Suburban Life

That's right, as weird as it feels to write these words, I've been pulled back into the suburban lifestyle.

Things never really change in Lachine. 

Long commutes. Unbearably long bus rides in good company next to retards and annoying teens listening to drake, and incredibly stupid conversations, the 191 never being on time.

Mowing the lawn.  I mixed up gas and oil last time and for half a day my neighbours saw the moose and I on the lawn, syphoning the horrid mixture with fkin straws from the lawn mower. 

Spiders. Trust me, if you haven't lived in Lachine, you have no idea how big spiders can get.

Life on the streets stop after 7pm.  Actually you never see anyone on the streets outside of school dropping/picking up hours. 

On the bright side, living in Lachine also has its perks.

No rent. Living at home, but without the parents. This means I could actually SAVE UP and buy myself an apartment in the city someday, or with a little perseverance, a shoebox studio in Paris!! 

Almost unlimited space for my dog and not too many car accident risk. Cuz you know, pomeranians are exactly like children. 

Just thought I would put a screencap of Revolutionary Road, although our life is in no way as dramatic as Kate & Leo's.  Have you had the chance to watch it? Isn't it a brilliant film? (and brilliantly depressing if such a thing exists)

This couple has more class and elegance in one of their depressed fingernail than the whole Lachine population. 

GIRLS

I forgot to mention that Girls Season 2 is coming out in two days! The only "white" series I've watched so far are all from HBO (Flight of the Conchords, Game of Thrones, Girls) and I love them to bits.  

I don't know if Lena Dunham is the voice of our generation, but as a twenty something year old woman I can definitely relate to the characters trying to make sense of themselves... and mostly about accepting the fact that most of the time it doesn't make sense. I'm far from what I've pictured for myself ten years ago, but it's okay that we don't have it all figured out. We have to be good to ourselves along the way.

For your information, Girls episodes may not contain as much nudity and epic violence as Game of Thrones, but they make up in randomness and awkward sex scenes, love it!!


"Buy yourself flowers because boys don't "

GAME OF THRONES MADNESS

OKAY I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW THAT I NEED TO TYPE EVERYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS. YES I JUST FINISHED EPISODE 9 OF SEASON 1 T_____________T

Dammit HBO series are so captivating, I've also finished watching GIRLS season 1, yall should give it a try if you like raw and honest narratives with imperfect and awkward characters struggling in NEW YORK.   It's a far cry from the glamorous Sex and the City or the frivolous Gossip Girls series ( um actually  I haven't watched either so I might be blindly judging) and I really love it.

Back to Game of Thrones!!! I'm quite happy that I've waited  a year before watching it because now Season 2 is available!! Without wanting to  reveal any spoilers for those of you who haven't had the privilege  to watch it.....UGHHHHH episode 9 had me all shaken up and throwing my fists in anger toward the sky  :'(

I've seen these 3 movies/teleseries at different periods of my life, but my mind was blown when I finally realized that it's one and same actor, Sean Bean.

 Boromir being awesome. One does not simply... ahaha

Ned Stark.  WINTER IS COMING

Oh Vronsky. I loved the book and this cast from 1997 so much that out of respect for them, I shall boycott the upcoming adaptation.  Nevermind that I enjoyed Atonement (and slightly Pride& Prejudice, just for the beautiful sceneries and mr. daaaarcy)  Joe Wright must be a FKIN RETARD to let Keira play Anna Karenina, he has obviously never read the book.  'oh a historical piece, let's use Keira!'  

I hope his new movie turns into a monumental flop and that no one will ever finance his movies featuring Keira eveeeeeerrrrrrr again.    Yo can you imagine directing a jaw???!!!  This thing's got a life of its own I tell you. #hater

il sogno é il mondo mio, tu sai che oggi morirei per onestá.

Pour célébrer la fête nationale de l'Italie, je vous file cette vidéo du film québécois Leolo, un segment où il nous présente son amour sicilienne Bianca.

 Leolo is a STRANGE and strikingly beautiful movie, I've wanted to watch it for a long time and I finally did last Christmas with the moose.  We were both mesmerized by its bizarre and raw poetry, I don't think any other movie has left me in such a state of nostalgia and ...longing for something unknown but real...   How can I put this, the entire story is so strange yet so real, as if the director dived into your brain and filmed from the depth of your subconscious.


