Saturday | Jul25.09
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Friday | May22.09
haruhi s2
the second season of haruhi is in full effect...word! they secretly snuck it into the 're-airing' of the first season. the marketing team behind haruhi is admittedly a little fucked in the head, with all their retarded antics, but whatever...season 2 is on. the first episode can be found if you hunt a bit for iso's....
and for those wondering what the fuck is up with something like haruhi, id say its a choice example of the heights an anime can achieve...original, intelligent, well-written, funny, and not full of robots and/or panty shots...yea. tho they do stuff asahina into bunny/maid/nurse outfits...
Saturday | Mar07.09
blood
hrmm...holding judgement on this one. i mean, it has ji-hyun jun, so i want it to rock. but theres something about the trailer. maybe the cheeky "since the dawn of time....*pause*" just doesnt fit the tone of the movie.
Friday | Feb27.09
ooh anime post, redux
my constant anime ingestion continues...so i thought i'd do a follow-up post about whats been piquing my interest. im still sifting thru my collection too. my supply is far past my ability to consume...yar! must...watch...faster.
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Monday | Jan12.09
ooh anime post
one thing i have been doing however for a while is getting back into anime. i was more or less out of the loop for a while...i think the last series i got was noein. but i4 sort of got me back into anime (inadvertently) when he gave me macross frontier. since then i've just been rolling thru series after series. some really good, some fucking terrible. seriously theres panty shots everywhere. apparently every single female character can only wear mini-skirts now (and in some cases, dont even wear pants)...who knew? i'll also freely admit to digging the romance comedy genre. i know, i just damned myself...
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Monday | Jun18.07
bbq with paprika
k, i reeeally meant to post this earlier. shit, i even post-dated this entry for the 10th. but i was distracted for a bit...see below.
yea, i still play, and i pimped out my ride. but now that i got that out of my system, i can resume my (semi) normal posting regimen. i leave for amsterdam next sunday for a month and a half...word. im slowly building up excitement, and im hoping the work-aspect of the experience wont cramp the whole thing. well, too much anyhoo, since the whole reason im going IS because of work. anyhoo, rewind.
BIG APPLE BBQ
ya word, last weekend was the big apple bbq festival. fish and i made it a point to check out some texan goodness. its the texan in me. the first stop was salt lick bbq and their beef briskets from driftwood, texas. yuuuuum. since we were in the midst of a giant bbq fest, we sucked it up and headed out for a second round. we went to check out some carolina pulled pork from blackjack bbq of charleston, south carolina. the sauce choices were a little dodgy (vinegar or mustard...?), but the pulled pork was rock. after scarfing as much as we could, we (slowly) headed south to relax at croxleys. after chilling out to a few rounds of beer, we headed north to look for some chess and starbucks. i was on the verge of kicking fish's ass (first time in a looooong time), but time ran out and i had to jet. sad face...=( next up was a farewell dinner at yakiniku for dora before she heads off to the big red motherland. k, yea...i was about to die. too...much...food...
i did nothing the rest of the weekend. oh, i did take the new york age test. my new york age is 47...i dont know what that means.
PAPRIKA
i was gonna go nuts this weekend (for once), but then i had to work over the weekend. poopsticks. i was actually supposed to work saturday because i was meeting my sis sunday. but er...she called me to let me know shes been having "morning sickness" alot recently, so couldnt come in. morning sickness...er. yes i know what morning sickness is. and yes, im in denial...argh!!! h'ok, so anyhoo, most of the work i could work on would be with the crew coming in sunday, so i headed out early.
i caught a later showing of paprika at the angelika with jess. shit, satoshi kon is one fucked up guy. but the movie was amazing. ive been mulling over the movie in my head since last nite. the movie is about paprika, the dream-state alter-ego of a scientist who uses a device that allows users to enter peoples dreams in her psychotherapy sessions. when 2 of the prototypes go missing, she and her colleagues have to hunt down the culprit before the device can be used to break down the boundaries between dreams and reality.
the movie is in many respects a spiritual successor to the matrix (channeled thru michel gondry), except whereas matrix had distinctions between the real and the virtual, paprika leaps in and out of the dream realm at whim. youre never sure whether you were viewing the real world or the landscape of someones dream. and even if you knew you were in the dream, you were never sure whos dream it was. my mind is still processing it, so you should just watch the movie if you get the chance. and for those who arent familiar with paprika, check the trailer below.
Sunday | May20.07
spidey 3 and nyaff
spider-man 3=hmm, ok. fish and i hit up the imax in nyack for some spidey action. we'd been to the one near lincoln center numerous times, so we were up for trying out a new place...the imax in the heart of the monster palisades mall. that place is frightening...a mall on steroids. but anyhoo, the movie was pretty coo. i just wish venom got a bit more action. sandman and gwen seemed expendable too, and peter parker shouldve been a dick in more scenes. the few where he was a cock and a half rocked. we roamed the place for a bit after the movie, then grabbed seafood from legal seafoods. i dont know what illegal seafood tastes like, but the legal varieties pretty good...
