2010 Dec 24
Parker Posey in Waiting for Guffman. So funny.
   
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2010 Dec 23
My bro sent me this amazing video. Wow! Posted by Barron •
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PermalinkThis is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was obsessed with the film Diva, so when Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue was released, it was a must that I see it in the theater. Since it was an artsy foreign film we saw it at the Bijou Theater in Hermosa Beach. I loved the movie so much that I went back to the theater a few months later and asked the manager if he had a movie poster. He went into the back room and brought it out for me! I think I still have that at my folks’ house. The story follows the relationship of Zorg and Betty, as she slowly becomes unstable and ultimately goes insane. But despite the dark parts of the film, there’s lots of funny and touching moments. And the soundtrack is fantastic! 2010 Dec 22
Since I am reminiscing about Japan (only a couple more days until I am on the plane), here’s another song that I used to listen to back then. I was probably December of 1996. I used to put my new Pizzicato Five CD ”great white wonder RARE MASTERS 1990`1996” into my Sony Discman and hop on the Friday night bullet-train from Tokyo Station to Osaka. This song was the soundtrack at the time, zipping through the stations and passing the city lights. I remember arriving in Osaka and waiting at the station, smoking cigarettes until Mariko got off work. Those were such fun times! Another P5 tune from the disc! 2010 Dec 21
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PermalinkI was jumping around YouTube watching music vids when I came across one of my all-time favorite songs: Ano Natsu no Hanabi by Dreams Come True. It goes back a ways! I think when I first heard this, I was making up my mind to move to Japan and this song kind of clinched it for me. I love it. Here it is from one of their amazing concerts, then the album song below, and lyrics (with rough translation) below that. Natsukashii! Japanese Tooku kara mune furuwasu oto ga hibiite kuru Hito de afureru teibou hagurenai you ni Imagoro anata mo dokoka de omoidashiteru no? Tomodachi ni hiyaka sareta mou natsu no hajime ni wa Kawa ni ochiru hanabira ga kieteku magiwa ni Imagoro anata mo dareka to kotoshi no hanabi wo miteru no? Nokoru kemuri kasumu daisankaku Imagoro anata mo dokoka de omoidashiteru no? Kotoshi mo kirei ne ano hi to onaji you ni kagayaku hanatachi Imagoro anata mo dokoka de chitteku kisetsu wo ikiteru English From far away, heart-shaking sounds are echoing Riverbank so overflowing with people, probably not able to peel off These days do you too, somewhere, recall… that day… Teased by friends at the very start of summer These days are you too, with someone, seeing this year’s fireworks? The remaining smoke, hazy Great Triangle [Altair, Vega, Deneb] These days do you too, somewhere, recall… that past summer’s fireworks… This year too, so beautiful, the same as that day, the shining blossoms Translations from DCTJoy.com Page 1 of 1 pages |