i haven't said enough...
Sunday, July 31, 2005
The Perpetual Movement of Mondrian's Masterpieces from the Natural to the Fundamentals
I found myself staring in awe at the simplicity of black lines confining a yellow square and a blue rectangle amidst white spaces. Piet Mondrian's compositions has always made me wonder how these shapes played inside his mind as concepts and eventually painted on to canvases of seemingly the same ideas on different surfaces. This sparked interest has compelled to delve further on the life and ideologies of Piet Mondrian.
Early brushstrokes
Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan on March 7, 1872 in Amersvoort in central Holland. His father was an amateur artist who was fond of drawing, while uncle Frits Mondriaan was a commercially successful self-taught painter. In 1880, the family moved to Winterswijk where he started obtaining instructions and lessons from his father and from his uncle and later on obtained drawing diplomas by private study.
When he was twenty, he attended painting classes held by an official art school, the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
Mondrian claimed that he has always been a realist. He was often found painting along the Gein River outside of the city. His early works were that particular of the Hague School - landscapes.
In September 1908, he moved to Domburg where he learned different styles such as pointillism of Seurat and the fauvist colors of Matisse, under the tutelage of the Dutch painter Jan Toorop. In his work Woods near Oele, the first indication of Mondrian's transition in style is his use of color. He has moved away the almost misty and grayish qualities of the Hague School style into vibrant primaries. The trees are not the same; in fact, they are not as detailed as his early works. He had taken out details he deemed irrelevant. His trees had become streaks of colors. At the same time, Mondrian has become more philosophical with his works. He had shown interest with the blend of Eastern and Western religious ideas that affirmed the slow pace movement of humanity toward a spiritual unity.
Another interesting painting is the Red Mill which shows a great deal of simplification of his works. This work is characterized by straight lines and used only two major hues of red and blue.
More on Mondrian's philosophical side, he created the Evolution Triptych between 1910 and 1911. The work still has its simplified characteristic of straight lines and minimal use of colors. The first panel depicts a woman with red flowers upon her shoulders. The red flowers indicate suffering due to earthly passion. Note that the nipples of the figure, as well as the navel, are triangles pointing downwards to earth. The third panel depicts the unison between the spiritual and the physical, as man further develops his higher awareness. It is also to note that the figure has yellow stars and white triangles on her shoulders, which are symbols in many beliefs. As for the middle panel, the figure is looking beyond the viewers of this work, as she achieved this higher awareness. This is very reminiscent of the Indian belief of reaching nirvana in life. It is also note-worthy that the triangular nipples and navel are pointing upwards. The triptych represents the three stages of life.
Relocations and more transitions
Late in 1911, Mondrian moved to Paris which was a big turning point in his artistic style and in his life in general. He had seen works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and was captivated by their early of works of cubism and their fragmentation of form.
This captivation has become more apparent in his "tree compositions." He had painted a number of tree paintings with cubist inspirations.
Mondrian also worked on same subjects, but painted in different styles. Most notable are Still Life with Ginger Pot I & II. The first painting was rather expressive and made mostly with gestural strokes as compared to the second work which has more rigidity. On the second still life, details were taken out, the distinct objects surrounding the ginger pot had been eliminated. In both works, however, the main focuses were, as the titles denote, the ginger pot. Even with two different styles, he was able to contain the main thought of having only one subject.
Composition No. 6 solidified his interest with the ideology of right angles. He claimed that the duality of the masculine vertical and the feminine horizontal creates a dynamic interchange of opposing but yet still supporting forces. The inspiration of this work was the partial demolition of apartments in Paris. The pastel hues are supposed to be the interiors visible after the demolition.
His simplification of his paintings even transcended in his lifestyle. Starting 1912, he has dropped the second "a" in his last name (though there is also another theory that he had a disagreement with uncle Mondriaan and did not want to be associated with the kin, but this idea is less probable since uncle helped him financially with his formal art education).
Also note that this visit in Paris prompted the start of calling his works as "compositions".
Return to his Dutch land
Mondrian returned to Holland to visit his mortally ill father. But the outbreak of the First World War compelled him to stay for four years by the coast of Domburg. He continued sketching familiar subjects such as the church, dunes, piers and the sea. He sketched most of his works in abstraction of short vertical and horizontal lines expressing "the expansion, rest and unity of nature."
His Composition No. 10 shows the "logical consequence" of cubism that he felt artists like Picasso and Braque failed to recognize: abstraction. Though this work still has a strong center, a requirement in cubist works, the white space no longer lies behind the black lines but rather creates a spherical figure. Composition in Colour A is his further exploration of lines but this time, with color. This work clearly depicts the Mondrian works we know today – dealing with lines, color, composition and size.
