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Call me slow off the mark….

October 12, 2006
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I’ve just realised something….

When I was in Japan in September 2004, I brought a Japanese DVD. The DVD was in Japanese and since it was intended for the Japanese market, it was entirely in Japanese. I watched the DVD on the plane back and I’ve seen it several times since.

Laying in bed just now, it just occured to me…. The Japanese DVD is in Japanese: i.e. there is no English. How on earth did I manage to watch and understand it and how come it’s taken me over 2 years to realise it was in Japanese?

I’ll now have to find the DVD and re-watch it and see if it still makes sense. If so, somehow, magically, I know Japanese without knowing it… Either that, or I’m really really slow off the mark!

Howard T. Duck

August 6, 2006
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Howard The Duck Movie PosterInspired by Les’s post on the Wilhelm Scream, I decided to watch “Howard the Duck” again (the 1986 comedy “flop”) starring Lea Thompson (better known to me as Lorraine McFly from Back to the Future).

However, here’s a question for you – who was the Executive Producer of Howard the Duck? Was it:

A: Robert “Back To The Future” Zemeckis
B: George “Star Wars” Lucas
C: Leonard “WarGames” Goldberg
D: The Wachowski “Matrix” Brothers?

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TV: Cutie Honey (Japanese)

December 6, 2004
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I’ve just watched the first 10 minutes of “Cutie Honey” (a Japanese anime where I’m not quite sure what the “target audience” is – the women seem to be very well endowded and bits of clothing keep on being torn off, but not in a sexual way..).

Anyway – the main character “Honey” has just come in for a shock…

How would you feel if:
* You just found out your Dad was dead (murdered)
* But he left a tape recording for you
* Telling you not to be suprised, but you aren’t his daughter
* Because you are an android

11minutes in and I’m laughing like anything (“those crazy Japanese!”) and already trying to figure out quite what is going on 😉

Movies: Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider II

August 23, 2003
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What is it with me and Angelina Jolie in tight clothes? When I saw her in Hackers, I thought she was quite good looking and the preview images I’ve seen of Tomb Raider II of her in a wetsuit *drool*.

I haven’t seen her in any films since Hackers, so don’t ask me to comment on the original Tomb Raider movie (I haven’t even played the game) or her acting skills post-Johnny Lee Miller, but I’ve still gone ahead and made a background/wallpaper style montage of her in her wet suit (ok, the middle Angelina could do with some more photo editing work – especially on the left arm, but it’s still drollabale material).

Anyway, I’m off to bed now – and I’ll leave you to guess what I’ll (hopefully) be dreaming about tonight 😉