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Ahem. Please click on my freeiPods.com referral link?
Why yes, I do want an iPod. Also, I really needed to order ink cartridges, and to my surprise MyInks.com is actually a little cheaper than Staples. I may even actually continue to order from the store because they have free shipping and I'm way too lazy to go out and buy myself new cartridges. Geez, I'm such a couch potato.
My chances of getting a free iPod are low, I know, because people on my friends list have either already signed up for the service (I've seen several people put up links over the past few months) or own an iPod. >_< But hey, who knows, maybe I'll be lucky?
This evening, Jenny, Nan and I went to watch Goodbye Lenin at the Center for European Studies. The Jenny who speaks German not the Jenny who is in kendo. It was a beautifully filmed movie and quite sincere: comic without being ridiculous or contemptuous. The touching moments were genuinely moving without being overly sentimental, which is no easy feat. To summarize, Goodbye Lenin is about a boy whose mother falls into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. She wakes up eight months later, after their entire world has changed, but naturally has no idea what has happened. The doctor tells him that if she suffers another heart attack, she may die, and the boy, knowing that his mother threw herself into the Communist Party after her husband abandoned her to run off to West Germany, decides that he must do everything to prevent her from finding out about the reunification. Much hilarity ensues--he goes hunting for the old East German brand of pickles, patches together fake news broadcasts with the help of an aspiring director friend, hunts down their old friends and neighbors to come and sing old patriotic songs at her birthday, hides his sister's McDonald's uniform. There's a particularly funny moment where he tries to explain away the Coca-Cola banner that his mother accidentally sees outside their apartment window. ^_^ The movie is completely apolitical, which I think was wise. Instead the director chose to focus on this ordinary family and how they adapt to the momentous changes around them, which I think is the story worth telling. Heh, review language always reduce films to a trite level, but it was really a wonderful movie. I want to watch it again sometime, perhaps with my parents.
Oh, and some bad science pick-up lines we thought up in biology class:
"Will you be my ribosome?"
"You make my pheromones aggregate."
Last night, I gave into temptation and watched the first episode of Gankutsuou. I've heard the patterns annoyed people, but I think they're rather classy. I mean, it just may be my fondness for experimentation, but I really do think they add a surreal, "this is an acid trip" atmosphere to the anime. The science fiction angle throws me off, actually--the whole space opera paraphernalia comes as an afterthought or as an unwelcome interruption--but I suppose it allows the producers to avoid the problem of historical accuracy. (Not that historical accuracy has ever stopped them before--e.g. Rurouni Kenshin. ::coughs::) I was thoroughly pleased though by how closely they are approximating the book's plot--they kept the emerald, which made me oh-so-happy. I don't know what it is with me and the emerald, but ever since I first read the book, it's been one of the enduring images I always associate with the book. I suppose it somehow encapsulates the Comte's sheer exoticism. Which reminds me though that I thought the recent movie (the one where they cut out Haydee >_<) went a little overboard with the lavishness. The Comte is rich and eclectic, but I would like to think he had some modicum of taste. I don't quite mind the exuberant lavishness in the anime, partly because the science fiction premise does give it some leeway and also because it isn't as tacky like the movie!Comte's chateau. (And don't get me started on the invitations.) Oh, and I think the girl who peeks in on the Comte and...er...his fencing partner (his name escapes me) is Haydee! They did not forget her! Thank goodness. I hope they also include the full de Villefort story. Maximilien happens to be another of my favorite characters as well as M. Noirtier whom they completely slandered in the movie. ;_;
Thanksgiving is coming soon! I want to watch another drama (in which case I shall most surely update![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
televida with all the details, Tin). My parents have turned my breaks back home in New York into a sort of ritual: there are the obligatory visits to restaurants for 짜장면 and 순두부, the huge meals at home with all my favorite dishes, the one outing we manage to schedule (usually to a movie or to some sort of performance), and last but not least, the drama-watching marathon! My parents usually look for 20 to 24 episode miniseries. Any recommendations? Please don't say Full House. >_> I'd actually like to see Love Story at Harvard, simply for the amusement value (no, they didn't shoot it here, although they tried; apparently they didn't know that filming on campus requires reams of bureaucratic red tape). Apparently it's about a Harvard law school student and a Korean beauty queen? Or so I deduced from the incoherent Babelfish translations posted on soompi.com. Actually, Miss Korea is currently in the freshman class here, which makes the whole scenario much more plausible. Anyway, I don't even know if the drama is showing yet. ::sighs:: Maybe Christmas break?
Yours &c.
Ahem. Please click on my freeiPods.com referral link?
Why yes, I do want an iPod. Also, I really needed to order ink cartridges, and to my surprise MyInks.com is actually a little cheaper than Staples. I may even actually continue to order from the store because they have free shipping and I'm way too lazy to go out and buy myself new cartridges. Geez, I'm such a couch potato.
