Saw the movie Confucious - total waste of time
Went to Bukchon in Seoul - traditional houses /village in the middle of Seoul. Very nice and I went in the coolest cafe ever!
Best music when traveling: The Grammatics (merci Richard!)
Best music when travelling and its sunny: Bob Marley!
Crossing a bridge in Seoul's Metro on a sunny day while listening to Street Spirit (Radiohead): Priceless
W Burger chain in Gangnam - best burger in Seoul!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Finally a post!
Been a while! Well I should've posted my pics of Taipei by now on Facebook or here but it's too tiring to select the best ones so it will have to wait! For now I'll say that Taipei rocked. I'd like to say that Taiwan rocks but I just basically had time to visit the capital city and a nice little village near it called Wulai. So I'll come back to this later. Let's just say that the temperature was crazy (around 29-32) and Taipei is more opened to the world than Seoul (well in the case of Taiwan they don't really have a choice for political reasons). Yet it's clearly Chinese and although I haven't been to communist China, I know that I've experienced Chinese culture at least once :)
Recent movies seen:
Precious (US-2009) - extremely harsh subject, cliche by times, but the director/writer did an amazing job of at least putting on the table a wide variety of social problems in the US right now and it opens up the ground for discussion. The movie goes from bad to worse and then some! But it's somewhat optimistic in the end...
Mother (Kor-2009) - this is my favorite movie since a while now. I'll write more about it later on - I did not finish my analysis!
Fish Story (Jap-2009) - incredibly absurd story spanning a couple of generations with the band behind a song called Fish Story as common thread. Basically a comet will hit earth in the present time and a record shop owner plays the Fish Story album. Common thread is exposed. The story is so crazy you have to just see it! One of the weirdest movies I've seen in a while; but weird in a good way!
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Saw Hurt Locker, was ok but Oscar worthy? let's relax here... wow! Hollywood lost it big time! Politrics win the day.
Recent movies seen:
Precious (US-2009) - extremely harsh subject, cliche by times, but the director/writer did an amazing job of at least putting on the table a wide variety of social problems in the US right now and it opens up the ground for discussion. The movie goes from bad to worse and then some! But it's somewhat optimistic in the end...
Mother (Kor-2009) - this is my favorite movie since a while now. I'll write more about it later on - I did not finish my analysis!
Fish Story (Jap-2009) - incredibly absurd story spanning a couple of generations with the band behind a song called Fish Story as common thread. Basically a comet will hit earth in the present time and a record shop owner plays the Fish Story album. Common thread is exposed. The story is so crazy you have to just see it! One of the weirdest movies I've seen in a while; but weird in a good way!
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Saw Hurt Locker, was ok but Oscar worthy? let's relax here... wow! Hollywood lost it big time! Politrics win the day.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Rusty Knife (1958)
Rusty Knife: Interesting gangster Japanese noir film. I don't really have anything in particular to say about the movie - it's actually very interesting yet there's nothing out of the ordinary about the plot. Classic tale of a man who committed a crime, paid for it and the tries to become an honest man but just can't!
Morning Calm magazine February 2010
Il y a un article sur la poutine et aussi sur le Domaine Pinacle and le magazine gratuit publié par Korean Air - Morning Calm Février 2010. Une belle surprise! D'ailleurs j'ai reçu un magazine au hasard de mars 2009 en achetant ma caméra et il y avait un article sur Montréal et son centre-ville avec 3 belles photos. Montréal est "in" ici! J'ajoute aussi des photos au hasard!
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Movies & music
Man on Wire Decent documentary. Overhyped a tad bit, but enjoyable to see how a man could risk so much just to do something crazy! If anything it shows what it means to be driven to do something no matter what!
Quantum of Solace Watched it again for the first time since seeing it in theaters. Actually it was more decent than when I saw it the first time. Not a bad James Bond flick in the end.
Virgin Springs Bergman in top form. Mainly asks the question: Is it alright to seek retribution for horrible deeds done to you? Why did God allow this? The story is simple yet very powerful: a very religious knight's daughter gets raped and murdered. Furthermore, the villains are staying in the knight's stable for the night right after they did their miserable deed. The acting from Max von Sydow is, for me, a reason to watch this movie again. Although I should watch other Bergman films that I have not yet seen...
Spoon - Transference Wow! If you liked their previous work you will enjoy this one on the first listening - like I did!
Massive Attack - Heligoland I haven't listened to it often enough to actually say anything about aside from the fact that it's not like 100th Window and more like Mezzanine. Took them 7 years to release a new album...
Quantum of Solace Watched it again for the first time since seeing it in theaters. Actually it was more decent than when I saw it the first time. Not a bad James Bond flick in the end.
Virgin Springs Bergman in top form. Mainly asks the question: Is it alright to seek retribution for horrible deeds done to you? Why did God allow this? The story is simple yet very powerful: a very religious knight's daughter gets raped and murdered. Furthermore, the villains are staying in the knight's stable for the night right after they did their miserable deed. The acting from Max von Sydow is, for me, a reason to watch this movie again. Although I should watch other Bergman films that I have not yet seen...
Spoon - Transference Wow! If you liked their previous work you will enjoy this one on the first listening - like I did!
Massive Attack - Heligoland I haven't listened to it often enough to actually say anything about aside from the fact that it's not like 100th Window and more like Mezzanine. Took them 7 years to release a new album...
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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