Let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see

I am guessing it is finally kicking in. This week i have been feeling like i need to start taking that baby step towards my eventual landing in a job, by casually psyching and sweet talking myself to at least get into the right frame of mind. That has resulted in bouts of unpleasant feelings i sometimes cannot make any sense of. I am also very tempted by the prospects of running away so that i can be anywhere but here. Anybody interested? We could busk in the streets and sell dope in the alleys.

Watched The Red Cockatoo and Eternal Summer recently.

Cockatoo is set in 1961, just before the Berlin Wall separated the East Germans from the West, and from the rest of the world. The story reminded me slightly of The Dreamers, rebellion at a time of social unrest, new kid in town, love triangle, lots of sex and rock n' roll. Certain parts came off rather cheesy, but that could be due to poor translation. All in all i feel it's not as bad a movie as made out to be (but Dreamers is still better).

Eternal Summer was better than i'd expected, but it also didn't feel like a very original film, borrowing bits from Brokeback Mountain and Tempting Hearts aka Xin Dong (directed by Sylvia Chang) and C.R.A.Z.Y. The story revolves around two boys who have been best friends since they were children and a girl comes along in their teenage years to screw everything up. A messy love triangle entails and it's not the girl who gets caught between. While i think the movie could have ended in a few other ways, and the dialogue also happens to be a bit too honeycoated and wishy-washy (but then again, it is from Taiwan), the elements of youth are still brought out very nicely in a simple manner - recklessness, alienation and need for acceptance. It's rather easy to identify with the characters and to understand their actions. You need not have fallen in love with someone of the same sex to enjoy the show.