Apparently I am now sick enough to have 3 days off work. I don’t really feel it, but it’s infectious so I ain’t bringing it to work with me.

For the last couple of weeks, I have been tirelessly going through a pile of movies. Just because, you know, I didn’t quite have the chance before to do so. I never knew movie marathons can be quite so tiring (and effectively ruining the “tirelessly” bit). This is what I watched:

1) Feel the Noise

one word: Sucked. The trailer looked awesome, it sounded hot and it looked like it was going to be hot. However, it appears the trailer was more exciting than the whole movie. the plot is, at best, flimsy. The storyline and the dialogues was so lame, the music offered was good at the start. then they repeated the same song literally, what, 10 times throughout the movie.

The dance, which was what drew me to the movie at first, was clubbin’ level, so nothing great about it other than a nice hot ass to look at. and even that was mostly hidden after the first 5 mins of seeing it. This is from a character who claims she wants to go to america to learn dancing! Better dancing was offered by the extras, but lasted all of 2 minutes of screen time.

2/10: 1 point for the good start, 1 point for the nice ass viewage.

2) Bourne Trilogy:

I am pretty sure that I have seen the first movie and bits and pieces of the last movie. For the life of me, however, I could recall nothing about those movies until I re-watched the both, plus the one in the middle. They were good value, however, and I loved them all. The fight scenes were beautifully execeuted and I wished I could fight like that.

oh, not to mention Matt Damon is hot hot hot, especially when he starts spewing German. I could eat those lips.

9/10

3) Make it Happen

Another dance related movie… and I actually bought this because I thought why the hell not. Burlesque dancing was stated in the summary, and yeah… maybe I am into burlesque hrrmmm…

I am a little confused about this show, as in how I feel about it. I love some of the dance scenes, particularly the last one and a couple of the “burlesque” ones.

What annoyed me were some of the finer details, like how she was the only street-ish dancer in the audition room scene, and everyone else was a ballet dancer. And while I am not well verse with burlesque dancing, I am pretty sure what they did in the movie doesn’t come close to burlesque.

The acting and script was also quite flawed in my opinion, sans that of the main actress. But one person can’t save the entire cast, so yeah….

4/10

4) Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick

Watched both of this, and one cannot be talked about without the other. Essentially about an escape convict and how he… really isn’t a bad person. hahaha…

Fight scenes were beautifully execeuted as well, and Vin Diesel & Alexa Davalos are both extremely hot. Him putting knee between her legs to lift her up was hot too!!! Storyline is awesome, to me anyways. I like the idea of aliens, cross-universe transportation/living/etc… it appeals to me much like star wars et al ever did.

Again, I watched part of Chronicles of Riddick somewhere, possibly during an exam period when i walked past the TV on occassions but didn’t stop to think or watch and the familiarity of it brought on more love.

8/10

5) State of Play

This is probably the first political thriller I have ever watched. Or at least, went to watch knowing that it is a political/journo thriller. The thing I utterly ruined for myself was knowing the twist at the end of the movie, thanks to Wikipedia, as I was terrified to death it would involve some scenes that would scar my brains.

Without knowing the twist, however, this is an extremely clever movie. It highlighted the possibilities of corruption in the real world, the workings of journalists and how much of an ass it can be to work as a journalist. It confronted the problems current journalists are facing (with the advent and rage of “citizen journalism”), as well as facing the realities of other aspects of a political/journalistical life. of course, some of it has been stretched and dragged around a little, it being a movie and all – doesn’t make it less of an interesting watch.

And the twist is still really clever, as well as the acting and filmography – makes me want to move to america and be a journo there hahahaha.

9/10

6) Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers was a big part of my childhood, even though I may not remember much of the series now. All I do remember is how much I loved optimus prime and the little casette tape bot thing. Watching Transformers movie was nothing more than admiring my childhood loves, and now I am watching it because it is Transformers.

and also to remind myself I have yet to capture the thief who stole my Transformers pencil box when I was in my first grade.

the danger with making sequels is, you often have to live up to the hype. I wouldn’t say that Transformers 2 didn’t quite live up to the hype, but it certainly wasn’t quite what I expected. The characters weren’t developing much and something about the storyline seems just a little off to me.

I did love the machine vs machine fight scenes though, and I absolutely adored the twins, Skids and Mudflaps and their mad chattering (and the voices were awesome too!). Megan Fox is still hot, and there was too little of her to be seen in the movie, i think :p

There was just something missing in the movie, but, and I can’t put my finger on it. more dialogue maybe? less fast tracking of the main storylines maybe? Seeing Megatron all submissive to the Fallen? perhaps. It did give me one thing though – finally understanding where the hell Optimus got his wings from ahhaha

8/10

7) Batman: The Dark Knight

When the movie was first released, I didn’t want to see it because there was just too much hype over it. “Heath Ledger’s last film” or “Talent that was ignored” or blah blah blah. The thing about newspapers is, they only really cared that much about you if 1) you have fucked up or 2) if you’re dead. Michael Jackson’s life was an epitome of all that, with absolute crashing hypocritism. I mean, they HATED him and dragged it out about how he’s a paedophile, even after his acquittal. then suddenly, there was a massive mourning and feeling of loss when he died.