My chances of getting a free iPod are low, I know, because people on my friends list have either already signed up for the service (I've seen several people put up links over the past few months) or own an iPod. >_< But hey, who knows, maybe I'll be lucky?
This evening, Jenny, Nan and I went to watch Goodbye Lenin at the Center for European Studies. The Jenny who speaks German not the Jenny who is in kendo. It was a beautifully filmed movie and quite sincere: comic without being ridiculous or contemptuous. The touching moments were genuinely moving without being overly sentimental, which is no easy feat. To summarize, Goodbye Lenin is about a boy whose mother falls into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. She wakes up eight months later, after their entire world has changed, but naturally has no idea what has happened. The doctor tells him that if she suffers another heart attack, she may die, and the boy, knowing that his mother threw herself into the Communist Party after her husband abandoned her to run off to West Germany, decides that he must do everything to prevent her from finding out about the reunification. Much hilarity ensues--he goes hunting for the old East German brand of pickles, patches together fake news broadcasts with the help of an aspiring director friend, hunts down their old friends and neighbors to come and sing old patriotic songs at her birthday, hides his sister's McDonald's uniform. There's a particularly funny moment where he tries to explain away the Coca-Cola banner that his mother accidentally sees outside their apartment window. ^_^ The movie is completely apolitical, which I think was wise. Instead the director chose to focus on this ordinary family and how they adapt to the momentous changes around them, which I think is the story worth telling. Heh, review language always reduce films to a trite level, but it was really a wonderful movie. I want to watch it again sometime, perhaps with my parents.
Oh, and some bad science pick-up lines we thought up in biology class:
"Will you be my ribosome?"
"You make my pheromones aggregate."
Last night, I gave into temptation and watched the first episode of Gankutsuou. I've heard the patterns annoyed people, but I think they're rather classy. I mean, it just may be my fondness for experimentation, but I really do think they add a surreal, "this is an acid trip" atmosphere to the anime. The science fiction angle throws me off, actually--the whole space opera paraphernalia comes as an afterthought or as an unwelcome interruption--but I suppose it allows the producers to avoid the problem of historical accuracy. (Not that historical accuracy has ever stopped them before--e.g. Rurouni Kenshin. ::coughs::) I was thoroughly pleased though by how closely they are approximating the book's plot--they kept the emerald, which made me oh-so-happy. I don't know what it is with me and the emerald, but ever since I first read the book, it's been one of the enduring images I always associate with the book. I suppose it somehow encapsulates the Comte's sheer exoticism. Which reminds me though that I thought the recent movie (the one where they cut out Haydee >_<) went a little overboard with the lavishness. The Comte is rich and eclectic, but I would like to think he had some modicum of taste. I don't quite mind the exuberant lavishness in the anime, partly because the science fiction premise does give it some leeway and also because it isn't as tacky like the movie!Comte's chateau. (And don't get me started on the invitations.) Oh, and I think the girl who peeks in on the Comte and...er...his fencing partner (his name escapes me) is Haydee! They did not forget her! Thank goodness. I hope they also include the full de Villefort story. Maximilien happens to be another of my favorite characters as well as M. Noirtier whom they completely slandered in the movie. ;_;
Thanksgiving is coming soon! I want to watch another drama (in which case I shall most surely update
televida with all the details, Tin). My parents have turned my breaks back home in New York into a sort of ritual: there are the obligatory visits to restaurants for 짜장면 and 순두부, the huge meals at home with all my favorite dishes, the one outing we manage to schedule (usually to a movie or to some sort of performance), and last but not least, the drama-watching marathon! My parents usually look for 20 to 24 episode miniseries. Any recommendations? Please don't say Full House. >_> I'd actually like to see Love Story at Harvard, simply for the amusement value (no, they didn't shoot it here, although they tried; apparently they didn't know that filming on campus requires reams of bureaucratic red tape). Apparently it's about a Harvard law school student and a Korean beauty queen? Or so I deduced from the incoherent Babelfish translations posted on soompi.com. Actually, Miss Korea is currently in the freshman class here, which makes the whole scenario much more plausible. Anyway, I don't even know if the drama is showing yet. ::sighs:: Maybe Christmas break?Yours &c.
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Date: 2004-11-18 09:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-11-18 10:59 am (UTC)"You make my pheromones aggregate."
Hee! I need to use those sometime.
BTW, speaking of weird movies about our respective schools, they were playing The Long Grey Line today at lunch. It's this old black-and-white musical about this runaway princess who pretends to be a cadet; she puts on a plebe uniform and ties her hair up under her hat, and everyone is completely unable to tell she's female even though her voice is higher than mine and she's wearing forty pounds of makeup. Then she leads the Corps in a tap-dance routine and makes out with some random dudes. I just thought I would share that.
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Date: 2004-11-18 12:11 pm (UTC)Love Story at Harvard is just really capitalizing on Korean love of brand names. -_-
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Date: 2004-11-25 11:44 am (UTC)Mostly because I'm avoiding hw and college apps.
O=)
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Date: 2004-11-25 07:34 pm (UTC)