NYAFF
oh and i keep forgetting to make this post, but the nyaff is back in action! woot! and it starts....ah fuck face, right when i leave for amsterdam. oh right, i never mentioned that. ill be working in our amsterdam office for a month and a half at the end of june. just when the nyaff starts. cockbag. i completely missed last years nyaff, and i guess im missing this years too. meh. welp, those that are in nyc...definitely go check out the movies. theyve changed up their venue again. theyve moved from the anthology/imaginasian over to the ifc and japan society.
Monday | Jun05.06
one life
so hot...gah. im stuck to my seat...in a bad way. so lets be honest, ill probably make this one post, then slax for the rest of the week...unless something super-interesting happens between now and the weekend. and even then itll still be 50/50 whether i exert enough willpower to make the post. so ill just load up this monday post with everything floating around my head and/or stuff from last week. its pragmatic, c'mon.
BBQ
we had a bbq on doras rooftop wednesday nite. grills and lawn chairs...i <3 rooftop bbqs because 1) theyre relaxing, 2) theyre fun, and 3) i like grilled hot dogs. we had two grills going...one for veggies and the other for meat produce. then we grilled s'mores with tree branches from the backyard. cub scout training in effect...word. ah, so nice and chill.
GAME ON
thursdays do-not-disturb gaming nite. and now you know. mm-hmm.
FRIDAY
i met up with di for dinner friday nite. they finally decided to let her out of work, so we got some french at l'express, then relaxed at 71 irving. shes still new to the city, so im starting with the staples of my usual hangouts. very chill. we were talking about random things from college, and it kinda frightens me how i cant even remember what i had for lunch, but i can remember specific projects and what people did for said projects in detail, as well as other really random memories here and there. stupid brain...work correctly.
SATURDAY
...was teeth-grinding agony at home. it was a combination of a belated mothers day and early fathers day lunch. which is fine and all, but it was blah blah blah wedding all during lunch. die die die! we had japanese at least, and then we roamed the cavernous willowbrook. oh, and more of my family from taiwan are coming to the wedding than originally anticipated. its something like aunts one, five, and six from my mothers side, and aunt number five(?) from my dads side, along with her entire family. have fun squeezing into our house guys...yep, good luck with that.
ZAHA HADID
in an unrelated note, zaha hadid has an exhibition at the guggenheim. woot! it runs from now to october 25th, and you'd better believe im gonna go see it. i <3 zaha hadid. her work anyhoo, not her herself. shes like an ogre...wearing a dress...who makes beautiful buildings.
NYAFF 2006
wooha the new york asian film festival is coming up! it runs from june 16th til july 1st...wait, holy shit...thats next weekend! bollocks. ive been fairly out of the asian cinema loop for a while now, so all the movies listed are new to me. i recognize like 2 movies from the entire list, and one i saw on the plane ride over to tokyo (shinobi). anyhoo, all those interested, make it known to me! ill be sending out emails to the usuals anyhoo this week. that is all.
(picture blatantly nicked from sean)
Monday | May01.06
m's birthday
m3ntal note, showing up early for "surprise" birthday events may have to be reconsidered in the near future. ;p satty nite was m's birthday lushage at obivia in soho...and people were supposed to show up before 11 so when she got there, there'd be that whole "omg, people! surprise!" blah blah blah. i get there a quarter before 11, and while i do get to sit in the nice cushy armchair of our reserved area, im chugging stellas and talking to myself for about half an hour. george shows up next, so now i have company...woot. its way past 11, and sean and anna and one of chris's friends shows up too. the birthday dinner party finally shows up sometime after midnight, and im already on my third bottle...blah. hehe, ah well. fun times still, even tho someone in particular *cough marisol* really needs to get their tolerance back to their peak. how far they've fallen...*sigh*. and look at that...no pics! how far ive fallen. yar.
oh and friday and sunday...yea, bummed. buuuuummmmmed!
addendum | you know what else i did this weekend? i caught up with alot of dvds i'd bought that i hadnt gotten a chance to watch yet. has anyone else seen karas: the prophecy? holy shit craziness...eye candy up the ass. the stories a bit convoluted (and vaguely told), so i had to look up some info on my own. but its downright gorgeous to watch. the first fight scene that opens the movie makes the entire movie worthwhile...tho i didnt know there was second dvd coming out til it ended kinda abruptly. bastards.
Tuesday | Jun28.05
king kong hana alice
ok, first...before i forget to mention it, the new trailer for peter jacksons king kong is out. woo nelly, it looks pretty coo. and jack black in the lead...should be interesting.
HANA AND ALICE
last nite was the second outing to the new york asian film festival, this time for shunji iwai's hana and alice. i hadnt heard of the movie before, but iwais other movie all about lily chou chou was pretty coo, so i fig'd hana and alice would be as good. the storys pretty simple...about 2 best friends (one "cute", the other "quirky") as they start high school and pine over the same guy. except that hana (the quirky one) convinces the guy he has amnesia after he bangs his head and tells him that theyre going out, all while alice (the cute one) plays along and pretends to be his ex. hmm, boring summary. ok lets see, the movies pretty damn coo and smirkingly funny. there, summarized. it doesnt hurt that the movies gorgeously shot, and alice (yu aoi), the "cute one"...is really cute. i found it funny that while the "good-looking" halves of best friend duos are usually supposed to be haughty or shallow, alice is modest, funny, and actually pretty nice. that doesnt leave much for hana. poor hana.
