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It's been more than a week since I saw Her in the movie theatre. No, no, not her, but "Her" the movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, a guy who has fallen in love with his digital personal organizer. The film is written and directed by Spike Jonze. This was science fiction and a love story and has received Oscar nominations, best original screenplay and best picture being the most of the important ones. I'm still trying to process it.

As I left the theatre, I thought about Sophia Coppola's Lost In Translation. Is this Jonze's riposte to his ex-wife? Maybe. It plays like it, and if you've see the both of them back to back, it would seem to be. But to think of this film destracts from the the film itself. You've got to divorce the two to see what Jonze was trying to accomplish. That pun is intended.

I think the central conceit of the movie is that the heart is mysterious and you love whomever or whatever you love. Fact: it was no big deal for Twombly to fall in love with an OS. There were others who have, and Amy Adam's created an intimate relationship with one also. In the future, you'll find love in many other places. No one cares if you fall in love with an OS. It happens.

Now was Twombly looking for a relationship he could control or as his ex-wife said a perfect simulation of a wife? Can't be judgmental here. We do get their history from his perspective. It seems he was faithful and caring; cold and distant and judging not so much. He was supportive; It felt like they fell out of love. Was her success too much for him? Maybe, but they don't get too deep into it.

They love. Then they don't love. It is a mystery of the heart.

What was most bothersome about the movie is how it ends. Spoilers if you don't want to know. It ends with a "Thanks for the fishes" moment, which was perplexing. It's the least talked about aspect of the film, but the most interesting. I was thinking about how it would end. I was expecting a "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" style disconnecting. It happened, but then the complicated return and subsequent leave made the film rushed. I felt like sitting alongside Twombly to piece it all together. Yeah, I'm still thinking about it.

4 of 5 stars.

Labels: girls, movies, review

"Are you goin' to the party on Saturday," she asked as if I didn't know
See ever since I saw you on the back of some guy's bicycle
Well I've been feelin' kinda so-so
So, girl don't act so surprised, got that look in your light-blue eyes, you can stop pretendin'
Yeah, I been watchin' the movie all along, wonderin' if there was gonna be an ending
To the story, to the story, to the story
I guess I'll never know

Cayucas, "High School Lover"

Labels: girls, lyrics, qotd

Meganekko Twin Tails! MMmm. So Kawaii!

Labels: girls, so kawaii

Wait a second. You're telling me SNSD/Girls Generation was on Letterman and no one told me? Wha!

Labels: girls

Cutie-pie, Yoona, courtesy of ingjulianvega

Labels: girls, mmm, so kawaii

Let's have a little Girls Generation in the morning. This is somewhat better than coffee as pretty girls are always better than coffee. No idea if this song means anything as I don't speak Korean.

Labels: girls, music break, she's hot

Because CapitolSwell didn't come back with some Kpop, I'm left to scavenge youtube for some SNSD. Here's a song on their latest foray into the Japanese market, "Run, Devil, Run." Unfortunately, it doesn't highlight their legs.

Labels: girls, music break

Can you dig it?

Labels: girls, she's hot

I wanted use "girls" in the title of this post, but thought better of it. It's more mature that way.

There has to be a Pam or Erin in every office. A woman who's like the office version of the girl next door. Slightly quirky though but every bit as lovable. You know the type because she sits across from you, or she's your cube mate. Yup. There's one at every job.

Stop by her desk to chat her up. Have a laugh over at the water cooler. Joust in line for the microwave. It's all good. It's all flirting and every guy's angling to do it. Nothing over the top, but all in good fun. Because she's like that.

Yup. You know the type. Sometimes she makes you smile. Other times you make her smile. With her at work you could be smiling all the time. Wonderful.

Labels: girls

Oh, you're still here? I thought that you would be off following the music break video and surfing the related YouTube videos spending the hours upon hours lost in the world of anime song covers.

You didn't? Well, good.

Let me send you on another journey into the land of the rising sun. This one is another excursion into its music scene. I wonder if this is J-POP or J-Rock? Who knows but since I wanted to see K-ON! videos. Here's a real live all school girl band. Well, they're not school girls anymore. They're rockers! (In school girl outfits!! Yes!)

http://www.scandal-4.com/

Labels: girls, it rocks, lotd, she's hot, you'll need babelfish

Today's link would probably blocked at work so don't even bother clicking it while there. And that's why I'm having it posted late at night after family hour. Keep your kids from clicking through.