 

By the way, was last week the week of cannibals, zombies and american psycho or what?!!

We're back in 1998 when Leo was still hot

When Titanic first came out in theatres, I was ten years old.  I don't know about kids nowadays but I was ten old years I was completely clueless about intimacy between two human beings, and it was probably the furthest thing from my mind back then.

Watching this movie in the theatres with my parents was a mindblowing and traumatizing experience.  I'm sure you know what I'm talking about!  Yes during this particular DRAWING scene, I turned my head frantically to see the people around me whether someone would cover my eyes or "turn off the screen", it was simply beyond awkward and embarassing to see Kate Winslet's boobies with my parents on my side.  I mean it's still embarassing to watch a bed scene with your parents around, so imagine when you were 10... />
Kate Winslet is so perfect in this scene, I think any bum artist would have died happily after being able to draw a girl like that.

Right now I'm so excited to watch Titanic again, after 14 years!!! No matter how cheesy it is, it will certainly remain one of the most memorable movies of my prepubescent days. I'm ready to watch it again, without covering my eyes at the drawing scene nor panicking at the STEAMY HAND IN CAR SCENE (I thought Jack was murdering Rose and got so scared)

What are your thoughts on this movie? Do you remember when you first watched it? And did any of you understand the car scene or was I the only retarded one?

Lo-li-ta

I've been cleaning up my external hard drive (yes yes even the external drive is running out of space for my mess) and I found this "film captures" folder ; vestiges d'une époque où je prenais plaisir à prendre des captures d'écran de films que j'aimais... et très sérieusement par-dessus ça, avec autant de sérieux qu'un photographe qui attend le moment parfait! 

Comme vous pouvez le constater, mon obsession pour le livre de Lolita a quand même fait long feu!  Bon, à présent, voici les captures de films que j'ai faites en 2006:

Disclaimers : 1- I'm not a pedobear nor do I encourage pedobears    2- These stills belong to the 1997 Lolita movie directed by Adrian Lyne.

Just thinking about the book's ending makes me tear up a little...

Leap Year

Samedi matin je me suis réveillée avec la ferme conviction que j'ai fait une erreur la dernière fois chez Winners.  J'avais trouvé la plus belle jupe verte plissée, et j'ai LAISSÉ PASSER L'OCCASION de l'inviter à venir chez moi....... regrets, regrets.   Sur le coup je me suis laissée intimider par la longueur de la maxi-jupe (après tout elle fait presque toute ma hauteur ha) mais je compte bien réparer mon manque de jugement.  Heureusement pour moi, Cong travaille à Winners, je lui ai donc confié la mission de retrouver ma belle et la conquérir pour moi.

Sur Nordstrom une jupe similaire en soie coute 1314 USD (!%$?&%?)

Psssss 2012 est une année bissextile!!  Est-ce qu'une de vous vas profiter de la vieille tradition irlandaise :D ?  Believe it or not, once in a blue moon I watch romantic comedies by myself (well I'm ALWAYS by myself lolz), and last year I somehow found this movie.  Mon excuse c'est que ça se passe en Irlande, ok??

En fait, c'est vraiment pas si pire!!
(mais je ressens toujours une certaine honte après avoir regardé une comédie romantique, même lorsque personne n'est témoin)



bon je vai sme cacher.

Cong makes you sleep on the couch, on the spot where his dog has peed.

Promise I will move on to other subjects after this post!!But first go watch this short film made by my friends Cong & Tim ( Guys with Scars production lol)
Facts about the shooting day:
-Chorizo + poutine tacos was invented on the set.-Huilong has his mysterious ways with the dog... -On Sunday, the entire Laval population does its grocery shopping in Metro-Tim shooting asleep Cong while standing on his bed looks very dirty. (Pictures to come)

WRITTEN BY: Cong Di
http://facebook.com/congdi

DIRECTED & EDITED BY: Tim Catchlove
http://facebook.com/tcatchlove

SPECIAL THANKS:
Huilong for his dog skills


SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/guyswithscars
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/guyswithscars

Blue Valentine : beggining & end

Man this movie has drained the life out of me.
I'm not going to say that it has KILLED THE IDEA OF LOVE for me, but it was brutally honest and heartbreaking... and I would choose this bitterweet movie over any sugar-coated romantic comedy.

(C'est pas juste un prétexte pour poster des photos de Ryan Baby Goose...)

