Tinay Tries Youtube

Hello guys! Since last September 2016, I've decided to create a Youtube channel, just because I want to try something new. My channel is [kinda] thriving, at the moment I have 21 subscribers and around an average of 40 views per video. But more than the viewers and subscribers and the likers, I enjoy creating materials for my channel. I think it is helping me channel my creativity and explore makeup and creating videos.

However, it would be nice to have more viewers and subscribers. I think it will help me grow as a Youtuber and a content creator, it will help with my creativity, and it's just gonna be more fun when you have a bigger online friends and family. As such, I am promoting my channel (and my Facebook page).

One thing you should know about my channel is that I am not an expert on anything I do there (makeup, singing, and vlogging), just like I did not claim to be an expert blogger here. I just want to try out new things (I've said that already) and have some fun. Actually, that is one of the small things I hate about being a Mass Comm graduate, I know a bit of everything and I want to try doing those things!!! Anyway, going back to my Youtube channel, I just created that (as well as this blog) to have an avenue to explore new things and to grow as a communicator. And while I'm doing my blog and vlog contents, I realized that I enjoy doing them. And I think that is the most important thing about life - doing and enjoying.

Just like when I created my Anjelica Huston Day celebration last January 22... I mean, I re-watched my all-time favorite film and at the same time, I created a Youtube content!

My latest video is a Valentine's date makeup tutorial (of sorts). I hope you'd take 11 minutes of your time and watch it :D

I hope you guys would watch my videos and help me grow :) So, please click the links below and let's be a one big happy family. I would love to hear your SROs: your suggestions, reactions, and opinions. Thank you!!! And just like what I say on my Youtube channel, NO HATE!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANJELICA HUSTON!!!

May you have more birthdays to come!

I guess it was never a secret that Anjelica Huston is my ultimate favorite actress. And I would like to take this opportunity to greet her a happiest birthday. I wish you all the best.

For those who doesn't know, or those who do not bother to care, Anjelica was born on July 8, 1951. You do the math, guys. Yes, she is no longer young, but she definitely the most beautiful woman I've ever saw. By 'saw' of course I meant to see in movies as I haven't had the wonderful chance to meet her personally.

Anyway, I first encountered Anjelica when I watched The Addams Family on August 2007. When I finally realized how much I was 'addicted' to her, I used the ever-trustworthy Internet to search her out. Of course, Wikipedia worked wonders, I learned that she was born on July 8, 1951. Despite my being forgetful about dates, especially during my History classes, Anjelica's birthday was permanently stamped in my mind.

The perfect couple

Anjelica changed the course of my dreams, no joke. Before I really wanted to become a teacher (actually, I still do). I never had a favorite actor or actress. I never dreamed of becoming an actress, because I thought acting was not a worthwhile occupation. And when I fell in love with Anjelica, I not only had my first ever favorite actress, but I thought acting wasn't so bad after all. She started the acting fire in me, which was intensified by my other favorite actors and by Anjelica as well, whom I have been scouting everywhere for her films.

Then of course, there is The Addams Family, my ultimate favorite film. Because Anjelica was in the film, my liking for it intensified. And because of that, I started writing fan fictions about The Addams Family and to be more specific, about the relationship of Morticia and Gomez. Of course, while writing, I would imagine Anjelica as Morticia, and Raul Julia (although I know he is already gone and could never be Gomez again) as Gomez.

My collection ;)

Despite how my family is confused with my liking for Anjelica, I pursued buying, downloading, and watching her films, watching her TV shows, listening to her two solo songs and one group song in Smash, buying and reading her two-part autobiography, and looking for other things that are related to her (like Jack Nicholson's biography, because I know that she would be mentioned there; the novelization of The Crossing Guard; the book sequels of The Prizzi's Honor; magazine clippings that include Anjelica; watching the films her father, John Huston did; watching the films and TV shows which include her brother, Danny Huston, and nephew, Jack Huston; and other stuff I cannot remember at the moment). Years ago, I even would print her photos that I saw online. The collection is huge, as a matter of fact. Thank goodness I now have my own laptop. If not, I would still be printing out her pictures.

Rocking it!

I remember, during one HTML project for my Computer class years back, when we were supposed to create a web site using HTML about anything we want, I created a page dedicated to Anjelica. I still have the file, though I would rather not share it because it was very much mediocre and really looked like the work of a noob.

