monoceros blogsToo disillusioned for words.
This little article made me smile. And I smile a lot whenever I watch an episode of BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice. Darcy as the gentleman of dreams. And Firth as Darcy.
The new version arrives in Singapore early December. Can Keira and Matthew inherit their roles from Jennifer and Colin with praise? Word so far is, yes. This should be a December treat then.
I've been listening to David Gray lately. His album Life in Slow Motion is a nice piece of work. Piano-driven songs and ever poignant lyrics like the one from the song Lately below -
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
On a time well spent
On a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Try to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all in a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down
Lately
Some of the music is deceptively upbeat. The lyrics tell a different story. Such good lines like - "Taste the broken hearts / In the vacant lots" and "Watch a new lie twist on the breeze" and "Now I'm leaking life faster / Than I'm leaking blood."
Unfortunately, the album - at least in the US - has been listed as one of the CDs affected by Sony's malevolent anti-piracy software. Read more here and here. What to do then? Get it off an online store.
What do you do when you've got a sleep-robbing, paranoia-inducing problem that you can't confide in anyone around you? You send a postcard here.
Where are my marker pens and typewriter?
The Spring and the Fall
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
In the spring of the year, in the spring of the year,
I walked the road beside my dear.
The trees were black where the bark was wet.
I see them yet, in the spring of the year.
He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach
That was out of the way and hard to reach.
In the fall of the year, in the fall of the year,
I walked the road beside my dear.
The rooks went up with a raucous trill.
I hear them still, in the fall of the year.
He laughed at all I dared to praise,
And broke my heart, in little ways.
Year be springing or year be falling,
The bark will drip and the birds be calling.
There's much that's fine to see and hear
In the spring of a year, in the fall of a year.
'Tis not love's going hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways.
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Francis William Bourdillon
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done."
Past One O'Clock
by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Past one o'clock. You must have gone to bed.
The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
I'm in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
And, as they say, the incident is closed.
Love's boat has smashed against the daily grind.
Now you and I are quits. Why bother then
to balance mutual sorrows, pain, and hurts.
Behold what quiet settles on the world.
Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
In hours like these, one rises to address
The ages, history, and all creation.
It's been a long time since I blogged about a computer game. For the first month after I returned from Michigan, I played The Sims 2 daily. I watched the trailer for the new Tomb Raider game every other day. But that was about it.
I haven't played a Final Fantasy game in a while but watching Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children last week sparked my interest again. The CGI movie is based on arguably - or probably inarguably - the most popular installment of the series. Final Fantasy VII now has a movie and three additional games to its name. I only played VIII but that's okay; I read enough about VII to understand what was going on in the movie, which is, by the way, very much better than The Spirits Within from several years back.
The fight scenes are fluid, beautiful, just plain eye-popping. I watched several of them several times. And the music is pure FF style music. Nobou Uematsu did very nicely here.
Makes me want to dig out some old Final Fantasy games now.