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[ audio selection | moby - go (analog mix) ] woo, i finally attended my first movie screening! and it rocked! tien had an open spot for a private screening of hero, so he invited me along. the movie was...
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[ current selection | psykosonik - count to zero ] [ feelin' | bleh ] todays first post is in honor of rockin' asian cinema...because i feel like it. ok, and because the schedule for the 2004 new york asian...
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[ current selection | supercar - strobolights (sunahara remix) ] [ feelin' | ... ] *gurgle gurgle...* my dreamcatcher definitely had a malfunction last nite. im not even going to ask why i dreamt what i did, but i did...
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[ current selection | shiro hamaguchi + seiji honda - main theme (ff7 piano collections) ] [ feelin' | like a croissant ] im not sure whether people knew this...and ive definitely been too lazy to post it as ive...
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[ current selection | new order - temptation ] [ feelin' | feh ] i spent the entire weekend on my bed watching movies and anime....wooha. ran thru wonderful days, stardust memories, and fonz's witchhunter robin. ah...so relaxing. the korean...
[ current selection | aromabar - africa for eu ] [ feelin' | monday...bleh ] multi-purpose posts are so much fun...its like a funbag of randomness. last nite a bunch of us headed to the tokion/spiewak party down at don...
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current selection | millennium actress trailer feelin' | vitamized yay weekend. i think its been a while since ive had a normal unobstructed weekend of relaxation. i started my relaxing last nite with a showing of the goonies in my...
current selection | misia - taiyouga irukara feelin' | feh mondays....feh. no wait...i actually feel fine. had a three day weekend after all. woo! anyhoo...for kitano fans out there, a new zatoichi trailers up. zatoichi! translation - top is the...
wow...apparently miramax does listen to the fans. according to this article at kung fu cinema (no relation to kung fu cult), miramax is scrapping their dub release of shaolin soccer and releasing it (albeit in a limited run) in its...
current selection | queen - bohemian rhapsody feelin' | toasty two bdays are coming up this weekend...sallys and my sis'. both are being celebrated on saturday. super. so i went hunting for my sis' bday present, a shaolin soccer dvd....
current selection | bach - jesu, joy of mans desire feelin' | super monday. who in the past determined that there would only be 2 days of rest in a week? anyhoo...weekend was coo. this weekend was the new york/tokyo...
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rockin' interstella 5555....daft punk+leiji matsumoto! - link -...
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current selection | supercar - strobolights (yoshinori sunahara remix) feelin' | stuffed...oochies bounce ko-gals tonite....wooha! this is only the third movie im going to see from the nyc asian film festival...but i couldnt find anyone crazy enuf to go to...
weather update i think its gonna rain... current selection | photek - ni ten ichi ryu feelin' | dandy eva: the motion picture apparently peter jackson's an anime fan. who knew? jk...but according to this article from aicn, hideaki anno,...
current selection | fantastic plastic machine - lotto (andreas dorau mix) my first outing to the nyc asian film festival! wooha! its the third day of the film festival and me and fish caught the saturday showings of ping pong...
current selection | bjork - army of me (beastie boys remix) biking plans last nite were scrapped in favor of having din with fonz. we hit go and got outdoor seating...which turned out to be a pretty bad idea. allergy...
cin3matic contraband - chinese odyssey 2002 i should begin by admitting that i had no clue what to expect when i got this movie. i had heard abt it b4, but didnt really read up on it. not that i...
current selection | n.e.r.d. - lapdance (reznor remix) did i tell u im a math genius? yea, its true. here, lemme prove it. i headed down to chinatown after work last nite to look for one dvd..."the returner". sometime between...
current selection | yoko kanno - ask dna woo rock. nothing like a refreshing round of cowboy bebop. wasnt sure i would make it in time...i was working this morning on presentations and things took a little (alot) longer than...
current sel...oh wait, winamps not on.... ok coo... current selection | they might be giants - birdhouse in your soul woo! i luv this song. u kno...there will always be a place in my heart for they might be giants....
the much anticipated movie by zhang yimou finally hit the shelves the other day...so um, since i had already broken my no dvd rule before, i was gonna lump this "mistake" as a part of the last one. its jus...
current selection | supercar - yumegiwa last boy ok, so i broke my self-imposed dvd-shopping hiatus yesterday. i was supposed to be watching my spendings and shit...since i usually bought about a dvd a week. oops. i was actually down...
ok, so its a tuesday. i usually do any kind of "habitual-weekly-thing" on mondays (nobody likes to immediately start working monday mornings), but since i joined today on a tuesday, and i took yesterday off, this'll be the exception.... m3ntal...
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