Today was London Film Festival NUMBER 2 VER.~ I saw a Korean film called Night and Day. It was okay. It’s about some man on the run from the Korean police because he smoked some marijuana, so he goes to Paris. I didn’t really like the direction. The camera kept zooming in and out, usually to focus on something that had no relevance to the plot whatsoever. The camera kept panning as well, which was just really disorientating. There were a few scenes that were meant to be his dreams, but you couldn’t tell until it cut back to reality. There was a romance sub-plot to the film which lacked any sort of chemistry.
I want to see another Korean film at the London Korean Film Festival called Milky Way Liberation Front, which is a film about indie filmmaking. It looks really interesting, but I just don’t have the time to see it. D:
Hot dancing~
Currently listening to: 10점 만점에 10점 by 2PM, from the album Hottest Time of the Day.
I went to the London Film Festival on Friday. It was…interesting. I went to some educational talk with this San Francisco director called Nathaniel Dorsky (I hadn’t heard of him ‘til I went). He makes experimental art films. Wikipedia describes him as a “Buddhist film-maker.” I don’t really know what to think of his work. Half the time I think it’s pretentious art films. Half the time I think it’s beautiful and thought-provoking. We watched two of his short films. The first one was called Sarabande (I think it’s called this; I don’t have the sheet handy). I should mention that all his films were silent. I thought that there was a backing track of wind noises, but that turned out to be the air conditioning. All it really was is long shots of nature and vague objects (like close-up of moving cars and reflections). I didn’t really connect with what was being shown to me. The second film was Winter. It was about the winter season in San Francisco, where it’s the rainy season. I felt I could connect to this film more, as it was more….grounded. After the showing, I ended up getting lunch with Annie, who was also on the trip where I demonstrated my taxi driver directional skills. I know London too well haha.
I have a lot of work of work to be getting on with during the half-term, but instead, it looks like I’ll be going out loads. Maybe I should use my time well. XD
So hot new track by BoA~!
Currently listening to: Eat You Up by BoA, from the album Eat You Up - Single.
The trip to Parliament was so lol. For one of our tasks, we had to walk around Parliament Square and look at the statues and buildings, so we could fill in this sheet. Well, we started to do it but it was raining, so we all stopped. We ended up at the arcade, playing on the bumper cars. It was so awesome. Parliament was good, too. It’s really interesting inside. Although, I got the feeling that I’ve been there before. I’m not sure if I have, though.
Two of my language classes that I signed up to started. Mandarin is nice. It’s fairly easy for me, as I can read the characters. Pronouncing is so-so, I suppose. I’m not sure if my pronunciation is good, but I suppose once I get used to the tones, I’ll be more comfortable. I mean, I do speak a language that has 9 tones. XD Japanese is great. It’s really fun. It’s harder than Mandarin, as I’m not used to the grammar. I mean, I accidentally said that I was called called Jennie and was English.
Wonder Girls released their new song, called Nobody. I think I prefer the teaser version of the song, but the dance version is nice too. I really like the music video. Although, the toilet humour is a little…weird. They’re really pretty in it.
Kumi Koda’s TABOO is so awesome. I would link to a video, if Avex weren’t stamping out its existence on the Internet. She’s such a slut in it, though. XD I mean, she gets licked in places that I didn’t even know existed in parts of it. I wonder what the average Japanese think of the video. Men are probably vigorously masturbating to it.
Currently listening to: TABOO by 倖田來未, from the album TABOO.
I saw Mamma Mia! today. It was okay. The first half really irritated me, as the women in it were screaming for no real reason. Have you ever been to like, a food market or a fishmonger? There are usually people screaming “£1 FOR A BUNCH OF BANANAS.” The screaming was like that. I liked the second half though, as it was mainly just singing. Also, blasting classical music out of a car is so lolz. People stare at you when you walk past.
I got accepted into the Mandarin course! Yay. : D
Currently listening to: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Tori Amos, from the album Spark.
On Saturday, I went to the Korean Food Festival in New Malden. It was awesome. We bought so much food that it filled our table; there wasn’t much space on it left. I didn’t even know what half of what we got was, as we just randomly pointed at stuff that we thought looked good. I knew the name stuff that I eat all the time though! Like bulgogi, galbi, mandu and tteokbokki. There was a demonstration of taekwondo, and some little girls dancing to Honey by JYP. Of course, it would have made my day if someone danced to Tell Me by Wonder Girls. The dance to that song is so awesome.
Maybe I should have randomly burst out dancing to it. I’m sure someone would have joined me, as some people in the crowd were dancing to Honey.
Currently listening to: 요리왕 (COOKING? COOKING!) by Super Junior-Happy, from the album Cooking? Cooking!.
