Capote - In cold blood

What is civilization? What is the true nature of human being?

Are we deep down a bunch of wild animals pretending we are capable of self-discipline? Are we not hurting each others just because we are trained on the consequences and punishments? If we are left unmonitored, do we still have any dignity or integrity?

What is that dark side of our mind? What about those dark fantasies that has been with us since we were very little? Is this basically the animal instinct living within us? Will people be truthful if lies can never be uncovered? Will people predates if there is a prey in front of them?

We seem to have a set of code of conducts agreed on for the societies and the relationships between the nations. The common ground is based on advantages and punishments. Civilization means the opposite of barbarity. Ironically, the civilized world has been mostly spread by invasion. Look at the news, the culture, the entertainment, and people around you, barbarianism is really the trend.

What makes us different that animals is: we know how to invent a deceptive word to cover our tracks.

Inconvenient Truth

With the world population increases from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 6.5 billion in 2005, there is no surprise that the atmospheric carbon dioxide level is this high.

Every breeding heart is contributing to carbon dioxide emissions. Maybe the first step is to cut down on the world's population. How about exterminating all living beings that have walked on earth for more than 40 years?

I agreed that there may be some political implications behind this movie, but at the same time, I hope through this presentation it can help to raise the awareness on the global warming and changing environment issue.

The inconvenient truth is I am not holding my breath that there is anything we can still do that really reverse the global effects. If you have ever seen the glaciers, you will know what I mean. Industrialization helped us kick-started this cycle, we may be able to work extremely hard to delay the fate of the earth, but it's too late to turn back the clock. I do want to thank Al Gore for his optimism that he together with us can make a difference. Without that, the truth is unbearable.

An intimate evening of grand illusion

We watched David Copperfield's performance on TV so many times, the performer has become such a household name that is almost impossible to not recognize.

David Copperfield visited Calgary for 3 days, and he put up 8 shows within the short time frame. No wonder he claimed he performed more than any other pop icons in the world.

The illusions Copperfield performed last night was every bit as spectacular as anything you saw in his previous TV appearances. However, he looked tired and bored. Traveling between cities and performing 2 - 3 shows everyday, facing the same 'different' audiences, and 'acting'/ re-live pretty much the same scenes in every show is not real fun.

Copperfield showed his self-awareness by making jokes on his own bad haircut. But at the same time, the display of his "world records" throughout the show and on his website is a hard sell for his success over facts in quantity. This tour will continue till mid April (without much days off in between), and I believe Copperfield may be obsessed to make this one another record of his career.

I don't know what you want

Sometimes the song title is more interesting than the song itself. It's like a statement good enough to put on a poster, billboard, T-shirt, bumper sticker, my lips ...

Pet shop boys - I don't know what you want but I can't give it anymore

A long and clumsy title for a song but the sentence alone tells the story.

I can answer it with another PSB song: So sorry, I said.