Archive for: December, 2008

Good boy!

Dec 29 2008 Published by Moos under Thinking out loud, YouTube, daily stuff

It’s not about making people like you or not, because you can’t force people to like you that’s for sure, and I know that, but sometimes I feel like I should’ve acted as an asshole with certain people… because being the “good” boy that I am doesn’t work all the time… please no one asks me to define “good” or what is considered “good” because that’s just going in circles… “hey, define good? cuz it’s relative!” well, fuck you! lol!

Anyway, I really hate myself when I have to become an asshole with some people *which isn’t something I usually do!!* because I have to, or else I would get fucked over by whoever this person is… you know when you say “ok, I’ll let it go this time” and when it’s the 10th time or something and you still say it… it sucks… I maybe should’ve used a better word than “asshole” like “more firm” or “more strict” or “more distant” or something… but why am I using “asshole” is becuz the situation makes me feel like it’s not me, not that it’s not my right to feel this way but it’s 7 A.M and I haven’t slept much so bear with me shwayya…

Is it really that when you ignore certain people they start caring for you and asking about you, and when you’re just there all the time it’s like nothing? madri :s

People are weird and everyone thinks they’re doing the “right” thing, even if you don’t think you’re doing the right “thing” you are doing it by not doing it… get it? so that means we are always thinking we are doing the right thing, maybe not the best right thing but something that’s just right right now… *yawns* …. Eric Andersen is such a good songwriter! anyway, so I think me trying to treat some people differently is my way of doing the right thing, cuz I had it with certain things or maybe some certain method that I’m using that isn’t working… well, sometimes I just don’t feel like an asshole… sometimes I feel wise *ah, who doesn’t!* or funny or simply good… maybe certain intentions are good but yet they are projected negatively and they get misread by whoever is I’m dealing with… of course, I would have no idea how negatively they are projected… my keyboard just went from grey to green for a second… so is this my problem? is this my fault? of course no, I think people should be more honest towards each other… there’s nothing wrong to ask if you think you heard something wrong, or got it wrong… it’s not a big deal to ask “can you repeat that? I didn’t get it really” unless that’s all you keep saying for quiet a time, but that’s not the deal here, or is it?

hmm… maybe I am projecting myself negatively here and I don’t know it… but you should know that I’m thinking that I’m doing the “right” thing, and if you ask why? it’s because I’m a good boy :)

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Since I’m obssessed with heads in art, specially my own head… I love this video so much… I’ve seen it like more than 30 times, the music is really good ba3ad… it’s called “Your Face” animated by Bill Plympton, the film was nominated for best short film in the Academy… anyway, watch it and love it…

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من دبي

Dec 22 2008 Published by Moos under Fiction, Thinking out loud

This is about me, some of my friends, my stay in Dubai, people I met there. Some of it is fiction, assumptions I made and things I imagined and thought of…

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بين ناطحات السحاب
البرد خانق
لازلت أشعر بطعم البطاطس التي أكلتها قبل ساعة

رائحة فم كريهة
خاب ظني

ربما كان يجب أن أعانق ناطحات السحاب
أو ألعقها
أو أضعها في مؤخرتي

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يلتفت يمينا و يسارا
يبحث عنها
لا يعرفها
مجرد فكرة

ستعود يوما ما

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دهون و كربوهيدرات و قليل من السموم الغازية
بعض المشارب التي لا يجدها في بلده
امراءة قبيحة
تاكسي
فندق

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تتكلم بسرعه
تقاطع كلامهم
لديها العديد من الذكريات
تسأل كثيرا… جدا
ما هو لونك المفضل عندما كنت في التاسعة؟
و لماذا لم يكن الأخضر؟
و مالعيب في الأخضر عندما تكون في التاسعة؟

تستعمل هاتفها
مؤدبة جدا
إذا لم تكن إحدى صديقاتها

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يريد رؤيته
يسأل عنه
متى يأتي؟
متى أقابله؟
متى أقبله؟
على الخدين فقط…
مثل كل الرجال
العرب

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يريد أن تصبح حياته أفضل
هذا ما يحلم به طيلة حياته

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في زحمة
يجلس بمفرده
لا يريد أن يعتقد الناس أنه وحيد

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أغبياء
جميعهم
أنا ثانيهم غباءً
الأول هو من يكتب هذه السطور

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يمتنع عن الطعام
لمدة نصف ساعة

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يمتنع عن الشراب
لمدة 10 ساعات

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يمتنع عن دخول الحمام
ل 4 أيام

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يمتنع عن السعادة
لمدة غير محددة الجنسية

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في المدينة الكبيرة
بين البنايات الشاهقة
في أحد الأزقة

يزق

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يادي الكسوف

كسوف الشمس

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من خلال التعرف على الناس
يريد أن يتعرف إلى أكثر
و عندما يتعرف على أكثر يتعرف على أكثر منهم
و أكثر منهم و منهم

لا أحد منهم يتذكر اسمه
و هو لا يتذكر أسمائهم و لا أشكالهم
لكنه يعرفهم جميعا

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يمسك سلاحه بإصبعه
يشرب كأسا من الماء
يغص
يكح
يبصق

يريد أن يخوض حربا تنهي كل حروب العالم

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فريد من نوعه
و نوعه فريد
و اسمه فريد
و ما ذا الذي يريد؟
أن لا يذهب إلى منزل جدته في أول أيام العيد

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يضع إبهامه على نافذة السيارة
يرفعه

يرى بصمته
مسافرة معه
تتحرك من خلفها أوجه المطاعم و المحلات

يقع في حبها

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و هو نائم
يأتيه ملك الموت
يقف عن رجليه
يخرج ملك الموت هاتفه النقال
يأخذ صورا للذكرى

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يمد ذراعه ناحية قنينة الماء
لا يستطيع الوصول إليها
يحاول

