I've also been feeling pretty sorry for myself and I didn't want to come here and make a tit out of myself!
So anyway at the moment I'm trying to download...
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Anyway I'm off to my mates place for the weekend soon... technically we're celebrating his baby daughter's 1st birthday but mainly we'll be getting drunk, eating junk food and watching movies... good times!
But here's a funny clip someone e-mailed me (a banned Channel 4 promo featuring celebs favourite swear words!)...
http://www.updater.co.uk/
Enjoy (my favourite is the guy from Scrubs...
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EDIT - Well that link has already been posted in the UK group a while back... d'oh! Still no time for a journal entry though...
ure a jammy sod for having weekends off damn u
Anyway cut to ten hours later and I've...
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when it gets here is another story though 
Let me set the scene - you've spent your nine hours at your desk desperately trying to block out the continual drone of your work colleagues whilst you carry out your own menial job (one of the many benefits of working in an "open...
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yeah ya worth it for talkin to me haha 
where do you work in bootle? i used to work at the HSE near oriel road st., it was a massive building, so when everyone left, i used to find that elderly work colleagues form an effective human shield against bb gun pellets. they didn't mind much, i think they appreciated the attention
I have small collection but it's one I'm proud of and today I thought I'd share a recent acquisition with you. It's a...
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For some reason every christmas & birthday I now get Liquorice Allsorts from my sister... I'm not sure why as I'm really not a big fan. I mean I don't dislike them but I've never really stated a great desire for them either?!?!
I also got some Thorntons Peanut Brittle off...
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Happy Birthday! Sounds like you had a good time out on the lash!
I'm kinda drunk at the moment so I can't post any sort of reasonable debate but I really though Audition was one of Takashi's better offerings. Yes it can be painfully slow but as that was kind of the original intention of the piece I couldn't really find fault with it... I mean his films are almost cartoons sometimes with the constant bombardment of violence and vulgarity so when in Audition (after waiting so long) Asami hacks Shigeharu's foot off with the wire... well that was more effectively chilling because we as the audience had to wait for it... at least in my eyes...
I agree with that, it does give the scenes more impact as Miike has set them in a very real world, unlike say Ichi The Killer which is ridiculously ott, or cartoony if you like, with its violence from the off. I'd heard that Miike was a very stylish director, but mostly I just found his films to be dark and gritty looking, the mise-en-scene isn't generally very nice to look at.
whilst the first film could be seen as a slight parody (although it wasn't really intended that way) the sequel is really meant to be a parody both of current world politics (the war on terrorism, etc) and also of Japanese culture (the original intention is that Nanahara is rebelling not only against the BR act but about the americanisation of the Japanese culture)...
I didn't really pick any of that up when I was watching it, perhaps I should take another look at it, I sort of lost interest after Nanahara's speech and the second shot of the buildings collapsing. I thought the two speeches about america's post ww2 war activities was baseless, not being properly contextualised within the film and so it seems to be courting controversy more than anything that adds to the the film.
I'd say it's foolish to write off Asian cinema though just because of those movies... movies, like all art, are very subjective. And okay you didn't like those movies... but in my humble opinion asian cinema in general is often more inventive, more beautiful... and hell plain old more interesting than a lot of the other stuff out there...
Yeah, I agree with that, but I haven't really written it off, its just that i'm not as excited about it than I had been before seeing these two films which were ones I was desperately looking forward to.
At the moment I have Black Angel to watch, and on my rental queue are....
BlackAngel 2
DeadOrAlive
DeadOrAlive 2
Dolls
Versus
Freezer
Fudoh-TheNewGeneration
HanaBi
HappinessOfTheKatakuris
Junk
PerfectBlue
Ring
Ring 0
Ring 2
Tetsuo:TheIronMan
So gimme a month or two, and I should have much more of an idea of what I'm talking about You know of any others that should be on that list?
*update, dvds365.com are the fuckwits. not me.
[Edited on Mar 08, 2004 12:56PM]
Coming home the morning after the night before with my face mangled to fuck (that's a medical term!) and having to explain to my parents that I had been attacked...
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woah that sounds pretty shit. things like that happen all the time around here. but when you are much older than the kids it makes it much harder. nearlly happened to me last weekend. there was three of us, walking with beers in our hands, just making our way out. and we happened to come across about 15 chavs, 2 with baseball bats??? all came over to harrase(sp??) us but we just gave them our beers and made off. but if it wasnt for the beers. idunno what they would have done?? the things we all got because we are "different"
I didn't get anything too extravagant thought so I'm quite pleased with myself! And when I picked up my comic book standing order there were new issues of my two favourite magazines - Asian Cult Cinema and Wrapped in Plastic... yay!
I recently really culled...
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i used to eat it when i was younger it give you the biggest sugar rush!!
I just kept thinking of more things I had to do... so although no journal entry was written by 5pm I did have a desk that was so tidy if the old addage "A...
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plus it would be good to get a girlfriend. where did you get that clip? it was amazing