This is how I’m feeling today.
Who wants to be crushed?
Author: Olavia Kite
The day you give up on me
I’ll write
I’ll write a thousand poems
like a thousand paper cranes
I’ll write so much
you will trace my exact position
from a trail of letters
and you will hear
every single written word
wondering where are you dear
and thus I’ll find you
and pull you back
and hold your hand
ever so tight
and then I’ll whisper in your ear
“Hang on!”
1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be?
I think a movie about my whole life would be long and boring. I’d rather divide it into various movies… or maybe I’d just make one for now, about my life in Iowa. No, based on it, I’d have the adventures of three friends who go roadtripping around the US because they’re bored in Iowa. No, that’s too stupid. Let’s leave it in my life in Iowa. It would be called… 3×5, like John Mayer’s song. Then I’ll base the whole experience in pictures. Everything begins with a picture, or something, and at the end she (me) decides to go on the roadtrip of her life without taking pictures in order to live the experience to the fullest. Yeah, exactly what John Mayer sings.
3×5!
2. What songs would be on the soundtrack?
Let’s see… let’s arrange a 12-track Soundrack CD!
1. 3×5 – John Mayer (this would be the main theme)
2. TEGAMI – The Blue Hearts
3. BETTER DAYS – Scudelia Electro
4. BEAUTIFUL – Christina Aguilera
5. GOODBYE TO YOU – Michelle Branch
6. HIDAMARI NO UTA – Le Couple
7. BIG YELLOW TAXI – Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton
8. SAN FRANCISCO – Scott McKenzie
9. I WILL – The Beatles
10. THE REMEDY – Jason Mraz
11. CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU – Elvis Presley
12. ALL MY LOVING – The Beatles
Hm, I still have songs to place there… I’ll make it a double CD. I’ll finish this later.
3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why?
Live action… That would be way better, more serious and all. I need real landscapes!
4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc?
Good question… Let’s see… I think I wouldn’t use actual Hollywood actors.
ME – Michelle Branch. She is the only one who could qualify for the role of Laura Acosta!
MINORI – he’s very unique… who could play him? I’ll think about this and post it later.
KOTARO – the main actor from Battle Royale (not Kitano! the boy who survives and escapes with the girl). He looks a lot like Takizawa Sensei! Does anybody know his name?
FOO – Jet Li! Yeah, that would be fun!
5. Describe the movie preview/trailer.
I’ll write about this later. (Hey, this FF has made me think and think!)
I wonder why the human race wasn’t reduced to ashes a long time ago. We are so ferocious, so incapable of forgiving; we are mad dogs with an elephant’s memory.
What if the US had decided to place hundreds of nuclear bombs wherever there were conflicts… What would be left? The US? What’s the use of subjugating people that way, if there will be no people left after the attack? No people, no plants, no animals, except for a bunch of cockroaches and indelible pictures of those who stood before the walls. Were YOU fighting to keep the cockroaches?
I despise patriotism. It’s such a harmful idea, that of thinking it’s a good deed to protect a spoonful of earth which represents this idea, and this idea, and this idea… Politicians fight for their ever-so-abstract ideals, for the stupid piece of earth they fell on when they were dropped from a womb, thinking it’s worthy enough to die for it. Too bad they’re NOT the ones who end up dying.
People used to say Japanese soldiers in the Pacific War were so loyal to the Emperor, their last words were dedicated to him.
Minori told me the story of a soldier who was about to die in the field. The last words he uttered were “Okasan, okasan…”
(“Mother, mother…”)