lisaisms

1. What does your name mean?
-- source. Lisa means "consecrated to God" in Hebrew. Marie, on the other hand, means "bitter sea" in French. so i guess i'm consecrated to God in the bitter sea. or something like that.

2. What's your current problem?
-- hmm. i guess it's getting through work everyday.

3. What's your middle name?
-- Lovete.

4. What is your current relationship status?
-- single

5.Honestly, does your crush like you back?
-- i don't want to assume, so i would say no. haha.

6. What is your current mood?
-- bored and missing someone.

7. What do you love most?
-- difficult question.

8. What makes you happy?
-- a lot of things. being with friends good food especially kare-kare chocolate pasta pizza watching films books art and making art sunrise raindrops on car windows being with the person i like doing something i love dreams music nice things making someone happy

9. Are you musically inclined?
-- musically inclined as in i can play an instrument? i wish.

10. If you could go back in time, and change something, what would it be and why?
-- nothing. i'm too lazy to do that.

11. If you had to be an animal for one day, what would you be?
-- a tiger.

12. Ever have a near death experience?
-- unfortunately, no.

13. Name something you do a lot?
-- breathing.

14. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
-- more today than yesterday by goldfinger.

15. Who did you copy and paste this from?
-- mary.

16. Name someone with the same b-day as you.
-- arianne.

18. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience?
-- yep.

20. What's the first thing you notice about the OPPOSITE sex?
-- depends whether i'm looking at him or not. either it's their physical appearance or voice.

25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
-- yep.

26. Do you have braces?
-- nope.

27. Are you comfortable with your weight?
-- if i lost a few more pounds, then i would be.

28. Do you speak any other languages?
-- aside from english? filipino. i supposedly know spanish, but then again, i forget these things.

29. What's your favorite smell?
-- let me get back to this later.

30. who do you think will re-post this?
-- people bored with work. like i am. haha.

there is something about the way sofia coppola directs that makes the film so.. endearing. sofia copolla is not your usual director. it's either you love her or you hate her, and it takes a while for a person to truly appreciate her work. she has this unique eye that makes every single shot of the camera an art piece. a moving art photo-- that's how i would describe the film. you can take any still shot of the movie, and it would come out as a very artsy picture. the first thing i noticed about the movie is that it does not make use of typical camera angles, camera movement and scene transitions; there were a lot of awkward angles, shaky movement and sudden cuts, but they all work. another unusual thing about the film is the musical score. the setting is in the past, yet the music is modern.

another thing i like about sofia coppola is that she doesn't have to show some body to make you understand what the scene is about or express the emotion of the situation: a hand or the setting is enough. this, i think, is a distict feature in her other films, such as Lost In Translation and The Virgin Suicides. another sofia trademark, in my opinion, is the minimal script. eye contact replaces dialoque, and it actually works better. which is an advantage, considering the lead character is portrayed by kirsten dunst (haha!).

honestly, i don't know much about Marie Antoinette. before i watched this film, all i knew was that she was the extravagant queen of France who said, "Let them eat cake," and got beheaded. and what i liked about the movie is that these "facts" were not highlighted. for me it doesn't really matter whether this film is historically correct or not. what's important is you really get to see the other side of the story-- the story of a young girl plunged into Versaille.

because i'm bored. a list of good covers at the top of my head:

• scissor sisters - take me out (franz ferdinand) *current fave*
  
• starsailor - push the button (pussycat dolls)
  
• the ataris - the boys of summer (the eagles/don henley)
• eva cassidy - time after time (cyndi lauper)
• fiona apple - across the universe (the beatles)
• lost prophets - cry me a river (justin timberlake)
• pearl jam - lightning crashes (live)
• alice in chains - another brick in the wall (pink floyd)
  
• howie day - #41 (dave matthews band)
  
• norah jones - crazy (patsy cline)
• violent femmes - i wanna be sedated (the ramones)
  
• 311 - love song (the cure)
• a perfect circle - love song (the cure)
• suzie mcneil - bohemian rhapsody (queen)
• brandon boyd - alison (elvis costello)
  
• incubus - like a virgin (madonna)

any suggestions? :)

(i know i've said this a lot of times before: i suck at titles.)

probably the worst film i've seen this year (which is quite funny, because i absolutely loved the movie i watched previously). the plot's slow, the editing is really bad, and the acting sucks. buti na lang hindi ako ang nagbayad. hehe. the only nice thing about this movie is edison chen (dahil ang gwapo niya). but then again, he doesn't have that much screentime.

i liked 3 scenes though:

1. sarah michelle gellar falling from the hospital roof to her death in front of amber tamblyn (yes, it's joan of arcadia) and edison chen
2. teresa palmer grabbing the feet of the kid instead of her phone
3. old man doing "peek-a-boo" in the bus

and that's it. this movie is crappy as hell. Dead Alive sucks, but it's far more entertaining.

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on another note, regina spektor keeps playing in my head.

"Fidelity"

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music

And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart

And suppose I never met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say that of course its gonna get better
Gonna get better
Better better better better
Better better better

I never love nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting by heart truly
I got lost
In the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart
Breaks my
Heart
Breaks my heart