July 17, 2005
sin city + pocket penguins
amidst all the harry potter release hype, i went to the bookshop to get me some more of the wonderful 70th anniversary pocket penguin books.
i bought six new titles to add to my earlier collection:
7. on shopping - india knight
8. nothing bad ever happens in tiffany's - marian keyes
10. a taste of the unexpected - roald dahl
15. artists and models - anaïs nin
19. where i was - james kelman
22. the dressmaker's child - william trevor
so this weekend i spent some time on the couch, drinking fruit smoothies and reading a couple of the titles above :)
i'd seen the sin city trailer on the apple site but forgoten about it until i read thalia's entry about the movie on her blog. so last night fu-ho, robert and i went to catch the midnight show.
wow. wow. wow. what can i say? thalia summed it up well on her entry. the story of marv and hartigan were the ones that touched me most. i loved the entire movie, even the cheesy dialogues, and i laughed at all the cliche bits. i did cringe at all the overly violent bits *ugh, violence just makes me queasy* i want the DVD when it comes out. this movie reminds me of ben, it's a totally ben movie :)
next week wednesday, robert and i have a date to see 'charlie and the chocolate factory'. can't wait! :)
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July 08, 2005
on a lighter note...
penguin books turns 70... happy birthday!
in celebration of their 70th anniversary, they've published 70 penguin pocket books. you can buy them online here; the idea is that you can buy 70 titles for a boxset price of 70 quid. the spines of these 70th anniversary paperbacks are color-coded; originally, in 1935, it was orange for fiction, blue for biography, green for crime. they are also numbered on the spine.
i was at my local bookshop last week with kathya and david when i spotted the penguin books special. they were sold separately, and kathya and i bought some titles, different ones, so we can do a book swap later.
the titles i got:
3. otherwise pandemonium - nick hornby
4. summer in algiers - albert camus
43. something for the weekend - jamie oliver
50. seventeen poisoned englishmen - gabriel garcia marquez
69. murder - john steinbeck
70. on seeing and noticing - alain de botton
the other thing that made me happy today was that my order from hardtroze has arrived. yay! new bag! it's cream with a flowery pattern on the front, and wide straps for slinging over my shoulder. the size is perfect to carrying my powerbook, my camera, my mobile, my lipgloss, my facial oil blotting paper, water bottle, wallet, keys, mints, all those things girls carry round basically. hooray :)
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June 26, 2005
movie zombie
yay! i finally got casshern on DVD! i'd wanted to see it ever since kiki mentioned it in his blog. the graphics and robots are amazing, love the fight sequence choreography, the setting really industrial and geiger-ish, reminding me of david lynch's 'dune'. the ending was a bit difficult to grasp, but overall, an enjoyable movie.
we also saw dodgeball, ahahaha! ben stiller is hilarious! robert had never played dodgeball as a kid, but i guess that's an american thing; we had to play it in gym class at school.
robert wanted to go see dear wendy last week but i'd already seen it at amsterdam's tuchinsky with john and andrea a few weeks ago when john was in town, so i guess we'll wait till it comes out on DVD.
next movies on the list for me:
- batman begins: christian bale as batman? yumm yumm, hehe... maybe i take robert out on a movie date this week.
- charlie and the chocolate factory: oooo, this is one of my all-time favorite books, and i'm so so looking forward... *ugh, masih lama lagi keluarnya, ga sabar deh*
- 2046: wong kar-wei's latest. we tried to get the dvd at cinematheek but they didn't have it yet. :(
- wallace and gromit and the curse of the were rabbit
- the chronicles of narnia: another childhood book favorite :) but will only be released christmas 2005, boo hoo :(
- tim burton's the corpse bride: god, i love tim burton's work *sigh* again, won't be released till later this year :(
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