| Are you ready for Inconvenience? |
[14 Jun 2007|02:15am] |
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 An Inconvenient Truth is basically all that you know about global warming (and if you know nothing about it, shame on you) only laden with scary figures here and there to make the documentary factual and scientific.
But if you want to be visual, just simply look at this. This is Mount Kilimanjaro in 1993:
And this is Mount Kilimanjaro in 2000:
I don't even wanna know how it looks like now. In photos taken by a satellite, it was seen that the snow and ice covering the Kilimanjaro have changed drastically. This change is mainly caused by global warming and deforestation. Oh, and check out the Columbia Glacier and Larson Shelf.
Al Gore's documentary is really an eye opener. It's really terrible how our generation is emitting carbon dioxide from all the appliances and vehicles that we use. Sabi nga, it's not a political issue anymore. It is an ethical issue. And to allow our carbon dioxide emission to reach sky high, as if it hasn't yet, is purely unethical hands down. Sana lang Gore excluded that bit about him losing the presidential election to Bush, and I would have liked his film better.
And just how to we hasten, if not totally stop, global warming? Reduce your carbon imprint. And the film's website suggested the following:
1. Change a light
Replacing one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb will save 150 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
2. Drive less
Walk, bike, carpool or take mass transit more often. You'll save one pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you don't drive!
3. Recycle more
You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per year by recycling just half of your household waste.
4. Check your tires
Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!
5. Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by installing a low flow overhead (350 points of CO2 saved per year) and washing you clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year).
6. Avoid products with a lot of packaging
You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide if you can cut down your garbage by 10%.
7. Adjust your thermostat
Moving your thermostat just 2 degrees in winter and up 2 degrees in summer, you can save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.
8. Plant a tree
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.
9. Turn off electronic devices
Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you're not using them will save thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
10. Spread the word!
It's inconvenient, I know. Thus, the title of the documentary. However, it can be done. We can live an ecology friendly lifestyle if we only choose to. You know what I've been doing? When buying something from the grocery or supermarket, I refuse plastic bags. I bring along a cotton bag I use when I'm buying a whole lot of toiletries. If sa Ministop or 7-11 lang, I ask them not to put the items I bought in a plastic bag anymore. Because really, we don't need excessive plastic. It takes 10 to 20 years for them to decompose, for crying out loud. And when you're done using it, what do you do with it? You throw it away. Eh 'di 'wag mo na lang gamitin in the first place.
Think about how you can help to sustain the planet that we live in. You can make a difference.
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| Miss Potter and Bath House |
[14 Jun 2007|03:52am] |
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Katie Melua - When You Taught Me How to Dance |
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 Miss Potter tells the story of Beatrix Potter, the creator, writer and illustrator of the Peter Rabbit stories and their drawings, among her many other children's stories. Though inaccurate due to cinematic purposes, Chris Noonan's, also the director of Babe, film is enchanting as it features animated sequences of characters' from Potter's actual children's stories.
What made the movie more delightful to watch was, of course, Renee Zellweger. It's a joy to watch her play another British character that is not like Bridget Jones. She played it effortlessly. And Ewan Mcgregor was too charming, moustache and all. Renee and Ewan totally has a chemistry also evident in Down With Love. They just blend so well onscreen. I watched the film thrice because I really enjoyed it. And I fell in love with its song. When you taught me how to dance la la la....
~m-o-o-o-h~
 Cris Pablo's digital film after Duda/ Doubt, Bath House stars a bunch of unknown actors with poor to mediocre acting skills and the fabulous Andoy Ranay, who can play a screaming faggot and a butch so effortlessly. And oh, an irritatingly overacting John Lapuz and a hilarious Rey Pumaloy.
Though the movie has good intentions of showing the cruising lifestyles of gays in Manila and how one looks for love in wrong places, the delivery is so flawed that it's sometimes too painful to watch it.
I wish that Cris Pablo would stop using unnecessary and lengthy voice-over narrations and just tell the story through the actors. I wish they have gotten good looking actors to play the supposed good looking gay characters to make this film realistic. Putragis, e mas gwapo pa ko sa hunk kuno ng Klub Hombre e wahahahahahhaha!!!!!
Overall, it's an interesting film to watch. But I'm all for simple but truthful storytelling. I wish our local gay film makers can produce something like Trick. Simple but kilig and tagos sa puso.
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