April 27, 2007

[Baseball] Toronto Blue Jays

6-0 Jays.
Phil Hughes' debut.

April 15, 2007

The Deep End (2001)

US
Scott McGehee - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
David Siegel - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
Elizabeth Sanxay Holding - Book Author

Tilda Swinton - Margaret Hall
Goran Visnjic - Alek Spera
Jonathan Tucker - Beau Hall
Raymond Barry - Carlie Nagle
Josh Lucas - Darby Reese

April 11, 2007

[Gig] Battles

3 April 2007
Bowery Ballroom

[Broadway] Dying City

7 April 2007
Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center

by: Christopher Shinn
Directed by: James Macdonald
Cast : Rebecca Brooksher , Pablo Schreiber

Sort of a ritual to watch a show on my birthday. And my birthday present was to see Ralph Fiennes in the crowed to see The Coast of Utopia, Ethan Hawke sneaked in the backstage door who looked suspicious, and Randy Harrison who was going see the same show as me.

[Broadway] The Coast of Utopia - Shipwreck

4 April 2007
Vivian Beaumont Theater

The Lives of Others (2006)

Germany
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - Director / Screenwriter

Martina Gedeck - Christa-Maria Sieland
Ulrich Mühe - Capt. Gerd Wiesler
Sebastian Koch - Georg Dreyman
Ulrich Tukur - Lt.-Col. Anton Grubitz
Thomas Thieme - Minister Bruno Hempf

Once I compared this film to The Conversation, it didn't come anywhere close to powerful use of sound in Coppola's film.

[Gig] Cold War Kids

9 April 2007
Bowery Ballroom

This was so humiliating, and this had nothing do to with Cold War Kids. If you happened to see me that day, I beg you don't tell...
Here the story goes...

2:09 PM, April 10
definitely top of my most embarrassing experience.

i was there for the cold war kids, end up just listening to their first song, sitting on the filthy ground outside bowery, recovering from the blackout caused by one god damn beer.

one hour ago from this scenes, i stood inside, holding half empty beer cup, happy with the finding that sounds swirling inside my beer cup and vibrating through my palm.

then it came, the post-beer headache. then i saw it coming, the blackout. i thought i could handle it, just like i handled it couple times before, just stood still, breathe, and waited for it to past. i thought i can handle it, but the next thing i knew i was sitting, no, collapsing on the ground. my eye-sight was blurry, so was my hearing. people hold me up and took me few steps forward to lean on the stage. vaguely i might say something like 'can i just stay here for a while then i'll be ok,' but vaguely someone say i need air and people held me out of the venue. the cold air actually felt refreshing, i just wanted to sit down, i knew it going to pass soon. a nice girl called jennie stayed with me for a while and gave me a hug. i assured her i was going to be ok and send her inside. i sit there, didn't know whether to go back or not, or to laugh or cry. i started to feel cold, then put on my jacket. i decided not going back inside to avoid possible recognition from the crowd, which now i could see clear. i took M103 and headed back home. nothing is more surreal than this, as now i'm writing the whole thing, with my head still feel the residue of last night's beer (theoretically it's unlikely, but i can't sever the tiredness, mentally and physically, from it), and the pain in my ass, literally.

hope writing this down can be therapeutic, since i don't want to recall it, and no one else but me will ever know this. luckily i won't go back to bowery until next month. even with this shit, it still my favorite venue in the city.

April 04, 2007

[Broadway] The Coast of Utopia - Voyage

28 March 2007
Vivian Beaumont Theater

A Trilogy by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Jack O'Brien

[Gig] Bloc Party

30 March 2007
United Palace Theatre (which is aaaaaaaall the way up to 175th St)

[Gig] The Good, the Bad, and the Queen

12 March 2007
Webster Hall

Damon Albarn. One wish down.

A Man Escaped (1956)

Un Condamné à Mort C'Est Echappé
France

Robert Bresson - Director / Screenwriter

Francois Leterrier - Lt. Fontaine
Roland Monod - De Leiris the Pastor
Jacques Ertaud - Orsini
Roger Planchon

April 02, 2007

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2005)

US
Documentary

Kirby Dick - Director