De Stijl
After the demise of his father in 1915, he moved to Laren which as then an artists' community attracting like-minded painters. There, he met the likes of Bart Van der Leck, Theo Van Doesburg and Vilmos Huszar. Most of them use primary colors in painting, and are known for their large works. Under Van Doesburg's leadership, they formed a group and published the magazine De Stijl (The Style). The group was not confined to paintings, but embraced other genres such as architecture, furniture design, typography and many other fields. The idea was representing reality as objective as possible - using only the purest and fundamental tools in the realization of a visual reality. Mondrian once said that "the living beauty of nature cannot be copied, it can only be expressed" and such expression requires these fundamental tools of the basics. His commitment of purifying modern art was never compromised.
During this time, he further explored the idea of uniting figures and the background without the use of lines. In Composition with Colours Planes No. 3, which is one in a series of eight paintings, the juxtaposition of colored rectangles created "ghost figures" of white rectangles. At this point, Mondrian thought his search for unity was over.
The Return to Paris and the birth of Neoplasticism
With the war over, Mondrian returned to Paris in 1919.By the end of 1920, he had invented nieuwe beelding (neoplasticism), after the publication of his writings Le Neo-Plasticisme. He had devoted all his work from 1920 onwards to the most fundamental of the fundamentals: verticals and horizontals for lines, the primaries for colors, and black and white for values. He united these ideas in an intuitive balance, rather than that of a randomized or systematized manner. He created a stable whole by structuring large areas of "non-color" with smaller accents of color. He also made his brushstrokes less evident, as they might distract the viewers from the composition.
Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue shows how the whole painting is an object of its own, with space as not a background for objects.
He also started working on the unusual use of a diamond format for his canvases which he called lozenges. This was highly debated within De Stijl since the dynamism of the format goes against stability. In 1925, he broke away from the group due to difference in artistic opinion.
Composition with Yellow Lines is an example of his lozenges series. This particular work shows four yellow lines of varying thickness. It suggests a yellow square though the corners of this unseen square are not shown. He also made specific instructions regarding the proper display of this work. He mentioned of having the thickest yellow line be on top and certain dimensions regarding how high should the painting be displayed. A very interesting note about these instructions is its relation to his earlier mentioned work, Evolution Triptych. If one is to follow the instructions with regards to how to display this work, the viewer is forced into a position very similar to that of the figures in the triptych! If one stands too close, the strain of looking up at Mondrian's work emulates the suffering figure in the first triptych, and as one moves backwards (development of a higher awareness), the viewer gets a better scope of the painting. And at a certain distance when the viewer is comfortable enough looking at the painting from afar, one can see a better view and have a "higher awareness" and deeper appreciation of the painting.
In 1932, as many artists started mimicking his style, Mondrian made another change. He introduced the "double line". Composition with White, Red and Yellow is a classic example of the concept of double lines. The ideology is the same but this time, he doubled the usual singular thick black lines and redoubles the lines within the squares creating an explosion of composition from within.
"Start spreading the news..."
Mondrian moved to London in the eve of the Second World War and eventually moved to New York in 1940 as many European artists had done before him. In 1942, he had his first solo show and reworked several of his paintings to give it "more boogie-woogie," referring to his latest musical discovery. He incorporated the cadence of the music to his paintings thus creating a visual representation of musical notes. The revisions he made with these paintings include changing the black lines to narrower and longer ones and repainting the white areas to give them more impasto. One major change is the addition of "floating bars of colors." Before, his paintings were always of colors confined in black lines. This major change shows one color touching another color without the intervention of black lines.
During this time, he also liberated himself from black lines and used colored adhesive tape to develop a new style. He further united drawing, with its black lines, and painting, with its colors, into one - a linear painting.
Mondrian's last canvases
Mondrian started his last works in 1942. Broadway Boogie Woogie is New York City with broken links of colors. This has become his last finished work. Victory Boogie Woogie goes back to his lozenge days but was never completed.
Mondrian died of pneumonia early in 1944.
Mondrian's order of randomness
Looking back, I have thought that Mondrian's paintings of the primaries and the fundamentals is a concept worth commending by itself. But further research made me realize that Mondrian is more than a painter. It is arguable that he is more of a philosopher than an artist. His idea of unity between the natural and the spiritual is permanently imbedded in my psyche and any individual who understands this ideology or who also in a "great search" for unity. His work that tries to eliminate the randomness of nature by putting order and trying to remove nature's little "accidents" gives his admirers a new perspective to a not totally new idea in many societies. ¶ 8:28 PM 5 Comments
Early brushstrokes
Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan on March 7, 1872 in Amersvoort in central Holland. His father was an amateur artist who was fond of drawing, while uncle Frits Mondriaan was a commercially successful self-taught painter. In 1880, the family moved to Winterswijk where he started obtaining instructions and lessons from his father and from his uncle and later on obtained drawing diplomas by private study.
