being heroic is not exactly what it's cracked up to be

why do i love heroes? let me count the ways... hee! ok, so there might not be a LOT of reasons, but everytime i watch it, i just fall in love all over again...

1. the writing is fantastic! tim kring was so on the money when he wrote this. i'm sure he's a big x-men fan; i mean, look at the way these characters are played out... claire is invincible = wolverine is that you? peter can absorb powers = rogue-ish... he can also RETAIN those powers and even move things with his mind (professor xavier)... the nuclear guy (forgot his name)has ties to pyro... i have yet to see a charcter who has the same powers as storm (maybeisaac mendez, since his eyes turn white too) i dunno...

2. but with the start of season two, we're introduced to new characters --> VERY INTERESTING ones at that. first, there's the infamous takezo kensei... played by the wonderful david anders from alias fame. i love him!!! this show is so getting a boost for the number of really cute, hot guys in it! then there's the much-awaited return to TV by none other than veronica mars herself, kristen bell! :) she's elle; a really shady character, but i love her nonetheless. even before i watched an episode with her in it, i've loved the fact that she's even IN the show; so it was a treat that she's a bad guy. hehe! then there're maya and alejandro --> brother and sister running from honduras to new york to find a "cure" for Maya's "disease".

3. did i say they have hot, hot, HOT guys in this show?

4. who knew takezo kensei had powers? and he seems not to age as he changes his name to one "adam monroe" (the other big bad for this season). who's the other one you ask?

5. why, no one else but SYLAR himself!

6. coolest new power? Elle's and Maya's... Maya's is kinda creepy and freaky, but it serves its purpose: IT FREAKS YOU OUT!

7. coolest power ever? peter's. he absorbs and RETAINS others' powers. how friggin' COOL is that???

8. oh, and milo ventimiglia is incredibly HOT in this season! :) yowza!

the magic of a high school musical

i would have to be honest and say that i was one of the critics of this tv-movie. when it first came out, i just ignored it. i thought it was for kids (Disney produced it, hello?) and that it was just a passing faze. WRONG. dead wrong. i decided to watch it and BOOM! I LIKED IT! actually, more than like, i LOVED it!

a complete turnaround, yes. but if you watched it, you'd love it too. well, that depends. if you love moulin rouge, justin timberlake and all the other musicals out there, then you'd like this too.

the music was the one that surprised me the most. they weren't cheesy or corny or anything like that. they sounded good. in the first installment, the songs WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR and START OF SOMETHING NEW and BREAKING FREE, the duets for the two leads have all been really good and really stand out. STICK TO THE STATUS QUO and WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER - songs by the cast - have both been lyrically-driven and they know what they're talking about".

the 2nd movie has been a real treat :) from the very beginning, WHAT TIME IS IT welcomes summer and says goodbye to school work :) the beat and melody and transition has all been well-crafted by the musicians and choreographers - some of it apparently coming from the kids themselves :)

WORK THIS OUT is the most fun of the songs as it really breaks into that "musical/dialogue" song mode. the music was made for a male singer (ZAC EFRON) but the cast joins in on the fun :) YOU ARE THE MUSIC IN ME - my favorite - is the theme of the entire franchise. it speaks not just of young love, but of love itself. the lyrics jump out at you like nothing else, and the music is the most affecting. zac and vanessa give life and soul and power to the song, which gives it its dignity and integrity. had it been sung by any other singers, it may have fallen flat on its face.

vannessa hudgens' GOTTA GO MY OWN WAY is a sad, sad, sad love song, but she gave it its power. coupled with zac in the ending part of the song, it works. they talk about missing each other and not letting go, but mostly it talks about this one girl's independence, not going with the flow; something all young people should go by nowadays.

EVERYDAY is a touching and enlightening song. it speaks of hope, love, and being true to oneself. loved it :) ALL FOR ONE is this really fun and lively song. perfect for summer! whenever i hear it, i'm reminded of the beach boys for some reason :)

all in all, the movies have been a really good addition to pop culture. we would not be the same without them :) go and watch it (whether with your kids or nieces or nephews or by yourself) - i'm sure you'll enjoy! ;)

justin on oprah :)

my favorite OTH episode because of the coda song.. LOOK AFTER YOU by THE FRAY and because of the quote:

"Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard but if you look
close enough, you can find hope in the words of children,
in the bars of the song and in the eyes of someone you love.
And if you're lucky, if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet,
the person you love decides to love you back."

