I thought I'd make a quick post right before I leave for Cebu. As I don't have the time to express myself in the style that my readers have become accustomed to, let me just spew out barely coherent paragraphs randomly.
The pictures from the I AM STRONG! Bukidnon run are online. I'm especially proud of this particular run because the participants were fantastic: open, warm, generous, insightful, and truly inspiring. It's just a shame that my poorly taken pictures cannot do justice to the picture of hope that these people left, indelibly, in the hearts of the I AM STRONG! team.
I finally met up with my online conspirators and fellow bloggers, Brian and Jason, for merienda yesterday at Starbucks Pearl Plaza. Needless to say, if geekery could have been broadcast wirelessly, then we certainly constituted our own wireless network...and failed just as miserably at increasing our barely plural readership. If this previous sentence makes no sense whatsoever, I absolve myself from any blame whatsoever as I am eagerly anticipating...
Stardust, Neil Gaiman's charming fantasy novel. I have ceased to be impressed by Robert De Niro's singular desire to be the finest actor of any generation to have appeared in the most lazy, formulaic, and utterly horrible movies ever. (Don't believe me? Check out this filmography. When he's good, he's great. When he's bad, he's still good, but only in a way that makes you feel ashamed for having recognized his genius even in movies of extreme craptitude.) But, hope springs eternal. And this story's just too classically simple and enchanting for someone who truly enjoys it to screw up. So yes, despite the pathetically thin, but promising resume of director Matthew Vaughn, I'm going out on a limb here and hope that Stardust manages to be just as good as it deserves to be.
I'm off to Cebu!
Photo Credits:
Stardust poster comes courtesy of Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Off to Cebu, Off-Tangent?
4 comments:
I can't wait for Stardust either. The only part I am unsure of is Claire Danes. She really has not blown me away with any of her roles after "My So Called Life".
BTW - your I am strong pictures were great. Looks like everyone had a blast!!!
Strange that it takes a visit from a New Yorker to get us together…
Tweet, you're absolutely right. But since she was so enchanting a presence in that series, I'm willing to give her another shot. When you get back here, let's do the I AM STRONG provinces. At least I know where to go, and what to do there. ;-)
Jason, let's try a Pole next time. I hear Pope's back in Warsaw.
Back from Warsaw, I believe. But I hear he's on a mission to lose, um, 10 kilos, so we'll have to find a vegetarian restaurant or something…
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