When he was twenty, he attended painting classes held by an official art school, the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
Mondrian claimed that he has always been a realist. He was often found painting along the Gein River outside of the city. His early works were that particular of the Hague School - landscapes.
In September 1908, he moved to Domburg where he learned different styles such as pointillism of Seurat and the fauvist colors of Matisse, under the tutelage of the Dutch painter Jan Toorop. In his work Woods near Oele, the first indication of Mondrian's transition in style is his use of color. He has moved away the almost misty and grayish qualities of the Hague School style into vibrant primaries. The trees are not the same; in fact, they are not as detailed as his early works. He had taken out details he deemed irrelevant. His trees had become streaks of colors. At the same time, Mondrian has become more philosophical with his works. He had shown interest with the blend of Eastern and Western religious ideas that affirmed the slow pace movement of humanity toward a spiritual unity.
Another interesting painting is the Red Mill which shows a great deal of simplification of his works. This work is characterized by straight lines and used only two major hues of red and blue.
More on Mondrian's philosophical side, he created the Evolution Triptych between 1910 and 1911. The work still has its simplified characteristic of straight lines and minimal use of colors. The first panel depicts a woman with red flowers upon her shoulders. The red flowers indicate suffering due to earthly passion. Note that the nipples of the figure, as well as the navel, are triangles pointing downwards to earth. The third panel depicts the unison between the spiritual and the physical, as man further develops his higher awareness. It is also to note that the figure has yellow stars and white triangles on her shoulders, which are symbols in many beliefs. As for the middle panel, the figure is looking beyond the viewers of this work, as she achieved this higher awareness. This is very reminiscent of the Indian belief of reaching nirvana in life. It is also note-worthy that the triangular nipples and navel are pointing upwards. The triptych represents the three stages of life.Relocations and more transitions
Late in 1911, Mondrian moved to Paris which was a big turning point in his artistic style and in his life in general. He had seen works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and was captivated by their early of works of cubism and their fragmentation of form.
This captivation has become more apparent in his "tree compositions." He had painted a number of tree paintings with cubist inspirations.
Mondrian also worked on same subjects, but painted in different styles. Most notable are Still Life with Ginger Pot I & II. The first painting was rather expressive and made mostly with gestural strokes as compared to the second work which has more rigidity. On the second still life, details were taken out, the distinct objects surrounding the ginger pot had been eliminated. In both works, however, the main focuses were, as the titles denote, the ginger pot. Even with two different styles, he was able to contain the main thought of having only one subject.
Composition No. 6 solidified his interest with the ideology of right angles. He claimed that the duality of the masculine vertical and the feminine horizontal creates a dynamic interchange of opposing but yet still supporting forces. The inspiration of this work was the partial demolition of apartments in Paris. The pastel hues are supposed to be the interiors visible after the demolition.
His simplification of his paintings even transcended in his lifestyle. Starting 1912, he has dropped the second "a" in his last name (though there is also another theory that he had a disagreement with uncle Mondriaan and did not want to be associated with the kin, but this idea is less probable since uncle helped him financially with his formal art education).
Also note that this visit in Paris prompted the start of calling his works as "compositions".
Return to his Dutch land
Mondrian returned to Holland to visit his mortally ill father. But the outbreak of the First World War compelled him to stay for four years by the coast of Domburg. He continued sketching familiar subjects such as the church, dunes, piers and the sea. He sketched most of his works in abstraction of short vertical and horizontal lines expressing "the expansion, rest and unity of nature."
His Composition No. 10 shows the "logical consequence" of cubism that he felt artists like Picasso and Braque failed to recognize: abstraction. Though this work still has a strong center, a requirement in cubist works, the white space no longer lies behind the black lines but rather creates a spherical figure. Composition in Colour A is his further exploration of lines but this time, with color. This work clearly depicts the Mondrian works we know today – dealing with lines, color, composition and size.
De Stijl
After the demise of his father in 1915, he moved to Laren which as then an artists' community attracting like-minded painters. There, he met the likes of Bart Van der Leck, Theo Van Doesburg and Vilmos Huszar. Most of them use primary colors in painting, and are known for their large works. Under Van Doesburg's leadership, they formed a group and published the magazine De Stijl (The Style). The group was not confined to paintings, but embraced other genres such as architecture, furniture design, typography and many other fields. The idea was representing reality as objective as possible - using only the purest and fundamental tools in the realization of a visual reality. Mondrian once said that "the living beauty of nature cannot be copied, it can only be expressed" and such expression requires these fundamental tools of the basics. His commitment of purifying modern art was never compromised.
