Category: Rant

As you can see, I have set up a page with films I have not watched and want to watch. Since I can’t watch all of them in this month, which ones should I prioritize? And have I forgotten some really good films? (After all, the list is a work of 10 minutes right now *ehehe*)

Nyuk! So what do you think?

It’s been more than a month that I have nearly forgotten about one of my greatest pleasures, movies of course. Studying for exams and doing stupid projects have totally kept me up from watching movies properly. But now that it will be over soon, I am setting myself the goal: Every free day = one more movie!

This is my temporary watching list. Among the 31 movies of my new year’s resolutions, I actually have only watched 7 – but a lot of other movies. Eww. However, feel free to suggest others to me :3

Today, I was at home at some friends’ place (actually it’s my parents’ friends) and their son borrowed some of his movies to me:
* The Crimson Rivers (Die purpunen Flüsse)
* The Crimson Rivers 2 (well, he told me to watch the second too)
* Million Dollar Baby (another movie he wanted me to watch)
* Monster
He also had “Walk the Line”, but he ranted so much about how crappy it was that I totally lost my will to watch it *heh*

PS. I also totally want to see this movie. I kind of like Jet Li, and totally love Sun Li. By the way, I watched Danny the Dog today (only half-heartedly actually) and oh my god, it was probably the most stupid movie I’ve seen in awhile. Even though it was directed by Luc Besson and therefore the fighting scenes looked good, but the dialogues just hurt my ears.

This sushi is so… “oh my God, I have never seen anything like that!” But it does look very intriguing for sure…

I realized that this blog seemingly has turned into a movie review blog. On top of that, I currently don’t really feel like writing english, but I also don’t want to switch to french (because I’ll lose my readers! Aaaah!) or german (uh, why not? O.o XD).
So my first resolution will be:
1. Write more about life, gothic lolita, manga, books or whatever is an enjoyable part of my life. Will also try to include photographs of stuff I’m buying or have gotten *hrr hrr*

But actually I want to watch more movies! Somehow I kind of got fed up with anime (even there are lots of series I’m interested in this winter) and I noticed how horribly I have neglected the movies. So here’s my movie list:
2. Movies I want to watch in 2007:
– Blade Runner
– Ninotschka
– A Fish Called Wanda
– Dancer in the Dark
– Dead Man
– Down by Law
– Stranger than Paradise
– The Game
– Adaption
– Requiem for a Dream
– M*A*S*H
– Amores Perres
– Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
– Garden State
– Sunset Boulevard
– Capote
– The Godfather
– Vertigo
– L.A. Confidential
– Heat (or maybe not? Perhaps I should watch Taxi Driver instead… or both. *hrr*)
– Nightmare Before Christmas (for next Christmas, of course)
– Fargo
– Amadeus
– Breaking the Waves
– Butterfly Effect
– Leben!
– Gefährliche Liebschaften
– 2001: A Space Odyssey
– Marie Antoinette
– Scoop
It’s just 31 movies so far, that should be feasible. Of course I have forgotten a lot. This list will be finished until December 31th :] (Until then, I’ll be happy about all kinds of suggestions ^^)

3. Of course the next is my books list. Hm, will do that tomorrow XD It’s too unlikely for me to finish my books list – this is probably a list for the next 20 years or something… “books I want to have read in my life” X-)

Okay, I’m exaggerating. But this was fun to read *g*

I won’t talk much about it… I just wanted to take the opportunity of a little blogging flame war to introduce a few blogs which I’m following a while already and which I find interesting. In order for a blog to appear on my blogroll, it’s a bit too early though, I think. Btw, basically my criteria’s are:
– intelligent postings -> immediate add on blogroll
– funny postings -> if there are a lot of them, will likely be added
– outstanding taste/design -> will think awhile about it, likely gets added
– and there’s Tokyo Jupiter for having linked to Surprising Noodlesoup back then *g* Apart from that, her posts are also entertaining
Thus all the following mentions are candidates to be added one day… :]

Today, we have:
– the original post on Anime on my mind
– orz’ answer to that… Damn, that was bitchy *hrrr* But honestly, I found that highly entertaining… apparently I’m a faithful reader of Jason’s blog myself *hrr*
– lolikitsune’s post. Arrr, loved it! Also notice the gorgeous blog title and especially the subtitle *g*
– a tentatively nice post on Star Crossed Anime… a nice blog, but for some reason it doesn’t live up to my expectation. Somehow, the person is *too* nice for my taste – not exactly funny and way too diplomatic. In real life, I like these kind of people a lot though *hrr*
– a diplomatic person again *ugh*… on Renegades. Never read the blog though.
– another post with “blogging mathematics”, mainly interesting because of the Yuki + Wii pic *g*
– tj_han’s tripleman answer. (Honestly, I’m scared of those triplemans XD)

Other honorable mentions:
– tsubaki’s Anime Desho Desho? Arrr <3 I read all the postings about the PSP which I totally want as well *snifsnif* I love the design (although it’s based on a pretty generic and popular one), I totally like the Ichigo Mashimaro post (which is why I even commented on it) and I’m interested in most of the postings.

Recently, I was wondering whether #000000 is white or black. During ET class, I discussed it with the guy next to me – and obviously, he knew that #000000 is black and #ffffff is white while I thought it’s the other way around. Why was I thinking so? Well, it’s easy. 0 stands for “nothing” for me. And no colour is white… while “full colour” is black to me. It might be because I used to paint a lot – and well, no paint usually is white, while all colours mixed together is black (okay, in reality, it’s some sort of very ugly brown).
But of course this is not the only way to see it. Colours also represent light: all colours of light mixed together is white – while no light at all is black. (Thus #000000 being black, I think.)

