Did i mention that WHH and i went to see WALL-E last Saturday?

It was amazing...

Thinking that the kids nowaday have to deal with global warming, the obesity epidemic, human isolation caused by internet, over-marketing / commercialization of everything, overabundance of materials... i'm glad that Pixar / Disney made this movie.

I don't know how to describe it.  It's the best animated movie I've ever seen...yep!  Even better than Ratatuille!  Hard to believe, huh?  It's probably also the best movie of the year, I bet.  It's the only movie which I wanted to see again right after it ended.  Every day when i think of WALL-E and his little friend, the most adorable robot and cockroach in history, i want to see the movie again.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll go to see it in theater again since it won't be out on DVD anytime soon.



On another note, i can't stop listening to Coldplay's Viva La Vida.  Whenever i'm in love with a song, i have to continuously listen to it till i'm totally fed up with it, like after the 10,000th time of listening to it.

I loved the string arrangement in Viva La Vida.  I'm typically not a rock fan, because heavy metals usually ruin my mood.  But this song, like the song Incomplete by Backstreet Boys, inserted classical music arrangements in it so it's totally moving me.  Like Mary Murphy put it, when u get the goosebumps u know it's a great performance.  I remember when i was a kid i used to listen to one of Jackie Cheung's song because it has a flute section and i loved it.  i'd turn the volume up and sit in the middle the room, closed my eyes and imagined that i was alone in the forest listening to the song.  The string section in Viva La Vida, the piano section in Incomplete, and the flute section in that Jackie Cheung song all made me feel very free.

I guess that's why i was such a David Cook fan in the past season of American Idol.

When i was a kid, i saw the movie The Piano, in which there's a scene when the lead lady was playing the piano on the beach and her young daughter was dancing freely (did a cartwheel) around her.  This scene has since been stuck in my head, and all these songs just evoke that free yet mysterious feeling that is so fascinating.