Not much has been going on lately, mostly just the same old school, aikido, friends thing. Am going to Korea in less than twelve hours, which should be pretty cool. I don't have any particular plans except maybe trying to start a grassroots campaign to change the name of the DMZ to the DMX and replace the massive military standoff with one-on-one rap-offs, all themed to shaking ones booty and defending one's homies with fists full of bling-bling gripping 45 calibers of black equality. After that maybe I'll head to the parliament to catch some of the wrestling going on; I could even wear a greasy old t-shirt and bring a sign saying "Kim Dae-Jung 3:14" to get in the pro-wrestling spirit.
Other than that, who knows what I'll be doing. Presumably eating my body's weight in kim chee, but that more or less goes without saying. I'll be in Korea until the morning of the sixth, so until at least that evening you'll be denied the glorious radiance of the sun of brilliance that is my website.
The other day I went to go see this Japanese sci-fi/action movie that looked really neat called Casshern. It is apparently a live-action movie version of an anime series from maybe twenty or thirty years ago, and all things considered it was surprisingly good. Of course, being a Japanese movie it managed to conjure up about ten thousand unanswered questions per ten feet of film, but that is pretty well par for the course. I think the only Japanese movie I've ever seen that wasn't chock-full of plot holes and mysterious deus ex machina nonsense and in turn did not suck miserably (thereby eliminating every Kurosawa movie) was a movie called Ping-Pong, about the crazy life of a Japanese high-school ping-pong player. It was actually really good, but who knows if it's available outside of Japan.
- Gyaa! I'm give up
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