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perfect example of video killing the radio star

this is my favorite justin song ever, but i was so disappointed with the video. see for yourself:

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my favorite mtv movie awards moment. ever.

Mtv Movie Awards Best Kiss 2005
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new one tree hill

One Tree Hill Season 5 Promo
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for all wentworth miller fans like me

i found this on dailymotion.com and was quite intrigued by it... i thought it was another episode of prison break, turned out it wasn't at all. pretty cute actually. really sexy and steamy... it has two versions... this one's the full one:

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english, fitz or percy

walk away - paula de anda

no, that's not a muffin brand or a selection of band names for a really old age range... for TV buffs and couch potatoes like me, that's actually a part of the concept of a really smart, adrenaline-pumped tv show called PRISON BREAK. i have to say that i'm really, really, REALLY skeptical when it comes to really good TV shows because i don't believe in "all the hype". so when this show first came out, i thought it was a fluke because of the pretty boy being capitalized with it. so i didn't watch it.

wrong move.

shoulda watched it, dumbass! now i know what i've missed: excellent plot, greatly-molded characters (they do evolve, believe it or not -- they didn't call it prison break for nothing) and yeah, wentworth miller is hot!

one thing that caught my attention was the primary plot: younger brother actually plotted to have himself jailed for shooting a gun in a bank-robbery gone bad... to save his elder brother from getting executed for a crime he didn't commit. harrowing? not so much. attention-grabber? a little. but the desperation in it was what held me. it actually made me think. would i do that to my own family if it at all happened?

michael scofiled is the structural engineer who concocted that plan. and gosh darn it, he succeeded! everything from the bolt he needed to get in and out of his cell to the VERY well-designed tattoo on his whole upper torso... who woulda thunk??

season 1 grabbed me. and i hope that to those of you reading this, you get the urge to either buy a copy or borrow it from someone who has. trust me, the whole 22 episodes went by like that. season 2 just ended in the states and i've seen bits and pieces already (i can't seem to catch the one showing in C/S channel... GRRRR!) -- and DAMN IF IT'S NOT GOOD. the finale kicked me! if there's another show other than ONE TREE HILL that you should check out, it's this one. and coming from me, that's a lot!

how every summer should be

Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty on the fire
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new stuff for the new year

ey! miss me? u better. haha! well. highlight of my week would have to be getting a new (WHAT ELSE?) phone last saturday :) YIPEE! i deserve it. my new mantra. i deserve it. i worked my butt off for this. check it out: http://www.motorola.com/consumer/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=44e25e014ac7c010VgnVCM1000008206b00aRCRD&show=productHome

guess which color's mine? hint: it's the same shade of outfit angelina jolie likes to wear almost all of the time... hmm?

OK... so. my "vacation"'s coming to an end in a few more hours. did i enjoy? hell yeah! did i get rest... mmmm, a little. i actually went back to the office last saturday to do some audits... and SHITTY! i got to see him again! SIGH... he even pointed out the fact that he was wearing the shirt i gave him. awwwwwwwwwww... sweetest ever.

OK... since i haven't been writing here for quite some time, here's my music list right now:

• delicate - damien rice
• someday - nina
• smile - tamia
• get up - ciara
• forever and ever amen - 8mm
• prelude 12/21 - AFI
• LOVESTONED - justin timberlake (i soooooooooooo love this song! transition is hot!)
• step up soundtrack is awesome
• non-believer - la rocca
• come to me - p. diddy and nicole scherzinger
• do it alone - sugarcult
• i can't get next to you - the temptations
• wolf like me - tv on the radio
• honey soundtrackis also hot
• what goes around, comes around - justin timberlake (in fact, his entire album rocks... as usual!)
• irreplaceable - beyonce
• half crazy (live) - freestyle
• sexy back and my love - justin timberlake (i'm nuts about this guy... not oo obvious, huh?)
• do it - nelly furtado
• happy feet soundtrack (song of the heart is soooooo cute!)

remember, this track list encompasses almost 5 months of me not logging in here, that's why some of them may be "old" songs.... i'm having trouble downloading songs actually. I DUNNO WHAT TO DOWNLOAD ANYMORE! i feel like i have everything here already. hee!

