Salinger, the documentary

When a person is dead, then there is no stopping what the living will speak. This applies to everyone, regardless of power, status, respect nor dignity. 
- My key takeaway of the documentary.

My life on Netflix is pretty unexciting. Whenever I really want to spend time on it, it stops loading. Like #foreverPIXELATED!!!! [Insert all kinds of worldly profanity here]. I then proceed yelling at everyone in my family to turn off their phone wifi to maybe perhaps get less pixelation... But of course, to no avail. When it's working though, I'm usually shuffling through the documentaries.

As always, my reviews of stuff come way later than when I actually viewed them. This one, I viewed a long time ago. "SALINGER" came out in 2013 and has a lovely unimaginative poster that resembles a book cover. SO CLEVER!!!!..... Not.  Apparently this director guy (Shane Salerno) had spent about a decade working on this documentary. SO WORTH HIS TIME!!!!...... Not. I sound sour because the documentary leaves you feeling sad and sour to the extreme. I watched it to kill some time in between the two FIFA games of the day, and because I knew I'd learn something new. I was also never a big fan of The Catcher in the Rye and Holden Caulfield, so I was mildly intrigued in what ways would this documentary glorify the book even more than it already is. In fact, "Salinger" glorifies EVERYTHING even down to the unpublished characters of JD Salinger's work. Go figure. Making the documentary pretty "phony." LOL! Get it??? hahaha..... (insert awkward turtle hand gesture here..)

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Most of the interviews are quite generic (more and more extraordinary compliments of JD Salinger, his looks, his writing, his style, his perfection-obsessed personality, yaddayaddablahblah), except for Jean Miller's as she gets pretty deep, personal, and sentimental when revealing her side of the story. This is when I was shocked about how a person could keep silent for more than half a century and spill the beans on EVERYTHING when Saliger's gone off to the heavens. Same sentiments ensued when I watched the other interviews of the women Salinger had encountered (pretty much countless). Then I went onwards to assure myself to never fall for word-masters who are suave, brilliant, and veiled-in-secrecy-in-super-mysterious-sexy-ways. Hard. Very hard. I think I'll fall for a personality like Salinger's just for the sake of self-destructing my emotional self. Anyways, back to the documentary review... Not only is the privacy-invading content from these women pretty disturbing, but it is more about the documentary's existence itself. Salinger had spent his whole life with a mission to seclude himself from the outside world, truly pursuing the art of living in secrecy and in insane mental state. One can't blame him as his fame did not merely bring money and happiness, but also heavy burdens; there were three--not one--murders in America where the killers quoted Holden Caulfield in the court testimonies. The most famous incident would be the murder of John Lennon. This topic is also briefly covered in "Salinger." Despite all of Salinger's troubles and wishes to remain away from the world, this entire documentary is about divulging his life, tearing his secrecy apart, and publicizing almost everything he had wanted to keep silent about. It fucking starts with this guy stalking around to take paparazzi photos of JD Salinger walking out of the mail depot. RUDE. Just so rude! Poor JD Salinger... He will definitely not rest in peace now, would he? :( :( :(

Yet there are still good parts to this mediocre documentary. There is a somewhat ridiculous amount of time spent on Salinger serving the state in WWII. I never took the effort to read JD Salinger's wiki page, so I had no idea how long he had served, how hard he tried to get enlisted, what kind of position he undertook, how he came back, et cetera. This part and his survival through WWII is enriching and complements his subsequent life events well. Needless to say, this fact-driven history lesson in the middle shines out and stays with you after the documentary, because it clearly juxtaposes against all the emotional, sappy, and overtly pretentious interviews and viewpoints on JD Salinger.

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Life before it got boring.

RIGHT NOW. Life is boring. All I look forward to are readings that I am behind on and my beautiful bed. I wish to wash my pillowcase because there are black marks everywhere.... Mascara + eyeliner. OMG. It's killing me. But I don't have the time, so I will get around to it this weekend. Stoked to kill off the items off my to-do list.


At work @ JNBY. Sample sale is going on ! Come and ask the associates to book an appointment !!!! It's gonna be killer. 2623 Granville Street is the address, between 10th Avenue and 11th Ave. Sweeeeet. During a down time, we tried on pieces in all these different ways; it's pretty sick. However, my BlackBerry is on its death spiral right now... and isn't functioning at its prime. SIGH. So here is the question: android or iPhone 5 ?!?!!!???!?
Wearing: DKNY plum silk shirt + gold necklaces-turned-chain.

Bored at work. I haven't been drawing a lot these days due to lack of time and me reading (fiction, of course) when there is spare time. So I think I lost all my pen holding skills. Sad, but this is one of my terrible doodles that I produce at JNBY. I need lessons. I want to be at LFW. I know it's a bit off-topic, but it's true.

