recap

So Letters from Iwo Jima is amazing. I had an awfully profound experience with it, some of which will be posted here, and probably not in my review, and some of which probably won't be posted here at all. Aie. More on that later.

I wrote my review of Perfum from Gather this morning. I'll post a link later.

Contra dance was fun -- and now that I'm sure I know what contra is, which is to say NOT what we were doing at the Barn dance... it's cool, I'll probably do it from time to time, but it doesn't float my boat in teh same way at all. Probably good, one can only take so much over a few short days, but hanging out with mizg was excellent.

Tomorrow is about 800 different kinds of work, ROME and I swear, novel in 90.

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My review of Letters from Iwo Jima is here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976884801

What I didn't address in this review (among other things) is how much I want to get a perspective on this film from someone who doesn't have the connections to Japanese culture that I have (I lived with someone who grew up in Japan and although anglo, was deeply involved both personally and aesthetically with Japan -- it's a long story, mostly his, that I don't wish to get into here).

Leaving the theater, I was deeply surprised to see how much of the audience for the film was Japanese, and while waiting in line at the restroom, was horrified to hear a white woman on line start shrieking about the movie to her movie going companion. "They bombed Pearl Harbor, they deserved it!" Screaming screaming screaming as all these Japanese women around us looked at the floor. The woman continued, "I bet you think we shouldn't have bombed them either!" and thens started going on about how they had deserved Hiroshima and Nagasaki in this shrill piercing loud voice.

Finally, I just stepped out of line and looked at her. "You need to stop now."

Weirdly, and thankfully, she did. I'm still shaken.

meanwhile, explain this

This doodle on an index card was found slipped under my front door yesterday.