In the end, I’m not sure whether I’d rather associate white or black with ‘nothingness’. I still tend to say white, but, hmm… saying black sounds a lot more natural to me ^^;;;;;

I have just started to read a big article about Leonardo da Vinci, featured in a magazine similar to National Geographic (which is as good, or even better, if you ask me). He was amazing… but I’m not talking about his genius, I’m talking about his attitude about work, science and beauty. The truth is beautiful, and you can only reach the truth when you go and look at it. You can talk a lot about perception – like all the empiricists, but how many of them actually went and perceived? The attitude of absolutely wanting to know the truth was ahead of his time. All of his character was ahead of his time and his only goal in life was to be even farther than anyone else.
Shakespeare is similar. He wrote about things nobody else could have imagined to write. And to be honest, I don’t know of any historical person except for these two to be so visionary. Both have lived in the 16th century. What could that mean?

A theory just came in my mind, and that is: Geniuses are ahead of their time not only because of their geniuses, but also because their society is too retarded. During the medieval times, the european society was behind its time. If there weren’t the middle ages, Europe could have been as far as China was at the same time. In my opinion, this is one of the reasons why Shakespeare and da Vinci were able to do so many unexpected things.
Another example: During the cultural revolution, my father was around 16-17. It is the time where everybody is in puberty and wants nothing but fun. In fact, my father is a very hedonistic person, he loves to go out and be in company, and he puts fun above everything. But despite this, he did nothing but learn all by himself and aspired to become an engineer. Obviously, everybody laughed at him and nobody could understand him. 40 years later, time showed him that he was right. Why was he able to be ahead of his time like that? Because the chinese society was fallen behind.

We just had a little discussion about Microsoft’s problems about bringing out Vista… and the lack of a ‘IT revolution’ in the past decade. Late 80s were the computers, late 90s were the cell phones. Now that evolution should have accelerated even more, the whole industry is stuck (more or less). Another (obviously more important) thing is that mankind stayed in capitalistic systems for way too long. Nothing new really happened in the last 5 years. I think it is time for a weird person to think up something new.

It is not easy to be ahead of your time though. As for myself, when it comes to trends, I think I’m usually somewhere between the early adapters and the rest of the masses. This is mainly because I have a few early adapter friends *hrrr*
Examples? Manga: I started in 1996 with WMTs and Sailor Moon, that’s not the early 90s Akira generation but not the manga kiddies from 2003 or later. Music: I started listening to Nu Metal about 2002, a few years later it became popular and despised, that was pretty annoying. Electronical devices: I basically never buy them, but if I had bought all of the ones I wanted right after I had discovered them which I would have if I had the money (an iPod for instance). Clothes: It happened a few times that I wanted an item I couldn’t get at ANY store. One year later, it was in the stores, but everybody had it already. For example: black mini skirts, pleated skirts, ruffles and shirring. I also discovered gothic lolita at the end of 2002, at a time where a community for that didn’t really exist in the States nor in Europe. It was when the Gothic Lolita Bible didn’t even reach 2 years of publication. Now, gothic lolita style even reached H&M even before I was able to get one single gothic lolita in these 4 years I’m into the style. That’s depressing.
Oh by the way, one of my hobbies is to try to catch what the european and the american manga market wants. I also like to try to predict which anime will make it big and which wouldn’t. With Haruhi, I was obviously totally wrong *g*, and I’m making more mistakes than I hoped I would. But mostly, it works well^^

I find it fascinating to be ahead of time, to be able to predict things. You need intuition, intelligence, skill, knowledge and a certain amount of luck for that. Basically you need everything. Of course, a lot of your prediction wouldn’t be right even when you’re a genius like da Vinci. But a person who was able to take of these huge mobile phones into his hands, saying: “This is the future in the next 10 years.” earns all my admiration even when he has predicted 10 other things that were wrong.

I’m ranting more and more… oh well. I will probably watch an anime today as well ^^ (And oh by the way, I updated my wishlist *g* I took out what I have already and added a PSP and a kimono ^^)

Name 5 of life’s simple pleasures that you like the most. Try to be creative and original and not to use things that someone else has already used. Tag 5 people on your list.
5 people? Do I even talk to that many people? *hrrr*

1. Having sex with the beloved person. Sorry for not being creative, but this is the non plus ultra. Point à la ligne.
2. Reading/Hearing/Seeing a creative product dedicated to me. What I consider a creative product is obviously up to me. (I’ve never got a plain love letter, by the way.)
3. Chai tea, my parents’ dumplings and chinese, korean and polish sweets (candy, chocolates, caramel… awww~~ *____________*)… well, good food is the most simple pleasure for me that exists *g*
4. Suddenly get a letter, an e-mail or something else from a person I like a lot, but lost contact to
5. Stay up the whole night for whatever reason, as long as it is a good reason (aside from the most obvious one: long parties, good online conversations, staying overnight at a friend’s house etc.)

Hm… who should I tag? Really, there isn’t anyone.
1. Carl wouldn’t do this kind of test.
2. Shi~chan doesn’t have a blog.
3. KingFish isn’t even reading my blog.
4. adventurer_killy surely doesn’t even know my blog.
5. Isochinolin and Bittersweet are apparently never online. (And don’t know my blog. They don’t watch animes anyways.)
6. I hope nobody of ‘these’ people would read my blog.

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Recently, I found this picture on my harddisk again… *~* This was our hotel room when we spent a few days in Cracow. Aaa~h, I want to go on vacations again~ XD