During this time, he further explored the idea of uniting figures and the background without the use of lines. In Composition with Colours Planes No. 3, which is one in a series of eight paintings, the juxtaposition of colored rectangles created "ghost figures" of white rectangles. At this point, Mondrian thought his search for unity was over.
The Return to Paris and the birth of Neoplasticism
With the war over, Mondrian returned to Paris in 1919.By the end of 1920, he had invented nieuwe beelding (neoplasticism), after the publication of his writings Le Neo-Plasticisme. He had devoted all his work from 1920 onwards to the most fundamental of the fundamentals: verticals and horizontals for lines, the primaries for colors, and black and white for values. He united these ideas in an intuitive balance, rather than that of a randomized or systematized manner. He created a stable whole by structuring large areas of "non-color" with smaller accents of color. He also made his brushstrokes less evident, as they might distract the viewers from the composition.
Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue shows how the whole painting is an object of its own, with space as not a background for objects.He also started working on the unusual use of a diamond format for his canvases which he called lozenges. This was highly debated within De Stijl since the dynamism of the format goes against stability. In 1925, he broke away from the group due to difference in artistic opinion.
Composition with Yellow Lines is an example of his lozenges series. This particular work shows four yellow lines of varying thickness. It suggests a yellow square though the corners of this unseen square are not shown. He also made specific instructions regarding the proper display of this work. He mentioned of having the thickest yellow line be on top and certain dimensions regarding how high should the painting be displayed. A very interesting note about these instructions is its relation to his earlier mentioned work, Evolution Triptych. If one is to follow the instructions with regards to how to display this work, the viewer is forced into a position very similar to that of the figures in the triptych! If one stands too close, the strain of looking up at Mondrian's work emulates the suffering figure in the first triptych, and as one moves backwards (development of a higher awareness), the viewer gets a better scope of the painting. And at a certain distance when the viewer is comfortable enough looking at the painting from afar, one can see a better view and have a "higher awareness" and deeper appreciation of the painting.
In 1932, as many artists started mimicking his style, Mondrian made another change. He introduced the "double line". Composition with White, Red and Yellow is a classic example of the concept of double lines. The ideology is the same but this time, he doubled the usual singular thick black lines and redoubles the lines within the squares creating an explosion of composition from within.
"Start spreading the news..."
Mondrian moved to London in the eve of the Second World War and eventually moved to New York in 1940 as many European artists had done before him. In 1942, he had his first solo show and reworked several of his paintings to give it "more boogie-woogie," referring to his latest musical discovery. He incorporated the cadence of the music to his paintings thus creating a visual representation of musical notes. The revisions he made with these paintings include changing the black lines to narrower and longer ones and repainting the white areas to give them more impasto. One major change is the addition of "floating bars of colors." Before, his paintings were always of colors confined in black lines. This major change shows one color touching another color without the intervention of black lines.
During this time, he also liberated himself from black lines and used colored adhesive tape to develop a new style. He further united drawing, with its black lines, and painting, with its colors, into one - a linear painting.
Mondrian's last canvasesMondrian started his last works in 1942. Broadway Boogie Woogie is New York City with broken links of colors. This has become his last finished work. Victory Boogie Woogie goes back to his lozenge days but was never completed.
Mondrian died of pneumonia early in 1944.
Mondrian's order of randomness
Looking back, I have thought that Mondrian's paintings of the primaries and the fundamentals is a concept worth commending by itself. But further research made me realize that Mondrian is more than a painter. It is arguable that he is more of a philosopher than an artist. His idea of unity between the natural and the spiritual is permanently imbedded in my psyche and any individual who understands this ideology or who also in a "great search" for unity. His work that tries to eliminate the randomness of nature by putting order and trying to remove nature's little "accidents" gives his admirers a new perspective to a not totally new idea in many societies. ¶ 8:28 PM 5 Comments
Friday, July 29, 2005
jim david says...
"the good thing about reaching my age is you realize that people in their twenties don't know a damn thing. they're only good for looking better than people in their thirties and forties. so if you're in your twenties: strike a pose and shut the fuck up."
"if homosexuals don't reproduce... why is there so many of them?"
"people here in new york are such snobs. you can take them on the top of mount everest, and they'll say, 'well, this is sooo overrated.'"
"the british can not be embarrassed. they can have their pants on their ankles and ask, 'do you feel a draft?'"