(mais comment m'en empêcher il est tellement beeeeaauuuu)

Ugh. The scene at the cheap sex motel's futuristic spaceship room was so painful to watch.  Le film n'était pas dramatique dans le sens que l'éloignement des deux personnes n'était pas dû à l'infidélité ou un secret sombre et lourd ou un cancer en phase terminal, c'était déprimant parce qu'il résulte de l'accumulation des petites frustrations et la déception de l'un envers l'autre au fil du temps.

Has anyone else watched this movie?

25 mai. J'ai hâte!

Moonrise Kingdom
Another wonderful movie from Wes Anderson Come on, scoutboys, camping, first love, Bill f*cking Murray, badass treehouse at 1:13, Bruce Willis as a sheriff (forever a cop lol). It doesn't get better than that.

My favorite movie from Wes Anderson remains The Life Aquatic, not only it features the coolest, most eclectic soundtrack, but the story is centered around one of my childhood best memories (flipping through illustrated books on Jacques Yves Cousteau and marine life). Ça donne tellement le goût de mettre une tuque rouge et partir à l'aventure...

How far will you go

3 more days until Like Crazy hits the theaters in Montreal. Les critiques ne cessent de faire des liens entre ce film et les deux autres succès indies 500 Days of Summer et Blue Valentine. Rien qu'en regardant la bande annonce, je connais déjà toute l'histoire, et pour ce qui est de la fin, il n'y a que deux fins possibles.

Je serai la première à admettre que les relations à longue distance ont une dynamique très différente des relations "normales". La spontaneité est non existante, tout est à planifier, calculer, organiser, comment passer un simple coup de téléphone de façon spontanée quand il y a aussi de le décalage horaire?! On apprend à s'accrocher à de petits riens, des textos au milieu de la journée, des photos de vacances, repasser le même souvenir heureux pour se donner du courage.

Je crois que pour les personnages dans le film, au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, ça devient de moins en moins clair s'il s'agit d'un amour inextinguible ou de lambeaux de souvenirs rapiécés, cousus et recousus par leur romantisme et naïveté de jeunesse. Cette sensation de vivre à contre courant à cause de facteurs qu'on n'a jamais choisi injecte dans nos vies à la fois de l'intensité et un goût amer d'impuissance.

Et je crois que bien des relations à longue distance meurent sans que ce soit la faute de l'une personne en particulier, parfois ce n'est pas parce que l'on ne s'aime pas assez, ou qu'on est pas fait l'un pour l'autre, parfois ce n'est la faute de personne et c'est ça qui est infiniment triste. La désynchronisation se produit doucement et tous les deux la sentent bien mais... toujours cette peur de verbaliser, on a tous nos craintes mais les mettre en mots et les entendre dire par l'autre nous abattrait.

Pour conclure ce billet plein de gaieté et de sagesse, je vous déconseille fortement de vous engager dans une relation à + de 20 km de rayon de distance. Mais je vous souhaite plus encore de rencontrer votre moose au grand coeur et à la patience inébranlable, to lose your heart to someone worth the wait! Et si vous l'avez déjà trouvé, ne le laissez surtout pas partir trop loin :)

To Die By Your Side

Une adorable animation image par image (stop motion) pour vous mettre dans l'ambiance de l'Halloween.

Petit clin d'oeil à mes lectrices qui aiment les livres hehe

Has anyone seen DRIVE??  This song is SICK, makes you want to drive through the city the entire night (if only I had a better sound system and only if I actually lived in the city haha)



Here are my favorite comments from the users :

"Is that Megatron singing or Soundwave?? I can't tell..."


"Duh! that's why I saw it grrl. I jerked off to Ryan the whole movie."

Mais c'est pas du tout pour Ryan Gosling que je veux le voir ce film, mais bien pour la musique électro années 80, pour les poursuites en voiture, la violence et le mystère... mais qui me croirait???

Je sens que je suis en train de perdre mes quelques rares lecteurs masculins....

Elle était si jolie

Je veux juste rester au lit toute la journée et écouter des vieilles chansons...Mais il fait beaucoup trop beau dehors!

I have a shameful crush on Louis Garrel since I watched The Dreamers, and the reason I'm ashamed of it is because I just realized he looks so much like a darker/manlier version of mister Edward Cullen. Well let's just say he looks like a vampire. And it's disturbing. 

ewwww ... first and last time I'm posting Twilight material on my blog.

