I heard that you’re settled down.
That you found a girl and you’re married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn’t give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?
It ain’t like you to hold back or hide from the light

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited,
But I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it.
I’d hoped you’d see my face & that you’d be reminded,
That for me, it isn’t over.

Nevermind, I’ll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don’t forget me, I beg, I’ll remember you said:
“Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead”
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

You’d know how the time flies.
Only yesterday was the time of our lives.
We were born and raised in a summery haze.
Bound by the surprise of our glory days.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited,
But I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it.
I’d hoped you’d see my face & that you’d be reminded,
That for me, it isn’t over yet.

Nevermind, I’ll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don’t forget me, I beg, I’ll remember you said:
“Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead”.

Nothing compares, no worries or cares.
Regrets and mistakes, they’re memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Nevermind, I’ll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don’t forget me, I beg, I’ll remember you said:
“Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead”

Nevermind, I’ll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don’t forget me, I beg, I’ll remember you said:
“Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead”
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Everything about Adele’s performance on the 2011 Brit Awards was perfect. I’ve been watching this video on repeat for the past 2 hours. (Seriously.)

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but Ain’t It Cool News reports that Quentin Tarantino will be screening Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair in Beverly Hills in the final week of March. The Whole Bloody Affair is the full version of Kill Bill (ie., both films combined into one), but with an added 7 minutes to the Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren.

According to Anime News Network:

For the extended edition, Production I.G produced a new seven-minute sequence. Tarantino described the sequence in 2009: “I actually wrote a much longer script for the anime section during O-Ren’s revenge chapter. Remember the guy with the long hair that kills her father? It’s like, what happened to that dude? Well, I wrote it and it was the biggest, most elaborate thing I wrote — her taking him down.”

This is the best news I could hear to end what was a week that started off pretty rocky. Hoping this will be hitting blu-ray pretty quick. This is definitely a must-buy.

I’m not sure when it happened, but Vancouver is starting to really impress me as a first-class city. Maybe I’ve just been looking in all the wrong places all this time, or just completely ignorant to all the awesome things and awesome people doing awesome things in Vancouver, but it really seems like there is so much inspiring stuff going down in the city.

The WE: Vancouver exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery started just this past Saturday (thanks VAG for the free admission all day on Saturday!) and this exhibit is the perfect example of all the great things happening in Vancouver, as well as all the great ideas of some very motivated/ing Vancouverites.

At the moment, I’m halfway through a course on Issues on Contemporary Design at Emily Carr University. Our instructor, as part of our course, made it a mandatory assignment to go to the WE: Vancouver exhibit, as it shares parallel themes with what we’re studying. Last week, we talked about utopia — both as an urban paradise as envisioned by ultra-capitalist Gillette, and, on the flip side, as a super scary (and real) fascist children’s day camp. It’s all very interesting stuff, and really remarkable how design problems/solutions of the past are still so very relevant and applicable to today. After all, Vancouver’s West End district is not so far off ideologically from Gillette’s vision of utopia, isn’t it?

I encourage all Vancourites to visit the WE: Vancouver exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery while it’s still there. Artistically, there is nothing there that will really blow you away (but do check out the Ken Lum exhibit or the Unreal exhibit on the upper floors), but culturally and socially, it is all very fascinating stuff. It’s important that we all understand Vancouver as it is now and Vancouver as it should be moving forward.

Ignoring her personal problems, I’d put Amy Winehouse almost up high as Lauryn Hill as one of the most talented, soulful singers of our generation. I really do hope she comes out with a new album again some time. (And L-Boogie, too, while we’re at it.)