes.  She has the same producer as Alfa, so I went with her to check out this artist.  

The one thing that struck me about her was her completely quirky stage personality.  Sadly, that's what it all is, a stage personality.  Her act had been planned since conception of her music and whatnot.  I guess that's kind of how artists have to be to get into the mainstream.

Still yet, I very much enjoyed that.  In a sense it kind of validated my own quirky personality.  Though mine is very much for real.  I noticed that the older I get the more of my quirkiness I let show.  But the world isn't really ready for quirky.  Everyone seems to need to be serious or grown-up acting, sounding, dressing.  I understand that.  Every now and then, I find the need to do that.  But most days, I just don't want to care.  

Honestly, I'd like to be understood as this weird person who gets fascinated with random things like the way the ink feels on paper or the way the light in the window plays tricks with your eyes.  I'd like to be able to smile and giggle without being judged as a ditz who's fake because of how overtly friendly I'm being.  I want to be able to hop and scream and skip and make random facial expressions or sounds without my intelligence or personality questioned.

But I guess things like that are really only accepted on stage, as part of an act.  No one can really be that strange because the world has to take itself that seriously.

hmm.. okay.. I don't know where this blog is going anymore.  time for a movie.  :)

13 December 2007

longing

My heart feels such an empty little space.  As much as it's not so bad here, I find that I really miss being in Hawai'i so much.  It's a very strong but indescribable feeling.  As if I'm not so complete without being there.  

White Sandy Beach
by Willie Dan


I saw you in my dreams

We were walking hand in hand

On a white sandy beach of Hawai`i

We were playing in the sun

We were having so much fun

On a white sandy beach of Hawai`i

Sound of the ocean soothes my restless soul

Sound of the ocean rocks me all night long.

Those hot long summer days

Lying there in the sun

On a white sandy beach of Hawai`i

Sound of the ocean soothes my restless soul

Sound of the ocean rocks me all night long.
Last night in my dream
I saw your face again

We were there in the sun
On a white sandy beach of Hawai`i

On a white sandy beach of Hawai`i.

12 December 2007

"old school"

Facebook has this movies quiz which assesses your knowledge of old school nickelodeon.  Just for kicks, I decided to try it and see just how much I did know.  I was faced with questons from tv shows whose very names bring me back to a time when watching TV ruled the schedule my life (which was mostly elementary and middle school) like Doug and Salute Your Shorts.  However, there were a couple of shows that were not familiar to me like Angry Beavers and Hey Arnold!  At least, not familiar in the sense that they would fall under my category of "new shows" since by the time they came out, my old favorites were mostly phased out and I was getting over watching cartoons on TV.  

It is strange to find myself aged like that.  After all, to someone younger than me (possibly the creator of the quiz) , those shows would not be new since they were still at the life phase that I had been when I watched the other shows.  

"Old school"  is definitely an adjective that is dependent on the perspective of the one who coined it.  

09 December 2007

quotes from unknown movie

As I tidy up the room, I found a purple piece of paper with something scribbled on it.  I remember watching a movie on my black futon at the honolulu apartment.  Can't remember the title for the life of me, but I thought the quotes were nice.

"I've never seen how much in love you are with him until now."  "I'll get over it."

"Why would you wanna forget about the one thing you hope for from the moment you're born 'til the time you die?"