Spamming while I set up
I set up my room and keep one of my favorite movies on in the background. It's so much fun- I MOVED.
It hasn't settled in. It hasn't at all after so long.
I'm overjoyed and care to share something with everyone again.
If you listen to it long enough, it WILL melt your brain.
This is from one of my favorite movies ever- The Taste of Tea. Director Katsuhito Ishii pays homage to Yasiujiro Ozu with this psychedelic twist on Ingmar Bergman's FANNY AND ALEXANDER. Revolving around an eccentric family, the film follows mom (an aspiring animator), dad (a hardworking hypno-therapist), their hormonal teenage son, and grandpa (who has ambitions of becoming a rock star). Meanwhile, the baby of the family, Sachiko, tries to escape the hauntings of a 60-foot ghost, and a visit from an uncle just adds to the general craziness.
A bit of patience is required to get through "The Taste of Tea," but patience is often rewarded, and it certainly is by this droll and oddly touching film by Katsuhito Ishii. The movie is a family portrait as painted by a moderately demented Cubist: the family involved is nothing like yours, yet somehow, in its fractured way, exactly like yours.
Mr. Ishii is in no hurry to roll all this out - in one scene, he follows Hajime as he bicycles seemingly halfway across Japan. But a description someone gives of a song involved in one of the film's many detours neatly summarizes the movie itself: "It's more cool than weird, and it stays in your head."
Anyway I can't bear to spoil it for you. I hope all of you see it some day.
It hasn't settled in. It hasn't at all after so long.
I'm overjoyed and care to share something with everyone again.
Click to viewIf you listen to it long enough, it WILL melt your brain.
This is from one of my favorite movies ever- The Taste of Tea. Director Katsuhito Ishii pays homage to Yasiujiro Ozu with this psychedelic twist on Ingmar Bergman's FANNY AND ALEXANDER. Revolving around an eccentric family, the film follows mom (an aspiring animator), dad (a hardworking hypno-therapist), their hormonal teenage son, and grandpa (who has ambitions of becoming a rock star). Meanwhile, the baby of the family, Sachiko, tries to escape the hauntings of a 60-foot ghost, and a visit from an uncle just adds to the general craziness.
A bit of patience is required to get through "The Taste of Tea," but patience is often rewarded, and it certainly is by this droll and oddly touching film by Katsuhito Ishii. The movie is a family portrait as painted by a moderately demented Cubist: the family involved is nothing like yours, yet somehow, in its fractured way, exactly like yours.
Mr. Ishii is in no hurry to roll all this out - in one scene, he follows Hajime as he bicycles seemingly halfway across Japan. But a description someone gives of a song involved in one of the film's many detours neatly summarizes the movie itself: "It's more cool than weird, and it stays in your head."
Anyway I can't bear to spoil it for you. I hope all of you see it some day.