oh well. my thoughts are like, insane right now, so i'm not going to blurb here for long. tata!

there goes my life

wow! where do i begin? so the last post i had was back in... AUGUST????? yah. right. august. ok. so i've been REALLY busy. scratch that. extremely tired even to just write/type my feelings and thoughts and whatevers in here. but boy, did i miss it. so here goes...

i'm in love. definitely. absolutely. confirmed. good part, i see him everyday. bad part? he's married. with a kid. uh huh. or should i say uh-oh? you get the idea... or not. well, whatever. i just wanted to say it out loud. shout it from the mountaintops... or skyrise as it were. no mountains here. just buildings, malls, condos... ok, babbling. but i just realized that what i'm feeling now is the same thing i've felt when i was trying to figure out my feelings for my boyfriend. ok. did i not say i had a boyfriend? YUP. boyfriend. lover. partner. whatever you wanna call it. so there. long story short --> i'm in love with a man who's got a wife and kid (seems happy enough) and i have someone who loves me who i know i also love... talk about the tangled web we weave.

there's this quote i got from a forwarded text message: "it hurts when the person you love loves someone else and all you can do is continue loving him, watch him from a distance. you just walk away and say to yourself, "there goes my life"... it actually summarizes what i feel exactly. as of this moment, right now. every single freaking day. i go to his office and i'm reminded that he has a life with another woman. a seemingly happy life. eats up at me, really. i just am SO confused and paranoid and overwhelmed. i dunno why i'm working anymore. am i working for myself or for him or because of him? am i going insane? or am i just stupid? ok. don't answer that.

so many things have happened to me since i last posted... there was this incident with a co-worker who was fairly close to him and we got into a sort of falling out. i say "sort of" because i had NO IDEA what the fuck her problem was. and so i totally felt it that he was taking sides when that happened and i really hated him for a while. it was confirmed because apparently, other people felt the same way, or at least saw that he does take sides. bad trait to have, but i guess that's him.

so anyway, we've moved from one building to another (temporarily) and now it's been KINDA easier to see him everyday. i miss him, in the way that i don't really get to hang out with him anymore; our mode of communication is through instant messaging... which inadvertently, is the highlight of this blog. simply because he actually admitted he had a crush on me on said IM. of course when he wrote that, my heart skipped a beat, my knees went weak, i freaked out in my head, i tried so hard not to scream and i just totally went insane! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! if you knew me, you'd be laughing hysterically now. so yah. that made my week. maybe my year. i dunno.

and then there's this thing about getting people to volunteer to be OICs (officer in charge) and i was told by one of my co-workers that i should do that, i told her, i need to hear it from him. i need to know that he needs me. because there's this other girl at work, someone i USED to be close with and now for some weird reason, we've drifted apart. i just know things like that. you get caught up in your own world and next thing you know, months had gi=one by and you're not the same people as you were the lats time you were together. and i feel like people are pitting us against each other. i mean, he's really, really impressed with her and that just makes me green. yah, ok, envious. it just kills me. and now, people are pushing me to do this OIC thing, when the one person whose opinion matters the most wouldn't even open up a conversation about it with me. which just blows.

gosh it feels so good writing stuff down. not keeping it bottled up inside, ya know? coz THAT would really kill you. yah huh it's true.

so ok. maybe i'll shut up and save the rest for this month. hopefully with my upcoming VL, i get to fill this up some more. toodles!

pends... choices... and OB

hmm... where to start? well, for starters, i can't get my work out of my mind (whoa, isn't that a song?) i mean, i just wanna help the people that i've been talking to get to a quick and easy resolution for their problems. i mean, i've been so SWAMPED with work nowadays! i mean, my voicemail EVERY freakin' DAY is like 22!!!!!!!! then there're the emails, the escalations, the research on their issues, the emails to the sales reps and their supervisors... i just need a break i think. and lately, i've just been to tired to even get up. i mean, it takes a LOT of effort for me to wake up and get going... but i LOVE my job! i just... i can't give it up (i know that now) but each day that passes is like another one closer to making a decision in getting that dream that's not even completely my own and another day that i'll miss.

then there's this SERIOUS infatuation with a co-worker/boss/married guy with a kid/has a really cute butt/is really H-O-T-T/my dream guy/huge flirt/really smart and funny!Ü i just can't stop thinking about the guy and now, it's getting even worse cause i work for/with him and i see him everyday and it's driving me nuts and i just want to have sex with him to get it over with! whew! there. i said it. well... wrote it. in a blog. online. on the world wide web. damn.