"i believe in capital punishment. and since i was an 8th grade teacher, i believe capital punishment should start at twelve." ¶ 10:15 PM 0 Comments
"if homosexuals don't reproduce... why is there so many of them?"
"people here in new york are such snobs. you can take them on the top of mount everest, and they'll say, 'well, this is sooo overrated.'"
"the british can not be embarrassed. they can have their pants on their ankles and ask, 'do you feel a draft?'"
"i believe in capital punishment. and since i was an 8th grade teacher, i believe capital punishment should start at twelve." ¶ 10:15 PM 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
525,600 minutes
it feels great to be back!!!
i wasn't really gone, it's just that i've been busy with lots of school that i can't really find time to do anything else but sleep and eat.
i turned in my paper yesterday for that art history class i took in DC. it was about the works of mondrian. man, he was more interesting that i thought! he's more of a philosopher, i think, than an arist. then, i did my presentation on a contemporary artist for my painting class.
now, i can try finishing up merrick! and i just made dinner! that spaghetti tasted soooo good. i've been having turkey sandwiches and chinese take out for almost a month now.
been listening to rent as well, the movie is coming out this november, can't wait! i told ate i.n that if it is still showing by december, we're gonna watch both the musical and the movie. can't wait for that.
five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes... how do you measure, measure a year? ¶ 7:58 PM 3 Comments
i wasn't really gone, it's just that i've been busy with lots of school that i can't really find time to do anything else but sleep and eat.
i turned in my paper yesterday for that art history class i took in DC. it was about the works of mondrian. man, he was more interesting that i thought! he's more of a philosopher, i think, than an arist. then, i did my presentation on a contemporary artist for my painting class.
now, i can try finishing up merrick! and i just made dinner! that spaghetti tasted soooo good. i've been having turkey sandwiches and chinese take out for almost a month now.
been listening to rent as well, the movie is coming out this november, can't wait! i told ate i.n that if it is still showing by december, we're gonna watch both the musical and the movie. can't wait for that.
five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes... how do you measure, measure a year? ¶ 7:58 PM 3 Comments
Friday, July 22, 2005
i know we're cool
anyone seen mrs. gavin rossdale's new vid? i'm reading a lot into it, it's sooo for no doubt bass player tony.
let's dissect.
And after all the obstacles
It's good to see you now with someone else
And it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool
they used to go out (in secret since gwen's bro was in the band too) and eventually broke up. i heard tony kanal has a girlfriend now. and in the vid, gwen in the flashbacks has dark hair, just like when they used to go out.
We used to think it was impossible
Now you call me by my new last name
mrs. rossdale.
Remember Harbor Boulevard
The dreaming days where the mess was made
Look how all the kids have grown
We have changed but we're still the same
harbor boulevard in anaheim, where they started as a band.
i wonder how they made it work, being friends after their break up. the vid tells a lot, really. every move they make reminds them of themselves when they were younger. my favorite still is when they were drinking in a cup, and as their lips touch their own cups, the scene cuts to their younger selves kissing. galing. ¶ 7:17 AM 4 Comments
let's dissect.
And after all the obstacles
It's good to see you now with someone else
And it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool
they used to go out (in secret since gwen's bro was in the band too) and eventually broke up. i heard tony kanal has a girlfriend now. and in the vid, gwen in the flashbacks has dark hair, just like when they used to go out.
We used to think it was impossible
Now you call me by my new last name
mrs. rossdale.
Remember Harbor Boulevard
The dreaming days where the mess was made
Look how all the kids have grown
We have changed but we're still the same
harbor boulevard in anaheim, where they started as a band.
i wonder how they made it work, being friends after their break up. the vid tells a lot, really. every move they make reminds them of themselves when they were younger. my favorite still is when they were drinking in a cup, and as their lips touch their own cups, the scene cuts to their younger selves kissing. galing. ¶ 7:17 AM 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
kix and the city
took off early today, needed to go downtown to this place where they make slides out of printouts. it's for my painting class, presentation crap about contemporary artists. got there around 8.30 but the place doesn't open til 9. i decided to walk around the historic district.
that's when it hit me. i'm scared. i'm fucking scared.
i haven't told many regarding moving to the east coast, only my family here in colorado and my mom. the kids are more excited than i am. saul can't wait to reach sixteen. i promised him that i'll take him to NY when he turns sixteen, and he can stay with me for a week or so. ate i.n knows, too, mainly because i'll be living with her family for a while til i can afford my own place in NY. i'm not too thrilled about NJ anyway.
