Hey,
dig the picture of the overflowing river... it's nice to know, unlike
people on the regularly-overflowing Mississippi,
that I live in a house NOT built on a flood plain. Meaning, the dam
and river handled the flood nicely, and hooray for that. Now the storm's
over, but typhoon season hasn't even officially started yet! Someone
send galoshes!
A
River Runs Through It
That was one shitty movie.
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Oh,
and that "used" Nanase Aikawa CD (ID) that was only
$5 -- it turned out it was brand new; still wrapped in red cellophane!
But then the video I got for $7 was a record company sample, and said
"Sample" in the top right corner of the screen for the whole
length of the video; not too intrusively though, so I still count
it as a good buy... except for the fact that I already HAVE half the
videos, on that RadioActive vid she put out. The whore! :p
But at any rate, you may want to check out www.nanase.gr.jp
(the "gr" is for group, I think...) ...it's got a beautiful,
clean design and a nice intuitive nav.
Oh,
hey, how come Pierrot's album version of Creature sucks compared
to the single version?! The oomph is lost; the guitars sound wimpy.
Boo! Booooo!
I
read on Tuesday, in the Japan Times, that a researcher studied a bunch
of teens over several years. He apparently hoped to show that playing
video games was as healthy for the brain as puzzling out math problems
adn listening to Mozart and all that respectable stuff... and then
selling his findings to video game companies for big money. (The game
makers could then use his research to sell more games and combat other
reports that playing video games "rot your brain".)
What
he found was playing video games seriously cramps up your frontal
lobe, which is responsible for a whole bunch of functions, not least
of which is "control" (like if someone says "Fuck you"
to you, you only say "Fuck you" back, if your frontal lobe
is working. But if you've grown up on a steady diet of video games,
from River Raid to Half-Life, and your frontal lobe
is under-developed, you have no control so more likely you'd just
jump on them and bite out their eyes. Something like that!)
So
this news article and this scientist was like, "Holy crap, we're
raising a generation of people that are going to kill each other,
and furthermore no video game companies want to buy by research so
is there anyone else that would like to?"
I
also caught a cool episode of Red Dwarf last night, at 2:30
in the morning when I should have been sleeping. I hadn't seen it
before! (I thought I had seen all twelve episodes!) (Unlike in America
where a TV season is 22 episodes long, in Britian it's like FOUR...
so three years of Red Dwarf is only 12 shows or something ridiculous.)
It was the one where Kryten is ordered to shutdown because his replacement
is ready. Best line:
Lister:
<waking up with a hangover, after one last wild drinking party
before Kryten has to shut himself down) "What I don't understand
is: we're on a ship moving at the speed of light, 12 million years
into deep space; <pulls something out from under his blanket>
So can anyone explain to me where in the hell i got this bleedin'
traffic cone!?!
Cool
show if you like that British wit thing. It's on PBS in New York on
Fridays, around midnight, or it was last time I checked (three months
ago)!
Then
there was Go on Wowow (cool movie, despite the overdone hipness
of it) and a special on K-Pop, "the next big thing!" Oh,
and a documentary on Para Para, which is apparently a new dance craze
which involves everyone doing the SAME EXACT moves, with fans in each
hand, to the beat of "Super Eurobeat" style "music".
Mainly,
the cameras just zoomed up girl's skirts (and not even under the pretense
of "ah, look what a lovely skirt this is", which is what
the more gentlemanly women-as-sex-objects TV shows <like the news!>
try to do). Rather, they were just blatantly zooming into their crotches
from the lowest angle possible. You couldn't see anything because
of the poor lighting in the clubs, but I don't guess that didn't matter!)
I
also saw another show last week, once again very late at night, that
apparently pitted four "Sexy" girls (tall, thin, snobby,
too much make-up) against three "Not-sexy" girls (mohawks,
nose-rings, combat boots, too much make-up). They set up in a warehouse
and beat each other with padded bats -- I think the object was to
knock your opponents make-up off. TV at its finest.
Oh
jeez, and during that, I saw a commercial for the new Ryuichi (Luna
Sea) single; remember the Weezer video for Buddy Holly, and
the Nirvana video for... um... well, the one where they were dressed
as a 1950s rock 'n' roll band? It was like that; only Ryuichi and
his band were dressed like The Beatles, in those silver suits with
black ties...
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