holy fuck, 2 korean koreans told me i look like i'm still in high school. patients must think i'm a freaking junior high student!! or maybe clarisonic is just that awesome?

i want to fly. like a g6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY

One of my church friends I grew up with through high school died 2 days ago.

I'm not sure how I feel. grief, sadness, guilt? I found out she had cancer 2 months ago, but didn't call her/text her/facebook her. My first thoughts were cold, clinical - what do you expect me to do? but 1 month later, i heard she had metastatic cancer, melanoma. i was shocked, i realized then, finally, stupidly, i still couldn't do anything but i facebook'd her telling her i would be there if she needed someone to talk to about treatments, etc. but i knew it was already too late. she responded, and i was glad to hear from her.

but i found out today that she died. i feel grief that we lost someone so young and so genuinely kind, she was only one year older. i feel sadness that her 2 year old daughter will grow up not knowing her mother, and that her friends, parents, brother, husband had to lose her so soon. i feel guilt because i was so callous, so cold in the beginning. even though i hadn't talked with her for at least 7 years, it's still shocking.

and now i go to her facebook page and it's filled with rest in peace. she really isn't here anymore.

The Last Airbender, rated 07% on rotten tomatoes.

RT consensus: "Despite flashy special effects, The Last Airbender squanders the potential of its popular source material on an incomprehensible plot, laughable dialogue, and a joyless sense of detachment."

It's a tragedy that the live action film doesn't seem to have lived up to the cartoon. In fact, I hope this movie doesn't destroy any young actor/actress' careers. But I can't say I'm not happy. In fact, I'm almost deliriously happy.

Here's to hoping that the ratings remain steady and the box office doesn't pull off any miracles.

knight and day was only summer fun.

bronze star (aka DVD fun)

After a folk song singing, hand clapping bratwurst dinner and a little too much beer at the smoky Hofbrauhaus in Kentucky, i watched knight and day on its opening night this week. while the movie only garnered 52% on rotten tomatoes (aka splat tomato), the trailers caught my attention.

first, there was the beautiful people. tom cruise + cameron diaz in light hearted espionage summer flick? - candy to the eyes. then, there was the strangely charismatic tom cruise character that seemed too intriguing to miss. topped with the effervescent cameron diaz in a possible save the world (or at least an innocent kid) bid, i was reeled in.

and basically, the movie played out pretty much as the trailers did. no thinking was necessary for this film. In fact, I would strongly encourage against thinking - if you tried to work out some of the plot holes, the movie would end up woefully falling apart. also, i did get put off by Cameron Diaz's character for a bit, as she seemed to "not cope well" and "not think well" a little too many times. although, i admit, the last method to help her cope was humorous.

in any case, the movie definitely deserves a star, albeit a bronze one. at $6 a ticket, it was well worth the view.