January 03, 2005 - 12:29 a.m.

http://www.ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3
i find this incredibly soothing.

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I'd like to talk about films.  These days
i watch a lot.  
Battle Royal II is the worst of the 100 
or so dvds ive bought so far, and the 
only one I fast forwarded through.  The 
setting is an infantile live action 
version of Counter Strike, the acting is 
like something out of an opera, and the 
movie has the cheek to take itself 
seriously.  I bet even the fucked up 
japanese twelve year old target market 
thought it was shit.

Most movies I buy seem to be in the 'yeah 
it was pretty good' catagory.  Maybe ill 
list all the films in this category 
later. FOR FUN.
Edit:
  Rain Man
  Infernal Affairs
  I, Robot
  Desperado
  Super Size Me
  Rashomon
  Farenheit 9/11
  Scarface
  Leon
  Hero
  Collateral
  Team America
  Shiri
  The Big Blue
  The Bourne Supremacy
  Pirates of the Carribean
  24 Hour Party People
  Run Lola Run
  House of Flying Daggers
  Big Fish
  Silence of the Lambs
  Goodfellas
  Taxi Driver
  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  Taxi
  Straw Dogs
  Dodgeball
  Napoleon Dynamite
  Return of the King
  Ong Bak
  Bichunmoo
  Fighter in the Wind
  King of Comedy
  Catch-22
  Not One Less
  Beijing Bicycle
  Le Pacte Des Loups
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Project A
  Kung Fu Hustle
  Sword in the Moon
  Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  Nuan (暖)
  Made In Hong Kong
  Shakespeare In Love
  Throne of Blood
  The Pianist
  13th Warrior
  Infernal Affairs 2
  Cider House Rules
  Casshern
  Alexander
  A World Without Thieves
  Monkey King (Stephen Chow)
  Dragon Lord (Chan)
  Ladykillers
  Ray
  2046
  The Seventh Seal
  Uproar in Heaven(60s chinese monkey king animation)
  Coldplay Live 2002
  Blur dvd
  Slipknot dvd.
  Equilibrium
  A Fish Called Wanda
Shakespeare In Love was pretty damn amazing actually.  As was Big fish, the Borne Supremacy, Rain Man, Leon...
/edit


The only ones that shone out were Edward 
Scissorhands, and a Korean film called 
'Drunk on Poetry and Women'(Chinese title  
醉画仙).

I read somewhere that the character 
Edward is how Director Tim Burton sees 
himself.
I get annoyed every time I see the 
gossiping women.  They are so evil.

'Drunk on Poetry and Women' I like mostly  
for the amazing period detail and 
direction.  It's about a famous 
calligrapher, and set in 19th century 
Korea so i can get off on my imperial 
China fetish. (because things look really Chinese)
The central character, this calligrapher, 
is so well defined that I kept thinking 
about him after the film.  
I also I liked the portrayal of small 
scale ordinary life in the historical 
setting.  It made me think about the 
passing of time, and wonder what this guy 
would think about certain things.  Ive 
never seen a film like it.  



.........
Harbin Ice Festival: Snow and Ice World
                        (冰雪大世界)

Argh my eyes!  There are ice sculptures 
in several places in the city, many of 
them beautiful.  This place went for big 
and neon.  

This picture was taken from the Great 
Wall replica, which doubles as a rather 
violent ice slide.

Snow and ice covered the ground, and all 
the stairs were made of ice (some covered 
with a bit of carpet).  I fell over 4 times.


There was a raised platform almost like 
an aztec pyramid, with a flashing neon ice 
dancefloor and huge speakers blasting out 
Happy House.  Girls in matching warm coats 
danced in shifts on three podiums.  A 
surprising number of people were trying 
to dance.  
Looking back, that dancefloor would have 
been the perfect surface for an MJ style
moonwalk.  Ah well, maybe next time.








...................

I need somebody to tell me how to live.   
I look down on religious people as narrow
minded - suppressing logic in order to feel 
good.
And yet the question of religion keeps 
nagging me.  Should I suppress God in order 
to feel logical?


 
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