A tribute to the Baroque composer Georg Friedrich Handel and his Water Music suite.
Alrighty. Back to trying not to mess up this semester.
p/s – arson. The same thing happened near Ann Arbor not so long ago. I bet it’s ELF.
pp/s – omg. Her Reverie is a good Malaysian band. I love their song called Beautiful.
I saw The Day After Tomorrow the day before yesterday with two friends. I was shocked to find out that the ticket price has considerably been raised. I guess inflation is everywhere now.
Enough economics.
The movie was entertaining though the effects of global warming were exaggerated. Then again, the director himself has said that this movie is for entertainment, not for some meteorology class. But the best thing is, I now understand how the movie serves as a really good conduit for the green cause. Before I watched the movie, I thought the movie is just some other movie that runs parallel with the green’s concerns. I was wrong as it was more than that.
The reason why The Day After Tomorrow is useful in creating awareness among the masses is how Professor Jack Hall – played by Dennis Quaid – describes that global warming could trigger a colder climate in a fictional UNFCCC (that, err, for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the one responsible for meetings of the Parties related to the Kyoto Protocol in the real world) in a snowing New Delhi. This is an irony that has been well-manipulated by the grays to discredit the greens on matters of global warming. In a larger sense, the movie tries to link global warming with a wider problem of accelerated climate change, one of the few things that the grays are trying to disprove.
All other parts of the movie are pure exaggeration. Nevertheless, the movie does provide as glimpse of what humanity will have to endure even when the effects of global warming occur in a very gradual manner. Currently, the frequency and the amplitude of natural disasters related to the climate have been going up but none are as devastating as in the movie of course. Jeremy Legett’s The Carbon War has also implied that we are seeing an increasing thread of climate related natural disasters’ severity.
Another noteworthy scene in the movie, of the most ironic thing considering the current era of Pax-Americana, is the American refugee camps. However, this picture might not be far away and actors will not be the Americans, but the citizens of the Pacific islanders and others small island-nations all around the world. These small pacific island-nations to my knowledge are currently lobbying the Australian government to accept any refugee related to the rising of the sea level. The global warming refugee scene is real as far as these poor islanders are concerned. The Australian government has been only unhelpful in recent negotiations.
All in all, the movie is informative and entertaining if you know to how to filter the information. There are some good jokes too. The special effect is gorgeous. Good for vanity, one of the lead actors, Jake Gyllenhaal, playing as Sam Hall, Jack Hall’s son, wear a Michigan shirt in a scene. This is probably a testimony of Ann Arbor’s political greenness.
Unfortunately, the worst part of the movie is where the word, “To Manchester United” is heard. Thank God by the end of the movie, Old Trafford would probably be under more than 15 meters of snow.
You should go watch the movie. You won’t be disappointed. I dare say it is better than the Matrix’s two pathetic sequels.
And after watching the movie, you should realize, first and foremost, the moral is we need to act now rather than later.
I don’t get it. What’s with reality TV show? What actually with the reality idiot box show that makes people watch it?
First it was Survivor back in the late 90s. I thought it was a good show but as time passes me, I became more and more similar to a libertarian and later felt that the idea of watching people’s life is disturbing. My idea of privacy finally matured after reading 1984 by George Orwell. Thus, I would shout without shame nor fear that this so-called reality show is for people of whom do not want nor deserve freedom of privacy.
Seeing people in their private life, or whatever these days that happens in the supposedly reality TV is certainly disgusting. It’s like a stalker stalking some stranger. Of course, in the TV program, the real people, fake just like the mannequin used in some cheap horror movie, know that they are or will be on national TV. I have nothing against these fake people, the ones that are being stalked. But the stalkers’ the TV audiences! Argh! I have too many things to say that I don’t even know where to start. Let me just list down reasons why I look down upon these reality idiot box show.
First, are they too stupid to ACTUALLY believe the lies prepared and baked by the entertainment media? No wonder some people actually believe whatever Fox TV is reporting! Yes, yes! Eat everything the media feed us. To resist is to piss in the wind – anyone who does ends up smelling they say! HAH! Resist I say. RESIST IDIOTS! Resist for your own sake.
Secondly, yes some of these reality TV fans might come up by saying “we all know that the thing is a gimmick. It’s just a TV program.” That still doesn’t change the fact that these fans are enjoying the notion of reality TV. What if I observe, scrutinize all the idiot box lovers over the net? How about letting me install a CCTV inside your house, your room or better yet, your bathroom for my pleasure? I could just say that I am enjoying a reality TV show. Certainly there is nothing wrong with it, isn’t?
There are a number of other reasons but I would say the two that I’ve mentioned are the biggest reasons. Due to these reasons, my blood will almost always boils whenever a person whom is having a conversation with me and ask, “who do you think will win? Roger or Carol?” I will most certainly ask “who are they?” (most likely “wtf r they?”) and a reply flies from the person throat “the Bachelor” or “Survivor” or some sort of other latest show. Then, the golden moment, “you should watch it, everybody is watching it. It’s the thing right now.”
ARGH!
It’s okay to watch the television in order to have some fun now and then but when you are addicted, when you are being conditioned to sit in front of the idiot box 24/7 or 10/7 or whatever the numbers will be, you are becoming an idiot yourself. An idiot who thinks that you are free to do whatever you wish. In reality, you are doing whatever the moguls wish.
The next time somebody is talking about reality idiot’s box show, I assert you to say, “I do not wish to become an idiot without a fight.”
Listen all reality idiot box show fans, you are not free. Your mind is trapped and is controlled by the entertainment moguls. They are making money at your expense. Don’t cave in. Don’t surrender and be a drone. Don’t surrender to the mogul and become an ass among the masses. The masses are asses.
Now, I sound like a troubled man. Sigh…
p/s – Yet another for the Mirror Project.
Top of the Park is just around the corner. It’s on the Friday the 13th. Wait a minute, OMG, it’s Friday the 13th!!!
On the other note, read this. It couldn’t be anymore truer. If Malaysia was up against Michigan in this category, Michigan would have pounded Malaysia to death.
The Matrix: Reloaded. With all due respect, the first Matrix is better from Reloaded. First, the fighting scenes in Reloaded was way overdone. Second, the party scene was very overdone (but the sex part was a little underdone =) ). Thirdly, the three words phrase – to be continued.
Anyway, my favorite scene is the conversation between Neo and the Architect of the Matrix, taken place in the Mainframe. My favorite line is “Bullshit”, spat by Neo to the Architect.
And P.O.D. did a great song for the movie. Deftones’ work on the other hand is disappointing. I was looking forward for another Deftones’ great but Lucky You is nothing compared to Passenger, Change or even Knife Party.