On dirait que les acteurs de ce genre ont la cote ces temps-ci: cheveux en bataille, regard vide de poisson mort, sourcils épais, plein de souffrance dans leur coeur, et FAIBLES MERDE!!! Je comprends que vous souffrez mais faites quelque chose, un peu de volonté !! O_O Il manque un peu de testostérone là, dans cette nouvelle génération d'idoles masculins, prenez donc exemple sur jsais pas moi, Bruce Willis ou Indiana Jones!

Bon je disais quoi moi?

Ah oui, Louis Garrel est vraiment très mignon.

100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

 http://www.filmsite.org/100characters.html  by Premiere Magazine

Highlighted the ones I've watched.  Trop honte... il y a plein de classiques que je n'ai jamais regardés!  Le problème avec les films c'est lorsque je passe toute ma soirée à en regarder un puis je me culpabilise avec l'idée que je n'ai rien fait de productif pendant tout ce temps. Lire des livres, regarder des films, admirer les peintures faites par d'autres personnes ça m'apporte toujours beaucoup d'inspiration, mais ne manque jamais de me rappeler à chaque fois que je ne suis qu'une consommatrice...

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather

2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind

4. Norman Bates of Psycho

5. James Bond of Dr. No

6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall

7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark

8. Ellen Ripley of Alien

9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings

11. Margo Channing of All About Eve

12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane

13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird

14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs

16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood

17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz

18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack

19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca

20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night

New crush

Oui, je sais, je suis plusieurs années en retard, mais j'ai finalement regardé Casino Royale vendredi soir dernier.   Quelqu'un aurait dû me dire bien avant qu'il est meilleur que Quantum of Solace, et de loin!!    Je tiens à dire que j'ai pas cligné une seule fois durant la scène d'ouverture psychédélique avec toutes les cartes de poker multicolores et les effets de transitions trip acid, j'ai adoré!!

 The "ball scratching whipping" scene made me really uncomfortable.  I don't know how his balls survived.

 Eva obviously didn't seem to mind.

Or maybe??

 Anyhow, I now want to learn how to play poker like a PRO. 
Daniel Craig is definitely the manliest James Bond after Sean Connery, and looks a bit like Poutine in a more rectangular way, but my attention during the entire movie was rather focused on...

EVA.  Yes gratuitous boobies picture because it was one of the first that came up on google search.  I forgot the reference sites again, if my blog were an essay I'd probably fail because of all the lacking references/credits. sorry.

 This girl looks so elegant, witty and mean at the same time.  How can you not like her?

She just always looks mean  !!??   Femme fatale au naturel. Can't help it.

Bonne nuit les enfants.

Provence

warning : very cheesy content ahead...





Have you watched the movie A Good Year with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard? Very lovely film about a typical a**hole in finance who inherits a castle and wineyard in Provence, mais vous savez déjà ce qu'un endroit paradisiaque (et une belle fille) peut avoir comme influence sur votre caractère...


drooling at the food.



This is a remake of an adaptation of a very popular romance novel back in the 1970s in China. I can't believe I finished the entire show a few summers ago. It's a delicate mix of very bad acting, fake & robotic dialogues that give you goosebumps, beautiful scenery, and a love story between a very selfish girl with an IQ of about a tomato and an older rich-sophisticated-retardedly nice man. Of course the best part of this cool series was the scenes shot in Provence. Just try to watch the intro without puking :)

À Bout de souffle

“It’s sad to fall asleep.  It separates people.  Even when you’re sleeping together, you’re all alone.” 

En la ciudad de Sylvia

One of the most beautiful movie trailers I've watched.  I probably won't watch the movie because it will ruin the trailer for me (it makes no sense  I know, but the trailer is enough by itself).

500 dresses

Zooey Deschanel, une fille sur laquelles les gars et les autres filles s'entendent!!  Elle rend tout le monde heureux, c'est clair!

Pour faire suite à ton commentaire Jenni, j'ai trouvé une boutique qui vend des robes à la Summer Finn :D   c'est le site http://www.adorevintage.com/ .  Bien que je rêve du retour en force des robes années 50 avec le buste ajusté et la taille ultra marquée, c'est beaucoup trop féminin pour moi!

Actually this entire post is just an excuse for me to post my favorite clip of this movie...

PEEEEE-NhhhhUUUUUUS