So you found someone you liked at last... Talked to you last night, and still it hurts a little... Not that you don't deserve to have someone wonderful beside you and be loved by them...It just reminded me of how things have gone wrong in certain aspects of my life... Not sure if I should even care after such a long time, but I do! Feel like I've lost a major part of my connection to home. But still, from hundreds of miles away, I do wish you all the best...
Read the rest...You know when they say: you "bring out the best in me" ?
Today I learned some people "bring out the beast in me" ...
And here's another post on a movie! I watched the March of the Penguins last night and it was simply amazing! Had not seen such a strong documentary in a long time.
Only watching the movie made me feel cold, can't believe how the crew survived that harsh cold (it's in the south pole)...and the penguins were unreal... they are the cutest creatures, especially when they're young! I was wondering how long it had been since I actually thought about an animal apart from cats and dogs... had almost forgotten that penguins even existed!
It was unbelievable how strong they were and how devoted to their chicks...I'm not sure if people had to walk 70 miles every couple of months to bring food for their kids, they would want to have children at all! We're a bit more selfish I think!
I strongly recommend it to anyone who has a slight interest in the wild life and/or documentaries!
I watched Beyond Borders and to my surprise, it turned out to be a really good movie...although I had recently decided not to watch another Angelina Julie movie, I'm glad I watched this one... It's about relief camps in different parts of the world and people that do humanitarian work (although as you can guess there was a love-related story line going on, but it was not the focus of the movie at least!)... maybe it was an American version of what's going on around the world, but still it showed some realities...
Made me wonder how "my" problems are not even real problems compared to what other people are going through... not that every one has to go through starvation and death for his/her problems to be considered "real", but at least it made me appreciate what I have and try to stop complaining (let's see how long that will last!)...
I also felt kind of funny for wearing the white band, but let's hope it really is for a good cause!
Can't believe the summer is almost over... wish I could stop the time from passing by (or fast forward it to December!)
یعنی راسته؟
یادمه که توی فیلم آوای موسیقی (اشکها و لبخندها)مادر مقدس به ماریا (جولی اندروز) می گفت که خدا اگه دری رو ببنده در دیگه ای رو وا می کنه... نمیدونم درسته یا نه... اما ترجیح می دم که راست باشه!
Read the rest...You have had a rough week, the work pressure is building up and personal matters are kind of messed up and you haven't seen a good movie in a while... what do you do:
a) Go biking or do some other outdoor activity ($0)
a) Go to a movie (maximum $14)
b) Go to a dinner and a drink with your friends ($30)
c) Go cut your hair and highlight it (well... let's say a little more than a $100)
I had asked my mom to send me a recent copy of the "Film" magazine just because I used to read every single issue of it when I was back home. I'm not saying it was the greatest information source, but at least it covered a major portion of the Iranian film-related activities. And usually it would focus on a foreign film in each issue and would publish a series of articles related to that - which could be translated from other sources or written by an Iranian critic.
Any way, the issue I received last week, focused on "before sunset"... a movie sequel that was released last year. I watched it on DVD a couple of months ago and really really liked it and decided to write about it so someone else might get interested and go watch it. It was a sequel to a movie from nine years ago, "before sunrise". I never watched the original but have read the reviews and it was apparently a good, sort of independent movie. It was about this American guy (Ethan Hawke) who meets a French girl( Julie Delpy) on a train from Budapest to Vienna. The whole story happens in one night, before the have to part ways to their different destinations. The movie ends as they promise each other that they would meet in Vienna in six months - without giving each other any contact information.
Nine years later this movie comes out which is in fact taking place nine years after the time of the original story. The guy has written a book about their experience and is in Paris, in a book signing session. His flight is in an hour and guess what?... yep, the French girl (more of a woman now) shows up. The rest of the movie is all conversation between these two as they walk the streets of Paris and talk about what happened to them in the past nine years. (I'm not gonna tell you if they actually met up in Vienna or not... you have to watch the movie for that!)...the amazing thing about the movie is how simple and smooth it is. The main feature of the film is that it's "real time", meaning that not even one second is skipped by the movie... so from the second it starts in the bookstore till the final scene, you have spent exactly as much time with the couple as they had with each other. The conversations are very natural... you can picture yourself talking about the same things if you ever meet someone after such a long time. The actors are really really strong... just as a note, they have also been involved in the process of writing the dialogues for the sequel and that's probably why they can play the role so well.
