I Heart Lana Del Rey

I'm in love with the haunting, noir-ish strains of Video Games. The accompanying video featuring 8mm filmstock and a drunk Paz de la Huerta sent chills down my spine. David Lynch, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith and all the debauched personalities of Chateau Marmont would be very proud indeed. 

Walkabout: Klang

The black and white pictures gradually made way for super pop colour... D'abord, le kopitiam traditionale...

Bad weather. This is what I took while trapped at the train station.

At the temple... terrible backdrop thanks to the rain...

 Like any colonial township in Malaysia, 

all places of worship in Klang are located exceedingly close to each other...

Klang Boleh!

At a delapidated colonial coffeeshop that still had partitioned booths...

Dentsu Building, Tokyo

Grandmaster Flash

RIP Steve Jobs

This speech has been on my fridge since the man made it--
'Stay hungry, stay foolish.'

J'aime art deco, Bruxelles

If You're Only Watching One Movie This Year...

...make it this one.


Meek's Cutoff

The making of the movie was a feat in itself--Kelly Reichardt was on such a tight budget, she had to reconfigure the ending because of it. Read all about it here

I've become a real fan of Michelle Williams--one of, if not the, best actress of her generation--and she gives a really solid performance here. Why Natalie Portman won the Oscar this year instead of her, I'll never know. I also love the (now) unconventional aspect ratio of the film as well, trapping everyone into a claustrophobic frame.

Without giving too much of the plot away, this ain't no Little House on the Prairie. Kelly Reichardt has married the gorgeous cinematography of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven with  Peter Weir's enigmatic Picnic At Hanging Rock--amazing. I hope they give another woman a best director Oscar next year.