- The Little Theater. At MoMA, July 12th 2007.

You may want to watch these two short clips about Dali and his art:

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Even if it wasn’t for my twisted dreams involving elements of his surrealist works, Robert De Niro and a finger in an open bullet wound in my throat, honestly, you know I can relate to someone who said:

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Finally! After five days of terrible dependence and relevant immobility…Havana Brown returned home! My precious companion is now an image of perfection. Beautiful, beautiful Havana.

I wasn’t so sure the insurance company’s garage will do a good job at giving her the plastic surgery she needed. I think I was even terrified she would return with a clumsy patch across her face. I called the company so many times this morning, every 30 minutes or so, and literally gazzazet-hom until they finally promised they will call me when she arrives to their HQ.

At around 2 PM the company called and asked me to come pick up Havana. I left the office in a hurry and when I got to HQ my eyes were searching, looking around, trying to find her…”Will there be a patch?”… “Will it be a cheap paint-job?”…”Where is she?”

An image of perfection, that’s what I saw when I spotted her parked next to a restaurant close by. You’d think an insurance company would have a parking lot around, but not in this land of virtually non-existent oversight. I checked Havana out, and, satisfied with the surgery, claimed the keys to that vixen.

Before:

After:

You know that my fascination with serial killers and cannibalism must have reached its peak of perversion when I celebrate the voting of my favourite on-screen character of all time, Dr.Hannibal Lecter, as the all-time top movie villain. I strangely feel a personal connection to Lecter, and that adds to my pride that he has received this honour.

Indeed, Lecter embodies supreme intellect and malice combined in one person and yet leaving some room for something humane, as odd as this may sound. He and Lucifer are not that different if you reflect on their build-up for a moment; the similarity of their names is but a cliché if you don’t dig deeper. I am sure Lecter would want you to try something new; dig deeper — you might find splendid dark things.

Voted the all-time movie villain in an American Film Institute poll, Thomas Harris’ epicurean madman has been played by three actors: Brian Cox in the 1986 Manhunter (based on the novel Red Dragon), Gaspard Ulliel as the teen Lecter in this year’s Hannibal Rising and Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and the 2002 remake of Red Dragon. Audiences connected with Lecter for his majesty and eclat as much as his dark sadism. I’ve chosen the 2001 Hannibal because, promoted from featured player to antihero, Lecter finally gets to display his sick talents center-stage; and because Hopkins makes this mad genius more insinuating and horrifying than ever.

Source: Time — Top 25 Greatest Villain

I was heart-broken twice. Once when Tsuki-san died, and once again when I saw his clone in the street and had my joy crushed instantly.

But Tsuki-san is back from the dead! He came back home after a month’s absence, dirty, beaten, and thin. My Tsuki is still alive — he never died! Or did he die, and then felt so bad for me that he returned? Cat resurrection?

Doesn’t this seem very weird? My father found him dead in the street a couple of weeks ago and I mourned him and considered a hamster for a mini-companion during my rebound time. My sister was about to get me one today but she changed her mind in the last minute. Tsuki’s girlfriend never visited us while he was gone… And Tsuki came home and brought her with him!

I gave him a bath, as I had promised myself when I saw his clone. He hated me for it, of course, but that’s OK. Who cares if he hates water as long as he is alive? Sing along: My baby is home and the joke was on me.

Welcome back, Tsuki-san!