caffetteria

been listening to muse and this song really jumped out at me… great on super loud volume (esp in a car i believe)… its from their album ‘black holes and revelations’…

Map Of The Problematique (Muse)

Fear and panic in the air
I want to be free
From desolation and despair
And I feel like everything I saw
Is being swept away
When I refuse to let you go

I can’t get it right
Get it right
Since I met you

Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over

Life will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side
And no one thinks they are to blame
Why can’t we see
That when we bleed we bleed the same

I can’t get it right
Get it right
Since I met you

Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over

the rain is falling outside as i’m typing this.. but this is also the title of an italian song by negramaro, featuring jovanotti… i love the track and decided to try my hand at translating it… ahhahaha it’s quite difficult actually so this is definitely not accurate (until i get my teacher to take alook at it)… but you can understand the feeling and meaning behind it… =) italian lyrics first then my translation at the bottom…

CADE LA PIOGGIA (Negramaro feat. Jovanotti)

Italian:

Cade la pioggia e tutto lava
cancella le mie stesse ossa
Cade la pioggia e tutto casca
e scivolo sull’acqua sporca
Si, ma a te che importa poi
rinfrescati se vuoi
questa mia stessa pioggia sporca

Dimmi a che serve restare
lontano in silenzio a guardare
la nostra passione che muore in un angolo e
non sa di noi
non sa di noi
non sa di noi

Cade la pioggia e tutto tace
lo vedi sento anch’io la pace
Cade la pioggia e questa pace
è solo acqua sporca e brace
c’è aria fredda intorno a noi
abbracciami se vuoi
questa mia stessa pioggia sporca

Dimmi a che serve restare
lontano in silenzio a guardare
la nostra passione che muore in un angolo
E dimmi a che serve sperare
se piove e non senti dolore
come questa mia pelle che muore
che cambia colore
che cambia l’odore

Tu dimmi poi che senso ha ora piangere
piangere addosso a me
che non so difendere questa mia brutta pelle
così sporca
tanto sporca
com’è sporca
questa pioggia sporca

Si ma tu non difendermi adesso
tu non difendermi adesso
tu non difendermi
piuttosto torna a fango si ma torna

E dimmi che serve restare
lontano in silenzio a guardare
la nostra passione non muore
ma cambia colore
tu fammi sperare

che piove e senti pure l’odore
di questa mia pelle che è bianca
e non vuole il colore
non vuole il colore
no..
no..

La mia pelle è carta bianca per il tuo racconto
scrivi tu la fine
io sono pronto
non voglio stare sulla soglia della nostra vita
guardare che è finita
nuvole che passano e scaricano pioggia come sassi
e ad ogni passo noi dimentichiamo i nostri passi
la strada che noi abbiamo fatto insieme
gettando sulla pietra il nostro seme
a ucciderci a ogni notte dopo rabbia
gocce di pioggia calde sulla sabbia
amore, amore mio

questa passione passata come fame ad un leone
dopo che ha divorato la sua preda ha abbandonato le ossa agli avvoltoi
tu non ricordi ma eravamo noi
noi due abbracciati fermi nella pioggia
mentre tutti correvano al riparo
e il nostro amore è polvere da sparo
il tuono è solo un battito di cuore
e il lampo illumina senza rumore
e la mia pelle è carta bianca per il tuo racconto
ma scrivi tu la fine
io sono pronto

The rain fall and wash all
Erase my own bones
The rain fall and fall on all
And slide on the dirty water
Yes, but to you that does not matter then
Refresh yourself if you want
This my own dirty rain

Tell me what serve to remain
far in silence to watch
our passion that die in a corner and
we do not know about
we do not know about
we do not know about

The rain fall and silence all
The sight I feel also the peace
The rain fall and this peace
the only dirty water and embers
there is cold air round about us
Embrace me if you want
This my own dirty rain

