killing time

Yesterday a lot of students were absent from school. My teacher told me that it was cause lots of students have the cold, that afternoon the teacher had a meeting about closing the school for fear of the SWINE FLU (these people live in fear of that thing). Today i got picked up at 9am instead of the usual 8am for work. Which gave me about a half an hour to lift some weights. Today at school there weren't any students, yet all the teachers still had to come. I spent most of the day on the internet looking at movie trailers. One that caught my attention was "LOVE" which i thought seemed visually interesting. At the end of the trailers it said that it was and Angles and Airwaves film which i found even more interesting. Having not heard them for a while i decided to download some music from them. My favorite song from them being "Secret Crowds". Yet for some strange reason i felt really satisfied listening to it, it gave me a strange feeling of being at home. Writing about it now, i remember the first time i heard the song. I was walking in Carson Pirie Scott at Ridge Mall. The funny thing was i was in the women's section when i heard it and i actually stayed there the whole time while the song was playing. I'm actually listening to it now as i write this entry. Here's the video (i think it's a new one, the one i remember they were playing in a desert).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKCX_Mi0unI

Movie Review and More

(side note: i currently don't have any internet at my place. Only at the school i teach, and i'm only supposed to be on it for research for my class)

Today is the school festival at the school i teach, but i didn't receive a scheduel and missed my Advanced English class performance. So i decided to not watch the rest. Most of the day i've been in the teacher's office watching the K-1 world MAX
2009 final four matches. Congratulations to Giorgio Petrosyan for becoming the 2009 champion


Last Saturday i went to Yongsan station, like any big subway station in Korea there it was attached to a shopping mall. As i was shown what this mall had to offer i found a spot that sold bootleg DVDs. As i skimmed through the notebook of American movies i was surprised to find two movies i was looking for. The first being PUSH directed by Paul McGuigan who also diredted, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN and WICKER PARK. Having only seen "SLEVEN" i and the trailer to "PUSH" i had high hopes for this film. In the end i can't say it was awesome, or that it sucked but my price of 3,000won was well spent. I think i will pick up an original copy to see the making of the film to try to pick up some pointers.
The film quickly references World War II, where pepople with physic abalites are turned into soliders. I was somewhat dissapointed with the cinemagotraphy of this film. The shots seemd somewhat plain to me, and i didn't care for the close ups and two shots used throughout the film. Which was probably due that i really didn't find the characters too interesting so i didn't care for the drama they were going through. The one character i did enjoy was called "Victor" who was a "mover" the sames as Chris Evans' character, but you only see him in breifly in the film using his abalites. If you like Sci-Fi action movies might want to rent this instead of buying it. -As for my film review, it's more of my personal comment on the film. What i like is different from what you might like. If you watch the film you might enjoy it the first time, but if you skip it you won't be missing anything. Although they did leave it open for a sequel.

The one film that i was happy to find was THE SOLOIST. I remeber seeing the trailer before i left Chicago and when i heard that the DVD was out i asked my friends to mail me a copy (all of which told me to go to Amazon, what are friends for eh). When i picked up a copy the person who was with me told me that Jamie Foxx acted his ass off. I thought he was good, but not great. He's just another comedian turned dramatic actor. I'm not trying to put the guy down, i loved him in Peter Berg's THE KINGDOM and like him in MIAMI VICE. What i meant is that he's just another comedian turned dramatic actor, the best example i can think of is Tom Hanks. Anyway he's good in the film, and so is Robert Downey Jr. This film is about a journalist (Downey's character)who hears music, after seeing who is playing the music he decides to write a story about the homeless man (Foxx's character). He then decideds to help him by giving him a cello that he can play. As Downey interacts more with Foxx he slowly realizes that he needs help and more importantly realizes that there are many people in the streets of LA that need help just as much. There's a bit more to the story as well, Foxx's character is a bit unstable and Downey refuses to take full responsibilities. The film is good and i suggest you watch it and experience it for yourself.

Re-introduction!!!

a while ago i read something on my favorite blog (to which a link is found at the bottom of my blog). People who have blogs are slackers... or something to that effect. I'm not an exception when it comes to that.
Anyway i recently graduated from columbia college chicago, my major was cinematography. prior to graduation i took a trip to Korea becasue i was thinking of pursuing a career in the Korean film industry. I was offered a job but turned it down in order to graduate. When i returned with my degree the company had dissolved and no longer had a job waiting for me. I contaceted the few people i knew in the film industry, one of whom wanted to hire me but couldn't because my Korean is very limited. Now i found a job teaching english, trying to develop my Korean language abality (but have yet to really study) and hopefully after a year or two of teaching i'll then be able apply for a job in the film industry. So in the mean time this blog will be about my adventures in Korea. Granted some of the pics i might post will probably be a bit old since i recently broke my camera (i don't plan on buying a new one until November or December), on sports days at the school that i teach at.
In the meantime, read some of my old blogs and wait for new ones. If you have any comments pleas feel free to write them.!!!