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Bench

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My Irresponsible Movie Index

1 - Turn on the recorded Project Runway or Sports Center instead.

2 - Well, you want to watch it when it is available on TNT or IFC.

3 - Put it on your long Netflix queue.

4 - Watch it to join a conversation or start a conversation to show your humor, cleverness, and intelligence. (Be careful. Somehow it's easy to ruin your conversation too.)

5 - Must see the movie if you want to rest in peace.

3/8/2008

Ghost Rider ( 2007 , USA )
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
2 – I had been bored since the first ten minutes.

Rush Hour 3 ( 2007 , USA )
Director: Brett Ratner
1 – One of the worst Jackie Chan’s movies.

The Perfect Crime ( 2004 , Spain )
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
5 – Very interesting

Volver ( 2006 , Spain )
Director: Pedro Almodovar
5 – I love Penelope Cruz’s acting. Main plot is the killing of her husband; sub plot is about the relations with her mother. The movie is sad and humor. There is a good balance in characters. It is not as good as Talk to Her or All About My Mother, but still one of the best.

Grindhouse ( 2007 , USA )
Director: Robert Rodriguez
5 – I am not familiar with cult movie but I think it should be one of the masterpieces.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ( 2007 , USA )
Director: Gore Verbinski
4 - Entertaining

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Sleeping

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Ice Skating

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Path

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Smile

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Shuttle 2

Shuttle 1

Students

When I stopped at Narita Airport, Tokyo to wait for my flight to Taiwan, I saw hundreds Japanese students. They were going to visit Shanghai, China.

I never have a school trip to another country. The farthest we went was Nantou, which is in middle of Taiwan and the only county not adjacent to the sea. It's about 4 hours driving from Taipei.

You can see how Shanghai and China becomes a phenomenon in the world.

Boarding

Truck

No Parking

Pedestrian

Bus Station

Scooter

Taiwan has a population of 23 million.

The amount of scooter/motorcycle is 12 million.

The scooter culture is very unique in Taiwan; however, it also causes a lot of environment issues.

Laundry

Grid

Blue Balloon

Film - Reign Over Me

Photo: Sony Pictures

The movie was played by Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler.

Don Cheadle is a successful dentist in New York City. Someday he bumped into his college roommate, Adam Sandler. He lost all his family from 9/11 and was suffering from post-9/11 traumatism.

Don Cheadle, one of my favor actor, still performs well as usual. However, there is no depth of the plot. New York Times said ”this director’s approach to the 9/11 theme starts to feel crude and exploitative” I don’t want to distort what “exploitative” means but which is crude I agreed with. Also Liv Tyler who played a therapist is a boring character.

Bench

The green shopping bag caught my eyes.

Enormous

Dart 2

Bar in Taipei

Dart 1

Travis, The Boy With No Name

When I first listened to Travis’s The Man Who back to 1999, I was thinking ”Oh, another traditional British rock band.”

In the post-Oasis era, surrounding by a superband, U2, and a god-like band, Radiohead, it seemed nothing about British rock can arise my excitement. Although The Man Who enjoyed sales success, Travis’s ready-to-take-off was offset by Coldplay’s Parachutes.

The Boy With No Name was released in 2007. As AMG said, they are still ordinary and they are not trying to achieve anything. But that’s why I like this easy-listening, comfortable album.

Friends

I had a long long vacation in Taiwan in Oct. 2007.

I went back to Taiwan in the early Oct. My original plan was to stay in Taiwan for 2 weeks; however, due to my VISA problem, my return was postponed for another 3 weeks. So I enjoyed a whole month vacation with my family and friends.

The picture was taken the night before I left Taiwan. They were my co-workers back to 2001 and we still keep good friendship. Everyone has their own story going on and what they struggle about. I hope all my friends doing well.

I like the light in this shoot.

Dragging

In the city, you can see people are dragging hand trucks, carts for catering or delivering. They even take subway with these equipment and merchandise.