but it scares me to move that far. ate i.n told me, "sanay ka naman ng palipat-lipat (you're used to moving around anyway)." but it's not the same this time. i'm moving away from the family. not that i've always been with them and all that, but it's nice to know that the kids are just a few miles away. that's why i love living in pueblo and they have their own place in pueblo west --- far enough that they can leave me alone, but near enough that they can stay with me for a day.
it's just hard to imagine that new york is so far away from the mountains. ¶ 12:12 PM 1 Comments
that's when it hit me. i'm scared. i'm fucking scared.
i haven't told many regarding moving to the east coast, only my family here in colorado and my mom. the kids are more excited than i am. saul can't wait to reach sixteen. i promised him that i'll take him to NY when he turns sixteen, and he can stay with me for a week or so. ate i.n knows, too, mainly because i'll be living with her family for a while til i can afford my own place in NY. i'm not too thrilled about NJ anyway.
but it scares me to move that far. ate i.n told me, "sanay ka naman ng palipat-lipat (you're used to moving around anyway)." but it's not the same this time. i'm moving away from the family. not that i've always been with them and all that, but it's nice to know that the kids are just a few miles away. that's why i love living in pueblo and they have their own place in pueblo west --- far enough that they can leave me alone, but near enough that they can stay with me for a day.
it's just hard to imagine that new york is so far away from the mountains. ¶ 12:12 PM 1 Comments
Monday, July 18, 2005
who can read dreams?
i just got up from a bad dream. the setting is simple: desert, pretty much like colorado, and there was an old lady. and the old lady is family, i'm pretty sure. you know how in dreams, inspite of the insufficient evidences, you just know. it's like one of those, this lady was from our family. "was" because it's arguable that the lady has been dead for quite some time. anyway, the lady was standing in front of me and then with her gnarly fingers, pointed at me and told me, "witch of endor." i don't remember ever hearing about the witch of endor, but i'm sure i've heard of it. i mean, you don't exactly know and learn new things from dreams, "witch of endor" is probably something i've heard before but didn't pay attention to. so i looked it up in the net, and here's what i found:
"In 1 Samuel 28 we find the story of king Saul seeking out the "Witch of Endor" and the apparent appearance of the deceased Samuel from somewhere beyond the grave. Some have appealed to this event to suggest the conscious existence of a person's "undying spirit" in some location beyond this present physical realm." --- al maxey
creepy. ¶ 6:44 AM 4 Comments
"In 1 Samuel 28 we find the story of king Saul seeking out the "Witch of Endor" and the apparent appearance of the deceased Samuel from somewhere beyond the grave. Some have appealed to this event to suggest the conscious existence of a person's "undying spirit" in some location beyond this present physical realm." --- al maxey
creepy. ¶ 6:44 AM 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
late to bed, early to rise
i don't care what time i go to bed, what matters is i'm up by five in the morning to watch cybill.
¶ 7:08 AM 0 Comments
Monday, July 11, 2005
dream a dream
i just realized that i do not have a les miserables cd... if i'm gonna buy one, i think i'm gonna buy i love you, you're perfect, now change as well, for me and another for ate (ate, wag kang bibili ha? gift ko sa'yo sa bday mo, dec 5). and i have this image of uma as fantine mainly because of the movie, and i can see her singing this:
There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
what scares me, really, about this is i know every note. me and bibba can belt the whole play out if we wanna. i can also include mabet. i remember when bibba and i would sing songs from miss saigon, and even if there are only two of us, we can sing and switch between characters! tipong there's kim, chris, the engineer and thuy all in one song, and just the two of us, kaya namin! even the sound effects, kasama sa lyrics, like gunshots, we sing 'em, too :lol:
when i get home, before sleeping (i am extremely sleepy right now), i'll sing with lea salonga first. then go to bed. ¶ 6:20 PM 2 Comments
There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
what scares me, really, about this is i know every note. me and bibba can belt the whole play out if we wanna. i can also include mabet. i remember when bibba and i would sing songs from miss saigon, and even if there are only two of us, we can sing and switch between characters! tipong there's kim, chris, the engineer and thuy all in one song, and just the two of us, kaya namin! even the sound effects, kasama sa lyrics, like gunshots, we sing 'em, too :lol:
when i get home, before sleeping (i am extremely sleepy right now), i'll sing with lea salonga first. then go to bed. ¶ 6:20 PM 2 Comments
deeper and deeper
saw two movies today :-) can't sleep, so after watching a movie in the theater, watched another one at home.
my friend nat picked me up at home to watch fantastic four.