Much of what I do and think has something to do with Anjelica. Of course, I am no longer as obsessed as I was almost eight years back, when I used to watch The Addams Family and Addams Family Values alternately everytime I get home from school and pretending I was doing my assignment when my mother or my sister arrives. But still, I make it a habit to remember to post a greeting for Anjelica's birthday, what us, fans, call Anjelica Huston Day which we celebrate on the 22nd of January, and on my Anjelicaholic anniversary (September 5).

I made this blog to share how proud I am to be an Anjelicaholic. And partly because I forgot to submit my picture to Sam (the admin of Anjelica Huston Fan Page and another huge fan of Anjelica) for Anjelica's birthday. LOL :D

Now, a message to the wonderful Ms. Huston... Well, Happy birthday, first of all. And I wish you all the best (I think I am being redundant here, hahaha!!) I wish you good health. And I wish you all the blessings the Lord is capable of giving. I also wish to see more of you on films and TV shows. It greatly pleases us, your fans to see you. I also wish you good health. And lastly, I wish you'd come to the Philippines for a late book signing of your autobiography or even just to visit the country. I would really do anything to meet you in person, it's just that I cannot come to the US because, well, it's too expensive for me :)

The most beautiful and the kindest creature to walk the planet

Again, happiest birthday, to you, my greatest idol!!! :D

PHOTO CREDITS TO: Samantha Pardo of Anjelica Huston Fan Page!!!

A Walk with Love and Death

I won't pretend as if I am an expert in critiquing, but I have my own take on the films and shows I have seen. And as a fan of Anjelica Huston, I believe that the actress I am idolizing aren't as bad as critiques think she is. Just like in this film that I am going to review, in which Anjelica was badly reviewed by many critics, I believe that Anjelica's performance wasn't THAT bad. The film I am talking about is A Walk with Love and Death, which is Anjelica's debut as an actress and was directed by her late father, John Huston.

In A Walk with Love and Death, critics said that Anjelica cannot act, which led to the failure of the film. However, I believe otherwise. Not because she is my favorite actress and my claim is biased (it may be but I am doing my best to lessen if not eradicate my subjective point of view), but because I saw that Anjelica can act, though I know she could have done better.

I was really excited when Anjelica Huston Fan Page shared that A Walk with Love and Death is already available in Youtube. So I immediately watched it and I actually expected the worst since it was critically panned when it was shown. At first, I could not concentrate because Anjelica was super duper cute! But I told myself that I need to concentrate so that I can prove the critics wrong. And I was able to do so, if not fully, at least partially.

The first thing I noticed about Anjelica's acting was her eyes were blank in some of the scenes like that when Heron and other soldiers were fighting with the peasants. Another thing I noticed was that Anjelica was not able to show the feeling of being scared just like in the scene where Claudia said "Heron, I'm afraid!", when Claudia had a nightmare of what the peasants did to her father, and during the last scene where Claudia and Heron were waiting for their deaths.

During those said scenes, she was just scrunching up her face and closing her eyes tightly. I see this as a sign that Anjelica knows how to act. I think what only hindered her to giving out more for the role was her reluctance to work with her father.

Anjelica's good points in the film were:

1. Her eyes suggested innocence. That's what made her look even more angelic, besides her cute features.
2. Though at some scenes her eyes look blank, it gave the impression that Claudia was very reserved.
3. Although her eyes sometimes look blank, Anjelica knew how to utilize other parts of her face such as her eyebrows and her lips. I noticed this from the garden scene at the first part of the film where Claudia and Heron first had a conversation.
4. Anjelica can cry and it touches me, really. The scene where Heron found Claudia in a convent and she was narrating what happened the day the peasants attacked their home, really moved me. The way she looked so devastated and broken made me sad and sympathize with the character.
5. During the scene where Claudia and Heron were selling the candlesticks she stole from the convent, I saw Rodmilla de Ghent (a character Anjelica portrayed in the film Ever After). The way Claudia spoke in such demeanor, the way she raised her eyebrow, and the way she carried herself was exactly the same manner Anjelica did Rodmilla.
6. Lastly, Anjelica already established a signature movements like the eyebrow movements, the leaning-forward-when-angry motion, and her loving look to her on-screen partner.