did i mention i bought an ipod? and now i want to upgrade it? haha! i'm just obsessed with music! aahh! justin timberlake's new song "sexy back" is like da bomb! he's like, so flexible and so knows what he's doing and timbaland helping didn't hurt at all. and speaking of timbaland, he has a song with nelly furtado too, "promiscuous"... hawt! ;) then there's jessica simpson's song. public affair. why i like it, i don't know, but it has that whole madonna-80's vibe to it... hmm... whatever..... went shopping again! haha! love it when my money goes somewhere. bought a jacket, shoes, boots, a bag, jewelry...

and now, because of my lust for this one guy, i'm in a "love song" mood... downloading everything from shanice to jennifer love hewitt to mariah carey... wow. this guy's pretty amazing cause he's made me do something i haven't done in a long time... it's complicated, kids. go to sleep! ta-ta!

SPIDEY!

long weekend's rest

look after you - the fray
empty room - marjorie fair

last may 19-21, we were in bora and it was one of the best summers of my life! loved the sand, the water, the tan, the shopping, some rain and food... hanging out with my friends... hay grabe! saya! we just partied, met a real cute swiss guy and shopped til we dropped... the initial ride was really something for me... got really dizzy, as in di na ko makakain bwiset! i just slept til it was morning then everything was fine...

when we got there, wala, direcho tour, snorkeling, crystal cave posing, eating... shopping... getting ready for a night out... so much fun!

say somethin' - mariah carey feat. snoopy

just had a long weekend and in the midst of going back to school in a nursing course while working at amber... hmm... pretty interesting, i think.

BORA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! got back from bora last monday and i. had. a. blast. so loved everything! i will write about it in more detail this weekend when i get the chance. for now, sleep is beckoning.

impossible mission (force) hehe! and the BEST finale ever! (well, so far ;))

don't forget about us - mariah carey
say something - mariah carey and snoop dogg

OK. i'll try to critique the first "blockbuster" movie of 2006... here goes...

except for tom cruise, ving rhames, jonathan rhys meyers, (the fantastic) lawrence fishburne and the rest of the cast, M.I.:3 might as well have been called Alias The Movie. considering it was directed by the creator of the aforementioned show (J.J. Abrams), M.I.:3 applied almost all of the techniques that made sydney bristow and her C.I.A. friends famous their first (and second and third and fourth...) year out.


stickwitu - pussycat dolls (listening to the whole album, actually)

i mean, from the very beginning, it was so alias! from the 20-minute intro to the thingy inside the prisoner's brain to the adrenaline-injecting scene to the damn music! i mean, i half-expected irina derevko or sark to come out!

that said, i actually appreciated it more than the first two installments. loved the bridge scene that was kinda reminiscent of true lies... hmm... noticing a pattern here? OK. i have to say, i was kinda disappointed with keri russell's role in the film. i mean, i thought SHE was the love interest. whatever, tom cruise. keri russell's the same age (or close to) as your wife! gimme a break! little sister my ass. no offense to your leading lady, but thandie newton would've whooped her ass!

anyway, on to the BEST news! OTH ROCKED DA HOUSE! the season finale was just AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEN THUMBS UP TO MARK SCHWAHN! dude, you're da man! besides directing the season's last episode, schwahn is also the ingenius creator of this fantabulous show... the ending scene just choked me. NATHAN!

i have to admit, sophia bush was really something in her scenes with chad and hilarie (OK, hint: none of them were laughing)... i mean, she was pissed off! he!

but naley just still takes my breath away. i mean, joy was awesome! she was so fantastic just standing there helpless and screaming and desperate. and james. oh. my. gosh. did i tell you i love you yet?

i'm 24! :)

maybe - kaskade

one of the best birthdays i had in years... got 2 bouquets of flowers plus got to watch right below with TC, rye and carlo... we ate at gateway... hung out...

sweet love - kaskade

nothing's really changed with me, except maybe i'm just older... possibly wiser and most probably even more stubborn than before. yesterday i got to hang out with my best friend too... missed her so much! even though i was really, really tired, i still went out with her cuz she was having some boyfriend problems... basically, the guy's an ass. nuff said.

