A sorta short story :: 001

"Today, I got caught in a heavy shower while walking along the street. Fortunately, I had my umbrella and my rain-cape; however, both were in the boot of my car, which was parked some way away. While I was running to get them, I thought about the strange epilogue life signals us all: we always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart, and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them. By the time we've found them, we have already been defeated by adversity."

You know now; always be prepared.

The Coen Brothers should do a collaboration with Alan Ball.

The Coen Brothers have got to be in my TOP 3 list of favorite filmmakers. It all started with Fargo, one of my all time favorite movie (I heart Willliam H. Macy since then. And am I the only one who sees the resemblance in William and Flanders from Simpsons?). The brilliance in the variety of odd characters they create, the cinematography and of course the storyline. Their latest film was released on October 2nd 2009, but I'm pretty sure its VISA has been declined here in Malaysia, and will forever be. Cause yea.. A Serious Man is about Jews. Ah Long in SS2 will get it for us, surely :)

Czech the glossary of Yiddish terms used in the film here, cause there ain't no subtitles for that: A Serious Man : Glossary

I'm eager to write more about the brothers, but my brain is currently re-booting from the long weekend. So I'll bake that another day.
Coen Brothers :: A Serious Man

The best rojak this year.

Florence and the Machine - You Got The Love (The XX Remix) http://bit.ly/2pD5zV

Weird contraptions.

This musical machine is like New Age on auto pilot. Ping pong balls are randomly catapulted onto some kind of xylophone. This surely makes it a one hit wonder. You'd probably get bored of it fast, but you'd impress a hell lot of bunnies too.
Jeff Lieberman :: Quartet 2008

Quartet 2008 by Jeff Lieberman, Dan Paluska from Heloisa Sartorato on Vimeo.

Sinking deeper in the weird, this very strange ferrofluid is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a magnetic field. Sachiko Kodama has experimented this fluid through Scultpures in Motion, in the most unbelievable organic and hypnotic shapes.

Sachiko Kodama &Yakushi Miyajima :: Morpho Towers

Kid, I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.

Qualities of a pencil:

"First quality: now and then, we have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

Second quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

Third quality: what really matters in a pencil is not the wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Fourth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action."

Gaki no tsukai - 5 Rangers

Known as the 5 Rangers, this Japanese comedy is a series of 13 episodes, about 6min each. @aletbahaya recommended to watch all episodes to get the humor, and indeed, you MUST watch all episodes. Also if you are into fashion/costumes, this is for you.
Give yourself an hour to watch them all, bend your mind like the Japanese would, and allow yourself to have a good giggle. Seems that the actors are longtime comedians and well known to the country.
Gaki No Tsukai aka 5 Rangers :: Episode 01



Gaki No Tsukai aka 5 Rangers :: Episode 02



All of them seem to have a hard time keeping a straight face in all episodes, their costumes are just TOO MUCH at times. Watch all 13 episodes here:
5 Rangers :: Episode 03
5 Rangers :: Episode 04
5 Rangers :: Episode 05
5 Rangers :: Episode 06
5 Rangers :: Episode 07
5 Rangers :: Episode 08
5 Rangers :: Episode 09
5 Rangers :: Episode 10
5 Rangers :: Episode 11
5 Rangers :: Episode 12
5 Rangers :: Episode 13

Word Up :: 006

« And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims?» "American Pastoral" - Novelist - Philip Roth