Totally Adicted!!! 2 door cinema club, shameless etc.

So it looks like MTV is finally coming back, well slowly but surely. Although I would usually have to get up with the birds to see any musical programming on MTV, it is so worth waking up really early in the morning, to watch AMTV (really suitable name now that I think of it). The time difference during winter also helps (1 hour behind Eastern time)lessen the necessity of getting up early for at least 5 or so months.

Today watching AMTV while trying not to burn my t-shirt while ironing I stumbled upon a video premiere from a really cool band from Ireland(land of my ancestors, well one of the various lands of my ancestors) called Two Door Cinema Club with their video for the song "what you know"

Two Door Cinema Club - New Music - More Music Videos

Speaking of MTV next week Monday is the date for the premiere of Skins USA, which I am highly anticipating/dreading at the same time. Afterall a remake of one of the best UK shows, which is not only notorious for pushing the boundaries of showing teenage drug and alcohol abuse(or enjoyment as some might put it) but also for being very frank and real in their dialog( probably the most expletives you would hear in a primetime show, well unless you're accustomed to watching E4 ). It also has very strong thematic interpretations on teenage sex and sexuality à la Emily and Naomi in series( aka "season") 3 & 4, or even the completely weird love triangle in series 1. I would love to see how MTV interprets and rehashes this show, and from what can be seen from the trailer it looks like a watered down and tame portrayal of the original, but who knows I heard the "f" word in an online promo, so I might just be pleasantly surprised (as they say don't judge a book by its cover, only it would be a show by its promo in this case). Hopefully the promo was just watered down for tv airing, as it has an MA rating, which translated into my rating system = show actually worth watching.

Skins - MTV Shows

Furthermore speaking of US remakes to UK shows, I must say I was pleasantly surprised by Showtimes take on once again E4's Shameless. The acting was brilliant, the storyline even though it was basically a copy and paste of the pilot of the original, like any good plagerist, or plageriser ( however you spell it)(aka college student) knows tweak it up here and there, and it did feel like something new and fresh even different.



oh yeah Happy New Year!

Movie of the decade: C.R.A.Z.Y. : un film Canadien

I first came across this film due to my interest in French cinema. As I stumbled through the vast archives of "les films français" I found it interesting to see a movie out of Québécois Canada. I thought to myself this may just be a breath of fresh air to the majority of depressing and angsty genres I was accustomed to with films from France. This gives me a whole new meaning to the term french cinema ( although technically since it comes from Canada I doubt i should term it french cinema). This movie was perfect in every way, showing the trials of family life, love, and being an outcast. I must warn you that some of the themes in this film may not sit well with some narrow minded people, who can't look past and see what this movie is truly about. Although being quite a long film, just over two hours, I can say that it was one of the best two hours I've spent in my life, I cannot see one scene being cut from it. This film I can say from just watching it once, is definitely my favorite movie for this decade, and probably my favorite movie of all time. This is one movie that can truly bring out all the emotions in a person.





Set in the 60's and 70's in Quebec, written by François Boulay, Jean-Marc Vallée, the movie delves into the lives of a suburban family living in Québec, Canada, telling the tale of a five brothers and their parents, revealing the social breakdown and the taboos facing that era. Je ne peux pas expliquer plus sur ce film, alors c'est le synopsis du site officiel






SYNOPSIS

Un film fou, magique, mystique, à la fois pudique et sexy, drôle et touchant.

C.R.A.Z.Y., c’est d’abord un portrait de famille qui dépeint la vie souvent extraordinaire de gens ordinaires à la poursuite de leur bonheur. C’est aussi une histoire d’amour entre un fils et son père. Le drame de celui-là qui, pour préserver l’amour de celui-ci, nie avec acharnement sa nature profonde. C.R.A.Z.Y., c’est l’histoire de Zachary Beaulieu, quatrième d’une famille de cinq garçons, né le 25 décembre 1960. Avec humour et sarcasme, Zac nous raconte les malheurs d’être né le jour de Noël, de se sentir différent des autres et de grandir dans une famille de gars auxquels il essaie désespérément de ressembler.C.R.A.Z.Y. est une fable mystique et fantaisiste sur l’âme humaine dans toute sa beauté, sa folie, sa poésie.



p.s. How could I forget, This movie has some really awesome music, the best in a movie since The boat that rocked aka Pirate Radio ( another awesome movie). Probably because both films share almost the same timeline with the likes of musical geniuses such as Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Rolling Stones and the one and only Patsy Cline.

Unity

This video shows not only the rich ethnical and cultural diversity of my beautiful metropolitian country of Trinidad and Tobago, but it shows the richness of our music and how we as a people live in unity and harmony with one another, despite "creed and race".

Change..... contined

Going along with my decision to keep this blog fresh by using a new background per week, I have decided to go with one of my photos of a sunset in Paris.

Aung San Suu Kyi Freed finally!!!

It was just last year during my travels to Brussels where I saw protest for freedom in Iran, and banners around the European Union headquaters demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi,rightful leader of Burma now known as Myanmar, held in exile.

It has been quite awhile that I have been following the developments surrounding the house arrest of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been under house confinement for the past 15 out of 21 years by the suppresive military dictatorship of Senior General Than Shwe (tied winner of my international scum of the year along with North Korea's Kim Jong-Il), and I'm very happy to say that as of November 13, 2010 she has been released. This is the beconing of a new beginning for Burma, and a very bright day in this ever darkening world.

Her release comes just on the heels of the 2010 general elections results in Burma, a beutiful country tarnished by the selfish, stagnant, and repulsive rule by one of the world's top ten most evil dictators( why is Asia so prominant in the ranking of worst dictators? a la China and NK and Myanmar, well I guess that is the price you have to pay for progress, or what one deems progress ).

Larry Clark's Bully

There are movies that stick with you for a lifetime, then there are some that would haunt you. One such movie is Bully(based on a true story), which tells a tale of carefree young adults, teenagers that would leave you feeling disturbed and sick and enjoying every bit of it.
It's creator, Larry Clark, the genius, mastermind, sociopath behind this tantalizing tale of deciet, murder, vice,and lies spins a web of suspense that would keep you on the edge of your seats.

Mr. Clark is also famous for his equally deliciously repulsive works such as Ken Park and Kids

Photography

Well I'm not a professional photographer and I don't have a clue as in how to operate Photoshop but I do like photography, so here are some of my amateur shots and edits.