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Feb. 21st, 2005 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oIt's time for my weekly ritual, updating LJ while watching the Ultimate Fighter Competition (what is WRONG with me??)
I had a very Asian-flavored few days. It probably began when I saw Ong Bak last week, but it really kicked in yesterday, when I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sanj, penknife, and neotoma (the latter two of whom I had not met before) and wandered with them through the Freer and Sackler galleries. Just about when my feet didn't wanna walk no more, we crossed the mall and went to Teaism, where we each consumed different varieties of Asian food. Then today I went to see House of Flying Daggers, and oh my!
They should create the Most Gorgeous Picture Oscar just so they can give it to Flying Daggers. The costumes were just unbelievably *beautiful*, all these vividly colored layers of silk billowing around, and the scenery was *so* lovely (it was filmed in both China and the Ukraine), and the people were *pretty*! I already knew Zhang Ziyi was beautiful, but I hadn't realized just how sexy a shoulder could be. Takeshi Kanehiro is SUCH a cutie, a wonderful flirt, and Andy Lau is more subdued but definitely has some carefully-tamped-down charisma. There's a scene in which the male leads duel and their hair is slipping out of their topknots and flying around their shoulders, and they're sweating, and really *intent*, and mmmm ....
I havejustacat to thank for introducing me to the Scissor Sisters. If you have fond feelings for '80s music, this is the band for you. There are so many deliberate allusions (almost samples, except they aren't, technically) to '80s bands -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Depeche Mode, and Erasure, and (somewhat more randomly) Pink Floyd (and I'm not even talking about the discocover of Comfortably Numb, which sounds *nothing * like Pink Floyd, I'm talking about Return to Oz, which basically sounds like Pink Floyd fronted by Elton John).
I must go now, CGU is laughing at me because I'm yelling at the TV, calling stupid Josh what's-his-name a whiner and worse (I am ashamed to admit the p-word actually escaped my lips).
I had a very Asian-flavored few days. It probably began when I saw Ong Bak last week, but it really kicked in yesterday, when I met
sanj, penknife, and neotoma (the latter two of whom I had not met before) and wandered with them through the Freer and Sackler galleries. Just about when my feet didn't wanna walk no more, we crossed the mall and went to Teaism, where we each consumed different varieties of Asian food. Then today I went to see House of Flying Daggers, and oh my!They should create the Most Gorgeous Picture Oscar just so they can give it to Flying Daggers. The costumes were just unbelievably *beautiful*, all these vividly colored layers of silk billowing around, and the scenery was *so* lovely (it was filmed in both China and the Ukraine), and the people were *pretty*! I already knew Zhang Ziyi was beautiful, but I hadn't realized just how sexy a shoulder could be. Takeshi Kanehiro is SUCH a cutie, a wonderful flirt, and Andy Lau is more subdued but definitely has some carefully-tamped-down charisma. There's a scene in which the male leads duel and their hair is slipping out of their topknots and flying around their shoulders, and they're sweating, and really *intent*, and mmmm ...
I have
justacat to thank for introducing me to the Scissor Sisters. If you have fond feelings for '80s music, this is the band for you. There are so many deliberate allusions (almost samples, except they aren't, technically) to '80s bands -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Depeche Mode, and Erasure, and (somewhat more randomly) Pink Floyd (and I'm not even talking about the discocover of Comfortably Numb, which sounds *nothing * like Pink Floyd, I'm talking about Return to Oz, which basically sounds like Pink Floyd fronted by Elton John).I must go now, CGU is laughing at me because I'm yelling at the TV, calling stupid Josh what's-his-name a whiner and worse (I am ashamed to admit the p-word actually escaped my lips).