Friday, October 21, 2005

CFC Shoot: Anchor


I was really glad that i was able to go to a Canadian Film Center shoot the past week...
it was really fun and learned a lot of stuff..
the director was an Italian, and was really good.. he knows what he was doing and had great communication with the DOP...
the script was really interesting...
and the actors are really amazing performers...
one thing is that it was in Oakfield and was really cold...
the wind was blowing all day and had a really bad headache afterwards... >_<
Also, one of the hardest scene to do is that the kid needs to "catch" a grasshopper...
so we needed to smoked the grasshopper dead first...
and place it carefully on the rocks..
but since it was so windy... and the kid squashed like 2 grasshopper with the bottle by accident..
was the longest scene that we need to take..
a warning to everyone.. do not use another live insects in ur film...




The story is about a guy, Gene, wanting to commit suidcide, and was lying in the bottom of a swimming pool..waiting for the sky to rain.. so that he can drown and kill himself.. and can blame on God who have killed him...







this kid, Oren, came by and saw him..
told him that he is going to flow if it does really rain..
and he went and got lots of rocks and placed it on him..
so that he is going to die for sure...
the man was buried by tons of rocks on him...
it is pretty funny...and was really hard to actually bury the guy..
we had to have 9 bags of river rocks..
which is like about 80 pounds each...really really heavy..
took a long time to place all the rocks on him..
you have to imagine that we had to pick the rocks ALL BACK into the bags after the scene...
it was really a big mess..but it looked really great on film..
can't wait to see it...


One of the lines that Gene explained why he wanted to die was really interesting,
"Disease, Debt, and Divorce, the worst a man can get, the holy trility"
which is really true, where lots of middle age ppl have to face nowadays...
I guess we all have our own problems,
but i think that we do need to take control of our own lives and take care of our own happiness...
no matter how bad it gets...
there is always a way out..
so we should never give up on ourselves..
or let other ppl take over of our lives...

Sunday, October 02, 2005

at17 and chet Lam concert






I was at the at17 concert some time ago..
which was really great..
i love their songs and their singing...
esp. when they sing live.. which i think it is really rare to have good Live singers in HK nowadays...
and Chet Lam is also there too...
even though i don't know most of his songs..
i do know that he is really talented...
the lyrics and songs he had written are really touching...

at17 is one of the few bands that i actually buy a CD for..
i always thought that they are named "at17" because their band is formed when they were age 17...
but in the concert they had lots of stories
and they it is actually cause Chet really loved Janis Ian..
the group is named after one of his songs at 17...

Each song that was written has its own story...
mostly when they were missing someone or are in love...
i guess i have some stories with their songs too...

I remember at17's very first album..."Meow Meow Meow"
which came out a couple of years ago...
at that time.. i was just broken up from a relationship..
and Eman and Ellen's voices really comforted me in those hard times...
their lyrics are always in my icq info at the time...
你有自己一套... dont' need to think about what others are doing to you..

若是沒希望不會失望
愛寂寞難道更好
若是付出不想有收獲
你要說服誰為你鼓掌

everyone says that to love is to give..
but if you don't expect anything back in return..
in reality... u really want ppl to notice what u have put in for the other person...

始終一天

愛 始終一天我會比較愛自己
(愛 始終一天你會發覺我還愛得起)
你會羞愧自責 不珍惜我
想東想西想你定會想清楚
我也不再在意我應該得到幾多
忘掉你 揭了瘡疤 心魔放開
隨便作樂 隨便相愛
決心不會一改再改


cause i know that

永遠有不妥協傷口
有些憾事不放手
若你太刻意淡忘
越會補不到缺口
Why don’t you just hug someone just kiss someone
The best is yet to come
最好的尚未來臨

Thank you at17...
For going through the tough times with me and help heal my wounds...