Lithium Binge

Film : Chungking Express (1994) Director : Wong Kar-wai Studio : Rolling Thunder Pictures (US Release) LB Rating : 4/5 ( old rating : 8/10) Chungking Express is poetry; and like most great poetry, I have an unfortunately limited understanding of the film. That shouldn't stop me from appreciating the film though. "For me, the film presents how a non-moving person and an ever-moving another find romance in each other." (Image source: metrograph.com) The first mistake is to look for a resolution, a sort of plot twist, or any sort of duct tape that works as a satisfying ending for the first and second stories, and even for the entire film. There is no such happy or tragic ending that creates a cohesive narrative between the two stories. This is when I understood that Chungking Express was not driven by narrative: it was driven by style. Apparently, Chungking Express is a monument of revolution in contemporary film history. As a person who doesn't study f...

I said I exited the concert area a different man in my previous post . The difference, I guess, is that I'm more motivated than ever to set my life straight. I made sure to breathe life into my fiery motivation with rigorous effort. Fortunately, it resulted in positive developments. I have been employed full-time as a staff in a legal office for about three weeks now. At the same time, I have been enrolled in a law school. My job is a big plus for me because I am directly applying the things I am learning in law school. A major upside is that there's not much hassle going on at the moment, so I use my free time to study. Consequently, I have been doing surprisingly well in law school. My procrastinating habits are admittedly still in my system, but progress into flushing them out are being made every day. Ultimately, I am confident that I am in the right direction. The important part--and by important, I mean relevant to this blog--is an update on my restraints. My daily sc...

Scandal is an all-female Japanese rock band I've been listening to since my anime-infested high school nearly a decade ago. However, I only started to enjoy Scandal's music beyond nonchalance two years ago, when I was desperately trying to graduate from college. It was a painfully difficult time for me. Time was set out to drown me, and I couldn't even swim. For some reason (aside from the fact that I already like their music), I started listen to Scandal religiously. I was also listening to other bands, like Soundgarden, Nirvana and My Chemical Romance, but they are enablers to my self-destructive tendencies back then. In contrast, Scandal was a breath of fresh air; a sensation of good news; a sonic anti-depressant; a serene happy place; the hope of a morning sun. My favorite album of theirs, Yellow, was that friend who would tell me that it's okay to lie in bed today so I can pick myself up and try again tomorrow. Needless to say, I successfully graduated from college...

EP: Roy Pablo (2017) Artist: boy pablo Label: 777 Records LB Rating: 4/5 ( old rating: 7/10) Some time earlier this year I stumbled upon a certain meme that contains thumbnails of apparently viral Youtube videos. As a long-time Youtube addict, I was intrigued because I never came across these videos probably because I kept on binge-watching League of Legends stream highlights so the Youtube algorithm kept spam recommending me LoL-related videos. I moved on from being intrigued, thinking that this meme is for normies anyway. That's until one day, I saw one of the thumbnails in my recommended list. I clicked on this specific video and found myself entering a new but somewhat nostalgic world. This video is boy pablo's blowout music video for the song "Everytime". "Everytime" became my starting line in discovering boy pablo's first EP Roy Pablo released in 2017 under the label 777 records. Roy Pablo is quite brief, only containing six track...