every day above ground is a good one.

A week ago, i went over to wai kin's house to borrow some movies. wai kin stays a few houses away. earlier he said he has 'pathology', with keanu reeves in it. he didn't have it. instead, he had some tv series, commander and chief and six feet under. i picked six feet under.


the show starts with an amazing theme by thomas newman. he had the entire 5 seasons, so i've been watching it everyday. the characters are really well written. i actually saw it when it came on hbo years ago. didn't follow through. every character is so sad. the show's kinda depressing. because everyone dies and the gloomy aura. but i'm somehow hooked to it. i'm up to season 3 now.


i think hbo somehow churns out good shows, entourage (you can't not like it), and this. i'm always attracted to dysfunctional family shows (arrested development, little miss sunshine, king of california, ..) but this is more disturbing than the rest. you always hope the characters somehow make it in the end. but they don't. not in the way you want them to. i'm sure everyone knows the story, so i'm gonna skip the summary of it. but the characters stays long in your head after bodies are cremated or embalmed.

here's the opening theme by Thomas Newman.





i also watched a really old movie, dial m for murder. by the master of suspense, alfred hitchcock. i heard so much about the movie, i had to watch it. the movie starts with a kinda happy/trippy theme by Dimitri Tiomkin. weird since the movie is about murder, suspense and stuff. the first movie i've seen grace kelly in. she plays a wife (margot) to an ex tennis pro. her husband, ray milland (tony), plans to murder her. he found out about an affair she had with robert cummings (mark). tony is cool throughout the movie..not revealing any anger or anything actually. tony hires someone to kill his wife. doesn't quite work out. he then plans something else. the movie has a lot of dialogue. so, you have to pay close attention. grace kelly is so elegant and well poised, it's irritating. but everyone was like that those days. i like how the shots are taken and the story is definitely engaging. i'll definitely watch the movie again.



here's the famous shot from the movie. apparently the movie was shot in 36 days. this scene required 1 full week for rehearsals and multiple takes to get the choreography and timing right.






















and this is taken by vanity fair.
























also by vanity fair, the famous shot of cary grant running in the cornfield in hitchcock's
north by northwest.


yeah, that's seth rogen.