Monday, September 08, 2008

Jeff Bebe, Baby! =p (random entry)

I have seen “Almost Famous” for the nth time and had this unexpected appreciation for one character (unexpected since before he was simply a background, hehe =p) - Jeffrey.

Stillwater’s front man is for me the most conflicted – the bearer of love disguised as hate. [To Russell: “I don’t love you man. None of us did! You act above us all, you always have. As if we’re lucky to be with you. And we have to live with it, man. I have to live with you, And now I might die with you and it’s not fucking fair!”.] And yet, I saw this worried look of him when Russell got his hand electrocuted.

He is also the most brutally honest. The bravest of them all to say what he really means –his vanity [To Russell (in the midst of their heated fight over the band’s t-shirt): “Your looks have become a problem.”], his hunger for popularity and the image of ‘cool’, his fear (of William the enemy), his love (for the annoying Leslie. Grr. But at least he’s got the balls to say it. So un-Russell Hammond.)

Hmm.. Now I start to doubt myself. Am I really pro-Jeff or am I just anti-Russell? (Just thinking aloud.)

Posted by tengcorrea at 9/08/2008 03:18:00 PM

Comments:

I dig all Cameron Crowe movies. From Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Elizabethtown. I like the way he weaves the soundtract into the stories. "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" and "Tiny Dancer" from ALmost Famous are permanent fixes in my travel playlist. Makes the long trip from Baler to Manila and vice versa shorter and manageable.

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