can't wait to go to bora!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! major planning and preparation ito... i bought some clothes already, bag na lang... i really want a red one... i think you'll look stylish and sleek if you have red luggage...

when i was watching eight below yesterday, i think i was the only one crying! i didn't care... kakaawa mga doggie eh... they were left in antarctica for 175 days to fend for themselves :( but the movie's really good and i guess that surprised me a little. plus, a little paul walker didn't hurt one bit! ;)


look after you - the fray

i am loving this band, the fray... as always, they were featured in OTH and i am so inlove with their song look after you... hmm... wonder why i'm listening to it now?! hehe.

i just love this season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OTH gets better and better everyday! wow! we all want a season 4! can't wait what happens when nathan jumps in the water to save his loved ones... i heard haley was going to go after him (and ruin that gorgeous gown :()

another song to love: we belong together by gavin degraw.

JEYTON is back! :D

OK. it is goshdarnit hot in here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gotta go take a shower... catch ya later guys.

hungry and sleepy... what's new?

no, no, no (remix) - destiny's child feat. wyclef jean

fell asleep hungry, woke up hungry... what's new? whatever. sometimes i just really hate money. especially when i don't have a lot of it and when i have to pay off debts for it...

angel - amanda perez

OK. i have a new crush. riley smith. really hot. i thought i'd seen him somewhere! he was kyle singer in 24!!!! see, i was watching this movie, spring break, shark attack (i know. pathetic. i just woke up ok?) and i saw him and he was hot... so, thought i'd imdb him. he's so summery... like he belongs in california or something... i love his look. so cute, hot, sexy. he's fine... apparently he's from iowa... hmm... makes you wonder...

tru love - faith evans

can't stop thinking about one other person though... wow. so favorite number ko sya ganon? whatever. but can't help it. he's so charming and sweet and funny and smart and cute and hot and entertaining (wink!) and a gentleman and mysterious...

slow jamz - twista feat. jamie foxx

haha! one thing. i woke up 6pm sat i thought my alarm didn't go off and i was late for work. umm, workaholic much? yah i think so... it's so funny! i'm just exhausted i think.

dare to walk the line

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS REVIEW!

Review by: Mark Englehart
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
8 out of 10 stars: "The only time you're allowed to talk to me is onstage," Reese Witherspoon says to Joaquin Phoenix near the end of Walk the Line, and they're words well spoken, for when either of these two stars are performing, separate or together, this movie comes electrifyingly to life. As Johnny Cash, legendary man in black, and June Carter Cash, his lifetime love, Phoenix and Witherspoon do most of their romancing, flirting, courting and fighting while they're singing in front of an audience, as opposed to when they're alone together. Offstage, they're halting and shy, or obstinate and angry, all surface emotions that barely scratch the surface of their dialogue; onstage, however, they buzz with an energy that's giddy and intoxicating, communicating a wealth of emotions and enacting what can only be called a modern day mating dance. Hovering closer to each other over a microphone than they ever do in real life, they come so tantalizingly close as they sing, mouths almost next to each other, that to kiss would seem almost anticlimactic - not to mention that it would take away from the incredible music they're making. And when they sing, Walk the Line pulses with a life you can rarely find anywhere these days in a movie world where the artificial passes for reality.

As for the rest of the movie, well, despite those great performances and a studious, earnest attention to detail, Walk the Line is an aggressively standard biopic, in both its form and execution. The structure is no different from any other celeb story you've seen, as it's told in flashback, hits all the high (and low) points at the appropriate times, and by the end puts its flawed yet iconic hero on the right track to fame and fortune and immortality. To say such rote things about this movie, though, is to neglect the sizzle that Phoenix and Witherspoon give it, and their performances alone are enough to make it great and worthy of notice - much as Jamie Foxx did for Ray last year. This time out, however, the two stars (unlike Foxx) do their own singing, and their performances, both musical and non-musical, lift Walk the Line from its rather standard conception. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it tells the story of one of the great 20th century romances, that the music is phenomenal, and that it's all handsomely, lovingly mounted with just the right amount of reverence. Were that it was as bold as its hero and heroine, though -- that movie would knock your socks off.

