In “Movie Night”, Zhang Yimou plays with the idea of a village coming together around cinema, which works both as a metaphor about the Chinese film industry as well as speaks to the experience of going to the movies. It is his way of showing that cinema is a very special art form which can bring …
Crap, it's been a while. I forgot to mention I started a new school. I'm now a student at Langara College, as a part of the Creative Writing program. This is reason enough for some possibly weird posts showing up here more frequently. Not everything I write is about true events. All the anamorphic …
I moved. Moved to a new home, a home without so many memories attached to it, without all the good and the bad, the best and the worse, a clean slate, a fresh start and all those clichés. I wanted to write this on my last night at the apartment as I took down the biggest and most unavoidable …
The past two weeks felt more like two days. The whole process of moving is way more exhausting than the idea behind it. You think "pack, transport, unpack". Yeah, right. It took me ages to identify where each box should go, or what to do with the objects inside - not to mention the ones with mixed …
I am moving. Moving into a new home, with three amazing friends. We've been planning this for some time and finally it happened. Finding the place was an adventure of its own, but I'm not going into that. The series of events I'm going to talk about starts this week. Sunday morning I got a call from …
If you know Portuguese and have been following my adventures since last year you might remember snow and I don't get along too well. I think it's very pretty, seeing everything covered in white and whatnot, but not very pleasant for everyday life - important reminder: I'm from the warmest parts of …
I just finished watching the (possibly, maybe?) very last episode of Community, "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television", and for a comedy show, it made me cry from start to finish. Let's go back in time for a little bit. Community is a weird show. Weird in the best possible way. Created by …