-Where I’m From-

I’m totally in love with Justin Sacurom. 

Y’know, in a straight way.

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So i went to Metro Town today to look for a job, more specifically Urban Behaviour, no not because there is a girl there that looked mighty fine LOL.

Talking to this girl about the work place she stated that it’s really chill, and that they are hiring, as the conversation progressed she started talking to me about what kind of guys shes into, why you might ask, i have no idea. She asked me where i was from, so i said Surrey, immediatly she said “Euuuuuuggghh i hate Surrey” why i asked, she said because its a “brown town” her being from East Van she said that brown people up there hate brown people from surrey, i know surrey might not be the GREATEST place, but it sucks to be generalized as people to be hated for something we did not even do, being in highschool sure, i was picked on by other brown students by my ethnicity but i could really care less about what they could say to me now, it was all a growing experience, sure people out here might not be the friendliest but there are alot of people from surrey here that have high hopes and high spirits and big hearts all of whch have inspired me to be a better person for who i am today other than that she went on about how she only has interests in specific types of races weather your from europe or your white, being asian herself, it suprised me how some people can be very shallow, and not really think before they speak, after all she did say “i find asians disgusting” does that mean you find yourself disgusting? i’m asian too, but yet you talk like you accept everyone, so in the most joyous way of her talking to me, are you kindly telling me that you find me disgusting LOL how odd, too bad i canned the crap out of her about how not everyone from surrey is how you say way are.

Aside from this whole meaningless discussion of her kinds of interests and her turns offs, i think i have the job a Urban Behaviour only problem is now if i do end up working there, i have to work along side this shallow girl, maybe just maybe i can inspire her to see outside the box, but then again why should i even put time on it? :D the only ray of hope that i saw in her that she agreed on that i tell everyone is that “it’s not even about your race, and how you look, or how you dress, at the end of the day it’s a persons personallity that counts” - and i stay true what i say.

Video Updates!

So I’ve recently been posting about a video per day, but have just realized that I’ve missed updating THIS site with those videos. Here they are!

1. Vlog Six | On the Set of “Jinx” (Part Three)

More from the shooting of our new short.

We couldn’t sing at him, and we couldn’t ignore the ridiculousness. The internet was our only way to call out the grade 11 kid acting *way* too cool.

2. Vlog Seven | On the Set of “Jinx” (Part Four)

We’re done Day One of filming. Just lettin’ loose.

3. Vlog Eight | On the Set of “Jinx” (Part Five)

Our second and final day of filming. We find an AV cart and things get crazy professional. But crazy first.

4. Vlog Nine | Vancouver 2010

The opening ceremonies of the Olympics? More like the opening ceremonies of the future.

New Moon

I just realized I never got around to posting my thoughts on New Moon that I wrote last week. Here they are.

I’m not one to hate on Twilight. While I’ve never really been a fan, I’m forgiving of most of the elements that might annoy a hater - 80% of conversations inexplicably happening in forests, 90% of Taylor Lautner’s screen time featuring him shirtless and in shorts regardless of the weather - but it kinda manages to keep a sort of logic. Yes, the shirtlessness is pretty much because the ladies love it, but the constant transformation into a wolf would admittedly ruin a lot of shirts. Forest conversations are presumably more private than ones in at a diner.

I kinda had to see New Moon, regardless of how I saw the series overall. Director Chris Weitz had no idea he’d be directing this when Twilight One was hitting theatres, meaning he barely had 11-12 months to make what he knew was millions of people’s most anticipated the film of the year. The mere idea of that means I have to give the film some slack and the director some major props. A soundtrack like that doesn’t just create itself.

So my verdict? “Pretty good” was my initial reaction, but it’s quickly moving towards “pretty epic” as the boring bits fade away and some of Alexandre Desplat’s more moving queues settle into my mind. With a comfortable home theatre and Blu-Ray of the film at my disposal, I would re-watch the film as soon as I could, if only because of my odd inability to fully absorb films the first time around. The ideas and possibilities of where the story could go are exciting to me even when, as is most often the case, they aren’t fully explored.

The ideas presented in New Moon, when thought of in the context that millions of tween girls are eating it all up, are pretty scary. But when you remove them from reality as I do with almost every film I see, a lot if it is actually pretty cool. I mean, it would be horrendous if heartbroken 14 year olds started risking their lives in an emo attempt at evoking any sort of ‘feeling again’, but in the context of a mentally unstable protagonist attempting to conjure echos of a lost immortal lover? It’s kind of intense, creepy, and definitely gets a certain emotional response from the audience. And I think some credit has to be given to the audience - how many millions of men have always insisted that violent movies are totally harmless? This is really no different, none of my female friends have yet attempted jumping off a cliff for fun.

So if you’re on the fence, open your mind and jump in. And don’t leave in the first 20 minutes, where pretty much everyone seems to have lost the ability to speak at a normal pace for no reason other than they’re just so emotional. If you can get past stuff like that, just go and enjoy a couple hours at the movies. Or DVD at least. Let’s not get too crazy here.

PS. For a totally great and multiple-perspective review of New Moon, check out the latest episode of The /Filmcast, #77 with Jen Yamato.

mkpmedia:

Less than 24hrs after I told Ben Wright (star of such classics as our short films Open Doors and Like a Soapbox) my idea for a podcast for us to do last night, we are now starting what we hope will become a regular podcast - taking various popular DVDs and recording our own comedic insights and thoughts in the form of a commentary track. Today we recorded our first episode, and it’s a fun one.

I hereby present to you Episode One - Twilight, the film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s classic novel.

Neither of us had seen the film before, but we hope to provide both comfort and company for all those forced into watching the film, as well as a fun re-watching for fans with a sense of humor. It works as a standalone podcast, but is really a lot better when you have the movie to go with it.

Download the mp3 here (right-click and save as), and enjoy!!!

The musical accompaniment at the start and end of the track are from Childish Gambino’s “Get Like Me”. It’s a free download, so have fun with that.

P.S. if the tagline in the above image was more prominently in the film’s marketing, I would have been a lot more interested in seeing it earlier. The film didn’t follow through on the promise of that question, but it still seems like a really powerful theme to explore.

UPDATE: Episode Two is out and you can subscribe to us on iTunes!