يقرر أن يسير إليها
3 أمتار فقط

يترك فراشه
يسير
يتلخبط في مشيته…
يقع و يموت

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في ليلة باردة
يلبس الاسود
يتسلل كاللصوص
ليأخذ حقه

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فقد النظر لثواني معدودة
كان يغرق في طعم الكباب

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حقيقة مرة
يضيف إليها بعض السكر
و الحليب
و يخلط

اكتشف أنه يستطيع شرب المر

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مريضة جدا و تعبانه
ليس بالإمكان علاجها حتى إذا أخذنا روحها و وضعناها في جسد آخر…
أنا لا أتكلم عن الخطوط الجوية الكويتية

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يطلب وجبة مليئة بالمعرفة
يأكلها بشراهة

بعد 10 ساعات يتركها في الحمام
و لا يشطفها

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صدفة…
تؤدي إلى ليلة طويلة
لا أذكر من كان المستمع و من كان المتكلم

لولاها لنمت في الشارع

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في السفر أكون العديد من الصداقات
دائما أفضلها تكون في آخر يوم
و الأفضل منها
تكون قبل الإقلاع

و أسوأها تنتظرني في الكويت

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تقول أن كلامك عين الصواب
و أنك تسير على الخط السليم
و أنك تعرف ما تفعل و كيف تفعله
و لا يوجد لك منافس
و أنت الأفضل
و الكل يسير في الطريق الخطأ
و كلهم خراف غبية

أخبرني لماذ أنت أتعس إنسان أعرفه؟

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انكسرت القلادة
و انقسمت إلى قطعتين
و انضمت القطعتين إلى قلادة أكبر
و تريد القلادة أن تكبر و تكبر
و أصبح فيها لؤلؤ و ذهب و فضة و خشب

ستنكسر القلادة يوما ما
و السبب امراءة لعينة…
أو رجل لعين…

لاأتذكر جيداً

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لا يعرف القراءة
و بالطبع الكتابة

رائحته منفرة
و ترى أثر الشمس على جبهته

أعجبني…
لديه دكتوراه في رعي الأغنام
و يعرف عنها مالا تعرفون

أيها الأغبياء!

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هو عدو الندم

و في لحظة طيش
تمنى أن تكون الذكريات كالورق
تصنع منها سفينة صغيرة
و ترميها في الزبالة

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Back

Dec 17 2008 Published by Moos under Events, YouTube, daily stuff

I just got back from Dubai 2 days ago… the festival was BIG!! what an organization!
There were about 12 screens playing different films in the same time!! It was really hard to decide which films to see… let alone the conferences and the workshops and parties… it was just big! and I’m really amazed…

The best film I’ve seen there was “Three Monkeys” directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A truly masterpiece. I also liked “Salamandra” directed by Pablo Aguero who won the Jury Prize for best short film at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Salamandra was his first feature length film. I saw “Il Divo” by Paolo Sorrentino, this film was so HEAVY!! and full of dialogue and the acting was brilliant. Also saw “Return to Hansala” a spanish-morrocan production which was fine. The actress in it was there at the festival, her name is Farah Ahmed and she is so sexy… so I took a photo with her and nothing more… ok, I complimented her on her performance too much maybe… I also met Hany Abu-Assad the director of the plaestinian film “Paradise Now” and also took a photo ba3ad…

And one day when I was going to have lunch, I understood how 13 year old girls feel when they see The Jonasd Brothers or whatever… I saw Terry Gilliam!!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes!! I ran to him as he was leaving his table and said hi and asked him to take a photo with him, he said do it very quickly cuz his car was waiting for him outside… YES!!!! I took a photo with Terry Gilliam!! WOOOHHHOOOO!!! I told him I’m a big big fan and thank you for your time….

can you believe this? I met Terry Gilliam… I never believed in taking photos with famous people, but when you see some you rtethink that a9lan…

I also saw Brendan Fraser but he was in so much hurry that I thought it’s better not to go and talk to him… but who cares!! I got Terry Gilliam!!

I also missed a private party with Nicholas Cage, cuz I knew one of the organizers there and she offered to let us in… but I went and had a bad burger instead!

The weather there was great, the best time of year to visit Dubai really… not so cold not so warm but beautiful…

I’m very amazed by the festival and the whole organization… great great job people of DIFF.

In Dubai I wrote some stuff… I don’t know what to call them really… pieces maybe… I wrote them in Arabic, and I’ll post them in a few days… I’ll post them without editing them or anything cuz I want to them to be read the way they came to me… though I know some of them might be better edited but madr… I wanna post them as I wrote them…

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This is “Storytime” by Terry Gilliam… one of his early animations… he did it in 1968

Enjoy!

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Attending DIFF

Dec 08 2008 Published by Moos under Events, YouTube, daily stuff

I’m going to Dubai for a week, leaving tomorrow morning and coming back on 15th… I’m attending DIFF (Dubai International Film Festival) my friend’s short film was selected to be screened there… and will be seeing other filmmaker friends from the gulf… and will go shopping for books of course… and who knows, I might lose my virginity to a whore! :p

I hope everyone enjoys the holiday… that’s if you get one…

This is “The Tired City” a 2005 short film by Chan John & Hung Pam

I hope you enjoy it : )

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dance dance dance, teach us to be true… so dance dance dance, cuz we love you!

Dec 06 2008 Published by Moos under Thinking out loud, YouTube

Anyone would get it by now I guess…

Life goes on : )

I’m currently working on my next short film based on the short story “لوحة زرقاء مبكرة جدا” written by Yahya T. Ali… hopefully I’ll start shooting on December 22nd…

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This is Crucifixion by Phil Ochs… a very beautiful song…

just listen, unfortunately the video isn’t that good…

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