“The great thing about being a poet is that you can think about poetry at all times”

sana ganito na lang lahat ng klase ng movie....i never expected na you could make a movie thru casual conversation lang from start to finish... kakatuwa lalo na yung usapan nila since the last time na nagkita sila at mga biruan nila...can't wait to see another movie like this.





Memorable quotes for Before Sunset








Celine: Do I look any different?

[long pause]

Celine: I do?

Jesse: I'd have to see you naked.






Jesse: In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I'm in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I'm staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you.

Celine: I lived on 11th and Broadway.

Jesse: You see?






Celine: [Celine's song] Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand






Journalist #1: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?

Jesse: Uh, well, I mean... isn't everything autobiographical?




[last lines]

Celine: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

Jesse: I know.




Celine: Were you there in Vienna, in December?




Jesse: [about his marriage] I feel like I'm running a small nursery with someone I used to date.




Jesse: I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied!




Celine: Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past.




Jesse: Okay, I realize there are a lot of serious problems in the world.

Celine: Okay, thank you.

Jesse: Okay. I mean, I don't even have one publisher in the whole Asian market.




Celine: An imperialist country can use that kind of thinking to justify their economic greed, you know. I - human rights...

Jesse: Is there any particular imperialist country you have in mind, there, Frenchie?

Celine: Mmm, no, not really...




Jesse: Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.



Celine: One night I heard some noise on my fire excape, so I called 911. And the cops came eventually...

Jesse: Yeah like three hours later.

Celine: [laughing] Yeah, after I had been raped and killed about 10 times.




Jesse: [describing how she looks different] Skinnier, I think. A little thinner.

Celine: Did you think I was fat before?

Jesse: [laughing] No!

Celine: Yeah, you thought I was a fatty. No, you thought I was a fatty! Yeah, you, you wrote a book about a fat French girl!

Jesse: No, listen...

Celine: [laughing] Oh, no...

Jesse: Seriously, all right, you look beautiful.

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Jesse: Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.




Celine: It's amazing what perverts we've become in the past nine years.




Jesse: At least now we don't have to pretend that each new sexual experience is a life-altering event.

Celine: I know. By now, you know, you've stuck it in so many places, it's like about to fall off.

Jesse: Yeah, you know, and I can't realistically expect that you've become anything but a total ho, at this point.

Celine: Yeah, thank you.



Jesse: So what kind of songs do you write? I didn't know you did that.

Celine: What kind?

Jesse: Yeah, sure.

Celine: I don't know, just songs.

Jesse: Like?

Celine: Like, some are about, you know, people, uh, relationships. One's about my cat.

Jesse: Sing one.

Celine: No, I can't, I don't have a guitar.

Jesse: Oh, co- come on. A cappella.

Celine: No, no, no. I'm not singing a song without a guitar. You're nuts!

Jesse: Why not? It's...

Celine: No, okay. Not now. No.

Jesse: One.

Celine: No.

Jesse: If not now, when? Wanna meet here in six months with a guitar? You know, I'll fly all the way over here, you may or may not make the metro...

Celine: [laughing] Okay, that's funny.




Jesse: Do you have kids?

Celine: Yes, two -

[gasps]

Celine: Shit!

Jesse: What?

Celine: I left them in the car! With the windows rolled up! It was six months ago! Think they're okay?

[laughs]



Celine: Tell him to pick you up at Quai Henri Quatre.

Jesse: Oh, shit. K-kay...

Celine: Henri Quatre. Quai...

Jesse: K-k-k...

Celine: Henri Quatre.

Jesse: [laughing] On...

Celine: What's wrong with you? No, do you want be to - Henri Quatre.

Jesse: Henry Four?

Celine: Yes.

Jesse: Come one, why didn't you say so.

Celine: [laughing] I'm sorry, okay?




Jesse: I heard this story once about when the Germans were occupying Paris and they had to retreat back. They wired Notre Dame to blow, but they had to leave one guy in charge of hitting the switch. And the guy, the soldier, he couldn't do it. You know, he just sat there, knocked out by how beautiful the place was. And then when the allied troops came in, they found all the explosives just lying there and the switch unturned, and they found the same thing at Sacre Couer, Eiffel Tower. Couple other places I think...

Celine: Is that true?

Jesse: I don't know. I always liked the story, though.




Jesse: You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?

Celine: Why?

Jesse: So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, "Where the fuck were you?"

Celine: [laughing] No - you thought I'd be here today?

Jesse: I'm serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you.

Celine: Okay, that's - I know that's not true, but that's sweet of you to say.

Jesse: I think it is true.




Jesse: What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?

Celine: After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway, right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again.




Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?

Celine: I told you why.

Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different.

Celine: You think so?

Jesse: I actually do.

Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.

Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?

Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate.




Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?

Celine: Because we were young and stupid.

Jesse: Do you think we still are?

Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.




Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way.

Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?

Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think.

Jesse: Yeah?

Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get water every time.

Jesse: No, no, I - I - I mean what if your grandmother had lived a week longer, or, you know, or passed away a week earlier, days even. You know things might have been different. I believe that.

Celine: You can't think like that, it's...

Jesse: No, I mean, I know you shouldn't on most things, but - It's just, on this one it seemed like something was off, you know?




Celine: So what's it like to be married? You haven't talked much about that.