Vote for Playboy's playmate of the year. It doesn't matter which one (they all look the same) just vote. Vote early and vote often. Just vote. Democracy needs you.

Then again, when was the last time you thought about Playboy. It's getting to be a joke in this day and age. That old man, Hugh Hefner, getting engaged to woman a quarter his age. I'm jealous and sickened at the same time. I mean it has to be just about the money, because no matter how charming Hugh Hefner can be to find a soul mate with that age difference has to be helped along by the millions he's got in his bank account.

Anyhow, you need to link to some softcore porn once in awhile. And you should vote for Miss February.

http://pmoy.playboy.com/meet-the-2010-playboy-playmates (NSFW)

Labels: ecchi, girls, lotd, she's hot

"She's back."

"Hey, dude. You're girl's back!"

"I heard you the first time. Stop the yelling."

So I turn around, slowly, as cool as can be. Be the other side of the pillow. Be the other side of the pillow. She is there.

Labels: fiction, girls

I was watching a night of Grace Kelly on TCM. I can't get enough of her and of watching TCM. There's something I really like about the old-timey movies on that channel. Is it the uncomplicated innocence of the era? Is it the actors before there was an idea of celebrity? Is it the stories? Or am I just nostalgic about things?

I am nostalgic and sentimental, but this post isn't about movies on TCM. It's about a dream this morning. *Groan* I know I've trod this path before. And I know I promised not to. But you know what? I like to make Google index my brain. So I'll write this dream down, let Google store it in its hive mind for eternity.

This dream was probably driven by Grace Kelly She's from Philly. The girl I dreamt about is from Philly. The Phillies lost the World Series. I lost contact with this girl.

So S., I meet her somewhere. I forget where. We did stuff around and end up at my Mom's. My Mom's house, circa 1995 around the time I met S.. Next, thing I know I'm waking up and dressing for something important. I'm wearing something a little more adult and I pull on a blazer. My brothers are dressing up as well.

I'm thinking, "Where's S.?" Where did I leave her? She came home with me? Is she still asleep? Yes.

She's still asleep in my brothers room. I'm getting changed as she wakes up. Now, S. was super pretty: brunette, hair to her shoulders, freckles -- enough to see, but not enough to get in the way. She's just getting up. Naked, but wrapped in the bed sheet. Like this doesn't make me happy. She takes a shower. She's dressed.

The dream moves forward in the disjointed way dreams do. We end up at some wedding shower! Hosted by my Tita! How does she know S.?! Of course, she knows S. She knows everyone! And the wedding shower is for her. I'm saddened by it all.

There she is sitting front and center, looking pretty and amazing. She's seated next to a picture of her with curls! Curls? Is G. getting in on this dream?

I'm thinking, "She's been in Baltimore all this time?" How come I didn't meet her againg? How come Tita didn't mention it? This is just awful to meet the girl in your dreams again on the day that she is celebrating being betrothed to another. Que lastima!

Anger for missing this opportunity. Sadness for missing this opportunity. Resigned that this is my life. In a dream, I still don't catch any breaks.

Labels: "blog as notepad", dreams, girls, that girl

It's spring. And my mind turns to girl watching. Here's really cute asians in short skirts and stockings. Don't click if you're a girl. Click if you're a guy. Legs, man, legs. Zettai Ryouiki. Makes me smile.

http://reallycuteasians.net/2009/04/girls-wearing-short-skirts-and-stockings-gallery/

Labels: girls, lotd, mmm, zettai ryouiki

I don't know why guys don't find girls in glasses attractive. I find them down right hot. Tina Fey, hot! Racheal Harris, hot! I think it comes from my first crush being a girl who wore glasses. I wonder if she still does or did she eventually get laser eye surgery. Girls in glasses are damn sexy. Please, if you are a girl with some seeing problems forcing you to wear corrctive lenses, stay that way and avoid the temptation for laser eye surgery. If you are a girl who has perfect vision, get some fake glasses. You'll look damn sexy in them. And when you do give me a call.

Labels: girls, she's hot

I read this dude's comic, her, but really I want one of his paintings from the Girls and Robots series.

Labels: art, girls