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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Sunday, July 28, 2002 |
 A wierd sky this evening. The air itself was suffused with an orange so
dense that it seemed that everything was being seen through some sort of
coloured looking-glass. I think the only time I've seen anything like
this before was during a typhoon last year, when evening brought a
violent, but spectacularly beautiful, sunset, with the sun burnished
gold amidst charcoal clouds.
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Films worthy of mention...
There's Something about Mary
I watched this film for the first
time in about a year this afternoon, primarily because I lent the DVD to
a friend last October, and only got it back yesterday...
Anyway, I
like There's Something about
Mary a lot- it's perfect for a Sunday afternoon. It's also one of
those films where the story itself isn't as important as the acting and
the jokes, so it's possible to watch it any number of times without it
getting boring. Cameron Diaz as Mary and Ben Stiller as Ted are both
excellent; Stiller, though, always reminds me of a character from Scooby
Doo during the first part of the film... not that this is a criticism,
of course!
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Books worthy of mention...
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
A quite superb book about family and identity, sweeping between 1920's
China and present-day America. The cultural background to the book is
fascinating to me as a student of the Orient.
It's one of those books where you read more quickly than normal, so
gripping and involving is the tale. I'll have to read it again more
carefully sometime soon.
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I was planning to spend some time relaxing with a book on my balcony
today, but one look at the blueness of the sky told me that this could-
no, would- be a quite monumentally stupid idea. Admittedly my balcony is
in shade, but even so the reflection from the ground would be strong
enough to lead to a suntan- and what I absolutely don't want now is any
more sun on my arms or face.
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Waking up this morning, I realised the full extent of my sunburn. Not
good...
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
tartly strutting child
saddens saddens, frail
cruel insistent spears
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:23:20 pm.
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