One Piece, babble, Kagemusha review

I'm really happy atm, mostly because I just finished watching eps 19-21 of One Piece which is one of those series I really enjoy watching, but had convinced myself I didn't so I wouldn't feel too bad about not watching the series. Will watch more tomorrow I think, and maybe finish writing my resume, and maybe work on Japanese. Who knows? Am sort of just taking the week as it goes since I'm not in the mood for anything structured and stuff.

A number of people tell me I suddenly have a tan. How this is possible when I have spent 99.9% of my time inside studying is beyond me. I was out to the library once or twice, and I took a walk for five minutes in the shade once. Sure, I did collapse on the Meadows for a half hour or so on Sat. but I was facing away from the sun and spent most of that half hour dozing with my head in my arms... That must be it though, I guess. How weird.

Anime night tonight was a bit of a disappointment disregarding the good company:) We watched the first two eps of Trinity Blood which didn't have single redeeming feature other than some nice looking bishonnen. The rest of it was blatantly ripped off from a number of animes and boring to boot, though decent enough to make fun of. The next Hellsing it ain't. The less said about Moonphase the better, though at least there was a hot bishonnen magician to balance out the annoying main character and catgirl/vampire... Yeah, it was that bad. They didn't manage to show the last series we were supposed to watch so lucyjin and I retreated to my flat for fangirling many things and watching some One Piece. I use this smiley on behalf of her:D *L*

Yesterday, I watched Kagemusha. I should probably have checked the run time before I put it in since it was about three hours and the subtitles really did start to kill my eyes after awhile. Luckily, I understood a lot of the simple sentence Japanese so at least I didn't have to strain too hard. It was a really interesting film with some moments of pure brilliance and some gorgeous cinematography. There were times when I thought Kurosawa either missed the point he was trying to make, or didn't make it clear enough for the audience, or at least for a western audience. As a history buff, I certainly appreciated seeing some famous names. *pets Ieyasu* and thought there were many strong performances by the actors. It ended the way I expected it to (not hard to figure if you know the slightest bit about Japanese history...), though I feel sorry that Kurosawa didn't have the special effects that are available today. Blood done by what is essentially red paint doesn't cut it anymore and ruins the realism that I'm sure he was going for. Oddly enough, they had an excellent horse trainer and riders for the movie, which served them very well in the final scenes.

One Piece, babble, Kagemusha review

I'm really happy atm, mostly because I just finished watching eps 19-21 of One Piece which is one of those series I really enjoy watching, but had convinced myself I didn't so I wouldn't feel too bad about not watching the series. Will watch more tomorrow I think, and maybe finish writing my resume, and maybe work on Japanese. Who knows? Am sort of just taking the week as it goes since I'm not in the mood for anything structured and stuff.

A number of people tell me I suddenly have a tan. How this is possible when I have spent 99.9% of my time inside studying is beyond me. I was out to the library once or twice, and I took a walk for five minutes in the shade once. Sure, I did collapse on the Meadows for a half hour or so on Sat. but I was facing away from the sun and spent most of that half hour dozing with my head in my arms... That must be it though, I guess. How weird.

Anime night tonight was a bit of a disappointment disregarding the good company:) We watched the first two eps of Trinity Blood which didn't have single redeeming feature other than some nice looking bishonnen. The rest of it was blatantly ripped off from a number of animes and boring to boot, though decent enough to make fun of. The next Hellsing it ain't. The less said about Moonphase the better, though at least there was a hot bishonnen magician to balance out the annoying main character and catgirl/vampire... Yeah, it was that bad. They didn't manage to show the last series we were supposed to watch so lucyjin and I retreated to my flat for fangirling many things and watching some One Piece. I use this smiley on behalf of her:D *L*

Yesterday, I watched Kagemusha. I should probably have checked the run time before I put it in since it was about three hours and the subtitles really did start to kill my eyes after awhile. Luckily, I understood a lot of the simple sentence Japanese so at least I didn't have to strain too hard. It was a really interesting film with some moments of pure brilliance and some gorgeous cinematography. There were times when I thought Kurosawa either missed the point he was trying to make, or didn't make it clear enough for the audience, or at least for a western audience. As a history buff, I certainly appreciated seeing some famous names. *pets Ieyasu* and thought there were many strong performances by the actors. It ended the way I expected it to (not hard to figure if you know the slightest bit about Japanese history...), though I feel sorry that Kurosawa didn't have the special effects that are available today. Blood done by what is essentially red paint doesn't cut it anymore and ruins the realism that I'm sure he was going for. Oddly enough, they had an excellent horse trainer and riders for the movie, which served them very well in the final scenes.

Your physical reality does not apply to me.

I seem to have inadvertently lost a lot of weight this week. I checked the scale after exercising today and found out I'd lost four pounds, which is about double what I normally lose. No wonder my jeans have started sliding off my hips again. I'm not sure what did it. I suspect the stress ate up a lot of calories, but I was also exercising 10 minutes everyday at home. Eating wise, I had an apple, yogurt, granola bar, cherry tomatoes, bread and soup or pasta/rice, and water to drink every day, plus hot chocolate or ice cream every other day or so. In short, it really wasn't that different than my usual diet other than the lacking of meat (there was chicken in the soup) and I had slightly less sugar than usual. Of course, the scale could just be horribly calebrated *g*

I've had to send off a plaintive request to my father for more recordable dvds. All this Doctor Who is eating them up *L*

I read the first manga vol. of By the Sword last night. It reminds me of a happy and more entertaining version of Samurai Deeper Kyo. Good stuff:)

Your physical reality does not apply to me.

I seem to have inadvertently lost a lot of weight this week. I checked the scale after exercising today and found out I'd lost four pounds, which is about double what I normally lose. No wonder my jeans have started sliding off my hips again. I'm not sure what did it. I suspect the stress ate up a lot of calories, but I was also exercising 10 minutes everyday at home. Eating wise, I had an apple, yogurt, granola bar, cherry tomatoes, bread and soup or pasta/rice, and water to drink every day, plus hot chocolate or ice cream every other day or so. In short, it really wasn't that different than my usual diet other than the lacking of meat (there was chicken in the soup) and I had slightly less sugar than usual. Of course, the scale could just be horribly calebrated *g*

I've had to send off a plaintive request to my father for more recordable dvds. All this Doctor Who is eating them up *L*

I read the first manga vol. of By the Sword last night. It reminds me of a happy and more entertaining version of Samurai Deeper Kyo. Good stuff:)