July 22nd, 2008
I was a little apprehensive about coming here. However, now that I am here I am really excited. We just arrived in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, yesterday. Today, we have vouchers to go to the Ghibli museum in Mitaka (the Miyazaki one). Otherwise, we are in Tokyo for a week and then we are planning on heading out to Kansai.
The smell of this place is really making me sentimental. I really enjoy being here. I have to say that I am disappointed I won’t be getting to go to Kyushuu to visit my Grandmother. I had to recall why I originally didn’t make those plans. (My grandmother sold her house… and things were a bit hectic… long travel… and just not worth the bother if I wasn’t going to stay there for a while. I usually come to Japan for 3 months at a time.)
It’s weird being here without my mother or without seeing family. I view this country as a total family affair… so… but this time, I think we will be able to hang out and engulf some of the night life around here.
Check out Ryan’s Prospect Park Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring Remix concert on NPR.
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July 16th, 2008
So… the back pain explained?! I think I might have the flu. I had a fever last night (a low one).
I feel REALLY lethargic.
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July 14th, 2008
I have alternating pain from the mid back to the lower back (near my tailbone). It causes me to jump (when it’s bad) from bending at the lower back to wash my face at the sink. I can barely stand to bend to sit or put the pressure to get up. Standing causes no troubles.
Uhg. Sciatic nerve? Tight Hipflexors? Hamstrings? I don’t know.
Although I didn’t think it was from running, I think it was a combination of running and sitting. It bothers me the most when I sit on cushiony surfaces that are too low at a certain angle. It hurts!
I am creaky. Maybe I am old. ;_; it comes and goes. It was worse last Wednesday, but today my midback is a little achy.
I have been scouring the internet for advice. I know that it isn’t a good solution. I know this from my heart attack scare that was just heart burn (dude, I have never had heart burn and it was UNCOMFORTABLE). I have tried yoga poses (bridge, child pose, and half moon). I have tried strengthening lunges for flexors and hamstrings… and lower back strengthening by sort of flailing like a dead fish on my stomach.
I am not sure if this is all helping. HA HA HA HA. I am like a bad self destructive help example.
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July 13th, 2008
1) Finish editing the monstrous thesis.
2) Find job.
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Last week, I helped Daniel move in to his new pad in Flatbush. It’ll be nice to have him back.
Otherwise, it was refreshing to commiserate with other students on finishing their thesis or dissertation. Losing perspective is pretty easy when you’re working by your lonesome.
It’s real easy to feel like a jackass without any schedule or model of what you’re suppose to be doing. Honestly, I will be glad to be done with it. I am not sure if I should continue with a PhD in philosophy. I would enjoy it, but it is the time and money question. Shouldn’t I work at creating some foundation for income for the future, now?
I was feeling lethargic and down prior to last week, but I am feeling much better and less like an asshole. And, I got my eyebrows threaded. AND I am leaving for Japan in a week.
I need some green paper so I can get down like the Hillz gals and get myself a big ol’ facial on my ass. Or something.
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July 7th, 2008
Why? Maybe I am jealous, but what do they do?!?! Who are they and what do I care.
And this is coming from someone who believes there is redemption for and even merit to Lindsay Lohan.
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June 27th, 2008
Ryan and I have taken to putting the animation “Watership Down” and moving it over to the children’s section, next to some bunny movie. We do this to all the video stores we go to.
(Like so… Here, it is next to a very merry bunny christmas…)
To those that are not familiar with “Watership Down,” it is an extremely violent and bloody movie about bunnies getting torn to shred and chased by various other furry creatures… and ultimately other bunnies.
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June 14th, 2008
I try to avoid spoilers - but you should probably not read this if you don’t want to ruin any part of the plot or the newness of the experience.
I went to see the “Sex and the City” movie, and I have to say I feel lukewarm about it. I think the topic and premise is good. “What happens after happily ever after.” Life happens after that. I am convinced that people who say the movie was like an extended episode … were not connoisseurs of the show. I have to say, I was quite geeky about it by the last season and frequently got into discussions on the interweb about the underlying subtleties of the episodes.
