Why do you like Japan so much?

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(more Sans Soleil and less La Jetee please)

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know a whole lot about Chris Marker but you might like After Life.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070122ta_talk_collins

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Yankees tickets should be in left field, for optimal viewing of Matsui"...

not exactly... Left Field Seats are "fan-seats" in Japanese stadiums.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Who is the Japanese Chris Marker? Answer me that.

Sofia Coppola, of course

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

no Kurosawa? No MIFUNE??? No Beat Takeshi????
-- Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr...), January 17th, 2007 11:54 AM. (scarymonsterrr) (admin) (userip)

I don't know too much about them.
-- Steve Shasta (steveshast...), January 17th, 2007 11:55 AM. (Steve Shasta) (admin) (userip)

i have a kurosawa box set i can let you borrow.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

best line of Tetsuo review: You don't have to be some rich art fag pretending to like weird s*** to prove that your some kind of an intellectual to like it.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

is that from pitchfork?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Tetsuo isn't even good

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and it was a trick question, chris marker is japan's chris marker, duh!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i hope you realize i was joking

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

NO WAI

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i finally watched audition last night. A+

― mattp (fauxhemian), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

After Life was OK, but I'd been wanting to see it for like 8 years, so it was maybe built up too much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

oh! this thread is funny, because I'm like really into Japanese things now! They're some of the best (things)!

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

better than bands from fucking glasgow

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i wouldn't really know about that. also when was the last time you were in glasgow?

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr Shasta, I don't know about a Japanese Chris Marker, but are you familiar with Shunji Iwai, who directed All About Lilly Chou-Chou and Swallowtail Butterfly among others? I'm sure you probably are, but if not I have 11 of his films on DVD, I could give you them at the Roky show perhaps.

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope that isn't too presumptuous of me.

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

ooioo us tour

Tue Mar 20 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
Wed Mar 21 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
Fri Mar 23 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
Sat Mar 24 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
Mon Mar 26 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
Tue Mar 27 Los Angeles, CA - Echo

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

this one is for shasta http://www.cca.org/d/aiin.mpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

someone convince me missing two days of class for OOIOO is totally OK. also volunteer to put me up for a night.

xpost

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I somehow understand Japan better than the USA, I fit in with Japanese 'otaku' more than american nerds/geeks, The language makes morse sense to me, and only Japanese people get my jokes.

The 'yellow fever' doesn't hurt, either.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

lol thinking you "get" a country because you like a small subset of its culture and its stereotypes.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Was the GZeus banned from ILG? What the fuck is going on?

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, fuck, I don't think most Americans "get" America.

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

otm.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I somehow understand Japan better than the USA, I fit in with Japanese 'otaku' more than american nerds/geeks, The language makes morse sense to me, and only Japanese people get my jokes.

The 'yellow fever' doesn't hurt, either.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

OOPS
Sorry, I honestly didn't see that I'd psoted it.
made the mistake of hitting 'back' rather than 'Return to thread'

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

whatever, bot

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going in ten days. hurrah!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"lol thinking you "get" a country because you like a small subset of its culture and its stereotypes."
Yeaaah... half my friends are native Japanese people.
I speak fluent Japanese.
I don't understand American 'culture' at all.
I understand Japanese culture to a moderate degree.

That's all it takes for me to undertand Japan better.

Oh, And I'm leaving the 21s of March.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

man this isn't even funny/provactive trolling. ;_;

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

he is on topic though......

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

wow I cannot spell good. :/

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It would have to be trolling at all to be...any kind of trolling.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, no.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You should give the brand-name '60s yakuza films a try (Criterion and HVE releases) - not at all as genre-nerdy as Japanophile-friendly anime or samurai.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if anyone with Asberger's as obviously as the GZeus could ever "get" any culture.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck it, I'm banning him!

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

UART variations:

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

FOR THE UNINITIATED FFXII will be one of the worst games ever made.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/fatnerd1.gif

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

who's to go to la ooioo?

― indian rope trick (bean), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Me, probably...

Hopefully.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I am very tempted to roadtrip to Chicago for ooioo.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet, they're coming to portland.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome, they're playing in Bozeman!

― attack all monsters (skowly), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

yesss. and gilberto gil on the 24th!

― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Monday, 22 January 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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