I think it is wrong to say that the film failed solely because of Anjelica's acting. I think the film failed also because of the screenplay. The film was written with too many things happening that the film seemed to be too short for all the things that were happening. Also, since there seemed to be too many things happening in the film, it seemed to be dragging and you get bored of waiting for the next thing to happen.

In totality, I think that the critics were too hard on Anjelica. Yes, her performance was not as good as her next films but it wasn't that bad, considering the factors that affected Anjelica's performance. I know Anjelica could've done better but I think the film helped Anjel grow as both a person and an actress.

All I can say is, I love Anjelica Huston, no matter what. :D

7 is the Perfect Number

They say seven is a lucky number. Some even says that seven is the perfect number. I usually do not agree since I never liked the look of number seven, especially if that is how my grade starts. But I guess, there is always an exemption to the rule. Just like this year, I am celebrating my seventh year of becoming an Anjelicaholic.

Photo credits to Ana Flavia Francesconi

Seven years ago, I never liked watching films. I never even thought of having a job in the industry of acting and production. All I thought was that I want to become a teacher, period. But on September 5 of 2007, I saw The Addams Family of 1991 and unwillingly fell in love with the Addams matriarch - the ever so wonderful Morticia Addams.

The first character of Anjelica I ever saw which remained a favorite of mine

I remembered praying before I sleep that hopefully the woman who played Mrs. Addams is still alive. And thank goodness, Anjelica Huston is still very much alive until now.

I remember clearly how I got to watch The Addams Family, as if it was just yesterday. Seven years ago, my Filipino teacher asked us to do a movie review of a recent film. Since I was no film buff, I have to rent from a local video store. So my mom, my sister, and I went to the mall carrying my sister's membership card. When we got there, we got into a fight with the staff there because they said that my sister was not registered and we cannot rent unless we are members. We argued that how could it be possible that my sister is not a member when she has a membership card. It took several phone calls, further arguments, and confirmations until the staff, with their manager, decided that to shut us up, they will give us free membership despite that I was a minor and my sister and I do not have valid IDs in hand. And so I rented the film I wanted to review and reviewed it. I passed my paper and probably got a good score.

Having that membership card entitled me to rent movies, as long as it will be three films per week (as per my mom). And the first movie I rented after the movie review was The Addams Family VCD because I remembered seeing it as a child and being scared of them (I do not know exactly why but probably it was because they were wearing black). Anyway, I rented it on a Tuesday and I had five days before having to return it.

My all time favorite movie

 
When I got home, I immediately watched it in our desktop computer (we did not have a television set that time). The next day, my sister invited me to watch the film again and I obliged, not telling her I already watched it the day before. Since we did not have speakers for our computer, we had to rely on the CPU's built-in speakers which were not that loud. We already finished the first disk when my sister realized that we can watch with the earplugs on so we can understand the lines. Hence, we watched the first disc for the second time. The next day, a Thursday, I was not able to watch The Addams Family because my mom was already home before I was and she knew I already seen the film and watching it again would not make sense (to her). And then on Friday, I watched The Addams Family again. That was when I realized how beautiful Morticia was.

That started my addiction to Morticia Addams, which led to my addiction to Anjelica Huston. I remember saving up for the VCD of The Addams Family and Addams Family Values. I also remember keeping my VCD of Addams Family Values under my clothes because I was not allowed to buy consecutively. During those hype moments, I would go to the internet shop before going home from school and download loads of Anjelica's pictures and printing them. I would also print fan fictions about The Addams Family and keeping those, together with the pictures, in a clear book which is already thick. I would even print Anjelica's pictures in wallet-size photo paper and just keep them. And funny enough, I still have them at home.

Reading Addams Family fan fictions caused me to write fan fictions as well. And idolizing Anjelica made me want to become an actress as well.

Anjelica Huston has been my inspiration for the past seven years (and plus two other wonderful actresses as well). And I am so thankful to my Filipino for having us make a film review, without of which wouldn't make me know Anjelica Huston.

The magnificent ANJELICA HUSTON!

And I guess, all I want to say is... HAPPY SEVENTH ANJELICAHOLIC ANNIVERSARY TO ME!



Photo credits to Anjelica Huston Fan Page.