I dislike how people are excusing the clumsy scene cuts and awkward transitions as TV translating on to film. This is right in the sense that the writers seemed to feel as though they needed to make it dramatic. They seemed to bite more than they could chew. I’m not talking about the switch of the movie half way through. I am more referring to awkward cut scenes and abrupt drama, like with Steve. THIS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE LATER SEASONS. I think they mastered momentum, seamless transitions, and timing in the later half of the TV series. You could tell that they had WAY too much footage and cramming it all in there was a bad idea. I feel like the post production work was disappointing. Did they just spend their whole budget on the clothes? Shoes? (although, I can’t imagine that to be the case since the whole movie was one big product placement scheme)
I think that they didn’t keep the consistency of the minor characters and they sacrificed their integrity for the sake of plot. I hate the idea of that. (for an all ready established franchise) I think the characters should move the plot … not the other way around. (SPOILERS) THE POINT of Smith’s character was that he was idealistic, caring, and didn’t care at all for the industry. Never in the series did he put that before Samantha. He wanted to do it for Samantha and she pushed him into it. Also, Steve’s moral integrity was never in question in all of the series. It seemed like they just made him into an adulterer for the sake of the plot - just so that they could have something for Miranda to brew about. I guess my point is, these ideas were not executed well. ( End of blatant spoilers ) If you are going to develop a character we have all come to know, you have to execute it in such a way that allows us to still be invested in them. Most people did not go see this movie to see a movie about “how to deal with relationships when they plateau,” they went to see this movie to SEE THE CHARACTERS. It’s not like this was some Julia Roberts romantic comedy… where you can sacrifice the characters for the sake of the plot or a message. They shouldn’t have treated it like that.
I don’t understand Jennifer Hudson’s role in the movie and thought it was superfluous.
I think this movie is a caricature of the series.
I also want to discuss the so-called brand name dropping fiasco. I understand that people who did not watch the series thought of it as about 30-40 somethings who love shoes way more than they loved men or themselves. Obviously if it was solely about that (haha shoe pun) it wouldn’t be so popular. However, it seems like the movie makers thought they needed to play that part to draw people in… right? They wanted to make it fun? Well, playing into that idea isn’t really going to garner positive feelings from those that did not love the series. (I don’t think series watchers are going to care either way and we can appreciate a good piece of leather artwork - be it bag, shoe, or something you find at the MoMA)
That being said, I thought that the brand name dropping wasn’t that bad. It certainly wasn’t like that in the series, but they crammed in a whole seasons worth into 2 hours. In the series, for the most part, brands/labels were used as allegory (ex: so and so is like said-expensive-bag - classic and always in style), to laugh at/mock the characters (the gay mugger that stole Carrie’s Manolos), or as a backdrop. Here, Louis Vuitton was as much of a supporting character as Jennifer Hudson. However, I didn’t care about the blatant fashion cholesterol clogging and thought that the Louis Vuitton merits more praise than it’s co-star Hudson. Except… the opening bit about labels and love was a bit too much for me. Uhg. Mockery! However, the rest of the movie was fine. The whole movie was a cautionary tale, actually, of losing sight of the important things. And what we always loved about Carrie is, sure, she loves shoes, but she isn’t above appreciating a $20 gold plated name necklace that you can buy at the street fair.
My favorite part about the movie was Charlotte and Samantha, but mostly Charlotte. Miranda was a bit too shrill for me. The best Miranda moments on the show were when she let down her guard and was vulnerable. Her neuroses were cute. Unfortunately the movie didn’t have much of that. The movie made the characters into a caricature of their former selves. Fortunately for Charlotte, this softened her up now that she wasn’t complaining about getting married. Unfortunately for Miranda, this made her into a bitter shrill bitch.free pornos
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June 7th, 2008
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A geek, nerd, and dork. Also a posh frou frou New Yorker. I'm a MA candidate studying continental philosophy, hopping around the job market as an advertising account exec, office girl, and computer technician. Currently, I am the Director of Information Technologies for a company selling high-end luxury electronics. My grad school cohorts sugggested that I go get a job as a manga translating Japanese geek escort for lonely otakus. That would be a great idea, if not for the fact that otakus give me nightmares...;;;