Anyway, I'm not gonna spoil the movie by giving away the ending, so go watch for yourself... it's not a super-long movie - just 80 minutes and as I said it's really smooth and you're gonna like it if you're not looking for a Batman type of movie. Another interesting thig about the movie: "before sunrise" is the movie with the lowest box-office sales in the history of cinema that has had a sequel.
So that was it for your film review session today, stay tuned for more... I wish I could find the time to watch more movies and write about them... it's really fun!
If you're into cartoons and want to know what's going on in Iran, then Irancartoon is probably a good place to check every once in a while... they have news on cartoons, comic strips, flash animations and so on.
Currently they have a collection of Sebastian Kruger's cartoons on their website. I didn't know him until I came across his book, Stones by Kruger, browsing the shelves in Chapters. It's a collection of his cartoon on the Rolling Stones... apparently he's got even more sketches on them which is understandable, since Mick Jagger has "THE" face for being a cartoon subject... anyway, there's even a website devoted just to the stars Kruger has sketched so far and I think it's worth taking a look. I'm gonna post some of the sketches I liked here...
I like the ones from Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan the most...
This must have been the most fun website I have visited in a long time!... I was laughing out loud seeing some of the mean things they have in there!
I particularly liked the prank envelopes section... you must be really mean to send some of those stuff but on the other hand it would be really funny to send something like this as a joke to a friend... I don't think sending it as a revenge would actually work, unless your target is publicly hated and can't guess who sent out the "revenge" package!
Take a look, but don't get offended!
So remember when I said I became a Zip.ca member just to watch Felicity... well it's over now... I watched the whole 4 seasons and now I'm gonna suspend my membership for a couple of months till I can afford it.
Felt kind of nostalgic though... watching the last episode. Keri Russell is definitely cute and although the last couple of episodes were kind of lame, I liked the series. If you like to watch some college kids fooling around all the time and keep falling in and out of love with each other, then give it a try!
Since it's not even worth another typed paragraph, here's what I wanna say now...again!
Have a good day!
First, Let's just say I am extremely glad that I haven't had to pull out any wisdom teeth so far and I hope I never will have to do it!
After witnessing what Nazli went through today, I'm sure I never wanna have to experience it... not that I have a choice! My mom got her wisdom teeth extracted just a little while ago so looks like I have at least 30 years before I have to worry about it!
But it made me realize something else... we are really getting older (and apparently losing our wisdom on the way!)...
So when all is said and done, where are we standing? where is it that we're going to? To me, it looks like most of us are so wrapped up in our little world of day to day activities that we're missing the big picture... what is it that we want? what is it that "I" want out of this life?
Aside from a career goal, what other dreams do I have? (I'm not even sure if I have a career goal, but let's ignore that for now)... I remember that someone once asked me this and I said that I wanted to be remembered for what I did after I died... well, it doesn't look like I'm doing anything to achieve that goal!
I always think it's more important to do what you feel like rather than what you think is logical but I never seem to be doing it! There are so many things that matter to me... I want to help the environment... I want to help my country become a better place to live in... I want to watch a movie every single night...I want to have my own website and write about the movies I watch... I want to read novels, something I haven't done that often recently... I want to adopt a little girl form an underprivileged country and help her grow up without having o worry about her basic living needs ... I want to speak more than two languages... I want to do so many other things that I am not doing right now or am not even moving towards them...
I remember when I was in my undergrad and I had to quit doing stuff because of my course load... I used to think that it'd be over soon and I would have the chance to do all those things, well I never quite got that chance... My fear is to wake up one day and realize I am 40 years old and am still waiting for that right time to go after my dreams...