Face it, you guys still think he jerks off to little boys.

but, back to the movie.

Heath Ledger or not, Joker as a character was brilliantly performed. His fucked-up personality completely screwed with my head, and I loved it. Of course, the others were brilliant too, but the Joker’s personality can be hard to capture I had think, and hard for someone to let it shine through. So, acting and script-wise, it was all an ace.

Besides that, Harvey Dent was brilliantly played out too. The flawed good person. aaahhh

10/10

Ok, I am getting tired now. toodles!

• no one should die alone. #
• need ikea in Canberra. seriously. oh, btw, it's foggy outside. likely to get lose, can't see more than 5meters or something mad. #
• need. to. go. gym. so i can pound away at the stairmaster, laughing at Dr Phil or Oprah. buahahaha #
• sometimes, the Opposition proves to absolute dingbats. "i won't apologise unless he apologise"??? but you started the accusations first! #
• http://twitpic.com/85acg – What the murlocs have been doing: kidnapping darth!! #
• Itching to frag someone suddenly, preferably over CounterStrike, just coz. #
• Reasons to go to the gym 101: coz hot showers after perspiring like a dog is awesome. #
• Oh knees and ass hurts now. Stupid treadmill. #
• Bus driver is travelling at full speed with visibility of nil. If you don't hear from me tomorrow… #
• Holy shit she almost ran someone over. What a toolbag. #
• Dear colleagues: I knw we r females & nurses but please don't reach in2 my pants & gimme a big wedgie. Kthxbai. #
• very du lan, can not sleep. idiots prevail today. #
• OK let's just change it to "my cat attacked my homework because it looked like an alien in her personal space". /kick #
• omgomgomgomg…. michael jackson is dead #
• the first singer i would care to spend 11 yrs old's allowance on for a shitty tape. & now, he's gone & i have yet to attend his concerts. #
• attempted to play my first FPS on a console: Rainbow 6 is all cool on pc, but challenging on a console.. i feel like a turd haha #
• I strummed a guitar. and now I am wondering how to play twinkle twinkle little stars on it. LAWLS #
• tried halo, pumped the entire crew, MY crew, full of bullets. i RULE! lololol #
• http://bit.ly/kmHEe
  wave your mouse from left to right and back. pretty cool! #
• drinking mint tea in my T41, reading about iphone 3GS's goodness and the Quadrant. life's too good. #
• p.s i think i should really learn to cycle & buy a bike come tax returns. yeah. it's fairly important!!! #
• not amused by how people belittle friendships, especially the ones that stood by you when times are rough. Mr Graduate. #
• is preparing a shopping list worth of new clothes. my wardrobe needs a good… makeover. LOL #

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I know this is everywhere, and I know I mentioned it on twitter like twice. but… I have to write a long one just because.

When I was 11 or thereabouts, I saw Michael Jackson on the TV for the first time. I believe it was “Remember the Time”, and I felt completely awed by his dancing and singing. Of course, me being me, the first thing I asked my maid was – “Why’s she named Michael when she’s a girl?” But I was sold, completely sold, and for the next decade and a little, I had save up for his new albums and actually loved 80% of the albums that I bought with regards to him.

Ah yes, I am one of those people who could never liked more than one song an album, and therefore couldn’t justify buying a whole album. When IRC appeared, and I could use it at home, it was god-sent to me.

I grew up singing to him, trying to imitate his dances in the bathroom, the showers, the swimming pool, the kitchen… I defended his looks and choices at school. I grew up being teased by my own parents at my idolism of him. I had fun, I loved his ideals and I had pictures of his face lovingly cut out from The New Paper.

Aside from all the memories and being an icon of my childhood, his songs encouraged many things in me. Racial equality, the care, love and protection of children and generations, having extreme romantic views on what love is…

Just when I am finally able to perhaps afford a concert ticket and memorabilia of the concert, I won’t see him ever. Not even on T.V except in replays of his talent.

Even to this day, if you asked me about his controversies and his weird eccentricities, I had be telling you to get fucked. There are many reasons behind it. There’s always more than 2 sides to the story, especially that of a celeb’s life. There’s the Goss side, the What-The-Public-Likes-To-Hear side, and the truth. Michael Jackson did settle many cases out of court, not to mentioned he also got indicted AND acquitted. But few people even cared to remember he got acquitted.

Think about it. you’re a celeb earning millions of dollars a year. Which fool do not want to grab money outta you? If your child has really been molested, do you really want his face on the papers and just be paid off for it?

That all aside, though, I always like his man-child personality. If i ever had the money to, I would have done the same. Theme parks at home and a chimpanzee for a companion. Human relations are sometimes just a tad too much to maintain.

I must admit though, in the last 6 years I never thought much about him nor his music. It was tough defending someone you don’t know, an idol you can never touch, a person you have never seen, infront of people mocking about his sexual orientations and what not. I didn’t want to defend, nor feel the need to defend. I just loved his music, his dancing, his peter-pan complex and nothing could and should change that.

The night before his death, I suddenly thought of him again. I was wondering what is he up to now, will i ever get to see him in concert, as I wished when I was a kid? I was going to Wiki him – when I logged into twitter and saw the first hints of it.

“no..” I thought… no..

So there goes my Childhood icon, my idol and my “first obsessive love”. heh.