Flavour of the Week
Recently watched: V for Vendetta.
Is V a social revolutionary or a sword-wielding terrorist? His intentions may be noble but a lot of things have happened in the world since the graphic novel was released back in the eighties. Mainly the fact that terrorists around the world are blowing up buildings that are allegedly symbols of evil Western hegemony on the similar pretext of "liberating the oppressed". So what distinguishes V from your common, garden variety terrorist? The fact that he has a wider vocabulary? Or that he has sufficiently refined taste to blare Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture while bombing historical buildings? No one likes a fascist dictator, but what does this guy have against old architecture?
But when all’s said and done, it’s an interesting movie, full of plausible ideas and resonant quotes like, "It’s the government that should be afraid of the people, not the people afraid of the government."
Listening to: Your Heart Is An Empty Room, Death Cab For Cutie
Download this. It’s a lovely, melancholic song.
Burn it down till the embers smoke on the ground
And start new when your heart is an empty room
With walls of the deepest blue
Reading: Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
Quite a good read, for a book that’s entirely in Q&A format - thanks to Bono’s acerbic sense of humour and eloquence on matters he feels important. Guess it would be a different story altogether if this Michka dude had been in conversation with, say, Paris Hilton instead. That’s, like, so not hot.
October 3rd, 2006 at 8:53 am
Clearly the old buildings were the true enemy. He was worried the crumbling old architechture would cause a hazard for the people of London. But you know what really stayed with me from that movie? That breakfast he cooked, the one that looked like a piece of toast with an egg in the middle. I want one of those.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Ooh, that DID look really good. Looked almost as good as those damn burgers in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.
October 10th, 2006 at 2:06 am
i want to make a movie called Ahmad And Ah Chong Go To Kayu Nasi Kandar.