Aargh. I’ve spent the last few days dealing with the after-effects of a monster migraine that attacked me (unfairly, I might add) on Saturday morning before I even had the chance to get out of bed. That day my misery was compounded by the guy installing a new bathtub and sink in my apartment with extreme prejudice, as well as a boistrous DPP rally outside my window. Needless to say, I didn’t get much done unless you count cowering underneath my blanket a lot. I’ve gotten migraines occasionally since I was a kid, but seldom, possibly never this bad before. Oddly enough, several of my friends who also get migraines had massive episodes recently as well, which makes me wonder if the recent duststorm had any influence.

Or maybe it’s those little election trucks. Elections are almost upon us. I have to give the DPP credit for their ad campaigns; there’s even pictures of pretty women in pseudo-military attire pointing and saying “Taiwan needs you!” all over the MRT. Their TV ads (including the embarrassing one I was involved in) are all much higher quality than anything the KMT can muster. It was much the same the last election; you’d think the KMT would have fired their PR guy after that, but apparently they didn’t. The Blues are holding a huge rally this weekend, but I doubt it will have as much impact as the 2-28 rally had for the DPP (good holiday/event-management, again, points for the DPP there).

我最近吧殘庸那部短片剪了一個

Back from the Urban Nomad thing. It felt a lot like it did last year, and the year before, i.e. people milling around a bit aimlessly with drinks in their hands, MTV-esque videos on the screen as a kind of visual background noise. The previews lasted about eight minutes, followed by some of the films from last year. Sandy was there to provide a flute soundtrack to one of the films, a piece about the corners of buildings and a tunnel, I think. I met some people and chatted a bit, but around 11 I felt the need to escape, so I came back home and uploaded the Clay Soldiers trailer that I put together a few nights ago. It’s over 6 megs, but I think it’s worth the wait. Let me know if you think it’s too big, and I’ll tweak it some more.

Workmen are coming over on Saturday to put in a new bathtub. The reason for this is not only that the old one is cracked, but I never hesitate to point out this and other facts when the realtor brings people over to see my place. Hmm, next I think I’ll start complaining about the lack of a jacuzzi…

我幫藍月拍的廣告已經上電視跟網路了. 自己看到了以後感覺有點尷尬,

I’ve updated the photography page with eight new pictures, and there’s also a new Vidlet I did during the CF shoot late last month. A first-edit of the spot is playing on TV and online now, I found out this morning after some friends called to tell me that I had all the principles of a mollusk (I’m expecting many more such calls, actually). I lost my cable TV recently, but to be honest I’m not in a great hurry to get it back. The ad is a bit more political in nature than I had imagined, but that was to be expected, or would have been if I had any sense. What’s next on my list of Principles to Undermine? Perhaps a 10-page spread in Barazoku?

In other news, last weekend I met Tall Paul and Darrell at Grandma Nitti’s to catch a glimpse of the actors they’ve chosen for their next project, Above and Below. They read through the script and seemed to be doing a fine job. Later Darrell and I met James, who drove up to Xizhi to check out his setup, which is very nice. He has all kinds of equipment and is looking for ways to use it. It was very nice and quiet up in the mountainside community where he lives, though many of the buildings up there were painted in a rather bizarre fashion. Traffic was heavy with blossom-watchers drunk on the sudden spate of hot weather, but there are far worse places to be stuck in traffic than on a scenic hillside.

Now, of course, it’s cold again. I saw Lost in Translation last week and enjoyed it. It felt a lot like Happy Together to me, which is a good thing as I liked that movie as well. Both films had little dialogue and an abundance of feeling. Lost in Translation was full of shots of Tokyo on the other side of hotel windows, making the characters seem trapped, and Bill Murray’s humor was desperate and cutting. All in all, a nice little film.

Speaking of films, the Urban Nomad Film Festival sneak preview party is tonight at The Wall, located in the basement of 200 Roosevelt Road, section 4, at 8 pm. Theoretically they’ll be showing clips from films on the schedule for UNIII, including a little 30-second preview I made for Clay Soldiers. That’s another thing I should put up here, by the way.