Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 381

Events are too stressful; we want a Non-Event.

I was reading this interview a few days ago, and I remembered how much I loved going to screenings of old movies (from a 35mm print, not from a DVD) with friends who also love the movies. On a lazy Saturday we'd have brunch, then catch a black-and-white movie, then have coffee and cake and [...:]

27 hours in Cagayan de Oro

Quick trip to Cagayan de Oro for the My City, My SM launch. Since CDO is an eco-tourism and adventure tourism destination, some of the featured performers rappelled into the venue from the upper floors (photos later). Indigenous trips performed a ritual dance. Tribal handicrafts were on display, including these soil paintings. The different tribes [...:]

The shot is fantastic, but the hair is perfection.

1. If this is fake, then it IS the ad. 2. Roger looks fabulous. 3. It is an hommage to the Swiss hero William Tell. 4. The Fed actually looks better in a suit than in tennis gear. For him we will suspend our demand that players wear shorter shorts; we'll allow him to play [...:]

Hang your favorite book on the wall

Postertext designs posters using the text of famous books. (via Flavorpill)

Oh great, we're all gay men.

ufo Pictures just wrapped principal photography in Lucban, Quezon of its gay horror-comedy project, Patayin Sa Shokot Si Remington. Shokot is directed by Jade Castro from a screenplay by Castro, Michiko Yamamoto, and Raymond Lee. Remington (Mart Escudero) freaks out as a Zombading approaches. Meanwhile, the conservative website christwire.org has published a helpful checklist to [...:]

Smash, Crunch, Run

It's a couple of months late, but here's video of the Asian Division 2 rugby championship match between the Philippines and India.

Monsters

While writing a column about Italian brunch I remembered that I had an unread copy of The Monster of Florence, so I opened it and promptly ruined a good night's sleep. Bad idea to start reading a true story about a serial killer who kills couples making out in parked cars—and then cuts out the [...:]

The convolutions of romance

My search for human characters led me to the late French director Eric Rohmer and his late period movie, Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale). Eric Rohmer movies are very comforting because his people have the same ordinary, largely uneventful lives we do, but the way they analyze their desires and motives makes them more interesting. Watching [...:]

Eric Rohmer Comfort Movie Club: The convolutions of romance

My search for human characters led me to the late French director Eric Rohmer and his late period movie, Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale). Eric Rohmer movies are very comforting because his people lead the same ordinary, largely uneventful lives we do, but the way they talk about their desires and motives and attempt to rationalize [...:]

Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me

Halfway through The Rehearsal I abandoned the book. I wanted to keep going but it had begun to feel like homework. It's very impressive, stylish, worthy of the accolades, but I was looking for human beings to feel for. The novel is about a high school sex scandal—a music teacher is discovered to be having [...:]