The Green Light

So whoever thought one of my serious crushes Blake Lively would be typecast as the dumb, seasonally bad girl heiress Serena Van der Woodsen (of Gossip Girl), you just need to swallow yourself now. NOOOOW! Yes my friends, Blake is going damsel-in-distress this time as Carol Ferris, apple of the eye of Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern.

Aside from her hilarious-cum-stupid stint in Saturday Night Live, here she is again proving how versatile she could go. If Blake was an actress in the Philippines, she could’ve gone wearing scanty attires and appearing in no less than three racy men’s magazines if you know what I mean. And astonishingly, who else might be Green Lantern but, oh noes not again, Ryan Reynolds?!! I thought he was doing Deadpool.

The Origin of the Hopeless Romantic

The pessimism of Ricky Lee on love was outrageously high. After reading his first novel, I had the urge to find a rope and garrote all those who have written or produced anything saying that love conquers all. It has never been known that love never read Para Kay B.

( picture by John Wong )

The main character Lucas writes five sobering stories real and not, including his, to his unworthy promiscuous girl Bessie (revealed later as B). It sort of reminds me of One Tree Hill‘s, yes, Lucas who created a novel for Peyton, and subsequently become bewilderingly forgotten by the same girl for a Hollywood career. I then rise to my minute antifeminist frenzy. Bessie is the subject sought as inspiration, which could turn a Herod’s heart soft. How could girls like B reject genuine literature just like that? Could they possibly not think how thick the guys’ calluses have grown, from eternal jotting down? Did the guys just develop pasma for nothing?

Why Don’t You Come to Your Senses?

Surreal Women

In a season more familiar with everyone as a social escape, it is advisable to go to the movies and be totally away from the negative pulses in the real world. The movies that were shown in the Metro Manila Film Festival have been celebrated by a lot of the Filipino population for this cause. At least three are comic while one is animated.

And what is to be happier this season than to watch comedy, right? Tony Reyes’s Iskul Bukol: 20 Years After and Joel Lamangan’s Desperadas 2 are top-billed by famous comediennes in the industry, and would predictably bring the house, or movie house, down.

Maria Clara VS Mara Clara

“Rizal saw a woman (in Maria Clara) who was firm, clean, honest, graceful, devout, dignified, modest, tender and true; and if, as some say, our generation must now consider such a woman ‘obsolete,’ then God help our generation?”
–Nick Joaquin, The Novels of Rizal: An Appreciation

Yep, this one's a turon Samurai!

Joaquin published this work in the early 50s. And if he might as well have re-published it in the 2000s, I couldn’t have helped my self than to re-post it in here too. The aphorism was very truthful and piercing, I suddenly felt the urge to find someone with all the adjectives he mentioned and preserve her genes. I would have to clone her, and prevent her from dying. And now, we have the feminists, contrary to Maria Clara as the concept, who cry out liberation. What is “liberation” for them anyway? Amada in the The Summer’s Solstice? I once subjected my thoughts on an unpublished thesis I unearthed in CMC lately, saying that the perception of women as conservatives and traditionalists translates to patriarchy in the country, and so I got perplexed more. What are feminists actually talking about?

So… women are hitting on me lately. Seriously, women as in a concept. Hehe. First, I have a group topic in Comm Res 101 (The Effects of the FHM’s 100 Sexiest List on Filipino Women’s Self-esteem, or something like that!). Second, I have a classmate in FA 28 who looks a lot like one of my past “special” friends in high school. Wahh!