jim jarmusch’s latest, coffee and cigarettes, is a fun and lighthearted movie depicting several vignettes of people interacting over coffee (or tea) and cigarettes. very refreshing, especially amidst the heavy subjects, visuals and long running times of most of the movies i have seen of late.
again, the day after tomorrow was better than i anticipated. it is not really an action movie, more of a…scientific thriller? is that a new genre? the special effects were neat, and i definitely felt a sort of panic about the environment during and after.
been seeing a lot of movies this past week, so i don’t know when i’ll be posting my ‘reviews’ of new films. also i’m still procrastinating about that whole japan trip report thing, but maybe i’ll get to that this next weekend friday.
i found a new apartment! it was the 3rd one i looked at, the second listing i saw. it is large and cheap and quite nice and i’m very very happy with it. it’s kind of far west, but that’s ok – i’m signing the lease tonight!
i use that adjective a lot.
a LOT.
sorry.
this movie was SO much better than i thought it would be. it was hilarious and had (awww!) a nice lesson to be learned. i laughed through the whole thing and left wanting to be a better person and delighted that i could never possibly be as bitchy and backstabbing and cruel as the girls in the movie. but i’ll also never have such vast knowledge of cosmetics and hair products and ‘fashion’ so i guess some would see that as a trade-off. these people are delusional. but anyhow, ‘mean girls‘ is terrific.
‘casshern‘ is a highly stylized action drama that has some not-so-subtle messages about war, pollution, samaritanism. Beautiful cinematography and decent fx give ‘casshern’ an incredibly distinct look (film grain like tennis balls, blacks to make you rethink other blacks, super-saturated color), and a plot full of betraya, heavy emotions and intrigue drives the film. from what kyle, eric & i could speculate anyway, since it was entirely in japanese with no subtitles.
don’t read this story if you’re squeamish.
you can buy panties with this and other anti-bush slogans at axis of eve, the internet home of the activist group of the same name. you can read a story about them here.
so fucking AWAKE. got back from japan on thursday morning, before the time when i left japan, and then promptly slept for nearly 24 hours. now it is 6:15 am and i am wide awake because it is only, what, 8:15 pm in japan?