January 2012
3 posts
“Nowadays everyone must love (or at least pretend to love) pleasures that were...”
– A. O. SCOTT on “Haywire”
December 2011
7 posts
“I think we keep living with faith because we need it. Even atheists believe in...”
– Lee Chang Dong, on “Secret Sunshine.”
“And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-Fu-Sa.”
– Pound
WatchSand
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Watch
“Being crazy bout a woman like her is always the right thing to do.”
– Sam the Lion, “The Last Picture Show”
July 2011
3 posts
“And you don’t get a smidgen of my fudge unless you stay for the picnic.”
May 2011
1 post
“I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the...”
– Shohei Imamura
April 2011
1 post
“I remember reaching out and pulling the grass and eating the grass - anything...”
– Martin Sheen
March 2011
10 posts
“With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.”
– Yohji Yamamoto
February 2011
1 post
Interpol, Interpol?
Interpol’s got a new album out? Not bad, but why am I so far behind? And Carlos is gone? Is this like when Steve Adler left Guns N Roses and Matt Sorum arrived? What is going on in this world?
January 2011
4 posts
Out with the Old
I was contemplating re-learning SQL so I could import all my old stuff back in here, but well, I’ve changed my mind. It’s time to start fresh. Who knows if I’ll stick with Tumblr, but right now it looks like it. Time to eat and get on with things so I can finish syncing sound already.
“It exactly accords with my conception of what art should be[…] It is...”
– Aleksei Plutser-Sarn - member of Voina, a Russian art collective
Artist Playing Cat-and-Mouse Faces Russia’s Claws By ELLEN BARRY, NYT, January 21, 2011
“There is a kind of rhetorical trick that is always used to denounce movements of...”
– Frances Fox Piven
Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats by BRIAN STELTER, NYT, January 21, 2011
“[…] I think, if a person’s face were dead-on symmetrical, that person...”
– One Who Sees Space: A Conversation with Maya Lin by Jan Garden Castro
November 2010
3 posts
“After the dancing and a quick tour of the premises, Ramzan and his army drove...”
– Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels, NYT, November 28, 2010
Woah. Been Forever.
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on this thing. I’m in my second year at NYU Tisch Asia and well, school’s been taking up most of my time. I’m currently working on a ten minute script for my second year film and it’s been challenging but I have high hopes that I’ll learn something from the experience. New York seems so very far away right now, tons to...
July 2010
1 post
“It seems the longer you live in New York, the more you love a city that has...”
– Nighthawks State of Mind, NYT, JEREMIAH MOSS
April 2010
2 posts
4 tags
Ode to a Rainy Day Singaporean Cabbie
Old man, you nearly ran me down. Yes you - dentureless, sporting two pillars of teeth. Your fender thugged my economy rice tapau. The red plastic bag spinning in your wake. Yes the light changed and you swerved at me. Yes I slapped your taxi behind. With what right do you screech, stop and step out? Sit back down unfashionate man, your rage will never match mine. Move on and whistle a gospel...
February 2010
1 post
“A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good film making....”
– Raymond Chandler
January 2010
1 post
“There are only two classes - first class and no class.”
– David O. Selznick
November 2009
3 posts
“Mr. Lévi-Strauss […] regularly visited an antique shop on Third Avenue in...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100, NYT, November 2, 2009
“The “one shot, one kill” mantra that was drilled into infantrymen for decades...”
– The M-16 Argument Heats Up, Again, NYT, C.J. CHIVERS, November 3, 2009
“For if there is one thing [Ayn] Rand’s life shows, it is the power, and peril,...”
– “Ayn Rand’s Revenge,” NYT, ADAM KIRSCH, October 29, 2009
October 2009
1 post
For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking →
“If someone yelled at you at work, you’d find that pretty jarring. We don’t apply that standard to children.”
August 2009
2 posts
1 tag
Synchronised blinking stops viewers missing the... →
“[M]oviegoers who sit through a 150-minute film have their eyes shut for up to 15 minutes[…] And because we tend to watch films in a similar way, moviegoers often blink in unison, researchers find.”
July 2009
3 posts
“The aim everywhere - not least at the leading edge of biological research - is...”
– Jean B.