BUNTZEN LAKE !!!!!!!!!! It was like crossing the border. It was a long, hot wait rewarded by gin + whatever. Then the makguli I wanted to try so badly + some amazing food called MOOK (묵). 오마이갓. My Korean people are seriously the best, *__*v

Back in July @ Barcelona on the Granville strip for Kathy's birthday !!! AWH YEAH BABY. SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS EVERYWHEREEEEEEEEE. ***NOTE*** Nobody remembers this video being taken. LOL !

Barcelona, when luck was still with us- from Rachel Chung on Vimeo.

It's coming-

What !? Outfit shots !? Like seriously, ain't this a fashion blog !???!?! Sorry guys, I think my life digressed out of control. Just suck it up. Outfit shots will come later........ when I get around to editing my pics and learning how to make GIFs on photoshop.

FMLFMFLMFLMFLMFLMFLMFLMLFMLFMLMFLMFFMLFMLFMFLMFLMFLMFLMFLMFLMLFMLFMLMFLMFFMLFMLFMFLMFLMFLMFMLFMLFML

Anyhow, the point is. Spring/summer is coming...... And all I have to wear are BLACK CLOTHES !! HUZZAH !!!!!! Whatever. So here's a shot of the summer I want to pursue... But it won't happen because I live in Vancouver. Vancouver is BEAUTIFUL on sunny days but still dreadfully cold, and even if it is a hot day, a breeze will freeze yer ass off or a tree shade, too. So yeah. Global warming is real, but not that real at this moment. I just feel like the current system's a mess though. Sigh.

Apocalypse a-coming.

To-do after exams: get fit, go swim, quit vices, learn to love myself.

To-do after exams: get fit, go swim, quit vices, learn to love myself.

To-do after exams: get fit, go swim, quit vices, learn to love myself.

ps. I'm wearing an AA toque, because I just dyed my hair and it yeah, wasn't good- Plus, I'm studying.. hence NO MAKE UP. GUGH. DEATH FACE-

For the love of coffee

I came across a website of a cafe down in San Francisco, CA, called Fourbarrel. Not only is their site FANTASTICALLY COFFEE-CLASSY ~~~ Their coffee sounds sooooo gooooooooooooooooooooood. This is their contact info that I'm going to literally TREASURE so that when I one day make a SF trip, I can hit it up !! 375 Valencia St (at 15th) SF, CA 94103 : (415) 252-0800 : M-Sat 7-8, Sun. 8-8



They do wholesale beans.. so maybe I can WHOLESALE their bean collection !???! Ahhahah, just kiddingz. That would NOT be possible. But their site also works like an online shop for beans from around the world, blends, and some merch, etc. Awesome right !? I want to try some of their beans for they make it sound like HEAVEN. I mean, take a look at their description of one from Indonesia, Sulawesi Toraja Sapan: Dried pineapple, rosewater and concord grape. Earthy body with tropical wood notes and a balanced structure. 12 oz.

click click FOURBARREL click click

GAHHHHH !!!!! TO DIE FOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAHHHHH !!!!! TO DIE FOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAHHHHH !!!!! TO DIE FOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And if you want to procrastinate A WEE BITTLE LONGER.. I mean like not even a minute... because this is just a short comic strip.. click the picture to learn about the..

Ps. I dyed my hair into a COMPLETE FAILURE, basically. We gave it our best though. So I am content about it. Everything will be alright.... This was before THE SHOCK-

Source: Oatmeal, Fourbarrel

AHHHHHH MA TUMMMBLLRRR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEADS UP ! MY TUMBLR IS ALL WONKY AND WON'T WORK FOR MEEEE.
I was tweaking the theme code and it was going well until all of a sudden it crashed ! And it turned into that massive jumble of UGLY GREY !!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I WILL FIX IT THOUGH !! So... hang tight until it's back to normal. Please help me fix ? WAA WAA. Totally heartbroken. Gonna go drink more coffee.

Sigh, until then, amuse yourself with this beauty editorial from W featuring Sasha Pivovarova !
I don't recall when this was taken - either 2008 or 2009 - and who shot it... except this editorial has been around for couple of seasons. Yeup. Have fun ! I like it a lot !






Hope everyone's St. Patty's Day was filled with lots of green beer ! :D
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january 5th 2011 webcam

Quote of the day: You seem like a married woman..
I'M STILL 19. I ASPIRE TO KEEP MY YOUTH FOREVER. GUESS I'VE NOT BEEN DOING TOO WELL, EH !? So I'll leave it up to you.. do I actually look like a married woman !? T^T
Webcamming at school; wearing MAC's limited Disney villain collection lipstick.



It's a sad sad sad song. It's a beautifully frank one.
꼭이만큼만 (Just This Much) by Casker

it's exam time and i've been far away

getting out of bed

on the wrong side. Really means this. I just deleted a whole worth of pictures from my camera that weren't downloaded on to the computer yet.
Kill me now. I was trying to get them on to the computer to blog with them.. Guess all the effort of taking pictures was all for nothing. What a waste.
Don't feel like doing anything for awhile today.
Bye byes.