Better sushi, better TV
From Entertainment Weekly’s blog, here’s more proof that the Japanese culture is infinitely superior to our own. Pan the Chimpanzee can do twice as many sit-ups as I can.
Watashi wa nihongo ga mada heta desu
“Watashi wa nihongo ga mada heta desu” means “I’m still bad at Japanese.” And although that’s a demonstrably true statement, the correct response is supposedly 「いいえ、そんなことは ありませんよ」, “No, that’s not true!” I’ve been taking classes for the past ten weeks at a local school, and last night was the nerve-wracking final. It’s actually a pretty…
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I’ve been negligent in my “Battlestar Galactica”-watching duties for the past month, so I spent the last couple of days getting caught up on the last four episodes. I’ve got to be vague, here, since there may yet be brothers of man, out there, among the blogosphere, who are waiting for the DVD release to…
Grindhouse
Before The Host, they ran a promo for Grindhouse. It’s easily the best movie trailer I’ve seen in decades: I’ve never been this excited to see a movie that I’m probably going to miss half of because my I’ll have to keep my eyes closed. It’s easy to get taken in by cool trailer, dull…
The Host
For the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing about The Host. I’ve been deliberately avoiding details about it, to keep from spoiling any potential surprises, so all I could ascertain was that it’s a South Korean movie about a giant river monster attacking a family. And that I needed to see it. From the near-unanimous…
Death comes in threes
It’s a little weird that I’ve been so engrossed in the Final Destination movies lately. I’m not a big fan of horror movies in general, because I don’t usually have the constitution for them. And the movies, frankly, just aren’t that good. I was initially interested by the TV tie-ins. Ali Larter from “Heroes” is…
Hey, I remember that show!
Last night ABC aired a new episode of their series “Lost.” Apparently it’s about a bunch of people marooned on an island or something. Watching it, I was reminded of a series that ran two years ago, also coincidentally called “Lost.” In last night’s episode, though, everyone was acting strangely out of character. Not five…