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24/7/10 09:58I am sorting through my pictures from Japan! I'm going to post some when I sit down and finish captioning the first day, at least.
Last week we went to see Inception, which Meaghan liked a lot and I didn't so much, to my regret. It felt cold and full of infodumps that didn't materialize in the promised Making Me Think -- solipsism bores me and I never got intellectually engaged with making sense of the multitude of rules at play -- and its emotional arc never convinced me. Abigail Nussbaum's review says everything I'd have wanted to say, although I enjoyed it, and certainly found that a lot of parts were entertaining or at least visually engaging and in a sea of movies that I'm not even midly curious about (Katherine Heigl, will you please stop making absurdly low-concept romantic comedies that are neither romantic nor comedies?) it was worth seeing.
At Kinokuniya I was charmed by a book called "Bungei Girlish," a book of book recommendations for "girls who would rather read one old book recommended in Hosho Gekkan than ten new knockoffs of The Da Vinci Code." It's an interesting mix: almost nothing I've heard of before, mostly but not exclusively women authors, lots from the first half of the 20th century. Intriguing for someone like me who has had a hard time getting into the very, very male canon of Japanese literature, not least because it's in Japanese. Unfortunately, looking through the "Riot Grrrls of Literature" chapter, Kinokuniya didn't actually seem to have most of their recommendations, but I'm sure I'll find stuff to order online.
...I don't actually have time to play around with Ruby, do I? Yeah no.
Last week we went to see Inception, which Meaghan liked a lot and I didn't so much, to my regret. It felt cold and full of infodumps that didn't materialize in the promised Making Me Think -- solipsism bores me and I never got intellectually engaged with making sense of the multitude of rules at play -- and its emotional arc never convinced me. Abigail Nussbaum's review says everything I'd have wanted to say, although I enjoyed it, and certainly found that a lot of parts were entertaining or at least visually engaging and in a sea of movies that I'm not even midly curious about (Katherine Heigl, will you please stop making absurdly low-concept romantic comedies that are neither romantic nor comedies?) it was worth seeing.
At Kinokuniya I was charmed by a book called "Bungei Girlish," a book of book recommendations for "girls who would rather read one old book recommended in Hosho Gekkan than ten new knockoffs of The Da Vinci Code." It's an interesting mix: almost nothing I've heard of before, mostly but not exclusively women authors, lots from the first half of the 20th century. Intriguing for someone like me who has had a hard time getting into the very, very male canon of Japanese literature, not least because it's in Japanese. Unfortunately, looking through the "Riot Grrrls of Literature" chapter, Kinokuniya didn't actually seem to have most of their recommendations, but I'm sure I'll find stuff to order online.
...I don't actually have time to play around with Ruby, do I? Yeah no.