I don't usually go to see a movie for a variety of reasons, but as a Christmas present--they can call it for the holidays all they want, but everyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas knows what it really is--the vice president of our unit gave everyone two free tickets to an AMC movie, and when softlykarou mentioned wanting to go see Rogue One, so I told her I ( Read more... )

​I actually went to go see a movie together with softlykarou! The last movie we watched together in a theater was...well, actually, it was あん, but before that it was The Golden Compass, way back before we moved to Japan. I'm not usually much of one for movies, and even less for movies in a theater ( Read more... )

A few things.

Dreihaus Museum
A month ago, my parents suggested going to see the Downton Abbey clothing exhibit at the Dreihaus Museum, a 19th century house downtown now converted into, well, a museum. I haven't seen a single episode of Downtown Abbey and know almost nothing about the show--they I have read To Marry an English Lord, one of the ( Read more... )

Today, softlykarou, drydem, and his wife sat down and watched the Tolkien Editor recut of the Hobbit movies into a single movie. I hadn't seen any of the Hobbit movies before now. I don't usually see movies for a variety of reasons, and while this has been on my computer for a while I haven't previously made the time to watch it, because it's four and a half hours ( Read more... )

This post is inspired entirely by this video:

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I've been looking for an extended version of "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold" for months, and I finally found it. I haven't seen any of the Hobbit movies and I'm not like to unless they ever show up on Netflix or softlykarou buys them, so this is the first time I've seen any footage from it. I haven't even ( Read more... )

I used to write a lot of blog entries that were just random snippets from my life. I've moved away from that and into more themed entries as time went on, but here's another info dump!

Last night I saw Knights of Badassdom, which is the first movie I've seen in almost two years unless I'm counting wrong, and it was...meh. I think part of the ( Read more... )

We spent Christmas with some friends down on Innoshima, which looks nearly the same as Chiyoda if you ignore the ocean. After forgetting my laptop back in Hiroshima, returning to get it, coming back and nearly falling asleep on the bus and ending up in Shikoku, the rest of the weekend proceeded quite smoothly. Christmas dinner especially was ( Read more... )

I'm eating white rice now with some seto fumi furikake. White rice is good enough by itself, but this makes it especially yummy. I should eat more of it. Rice isn't a bad snack. If I do that, though, I should make it the real way--ten minutes of washing to remove the starch and all. Washing isn't so bad when you have a rice cooker ( Read more... )

Hot Fuzz is ten pounds of awesome in a five pound bag.

That is all.

I was not a very culturally aware child. I rarely watched movies, and didn't start really listening to the radio until my sophomore year of high school (and then stopped again once I got to college). I rarely watched television--I'm lucky my sister did, or I probably would have missed out on things like Scooby Doo and Fraggle Rock. Tonight, I ( Read more... )