Tell me what needs to remain
Far in silence to watch
Our passion that die in a corner and
Tell me what needs to hope
If it rains and you do not feel pain
Like this skin of mine that die
That change colour
That change the smell

You tell me then that feeling have time to cry
To cry leaning on me
There’s nothing I know to defend this ugly skin of mine
So dirty
Too dirty
How dirty
This dirty rain

Yes but you don’t defend me now
you don’t defend me now
you don’t defend me
Rather return to mud one but return

And tell me what needs to remain
far in silence to watch
our passion that don’t die
but change colour
you make me hope

What rain and you feel the smell too
of this skin of mine that is white
and it doesn’t want the colour
it doesn’t want the colour
no…
no…

My skin is paper white for your story
You write yourself the end
I am ready
I don’t want to stay on the threshold of our life
to watch it finished
The clouds that are passing and emptying rain like stones
and to every step we leave behind our steps
The road that we have done together
throwing on the stone our seed
to kill ourselves every night after rage
Raindrops hot on the sand
Love, my love

This passion passed like hunger of a lion
after it has devoured its prey, abandoned the bones to vultures
You don’t remember but we were
our two hugs you stop in the rain
while all ran to repair
and our love is gunpowder
the thunder and only a heartbeat
and the lighting light without sound
and my skin is paper white for your story
but you write yourself the end
I am ready

nowadays i find myself having to put disclaimers on every post that i’ve done… coz it’s all somehow related to my twilight obsession and yet not so… but i really like this indie-film starring robert pattinson so i’m sharing the trailer here with u! the movie is titled ‘how to be‘…

How To Be Trailer from How To Be on Vimeo.

In case you’re wondering.. here’s the official synopsis for the movie:

Awry comedy about ART, a frustrated musician, undergoing what he sees as a quarter life crisis. This is not helped when his girlfriend dumps him and he has to move back in with his middle class parents – who are far from thrilled with the idea.

Art’s only friend, agoraphobic RONNY, has his own problems. Holed up in a London flat in a daze of nitrous oxide and electro music, Ronny wants to start a band with Art and happy-go-lucky friend NIKKI, but only if it involves going no further afield than the flat’s roof garden.

Art discovers self-help guru, DR LEVI ELLINGTON, author of It’s Not Your Fault. Using inheritance money, Art pays for Dr Ellington to move in with him and his parents becoming Art’s full-time life coach, shadowing him wherever he goes.

Art’s painfully funny journey to define his existence brings to the fore the dysfunctional relationship he has with his parents and the importance in his life of his oddball friends. Rich in detail and dark yet affectionate humour, How To Be is a timely look at the increasingly common phenomena of grown-up children living at home, frustrated creativity and self-help.

lovely movie… somehow or another i identify wif it… but i don’t think it’ll be shown here in singapore… =/

p.s. there IS a movie that’s showing in singapore right now… TWILIGHT opens today!! hehehehe… finally… hahaha

YES! i watched twilight yesterday!! =D thanks to my younger sis (and her connections) we were able to catch the uber sneak preview of the movie before it comes out next week! i must say i was totally controlling my fan-girling as my sis had colleagues along and i wanted to be seen as the ‘calm and collected’ elder sis instead of the AHHHHHHHHH… AHHHHHH… kinda person… LOL

so if i may… i will now attempt to write down my thoughts on the movie… overall the movie was good, there were parts that i totally enjoyed and loved and there were parts where it was EXACTLY like how i imagined it (when reading the book)…

many of the characters who didn’t jump out at me in the book were potrayed in a much better and memorable light in the movie… eg: the school kids, mike, eric, angela, jessica esp! charlie (bella’s dad) was spot on.. billy black as well (couldn’t visualise him very well in the book)… the cullens were great… esp emmett and alice… carlise got better as the movie went on (his makeup din look that fake after a while LOL)… din get much vibes from esme and rosalie was okay lah… haha she did have her funny parts… almost forgot about the normadic vamps but yes they are fantastic… james so evil!! and victoria is beautiful… laurent was okay lah… i keep thinking back to the twilight trailer spoof tho… LOL