There's a reason middling directors are attracted to biopics - they're an easy format to work within, and allow just the right amount of creativity and expression before bumping up against a border that keeps it all within its shape; it's the cinematic equivalent of coloring within the lines. When great directors try it, like Martin Scorsese with The Aviator, the result is artsy mess that doesn't get to either the heart of its main character or its director; when adventurous directors try it, like Julie Taymor with Frida, the result is something unabashedly fun and daring, but you leave feeling more a kinship with the art than the artist. (Of course, when bad directors go at it, you get a campy mess like De-Lovely or Beyond the Sea.) But when, well, okay directors try it, what you get is something rather safe, at times dull, and only fitfully illuminating about the characters it portrays. Taylor Hackford achieved similar results with Ray, which was certainly entertaining if manipulative, and gave sparkles and shimmers to a story that could have been told as easily within a VH-1 documentary. Similarly, James Mangold does the same with Walk the Line, drawing the outlines of Cash's life with big, broad strokes that never threaten to go off the page, and connecting the salient points of the singer's life like so many dots.

With Cash's seminal concert at Folsom State Prison as its choice of framing device, Walk the Line immediately flashes back to its protagonist's poor childhood picking cotton alongside his cold father (Robert Patrick), loving mother (Shelby Lynne), and adored brother, Jack (Lucas Till). From there it's a short jump to Jack's tragic death in a tablesaw accident, then a grown-up Johnny's enlistment in the army, his marriage to the young Vivian (Ginnifer Goodwin), and his budding attempts at singing and songwriting. Along the way there are little roadside distractions - there's Johnny crafting the lyrics to "Folsom Prison Blues," there's a young singer named Elvis Presley (Tyler Hilton) recording at Sun Records, there's little Rosanne Cash as a squalling baby - but only a little to flesh out Cash's story. Mangold does dole out tantalizing glimpses, especially Phoenix trying out Cash's trademark growl in his first few songs, but the movie doesn't truly light up until Phoenix gets in front of a microphone, and then it blasts into something resembling pure Technicolor. And when a little spitfire named June Carter comes along, well… it's fireworks all around.

Shucking off the trappings around them - namely Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Payne), Roy Orbison (Johnathan Rice), and the aforementioned Presley - Phoenix and Witherspoon hone in on each other with the precision of sharpshooters and dig into both their own characters and each other's. A standard meet-and-greet at an all-night diner is sweet and touching with the right hints of awkwardness and desire, but when he coerces her into singing onstage, then all bets are off and the two actors - and characters - come together with a blissful kind of alchemy rarely seen. It's hard to put words to it, but their give and take is so nuanced, so seductive, so perfect, that you can't help but be caught up in it. And once they've performed together, their interaction infuses the rest of Phoenix and Witherspoon's musical performances, as it seems (as it did in real life) that Johnny and June are singing solely for each other, to express their love and tell their stories.

This chemistry takes the film through both its highlight, a tour in Vegas that culminates in a one-night stand, and its lowlight, Cash's drug addiction and withdrawal. The drug sequences are a bit of a long haul, as this kind of thing has been done much better in other movies, but it is enlivened by nice grace notes; June, protesting to her mother that she doesn't want to get further into Cash's problems, is kindly rebuffed that "Honey, you're already in it." Once Cash is cleaned up and in fighting shape again, the movie speeds towards the Folsom Prison show, an electric performance that's one of the best concert scenes in recent memory, and then to the night of February 22, 1968, when Johnny proposes to June onstage and she finally says yes.

It's in that final scene that the movie earns - and cashes in -- all the emotion and good will it's pent up for its two-hour plus running time, and Phoenix and Witherspoon finally consummate their onstage romance with a passionate kiss. Both actors come together effortlessly, and it's the kind of cathartic, ecstatic embrace that's the stuff of great acting. And despite their opposite approaches to the material, Phoenix and Witherspoon work together with a perfect kind of grace. His Johnny is firmly grounded in a growly kind of Method acting, all angst and grimaces and begging and pleading, with emotions all over the place, while her June is all showbiz sweetness, a smooth surface that belies a wealth of stubbornness and bravery and grit. During most of the movie you certainly get a feeling for their passion, but not the great obsession that spawned the desire of "Ring of Fire." But in their final scenes, however, all the tortured emotions that have ensnared Johnny and June come bubbling to the surface and spill over. And despite Walk the Line's many flaws, it's well worth the wait.

I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THIS MOVIE NOW!