Notes from Mo's Diary
Boy, did I get a lot of calls for putting my bets on De la Hoya versus our very own Manny Paquiao. What can I do? I've always been a De la Hoya fan, and I've always believed in him. Paquiao is just a newbie in this game, I mean in this weight category, and I don't really care if he's our national hero. No wonder we don't have any medals in the Olympics. Boxing goes beyond national borders and we should not be too onion skinned especially if the topic relates to sports. Any athlete worth his medals knows that he's only as good as his last fight.
Speaking of last fights, I've watched the new Beverly Hills 90210, and boy oh boy, everyone in this show looks smoking hot. I really enjoyed this show in the 1980's, back in the day when I lived in Bulacan and we had no cable, and there were five television stations. This new show looks so good, and the topics are so controversial. I won't say too much. Try to catch it, or download it at the Internet.
I've mentioned the new Bond movie, and I loved Casino Royale. I was skeptical at first with Quantum of Solace and I've said repeatedly that I'm a Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer fan because they can wear simple jeans and t-shirt and still kick all the bad asses of the world. Bond tries to look dapper in his tux, and I hate that. I can't imagine an agent looking so well dressed the whole time.
And so I watched Quantum with trepidation, and Sweet Jesus, this movie is a revelation. For one, I see Bond in a quite disheveled blue t-shirt and dusty white jeans, and the only way he was able to wear a tuxedo was when he stole one from a security guy.His clothes are dapper, but it's more of an afterthought, not his fashin raison d'etre. For the first time, Bond's clothes are utilitarian and serves a purpose.
The fight scenes are just chillingly awesome, with fist fights in highly unusual places like the elevator or in a bell tower. It's so believable that Bond even used a book, an ax, just anything to overthrow an opponent.
This is also the first of the 22 Bond movies where the plot flows organically from the last installment, and Quantum of Solace is a far stronger picture for this plot continuity.
What made me sit up this time also is that this is the most human Bond I've encountered in a long time. Bond used women like Kleenex and I found that quite dehumanizing, and totally disrespectful of women.This is the first time in Bond history that he doesn't bed a Bond girl. The smoking hot Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko - the next superstar, I reckon. Solid acting as a Bolivian secret agent despite being Ukrainian)got a kiss at the end of the movie, though. Now that I think about it, the kiss was an afterthought, like his clothes.
Well,that quick kiss was appropriate because he was still grieving for Vesper Lynd and and her death so enraged Bond that his thirst for revenge and duty got mixed up so dangerously as he hunts down the shadowy group that blackmailed Lynd to betray him.
It was an altogether fun movie to watch, and not something to miss.
Oops, time has flown by. I still have to buy a nice Barong Tagalog for my brother's wedding in the States next week. Now, where do I buy this? Time to call Mojo Jojo and Grace Lee and ask for fashion pointers. Goodtimes!
(Postscript: Many of the topics were discussed in this blog, specifically the De la Hoya vs.Paquiao fight; the new Beverly Hills 90210 show and Mo's views on Jason Bourne/Jack Bauer vs. James Bond. By the way, the Twister will be gone for a week as he attends his brother's wedding in the US.
Notes from Mo's Diary is purely fictional and does not represent Mo's real thoughts and points of view, but comes from the imagination of this blogger.
This blogger would also like to apologize for the delay in putting out this piece. I was in Boracay last week, and it was unfortunate that when I was there, there was a typhoon in Aklan and I had a hard time getting a radio signal to hear the show. I'm still trying to catch up, and listening at this great website to listen to the past GoodTimes audio recordings. Hopefully I can catch up in time:)