Jesse: I haven't? How weird.




Jesse: I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules.


Celine: So, I want to try something.

Jesse: What?

Celine: [hugs him] I want to see if you stay together or if you dissolve into molecules.

Jesse: How'm I doing?

Celine: Still here.

Jesse: Good, I like being here.




Celine: I love my kitty!

Jesse: What's his name?

Celine: Che.

Jesse: Che?

Celine: Mmm hmm.

Jesse: Uh huh...

Celine: What?

Jesse: Commie.




Celine: Do you think you would have finished your book if you were fucking someone every five minutes?

Jesse: I might have welcomed the challenge.

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Celine: They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.

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Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.




Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?

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Jesse: Do you believe in, like... ghosts or spirits?

Celine: Uhm, no.

Jesse: No?

Celine: No.

Jesse: Ok, what about reincarnation?

Celine: Not at all.

Jesse: God?

Celine: No.

[Both Laugh]

Celine: That sounds... that sounds terrible. No, no, no. But, at the same time I don't wanna be one of those people that don't believe in any kind of magic, you know?

Jesse: So then, astrology.

Celine: Yes, of course!

Jesse: There we go, right!

Celine: I mean, that makes sense, right? You're a Scorpio, I'm a Sag, so we get along.

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Celine: You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.




Celine: I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

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Celine: There are so many things I want to do, but I end up doing not much.




Celine: Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.




Celine: Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.

Jesse: I think I'm one of those guys.

Celine: I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.




Celine: Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.

"the last kiss"

got the chance to watch this movie last night...i love the story as it goes . . . .as the the saying goes "you will never fail if you never give up" ....may mga pagkakataon talaga na may mga pagkakamali tayo at minsan hindi natin alam nasasaktan na pala natin ang mahal natin sa buhay pero sa kabila ng lahat meron namang puwang ng pagbabago at pagsisisi . . . . "forgiveness"...and a chance to learn and grow from our mistakes !

Memorable qoutes from the Last Kiss...

Stephen: Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts.

Michael: I'm in love with your daughter Stephen, Maybe that doesn't mean anything you but I'm standing here. You are her father, I am looking you in the eyes and I'm telling you I will do anything in the world to get your daughter back.
Stephen: Really?
Michael: Really.
Stephen: Anything?
Michael: I'll do anything.
Stephen: People say that, they don't mean it.
Michael: But I mean it!
Stephen: Well it's very simple... do whatever it takes.
Michael: It's that simple?
Stephen: Yes... you can't fail if you don't give up. 

"Boarding house"

gusto ko lang pong ibahagi ang tulang ito sa aking mga kababayan sa UAE na kabilang sa karanasang ito na sana magsilbing pagmumulat ito sa sa ilan nating kababayan na may ganitong kalakaran. wala po akong hinanakit at humihingi lamang po tayo ng pag-unawa pagkabasa ng tulang ito...salamat po.

"Boarding house"

isang tula sa tunay na karanasan sa buhay ng isang OFW sa UAE
likha at titik ni ka noel malicdem

batu-bato sa langit
ang tamaan huwag magalit
sa mga kabayang walang hinanakit
sa pahirap na dulot ng panggigipit
sa mga tirahang ubod ng sikip
at mga tulugang halos dikit-dikit
sa rentang ikaý mamimilipit
sa kagustuhang makatipid at umiwas sa gipit
magtiis na lang kahit hindi sulit.

walang konsiyensa kung sila'y umasta
kapag tumawad baka ikaw lang ay mapahiya
kaya ang bagsak sa silid na ang pagitan lang ay kurtina
dito makakamura upang may pandagdag sa padala 
kesa pakinabangan ng ilang kababayang mukhang pera
na patuloy nagpapahirap sa maling sistema

eto ang katotohanang dagdag pahirap sa mga kabayan
walang pakialam sa perang pinaghirapan
abunado sa padala dahil sa renta nakalaan
gagawa ng paraan matusutusan lang ang pangangailangan
kaya karamihan nababaon sa utang
dagdag pa rito ang kahihiyan dahil sa kawalanghiyaan
eto ang kapalaran sa mapag-abusong mga kababayan

sa patuloy na kalakaran 
sadyang bulag nga ba mga kababayan
na madalas biktima sa mga abusadong mga kababayan
di bale nang magsiksikan may kurtina namang pagitan
na nagsisilbing takip sa mga kamalian
mali man sa iba ay walang pakialam
daanin na lang sa tulog at surot na lang ang makinabang

isa lamang akong saksi sa mga nangyayari
walang magawa kundi imulat ang sarili
sa mga kaganapang nagpapalala sa kabayang api
sa kalakalang karamihan ay bulag at bingi
pinakamadaling paraan para sa kitang pansarili

may kasabihan na "ang madaling kinuha,mabilis din mawawala"
kapag bumalik sa inyo doble-doble ang mawawala
dahil sa kawalan ng konsiyensya at pagpapahalaga
sa halip na makatulong dagdag pahirap pa sa bulsa
hindi na nakuntento sa malinis lang na kita
balang araw baka ikaý mamalimos na lang sa bangketakabayaran ng pagkagahaman sa perang pinaghirapan ng iba.

long live Neil Young...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwT1L-FSzEo&feature=fvsr