These interviews are killing me. Funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while.

Saw this video on Yahoo! Sports “Top 10 Feel-Good Moments” today. Mo Cheeks: good guy.

Read a great post over at Amiyudas and figured I’d post my favorite Puffy (AmiYumi) song. Be warned, it’s an oldie!

This weekend we watched the movie Departures, the 2009 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. It’s about a man who loses his job as a cellist when the orchestra disbands, and his new job as an “encoffiner” which mean he prepares dead bodies for the coffin. At first I thought that this is going to be a really upsetting movie, but it is actually really touching and has a lot of humor as well. Throughout the movie, you experience the emotions that Daigo (the main character played by Masahiro Motoki) has, starting with shock and surprise. Soon, you start to see the importance of his job to the families of the deceased. You also understand the feelings of his wife Mika (Hirosue Ryoko) and her objections to his new line of work, and then you relate to the predicament that Daigo is in. The story is excellent and the acting is great. My favorite character is the owner of the encoffining business. You would probably recognize him as the cowboy from Tampopo. He’s so cool, yet you can tell how caring he is. All-in-all, Departures is a great movie. Just make sure to have some tissues handy since it can be a real tear-jerker!

I found this idea from Derek Powazek’s blog via another blog I follow (sorry I can’t remember which one). You basically set up a smart playlist in iTunes and specify the dates. My “The High School Years” playlist is not very interesting (no really embarrasing songs), and I find that I actually listen to a lot of the songs up to this day. I guess I like the oldies! Lots of English Beat, Cocteau Twins, Everything But The Girl, The Police, Bowie, and Bauhaus. Maybe some of the new wave stuff is a little embarrassing, but whatever! And our iTunes library includes Mariko’s cd’s as well, so I see all the music she listened to during those same years. She really was nuts about Toshiki Kadomatsu! Anyways, try out a smart playlist like this and see if you can dig up some old songs that you might have forgotten about.