Long Time, Go Kony!!!!!!

Hey Everyone!!! It’s been a very long time since I wrote anything here. Reason: bcoz Eddie and Matt is gone. Leaving me alone.

Anyhow there’s a few of things I want to get off my chest this week.

KONY 2012, with all the commotion about Jason Russell going around, I hope that you all can see past that and see that the effort of Invisible Children is still a great cause to support. So, I hope you all would still be coming out in great number on April 20^th. Get you Kit, Poster and print as many as you like and makes Kony the name to remember, the most wanted person on earth, and save the children.

American Idol Top 13

I’ve stopped doing this for a long while now. Because I’ve lost my inspiration somewhat along the way, but I guess it is predictable that American Idol would have this started again.

I intend to stay off through the season before this. But when I saw the top 13 performed last night. It’s kinda inspiring.

Without watching any episodes, I know. Colton is the front runner from the start. But without a doubt either, he is the most bankable of all the contestant yet he still got a lot of potential on his voice because he is still molding it.

Phillip Phillips is my second choice for the guys. Because of his uniqueness. I haven’t seen a Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen on the show before. And Phillip have them both in his pocket. I just hope that the Idol actually don’t change him too much. Yet he still has to fix a position on how his voice could fit. But I hope it’s not the Idol mold but his on potential.

A small note. I was not surprise that Reed Grimm is gone but I was sad though. Because he is a character with a voice and a talent. Maybe it’s too random for AI but he is definitely with something there.

Joshua Ledet fits into the norm of AI as the Gospel soul, Jeremy Rosado is the cool bear, and Jermaine is the low ground. While Jermaine is good at what he sings, but his voice can be a bit dull at times. HeeJun however is a surprise. Not that he is not a good singer, only that American haven’t really heard much of a good Asian singer before. He is what a Typical most Asian Singer are like. A Typical Asian Look with a good voice. While I’m proud that he is in the top 11 but I do think that he would not last too long if he stay the course he is which the Asian singer usually does.

Deandre is unique. But he could be too unique either. Because there’s a play in the game and the unique card can be a low blow rather than a good thing.

As for the girls, It’s a huge competition. Because last night they show off everything. Erika Van Pelt did great with a perfect fit with her voice on Whitney, Hollie too have fit Whitney in her show. Skylar did a Reba on Whitney. And who can forget Jessica. But Jessica rendition of the most difficult-to-pull-off song of the Whitney play book is perfect, but I fear that it was too perfect. While we are in the nostalgia of the late singer original, Jessica is still lacking Individuality in her fit. Maybe after another couple of weeks she’ll shine as the girl who can sing about everything perfectly. And that can be her trick.

As for Elise, whether it’s the song choice, the lack of time, I can only says, this is a huge break she got, the second chance. She has to bring it next week. And redeem herself. As for Shannon, she is not in a good place after last night performance. The song almost exposes all her flaws, and I’ve seen lack of potential all over the place. She too have to do much much better to get herself ON again.

For the guys, the game is right on, they are in the popularity game. Because they have shown all the potential but they haven’t have shown all of it. And because this year it’s obvious that the popularity vote have gone on even before the top 13 begins. As for the girls, most of the best singers are there. So it’s a game of talent. While with all the great voice, it can be a bit boring at times. So the girls game is creating variety, and create interest on them.

I am sad that Jeremy have to go because I think he got a good voice and he is not supposed to go. I’m sure and Elise would get a big slash back from the whole drama. But it is a choice of whether you burn the one who show potential but show not enough or the one that made a bad choice and haven’t show her potential yet. I just hope that they make the right choice and Elise would really step up and do a good job next week.

it's the Holiday STylized movie week, The Muppets VS Cheering New Year's Eve NYC Crystal Ball Drop

With the end of the year coming, the movie theater is rolling out holiday movies in drove. First up this week would be the totally star-studded New Year’s Eve. Here you can find the rarely seen Michelle Pfeifer and Hilary Swank. With other big name like, Robert DeNiro, Zac Efron, some original cast from the sister movie Valentines Day like Jessica Biel and Ashton Kutcher with newcomer, Lea Michele and Jake T Austin and Abigail Breslin with Sarah Jessica Parker as her mom. To tell the truth, going into the cinema for this one, I’ve half expected it to be mediocre, because Valentine’s Day didn’t really strike any chord with me. But how wrong was I, New Year’s Eve, beside this star-powerhouse it is, it’s totally a really funny movie. it’s the Garry Marshall Effects stretch to the most optimum. I almost laugh my teeth off for this one throughout. And to cast Sofia Vergara is the most genius decision.

Well, just like Valentine’s day, this one is a whole bunch of people intertwine with some intricate relationship and as a special day comes in New York, everyone have prior plan something for the date or resolution to resolve and plenty of things happen out of plan and closure to be closed.

