I'm spending my Saturday night watching Lost in Translation. Weirdly it's one of those films I've always wanted to watch but I've never gotten around to it. One of my friends mentioned it yesterday, I saw it on Netflix tonight so figured "fuck it"
I quite like Scarlett Johansson from around that time, she was in Ghost World just a couple of years earlier, which I fucking adore <3 I might actually re-read the graphic novel later.
I think I'm watching this at the right time of my life. The whole awakened sense of self, of being alive, that I'm going through at the minute, I think I like this kind of film. I'm definitely appreciating it more than I would've last year. It echoes quite a lot of what I've though over the last few weeks of being stuck, meeting someone new and a whole explosion of feelings towards them, and that was reciprocated back.
I've added a very simple life goal - I don't have many, generally my only goal is to be happy. Genuinely. Intensely + consistently happy. So yeh, my new addition to a life goal, I need to listen to My Bloody Valentine's 'Sometime' while walking through the streets of Tokyo.
Summer 2013 I was in Japan, it was the first step to the rest of my life. It was a new benchmark. I've started to learn Japanese. I felt like such a fucking tourist, and frankly, I was embarrassed that I didn't learn more before I went. So the next time I go, I want to change that.
I can read. Basic stuff. It's mind blowing. Actually mind blowing. Sure, we can all read latin based language scripts, it isn't that big a deal really. When you see stuff like ゼルダ (Zelda) or you see a sign saying 「イスコーヒー」(iced coffee) and you know you can read it, rather it being just a random bunch of lines. That, that is mind blowing.
I talk about Japan a lot, but yeh, it really was my 'Day Zero' moment.