robert pattinson as edward is brilliant… though there were certain parts where his expressions were a tad too much (but u’ll get it much better if u read the midnight sun exerpt)… but there can be no other edward cullen after this… like how i can’t imagine anyone else but daniel radcliffe as harry potter… kristen stewart’s version of bella was a tad serious i thought… in the book bella is potrayed more as an obsessed but serious girl… but in the movie u just get the serious and not much of the obsession i feel…

i must admit i was a bit disappointed at the front bit of the show coz i tot the script was a tad rushed and the editing could have been done a bit smoother… like before u know it… they were together after only talking all of two times?! hrmm… i think if they had a bit more of bella’s voice overs at the start to ease out what she was thinking about would make the rushed pace a tad better… as it was i felt like edward – didn’t know wat was goin on in bella’s head! LOL

second half was FANTASTIC… absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the baseball scene… i wished it would have gone on longer.. hahahaha… background music was superb and i can imagine the scene now whenever i listen to that track in the OST (yes i bought that too… obsessed rem? LOL)

bella leaving charlie and ballet studio scene was good – edward’s turmoil when he decides whether he was strong enuff to do wat he had to, hospital a bit rushed again but loved the emotional bella… prom scene was fantastic… love the music again and the setting and the script really suits that part…

favourite bits from the movie (in no particular order):

• first look at the cullens – u totally get the effect that they’re unreachable…
• first time edward speaks to bella – super bright ‘hi’… LOL
• edward rescuing bella in port angeles – love the car stunts!
• bella discovers who edward really is – love the reference back to old skool vampire movies!
• first kiss – OMG the hottest kissing scene i’ve ever seen…
• rob’s songs featured in the restaurant scene and the montage when edward is sucking out the venom – make the scene more poignant somehow…
• vampire baseball and the song!
• interaction between the school kids – they’re hilarious!
• edward bringing bella home – esp the graduation caps bit…
• rob playing ‘bella’s lullaby’ for real – amazing…
• charlie and his gun – super LOL
• charlie when edward picks up bella for the prom – ‘har… i’ve heard that before…’ LOL
• edward and jacob staring at each other – even though it’s not supposed to be like that… it just sets up the scene for the next movie!
• prom – even better than the book i must say… oops
• scenes where edward is not so uptight… fetching bella to school, telling her he’s bringing her home…
• scene in the family garage where u see edward alone
• cullen family – look out for the cullen’s crest items… ehheeh
• the nomads – victoria and james stand out esp for me… gorgeous and handsome but oh so evil!!

like i said to my sis after the movie… in the book you take AGES to get to the action… it’s the opposite for the movie.. ahahha my advice for fellow twilight fans who have read the book a million times? u’ll have to watch the movie twice at least… first time u’ll be there to figure out what was left out from the book and the second to enjoy the movie version of the book.. ;)

i will watch it again definitely and this time round i will leave the book at the door and enjoy the movie totally for wat it is… then i’ll have to wait (PATIENTLY) for the DVD.. sigh…

p.s. i’ve been looping the OST again and again and again… it sounds soooo much better after u’ve watched the movie… MUSE RAWKS!

she rocks.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… (fangirls abit)

it was the most WORTH IT SGD$250 i have ever spent… finally after soooo long… and many kylie concert dvds later… i get to see her perform live!! and boy… my friend and i probably got one of the best angles in the house… she was clever enough to choose a seat that was within our ticket price but as close to the stage as possible… hehe… so we were seated on the left side of the stage and we were pleasantly surprised that our gamble paid off… lucky!! :D

as you can see… i just came back from the concert.. super perky now and jumpy whilst uploading most of the photos onto my flickr page… mmmm in the meantime i shall try to calm down so that i can actually get to sleep (got work tomolo since i’m flying for taipei on thurs – another YAY!)…

‘can’t get you out of my head… la la la… la la lalala…’