苏打的凌晨三点俱乐部

[Book]
    Life After God by Douglas Coupland.
    My new found interest,Douglas Coupland, has been around for awhile.Born and raised on a Canadian NATO bas in former West Germany, he's now actually living in Vancouver. He writes stories about the modern crowd. How do we cope with loneliness? How do we deal with anxiety?The collapse of relationships?How do we reach the quiet,safe layer of our lives? Yet he is not another Sex and the City type of writer.
    He devotes large paragraphs to the observation of animals because "there is something about the animals that takes us out of ourselves and takes us out of time and allows us to forget our own lives". He wonders how to live the life as a part of "the generation of no religion"---"I felt like Jesus was sex----or rather, I felt like I was from another world where sex did not exist and I arrived on Earth and everyone talked about how good sex felt, and showed me their pornography and built their lives around sex, and yet I was forever cut off from the true sexual experience.I did not deby that the existance of Jesus was real to these people---it was merely that I was cut off from their experience in a way that was never connected".
    His latest book"J-pod" is about overeducated/underachieved young professionals working at a videogame production company in Vancouver.

[Movie]
Derailed

    I wasn't planning on watching this movie since its trailer looked crappy.
    After the first 10 minutes, I had a feeling that it was just gonna be like one of those "having an affair outside marriage with uncontrollably hot sex and making a big mess" kinda suspense. I even started to compare it to the recently released Matching Point by Wood Allen.
     After the first 20 minutes, I was shocked by the degree of violence and at some point covered my eyes to avoid the psychologically/physically brutal scenes. At the end of the movie, I actually thought this might be the best suspense I've watched in a while. As a big fan of suspense movies, I hardly find really good ones. The table turns in a totally unexpected way in as opposed to the other similar movies that have a common pattern for the plot.Enough said, if you like thrillers, give this movie a shot.

[Moving]
    Excited, challenged, determined, frightened, tired, but I am still hopeful.
    Yes it's a good state of mind when you have hope, even just a little bit, but that's all I need for now.