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Origin of Love (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ching under Movies, Videos.

When the earth was still flat,
And the clouds made of fire,
And mountains stretched up to the sky,
Sometimes higher,
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs.
They had two sets of arms.
They had two sets of legs.
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked; while they read.
And they never knew nothing of love.
It was before the origin of love.

The origin of love.

And there were three sexes then,
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
Called the children of the sun.
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one.
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son.

The origin of love.

Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
“I’m gonna kill them all
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants.”
And Zeus said, “No,
You better let me
Use my lightening, like scissors,
Like I cut the legs off the whales
And dinosaurs into lizards.”
Then he grabbed up some bolts
And he let out a laugh,
Said, “I’ll split them right down the middle.
Gonna cut them right up in half.”
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun
And the moon
And the earth.
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up into a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us of the price we pay.
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane,
To scatter us away,
In a flood of wind and rain,
And a sea of tidal waves,
To wash us all away,
And if we don’t behave
They’ll cut us down again
And we’ll be hopping round on one foot
And looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you
We had just split in two.
You were looking at me.
I was looking at you.
You had a way so familiar,
But I could not recognize,
Cause you had blood on your face;
I had blood in my eyes.
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine.
That’s the pain,
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart;
We called it love.
So we wrapped our arms around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
We were making love,
Making love.
It was a cold dark evening,
Such a long time ago,
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
It was the sad story
How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures,
It’s the story of
The origin of love.
That’s the origin of love.

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How Geeks Spend Memorial Weekend

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Ching under Family, Movies.

I was telling Brian that we solidified our “geekiness” by how we spent this weekend. While the “cool kids” were all hanging out at the lake, we spent most of the weekend indoors.

Of course, we were outdoors on Saturday morning for the photo walk. That’s still a relatively “geeky” activity, though, considering participants were mostly Tweeps and Flickrites.

We had our massage that afternoon. Brian got the better end of the deal, because his massage consisted of so much more than mine. He got hot stones and everything, while I didn’t even get a warm towel.

I got a pretty routine rub. I can’t complain, though, because it was an “el cheapo” massage. Brian got a fantastic deal because of all the extras he received during his massage.

The next day (yesterday) we met his parents and Chad at the movies. We watched Terminator Salvation. It was alright. Not as good as Star Trek for sure. Although, I did get to see the Sherlock Holmes movie trailer. Seemed like it would be really good, so I’m glad I got to preview it. That will be a movie to looking forward to in December.

As for Terminator, I could have waited for it to come out on DVD. Brian is a major fan of the franchise, though, so we naturally had to go on opening weekend. The pictures on the left were taken at the theater, while we were waiting for our food to show up.

We spent all day today at my mom and dads, again mostly indoors. Brian and I learned how to play mah jongg for money. I had fun, but I think it gave Brian a headache. So anyway, that’s how geeks like us spend Memorial weekend.

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The Ladies of Terminator: Salvation

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Ching under Movies.

Here’s a bit of trivia for you. Did you know that Bryce Dallas Howard is the daughter of famous director Ron Howard? Besides having the same last name, the red hair should have tipped me off.