The next feel-good movie of the week is The Muppet show. All the Muppets is back for one more shot at the big screen. Though the singing and the storyline is a bit weird. But I guess with the Muppets anything can happen. The movie is a really soft touch to the old show where the jokes are rough at times. But this time it’s really heartwarming and really talented people’s cameo makes it even more fun.

So the story goes that the theater is in trouble, the disbanded gang join back once more to save it.

Arthur Claus VS the Lady of Dagenham

As for last week’s movie review, there’s the holiday cheer from Santa himself, Arthur Claus, the 3D Animated movie is quite a fun movie to watch, how Santa reach all the kids in the world to send them gifts and how the job is inherited and how normal and unnormal a family of claus is. Many movie have been made according to the dysfunction of a Claus family, but I think this one is worth a watch for the fact that it’s heartwarming and somewhat easy.

The next stop would be for a little British movie called Made in Dagenham. It’s about the Female Workers in 1968 Dagenham Ford Car Plant Strike. The common and often raunchy and not-really-Good-Looking Lady of a car plant, decided to take a stand for their right and make the first strike ever against Sexual Discrimination. And with that, the whole country rally behind the effort and pass a law in the Commonwealth. This is what I love and fascinated by great British Artistry in Film. They can take a very important issue, infuse it with some fantastic ordinary people that looks blend in, with some fantastic common humor and makes a story worth telling and makes people listen again and again. Here is a bunch of normal looking great actresses, portraying every normal woman working hard in their life and still maintain the dignity to fight for what’s right. And the struggle and the conflict of doing what’s RIGHT.

One more for the little story movie from the Great Britain. And it’s proven again that great story doesn’t need to make a big scene to be art worth appreciation.

The American President and A Lost Valentine

The other day I was watching 2 movies on my LCD Screen. Which moves me and makes me question a lot of what’s happening around the world.

First up is the 1995 The American President, this is a great movie with some of the best actor and actresses in the same place to watch and the writing is magnificent. This is the only place where you’d see Michael Douglas, and Martin Sheen (who later became the President in The West Wing) in the same screen, with Michael J. Fox. Annette Bening is the President’s Love interest. And Richard Dreyfuss is the next election opponent. It’s a miracle that the movie ever been made even. Well to avoid the seriousness of the subject, they interwoven the fictional love story of a widower president with a lobbyist with some humor. (which in reality I’m wondering if it actually is a crime?). Anyway, regardless, aside from the main line of love story, the caliber of the writing is just impeccable. The story touches on a lot of issue that to my realization almost 20 years later we are still talking about the same issues and the issues is becoming more and more real as the time drags on. The Global Warming and Fresh Air issue, the uselessness of some crime bill, the Libya tension with America, the women’s right bill passed unenforced. And one more thing that dawn on me, that how many people in America and the media address the most powerful man in the world today most of the time as Obama, and very seldom do I hear them pronounce him as President Obama. I as an outsider find it strange that so many president before President Obama is often called upon with the title in front but for the past couple of years I’ve heard more “President Elect Obama” in the last year of President Bush’s administration than I’ve heard “President Obama”. This movie is a great reflection of what’s happening today. And makes me thought of a couple things I’ve thought of before. It’s not easy to do the RIGHT thing. But that doesn’t mean that it ain’t Hard to take the EASY way either. If you ride through the turbulence then the Fight for the RIGHT is worth it. But to Dwell in the Hellish chasm of EASY WAY of cowardness and ignorant and self pity and anger for the rest of your life. Which one is Better? Which one that often people takes? Which path u often take? We all have our own answer, but my hope and love was that please, please, take the RIGHT path and wake up and walk straight to your destiny with all my Love and prayers to your success.

The next one is a more recent TV movie. The Lost Valentine, a Cynical journalist interview the main line of the story, an old lady waiting every year on Valentine Day for the past 40 years for her husband who is MIA in the Vietnam war to come home to her. Through the journey, the Journalist found love and the Lady attain a closure in the end.

My thought is that the choice of waiting til the right one comes along and falling in love and waiting for him forever which one you’d rather. And it’s pretty clear that everyone would rather fall in love and then with that love in your heart and wait forever to reunite than never experience it by not letting go and putting yourself out for the “Perfect” one. And in my opinion, “Perfect Circle” comes with Black and White and Good and Bad, only by that will it becomes complete and will only by accepting it that we would elevate above the circle to see the “Whole Truth”.

Love is the main title here, and when Betty White fall crying at the return of her husband at the end of the movie. I find that regardless what happened and what’s missing, time or the person for all those years, true love and the experience of it is the “Eternal” remain in our soul and I want that.