i will not go to heaven when i die

Posted: October 20, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: movies | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Sometimes it just happens and something articulates for you. And in this case the AFTERLIFE. This has something to do with the story of a human raised as a Martian who returns to Earth, together with the blackhole theory.

Thank you to Robert Heinlein for ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’. And Stephen Hawking for ‘Brief History of Time’ (also Errol Morris who made a great doc on it).

I believe in the afterlife. I believe there is a higher being. But suddenly heaven and hell is no longer a clear cut division, they’re levels. In the same way that the black hole is not exactly black our spirits are not exactly spirits.

When we die we get absorbed into the collective energy of those who have gone before us. Dead Monster is no longer Monster because she does not exist.

There is a dimension in the universe that we don’t see because we’re limited by our bodies. Hawking kept on investigating the blackhole because he couldn’t believe that if you drop an astronaut in the blackhole it will just disappear. He just couldn’t. And that’s how he figured out that the astronaut as we know it DID disappear but it comes back…as radiation.

The consciousness that we so hold in high regard is the one thing that every religion promises will remain after death. I’m not discounting the fact that there might be consciousness…but not of spirit or soul or anything individual. It’s impossible. Consciousness is still coming from the brain…which dies with us.

I think it’s more like particles moving together like the blackhole that collapses, sucking in that astronaut and eventually nuking it.

Am i going to be excommunicated now?

Top of Mind Top 3 Stuff

Posted: March 27, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Arkeofilms, Kano, movies, television | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

It’s always so hard for me to think of my top 3 of anything. But this time, I’ll make it easier and think of the stuff that come to mind in order. This is also procrastination…as I progress, snail’s pace, to the finish line of our first rough cut.

BOOKS


  1. Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  2. A Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
  3. A Once and Future King by TH White

DOCUMENTARIES


  1. Hoop Dreams by Steve James
  2. Grey Gardens by the Maysles Brothers
  3. Capturing the Friedmans by Andrew Jarecki

PINOY MOVIES (this is hard)

  1. Kakabakaba ka ba? / Dir by Mike de Leon
  2. Bagets / Mario J de los Reyes
  3. Salawahan / Ishmael Bernal

ASIAN MOVIES, but not Pinoy

  1. In the Mood for Love / Kar Wai Wong
  2. Chungking Express / Kar Wai Wong
  3. Raise the Red Lantern / Yimou Zhang

EUROPEAN MOVIES

  1. Amelie (I can’t help it…the commentary is the best part of it all) / Jeunet
  2. Jules et Jim / Francois Truffaut
  3. Butterfly and the Diving Bell / Schnabel

AMERICAN MOVIES

  1. Clueless / Amy Heckerling
  2. Groundhog Day / Ramis?
  3. Godfather (is this Hollywood? in a sense…very hollywood) / coppola

TELEVISION

  1. West Wing
  2. Six Feet Under
  3. Todas

DISHES BY THE DUDE

  1. Crispy Patalbog
  2. Key Lime Pie
  3. Poached egg with roasted tomato and basil, swimming in olive oil and other leafy goodies…resting on bread.

SITES

  1. www.cnn.com
  2. google reader (is that a site?) –it has all the blogs of people i follow, from chums to bourdain to perez hilton to inquirer.net
  3. www.mirandajuly.com

LIQUIDS


  1. Sunquick
  2. Coke Light avec Rhum
  3. Apple Juice

I WANT TO LEARN

  1. français
  2. how to drive
  3. CPR

I WANT TO SEE

  1. New York City
  2. Barcelona
  3. the Pyramids

ALTERNATIVE CAREERS (wishful thinking lang)

  1. investigative journalist
  2. lawyer
  3. back-up singer

*Not that you’d care, but I posted the pictures after the list.  Just to make sure I don’t muck the train of thought.

After LOTR

Posted: March 26, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Arkeofilms, movies | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

I used to think that people make ‘em short because they can’t do it long.

I think it only applies to filmmaking. I think, every filmmaker worth his salt should do a feature. I don’t think there are Eudora Weltys, John Cheevers or Jing Hidalgos and Tara Serings in filmmaking. I actually am not aware of any famous filmmaker who has not done a full length feature. I am not saying, it is a lesser film form…because Arkeofilms has done quite a few. And there have been stellar shorts that have boggled the mind. But it seems that it is not like a vocation. I don’t hear anybody saying, “I am a short filmmaker.”

But on paper. Ahhhh. The magic of short stories. Reading now “The Best Amercian Short Stories 2007″, and wow. I actually bought the book because I was convincing the Dude it’s a nice gift for our writer-friend, Abi. Haha. It never even left my bedside after I unpacked. (Sorry, Abs.)

Stephen King, the editor for the 2007 series shares how blown away he was with the stuff. He wrote, “I’m getting paid to read this??”

You must get your hands on my favorite stories. It’s all mind fuck. Amazing.

Toga Party by John Barth

L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story by Lauren Groff

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

Hmmm…I wonder where I can buy decent short stories written in Filipino?

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