it's not one of 'em deep and dark stories like x-men and batman. it's a movie that doesn't require too much thinking, so any idiot would enjoy this movie. well, good work there, they earned $56million to date almost double distributor fox expected. jessica alba was hot, hands down. she didn't wear her costume as often as she should though. and i thought the since-we-were-wearing-these-when-we-were-hit-by-so-so-storm explanation why them costumes work so well with their powers is kinda lame. but i guess it works to explain why human torch's costume doesn't burn and why invisible girl's go invisible with her. i like how they hinted why von doom's body was turning in some sort of a metallic alloy as hard as titanium and diamond (he was holding an engagement ring when the storm hit him). but that only confused me why invisible girl turns invisible. but i'm putting too much thought with this, like i said, this movie does not require much thinking. i love, LOVE, johnny's one liners. he is freaking funny :lol: "that's gross," "where are your ears?" "this is yours, that's mine," "is that a trick question" :lol:
segue to something deeper: hero.
it was awesome. it's very... artsy. then again,quentin tarantino made this film, and i think that explains a lot with the movie's classy-ness. i do not understand why zhang ziyi is in the cover of the DVD, i'm guessing for marketability. she doesn't have a big role. don't get me wrong, i still love her and all that, i just don't think she should be on the cover. anyway, there are many story lines in the movie. well, there are not really story lines or subplots but rather narrations. and the way tarantino made these narrations different from one another (since there are different perspectives and points of view on the SAME events), he made color schemes! and i love them! i think he made four, if you do not count the first scene where the nameless hero (jet li) killed sky (what a name...). then there's the red story line where the nameless hero killed falling snow who killed broken sword and moon. the blue story line where the emperor finds out about the nameless hero's plan. the white story line where the nameless hero confides the real score. and the the green story line (which is within the white story line) where falling snow and broken sword first met.
so whether you are into thought-provoking movies, or just wanna suffice your visual-hunger, i recommend both :-) ¶ 4:51 AM 9 Comments
my friend nat picked me up at home to watch fantastic four.
it's not one of 'em deep and dark stories like x-men and batman. it's a movie that doesn't require too much thinking, so any idiot would enjoy this movie. well, good work there, they earned $56million to date almost double distributor fox expected. jessica alba was hot, hands down. she didn't wear her costume as often as she should though. and i thought the since-we-were-wearing-these-when-we-were-hit-by-so-so-storm explanation why them costumes work so well with their powers is kinda lame. but i guess it works to explain why human torch's costume doesn't burn and why invisible girl's go invisible with her. i like how they hinted why von doom's body was turning in some sort of a metallic alloy as hard as titanium and diamond (he was holding an engagement ring when the storm hit him). but that only confused me why invisible girl turns invisible. but i'm putting too much thought with this, like i said, this movie does not require much thinking. i love, LOVE, johnny's one liners. he is freaking funny :lol: "that's gross," "where are your ears?" "this is yours, that's mine," "is that a trick question" :lol:
segue to something deeper: hero.
it was awesome. it's very... artsy. then again,quentin tarantino made this film, and i think that explains a lot with the movie's classy-ness. i do not understand why zhang ziyi is in the cover of the DVD, i'm guessing for marketability. she doesn't have a big role. don't get me wrong, i still love her and all that, i just don't think she should be on the cover. anyway, there are many story lines in the movie. well, there are not really story lines or subplots but rather narrations. and the way tarantino made these narrations different from one another (since there are different perspectives and points of view on the SAME events), he made color schemes! and i love them! i think he made four, if you do not count the first scene where the nameless hero (jet li) killed sky (what a name...). then there's the red story line where the nameless hero killed falling snow who killed broken sword and moon. the blue story line where the emperor finds out about the nameless hero's plan. the white story line where the nameless hero confides the real score. and the the green story line (which is within the white story line) where falling snow and broken sword first met.
so whether you are into thought-provoking movies, or just wanna suffice your visual-hunger, i recommend both :-) ¶ 4:51 AM 9 Comments
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Thursday, July 07, 2005
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
i just remembered big bird from sesame street, he thought that the alphabet is just one word, and he even had a song about it, too, being the longest word he has ever came across.
A - Age of 1st kiss : 16
B - Band you are listening to right now : mymp
C - Crush : too old for that
D - Dad's name : arthur
E - Easiest person to talk to : hmmm... wala e.
F - Favorite ice cream/s : cookie dough
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears : neither
H - Home town : lipa city
I - Instruments : used to play the keyboards
J - Junior high : canossa acadcemy, lipa
K - Kids : none
L - Longest car ride ever : about ten hours
M - Mom's name : emma
N - Nicknames : kiko, kix, ken
O - One wish : visit pinas
P - Phobias : i can't think of any right now. ewan, commitments! :lol:
Q - Quote : "look back into your life, and if it does not bring you happiness or sadness, consider your life wasted." - ally mcbeal
R - Reason to smile : new version of Yahoo!Messenger
S - Song you sang last : my style, black eyed peas with justin timberlake
T - Time you woke up today : 10.30pm last night!
