home again

damn

fell asleep on the flight from burbank to san jose
ivy_red reminded me with her post about the fashion show on friday
better spam that thing.



finished house of flying daggers
hmm
it was dedicated to anita mui who died this month last year
forgot about that.
i have a shitload of movies with her in it too
the drunken master ones, green snake, my father... hero, heroic trio, bettertomorrow,

hmm. leslie cheung died too
bah.
he was cool too

anyways, need to prep for finals.
2 more days of actual classes and then next week the tests begin.

i cant wait to leave once more.
tho i'm not excited about the cold weather.
i suppose it's a decent trade for 5 weeks in europe.

my bro is taking off for japan again. 2 weeks.
i need to get over there as well i think.

ok.
so one more week or so of school.
then to plan the euro bouncing.
then austin, LA, NYC, europe again.
ack!!

i'm stoked,
my room is warm
i have new wigs
and i have azn DVDs to watch
:D

HoFD

ok
so takeshi kaneshiro is hot - for an azn dude
(i dont do rice in general).
and i've always dug andy lau
zhang ziyi is pretty as ever
but i wonder if anita mui would have made that much of a difference.
instead of recasting her part after her death last december, he, the director zhang yimou, wrote around it.

this one falls short of Hero.
the sets are pretty and the exteriors are great and the colors vibrant.
like Hero.
makes me want to have a bamboo forest in my backyard so i can run around in bright red to contrast the green.
kinda like the British in that one part of Last of the Mohicans right before they get slaughtered.

the plot and story are um..
they dont make sense if you pay attention.
so dont.
especially stop trying after Mei & Wind reach the Flying Daggers cuz it really falls apart there.
just keep staring at zhang ziyi or takeshi - which ever you prefer - and things should be fine.

oh, and of course dont get into the story about the bad governent about to do a full scale attack on the Flying Daggers.
Cuz Yiomu has pretty much ignored that major part of the story line.
seems that love triangle thing is much more important.

of course the ending is very korean in form - everybody dies.
but koreans still do it best i think.

and if you're going to make ziyi so hot looking, then show some tittie.
and take off kaneshiro's clothes some more too.
maybe i should go stick in my Returner DVD...
hubba!

oh, and if you like the wuxia stuff, then just go pick up the movie on DVD.
same price pretty much. and you can watch it over and over again so you can be amazed at the flowy outfits and the variety of skill in filming. (sometimes it seemed a bit off, other times ok)
except for the fact, that it *would* look nice on the big screen.
unless you happen to have a nice telly!