On Page 82: When Soul meets Body.

I watched Catch and Release on HBO last night, and I was certainly serious on watching it that I scheduled it on top of my priorities – bashing my DotA nights for a while (and my friends were wondering what the hell happened to me) and paused my vigorous reading of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”. I don’t really know why am so engrossed about watching this movie, but there’s something in it that draws me to get interested with it.

What I really like with this movie is that it portrays friendship, particularly between housemates. I can relate to it very much since I do have my own set of housemates in College, and I do have these issues with them in terms of… stuff. Though this movie made the relationships scrape each other – the tensions, the tossing and passing of romance and love, and everything that’s complicated – that they ended up leaving the house as they went adrift to their own routes and directions, it’s just really cool. Whatever.

And imagine, Jennifer Garner’s character here (named Gray) fell in love with his dead husband’s bestfriend!? Goddamit (sorry for the spoiler).

Maybe the movie’s entitled “Catch and Release” after the recreational fishing practice (which for me – sounds absurd), but I think it’s more of a ball game of catching and releasing. It’s like a passing game, a chain of reactions maybe, something that connects people – something that makes them intertwined. I dunno, really. I just think that the “catching and releasing” happens within the confines of their house in Colorado, where they receive burdens and release them and the other will catch them. Like – emotions are passed on each other until the whole house is infected and whatever – this is getting abstract.

The soundtrack rocks: Foo Fighters and Death Cab for Cutie’s one of them. The soundtrack’s very soothing and very calming. This is great. I’m just wondering why soundtracks are soooo good these days. Or maybe it’s just NOW that I become aware of soundtracks.

1. Foo Fighters – Razor
2. The Lemonheads – My Drug Buddy
3. Blinker The Star – A Nest For Two
4. The Magic Numbers – Mornings Eleven
5. Gary Jules – Pills
6. Steve Durand – Electrified And Ripe
7. New Radiant Storm King – The Winding Staircase
8. Audible – Sky Signal
9. Peter Maclaggan – Leaving The Ground
10. Joshua Radin – What If You
11. Gomez – These 3 Sins
12. Alaska! – Resistance
13. Paul Westerberg – Let The Bad Times Roll
14. The Swallows – Turning Blue
15. Andrew Rodriguez – What I Done
16. Death Cab For Cutie – Soul Meets Body
17. The Doves – There Goes The Fear

The bold ones are better. Lol.

I also watched “Step Up 2” when I stood two hours on the damn bus from Laguna to Cubao. Yes, even buses offer updated movies! It’s just cool since it’s worth the pay (I mean, they don’t demand additional payment for their updated “pirated” movies – not sure if they’re pirated, though). I see that Step Up 2, and even Take the Lead somehow campaigns for equality and combats racism in U.S, in a way.

And the following movies I’ve watched from either Star Movies or HBO or Cinemax: Through the Eyes of a Killer (Anderson, Helgenberger) was too erotic, The Hitcher (Knighton, Bean, Bush) was very much violent and gory but APPRECIATED and I like the way Sean Bush acts here since he’s just really a tough and merciless killer, Catwoman (Berry, Bratt) with all that cat-walking and catfights, and that movie with T.I. which is about the black community and Cascade and all (I can’t see the title of that damn movie – sarry).

Nothing much. I’ll also display The Hitcher’s soundtrack – like I always do with other movies – for personal purposes.

1. Move Along – All American Rejects
2. Closer – Nine Inch Nails

Note to self: I’m terribly sorry for being a dumbass bum this summer.