U - Unknown fact about me : my right eye isn't working properly :lol:
V - Vegetables you dislike : a long list
W - Worst habit : drinks too much coffee, stains my teeth
X - X-rays you've had : once only, for UP Diliman admisson crap.
Y - Your least favorite person : i can't think of anyone quite yet
Z - Zodiac sign : pisces ¶ 8:20 PM 6 Comments
A - Age of 1st kiss : 16
B - Band you are listening to right now : mymp
C - Crush : too old for that
D - Dad's name : arthur
E - Easiest person to talk to : hmmm... wala e.
F - Favorite ice cream/s : cookie dough
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears : neither
H - Home town : lipa city
I - Instruments : used to play the keyboards
J - Junior high : canossa acadcemy, lipa
K - Kids : none
L - Longest car ride ever : about ten hours
M - Mom's name : emma
N - Nicknames : kiko, kix, ken
O - One wish : visit pinas
P - Phobias : i can't think of any right now. ewan, commitments! :lol:
Q - Quote : "look back into your life, and if it does not bring you happiness or sadness, consider your life wasted." - ally mcbeal
R - Reason to smile : new version of Yahoo!Messenger
S - Song you sang last : my style, black eyed peas with justin timberlake
T - Time you woke up today : 10.30pm last night!
U - Unknown fact about me : my right eye isn't working properly :lol:
V - Vegetables you dislike : a long list
W - Worst habit : drinks too much coffee, stains my teeth
X - X-rays you've had : once only, for UP Diliman admisson crap.
Y - Your least favorite person : i can't think of anyone quite yet
Z - Zodiac sign : pisces ¶ 8:20 PM 6 Comments
call me!
so i was chatting with a friend ivan when he let me know of the new version of Yahoo! Messenger. apparently, you can make calls! so i downloaded that beta version, and there you go, we TALKED for more than an hour! ang galing!
here's the link where you can download that version. and don't forget to give me a ring! ¶ 3:20 AM 2 Comments
here's the link where you can download that version. and don't forget to give me a ring! ¶ 3:20 AM 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Friday, July 01, 2005
name game
here's a nice thread:
shannon (pictured below) was a dj in gwyneth paltrow's birthday party. gwyneth named her kid "apple". and speaking of crazy names, shannyn named her kid "audio science."
i hope the government can give the people in the registry of births more power.
shannon (pictured below) was a dj in gwyneth paltrow's birthday party. gwyneth named her kid "apple". and speaking of crazy names, shannyn named her kid "audio science."
i hope the government can give the people in the registry of births more power.
cat fight
just caught one of my favorite episodes of buffy.
there's this ascension thing gonna happen care of the city mayor and he's gonna do it during his speech during the high school graduation. but the night before, faith shot an arrow and barely missed angel's heart, as she intended it to be. so they put a bandage over the wound and all that, he'll heal, he's a vamp. then he buckled. he was poisoned! can vampires be poisoned? stupid question. vampires don't exist. anyway, so that was the distraction since the mayor wanted the ascension to go smoothly. but there was a cure, a slayer's blood. and buffy was like, "if he needs a slayer, i'll bring him one."
so buffy changed to this leather outfit - red pants, black top - and went to faith's apartment. and had a cat fight... considering lions are cats, too. and they were really duking it out. then buffy stabbed faith. and the little bitch jumped off the roof top... i'm talking about faith... and landed on a moving truck! buffy didn't have a slayet to being home to angel! the little wench got away. and that's how the episode ended.
there's this ascension thing gonna happen care of the city mayor and he's gonna do it during his speech during the high school graduation. but the night before, faith shot an arrow and barely missed angel's heart, as she intended it to be. so they put a bandage over the wound and all that, he'll heal, he's a vamp. then he buckled. he was poisoned! can vampires be poisoned? stupid question. vampires don't exist. anyway, so that was the distraction since the mayor wanted the ascension to go smoothly. but there was a cure, a slayer's blood. and buffy was like, "if he needs a slayer, i'll bring him one."
so buffy changed to this leather outfit - red pants, black top - and went to faith's apartment. and had a cat fight... considering lions are cats, too. and they were really duking it out. then buffy stabbed faith. and the little bitch jumped off the roof top... i'm talking about faith... and landed on a moving truck! buffy didn't have a slayet to being home to angel! the little wench got away. and that's how the episode ended.
