Bury me now Love

Perhaps it's my end-of-year syndrome getting to me. Or maybe I'm just jaded. Shut up.

So here are two brilliant indie teen movies that I saw within the last month. You should check them out:

Teenage Dirtbag (2009)



I know the title sucks and you've already got that awful Wheatus song in your head. But this movie is the most low budget, messed up, and moving movie I've seen in a long time. About a creepy, vile (but always somehow well-versed and intriguing) guy who bonds with a popular girl through creative writing class, although they never really get together. The dialogue is awkward and pretty great (there's hardly any)...plus it's full of good depressing indie music. Nice.

Mad. Mad thoughts.
Crazy, twisted, sinewy
Mad obsession.
You sicken me.
You’re so beautiful, love.
I grind you into a fine, soft
Powder and inhale you...
Lick you off of my fingers.
You love, answer me.
Your face brings me death every day...
And every day I can’t wait to die.
Bury me now, love.
Bury me now.


The Go-Getter (2008)







Shy teen's mother dies so he steals a car and goes on a road trip looking for his half-brother. The whole time he chats with the owner of the car...and then they meet. It kind of reminds me of Michel Gondry movies, but slower. Oh and I like Zooey. Can someone take me on a road trip please?

Right now you're thinking... who is this girl, and what's wrong with her? She must be crazy. No, sad... sad in a chair with... cats. Cats? No, a cross word puzzle. A puzzle and tea. No, beer. Beer, she's tough? Thinks she's tough, but not like that. Picture her... younger. No, older. Picture someone with fake teeth. You never really know.

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Ah it's only the start of December but I feel it's already disappearing.

I don't want heart, I want soul

Update: What the hell? "Batman star Christian bailed". London. He was arrested after his own mother and sister accuses him of assault? Hmm...

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At Osage gallery in Kwun Tong with Hilda, for the Women's Work opening. This is one of coolest places I've been to in HK so far. It's inside a revitalized factory space. I love everything about it, from the freight elevator to the large dramatic space and the industrial feel. Plus there was free food and wine, and not nachos and shit, like roast ham, risotto and mini burgers.



The way overused Porcelain font from (the so awesome) misprintedtype.com. Stylized fonts become outdated so quickly. This is what I mean when I say HK is a little bit lagging. I used this font too...in 2006 :(
















Yup I'm wearing a men's shirt. Got it last week and I've been wearing every other day.


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Best movie I've seen in a long time. Heath Ledger is so brilliant. (And I'm glad Maggie Gyllenhaal replaced Katie Holmes). Go see it!


Dries Van Noten dress. Can't stop admiring how the flames from the poster matches those flowers on her dress...

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Recent shoe purchases:





This whole living next to one of the best malls in HK thing isn't doing me much good. I should move far far away...but since HK is one big shopping haven, that's going to difficult.

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Starting today, I'm saving my money... to buy a better camera...

The good the bad and the beautiful

My week started out like CRAP. I blame it on the rain and.... global warming! The rain finally stopped Thursday and that's when things started getting better.

Thank goodness for friends, and retail therapy.

Weekend:

Friday night, Wendy and I went to The Fringe Club for Listen Up! I really appreciate what this place is trying to do, the whole giving new artists a stage to perform on, gallery space to show work..etc etc. We checked out their gallery space. What's funny is that there were paintings for sale, actual price tags next to all the pieces (there were big paintings for 8000HKD). To me that's a little awkward and kind of cuts down the...should I say "warmth" of the whole place. When I was walking around it felt like they were trying to do everything at the same time. Obviously a recent art school graduate doesn't want to make "starving artist" as their profession...and this is giving them a chance to make some dough to pay the rent. But pricing the paintings like shoes for sale — at a place that's supposed to be encouraging — is "cold".

Anyhow, here's a band that performed. Can't remember their name. We saw 2 of the 3 performances and this band was the better of the two...just an opinion.





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Saturday I went computer hunting. It's finally time to replace my Powerbook G4, she's been with me for the past 4 years through thick and thin. I've dropped her numerous times, she's been sent to "the station" 3 times and now she's begging me to let her go. You can get a pretty good deal for a Macbook Pro here. All hail for tax-free HK!

I saw The Incredible Hulk!! Reminds me of...
Anyway, it was 1000x better than the first one! But that's because my favorite actor is in it! Edward Norton is the epitome of the perfect man to me. The sad eyes, the dark hair, the way he talks, the script writing, the directing, the environmental activism, educated. I love the roles he chooses to play. Fight Club, Norton beats Brad Pitt by farrr.



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An afternoon with Olivia, at Cafe Epoch, then some shopping at Pacific Place and IFC...
I really enjoyed Epoch when I first arrived in HK. It's worst weekday lunchtimes when its filled with men in suits and it becomes a big and chatty corporate meeting room. Best at night, for dessert, when it's most quiet, right before they close.













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I'll be in Shenzhen for most of next week. Ah why is everything so hard?? ...
Must be global warming.