*biggie smiles*
POSTED AT 10:00 PM

natanna

It's blurry cos I used my camera phone (and the paper was folded), but I think it's sufficient to say all I want to say.

Dear blog,
POSTED AT 09:47 PM

natanna

I'm sorry I have been neglecting you. Basically, with new position comes new responsibility and I'm in the process of un-swamping myself. It doesn't help that I'm here wasting time facebooking and blogging and being random when I still have stuff to do. Sigh.

I really definitely need a life, and this is all I can show for it at this point of time:

Ooks. Time to pretend to be hardworking.

P.S. check out www.joshyeoh.com. 

The Tailor Made Man
POSTED AT 01:12 AM

natanna

Okay, so I'm slow, but I finally watched The Tailor Made Man by Acts Church. On DVD.

And I was going to blog about it.

But then I got distracted by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and various random chats.

And also the new interface in the tabulas control panel.

Anyway, the show's already half a year old.

So I'll just say, pretty good effort. Casting was superb. Start/stop actions were spot on. Bands were err... tetchy. Pharoah was chunted (ahahahahahaha). Make up could use work, but given the time frame and the extremely overly short scenes that they have, couldn't be helped. (Why are some of the scenes so short?!?! It needs more flow!)

Uh yeah. That's it. Oh... and that prison guard -jailer person is so super freaky!! Ah but yes, good casting, and good acting. Nice interplay with action / dream / narration. Err. Time line was a bit messy though. Business, but somehow slave trade and New Egypt? And then strange Egyptian-y clothing. Either a wholesale period piece or a thoroughly modern piece would have been better. Modern piece could have played with the cheap foreign / illegal immigrant kind of labour? Workhouses in India?

Oh right. And I'm already saying so many things about it. Hah.

Of random things
POSTED AT 12:59 PM in thoughts

natanna

So I was blog-surfing and found this at Wai Leem's.

It’s always winter but never Christmas
It seems this curse just can’t be lifted
Yet in the midst of all this ice and snow
Our hearts stay warm cause they are filled with hope

Which led me to remember this:

I've come too far, and I won't go back. Yeah, this is home.

And yes, Narnia is so being franchised, but there's this thing about it. It's a lot about hope. It's a lot about love. It's a lot about things you can't see, but you can feel. And that makes you smile.

Maybe I just need to slow down. And smile.

I still don't like what they did to the Prince Caspian movie.

But I like Relient K and Switchfoot.

Also I was reading Stella Adler on Ibsen Strindberg and Checkov (I haven't gotten very far yet) but this is an interesting thought on acting:

I want you to know that there is no "professional". You always start from nothing and always finish up with "I didn't get it." Very few big actors say "I got it - I really did Richard." I saw Gielgud do King Lear for the third time up in Stratford. I went backstage and he said, "I didn't get it. I still didn't get it." That is professional. That is working on the play and the part.

So maybe that's why I still can't stand watching Star of Persia. Because I'm really not satisfied. It could have been so much better.  I thought I was just being overly pessimistic. And it could be. But maybe now, it could be a little more than that. It could just be an inner instinct and wish to make it right.

Listening to: the fan spinning

POSTED AT 10:26 PM

natanna

...because i always want what i cannot have...