Productivity and Han [Liam]
UNO
Slow week.
Friday at my part-time job I caught a spider and started training him to fight. I'm not even joking. Here's a picture.
His target is the silhouette of a cat and the simple directive: ATTACK.
I decided to start him on smaller targets; punching his own weight, so to speak. Here he is retreating to his side of the ring to receive more complicated instruction from his corner man (me). My co-worker Jeremy has more pics of him actually utilizing "ground-and-pound" techniques on the target, I gotta get those. At the end of the day he was released into the wild. He hasn't received actual training in taking down humans, but his psych screens showed remarkable adaptability and he applies his lessons well in the practical world so there's really no telling if we should be worried. I'd tell you to be careful, but if Slobodan sets his mind to something you really won't have any say in the matter one way or another.
DUO
Instructions for the attempted viewing of "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift":
-Have already watched Justin Lin's "Better Luck Tomorrow" (extra credit if you have also seen "Annapolis").
-Remind yourself than Japan has been done badly in film for time immemorial, and probably deserves it anyway.
-Understand that below a mess of industry crap projects a legitimately sustainable precedent for studio-quality Asian American cinema is being planted in the form of Justin Lin's mainstream success, and he's bringing his actors with him. He has undeniable, immutable skill regardless of where they put him; making LIN do a movie based on exoticized Hollywood impressions of Asia is either the most horrible dues-paying imaginable or a subtly brilliant pick (It's the first "White Outsider in Japan" movie in American history without a thoroughly neutered *positive* Asian male lead or a geisha princess love interest).
-Have a comfortable chair and the best television available to you. Place enough chilled alcohol within arms' reach to keep you in the chair, and eventually to limit your mobility to said chair.
-Treat it as an unofficial followup for the character of Han in BLT; Sung Kang's character not only has the same name but at one point says of his origin:
"You know in the Westerns when the guy gets in trouble at home and has to split for Mexico? This is my Mexico."
(Justin Lin confirms this nod to BLT in the commentary track)
-Accept that Sung Kang is the bomb. Watch Leonardo Nam laugh at his own character repeatedly over the course of the movie. Note various thematic nods to the anime "Initial D."
-Continue drinking as necessary.
TRE
5 Movies I REALLY want to see that start with "The":
1-The Motel <--OCTOBER 20th if anyone else is interested!
2-The Namesake
3-The Departed
4-The Prestige
5-The Bridge
Slow week.
Friday at my part-time job I caught a spider and started training him to fight. I'm not even joking. Here's a picture.
His target is the silhouette of a cat and the simple directive: ATTACK.
I decided to start him on smaller targets; punching his own weight, so to speak. Here he is retreating to his side of the ring to receive more complicated instruction from his corner man (me). My co-worker Jeremy has more pics of him actually utilizing "ground-and-pound" techniques on the target, I gotta get those. At the end of the day he was released into the wild. He hasn't received actual training in taking down humans, but his psych screens showed remarkable adaptability and he applies his lessons well in the practical world so there's really no telling if we should be worried. I'd tell you to be careful, but if Slobodan sets his mind to something you really won't have any say in the matter one way or another.
DUO
Instructions for the attempted viewing of "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift":
-Have already watched Justin Lin's "Better Luck Tomorrow" (extra credit if you have also seen "Annapolis").
-Remind yourself than Japan has been done badly in film for time immemorial, and probably deserves it anyway.
-Understand that below a mess of industry crap projects a legitimately sustainable precedent for studio-quality Asian American cinema is being planted in the form of Justin Lin's mainstream success, and he's bringing his actors with him. He has undeniable, immutable skill regardless of where they put him; making LIN do a movie based on exoticized Hollywood impressions of Asia is either the most horrible dues-paying imaginable or a subtly brilliant pick (It's the first "White Outsider in Japan" movie in American history without a thoroughly neutered *positive* Asian male lead or a geisha princess love interest).
-Have a comfortable chair and the best television available to you. Place enough chilled alcohol within arms' reach to keep you in the chair, and eventually to limit your mobility to said chair.
-Treat it as an unofficial followup for the character of Han in BLT; Sung Kang's character not only has the same name but at one point says of his origin:
"You know in the Westerns when the guy gets in trouble at home and has to split for Mexico? This is my Mexico."
(Justin Lin confirms this nod to BLT in the commentary track)
-Accept that Sung Kang is the bomb. Watch Leonardo Nam laugh at his own character repeatedly over the course of the movie. Note various thematic nods to the anime "Initial D."
-Continue drinking as necessary.
TRE
5 Movies I REALLY want to see that start with "The":
1-The Motel <--OCTOBER 20th if anyone else is interested!
2-The Namesake
3-The Departed
4-The Prestige
5-The Bridge
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I can't make it on the 20th, but let me know if you go see the namesake. I think it's awesome that kal penn got another role where he doesn't have to affect an accent. And even though I know on a certain level that it's destined to suck, I will probably end up seeing this movie too.
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