One of those traumatic Fantasia nights we all know and love

[petronia]

Zero Day: definitely see this one if you get the chance. It's a fake documentary, probably largely improvised (the cast is comprised of "real teenagers" and their real-life families and friends), about two high-school kids who videotape themselves over the course of a year as they plan a Columbine-style school shooting. I found it unsettling because 1) it's impossible to tell that it's acted and 2) I know people very much like that, except none of them shot up their schools. (It's too cheaply Michael Moore-ish to snipe that in Canada one's older male relatives cannot be counted on to keep half a dozen guns in a closet.) As opposed to anything in movies or on TV, it's such a note-perfect document of typical North American teenagerdom that you come away with a niggling sense of disbelief: surely people who shoot up their schools aren't that normal? And there's no answer to that one, really.

Before and after this film I read and finished Gunjou. That one got me good too, even though I saw it coming (logically you can't help but see it coming, more or less). I'd gone out for bibimbap at this point and being the only person in the restaurant did not scream anything along the lines of "Eat my fist of rage, bitch!" even though the urge was there. ...Am I making sense to anyone at the moment? XD; I know Shi Lin and Sarah haven't read this one yet. Annoyingly enough I'd say it's another instance of a purported "side story" to Mirage you can't actually skip or anything, because apart from all else it's factually elucidating. I mean, Kotarou knew all along. See icon. That in itself turns the whole shebang upside down. At the risk of sounding facetious knowing this is like rewatching the first Star Wars trilogy while keeping in mind that R2D2 remembers everything that happened in the prequel films. Kotarou knows! My life is in a shambles. I guess I'll do a quick spoiler plot summary tomorrow or whatever.

By the way, the bibimbap was awesome. Every time I go out for (good) Korean I remember how much I like it. I especially like the fact that Korean places give you like three bowls of pickled vegetables and cold salad, complimentary soup and rice when not even Chinese restaurants will do that anymore. Though actually, I don't know if you're really supposed to eat all the pickles - is it like salad, or is it like eating the wilted lettuce leaf from under the bibimbap, or consuming the entire chili bottle just because the waitress put that on the table too? I mean, I'm neurotic about wasting food so I will continue to eat as much kimchee and pickled daikon and raw onion as you set in front of me even if it means I have to drink a litre of water afterward, but I like to know if my behaviour is weird or not. XD

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[serendip.livejournal.com]

Well, the problem is at home, we just put the leftovers in the fridge and eat it at the next meal. Restaurants will just throw out the leftovers. However, if you keep eating the pickles, they might replenish them because they think you like them, and then you eat 5 plates of pickles by themselves. Chili bottle? XD Ah, you mean the paste for the bimbimbap XDDDD And lettuce underneath the bimbimbap? That just sounds odd XDXDXDXDXD

Ah, Korean food. Mom's b-day this weekend, so I'll finally have some <33333333333333

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, I gather the lettuce bed under the bibimbap is optional decoration, like when they put it under fried squid or whatever at a Chinese restaurant. XD I just meant that okay, you're supposed to eat a complimentary salad but not really supposed to eat the decorative lettuce/parsley in a dish, or is it like pickled mangos at an Indian restaurant where you eat a bit of but no one seriously expects you to polish it off, that sort of thing.

Then again, when I go to pho noodle places I wrap the basil up in a paper napkin and take it home to make stir-fry with. So I should just stop wondering if I'm misbehaving. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...As I was randomly re-reading myself just now, I realised that when I said "bibimbap" I actually meant "bulgogi". That should make more sense. XD;;;;;; I mean, I know the difference, really I do.

[kuroraka.livejournal.com]

Kotarou knew all along

He knew what? That he'd die as a virgin?

Kotarou knows! My life is in a shambles.

o_O

I guess I'll do a quick spoiler plot summary tomorrow or whatever.

Umm...yes...please!?*walks off completely confused*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Kotarou didn't die a virgin, you know. He just never put any emotional truck in sex. :P To him it was something you did to get rid of the distraction.

Okay, I'll make a post. XD

[kuroraka.livejournal.com]

Kotarou didn't die a virgin, you know.

*breathes a sigh of relief*XD

Okay, I'll make a post. XD

Yay, thank you!^^

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh! So he knew? About the rape?? O___O I'd wondered about that very same point way back when I read Wadatsumi, remember? O_O His reaction to the cave scene, ie Naoe attempting to rape Takaya? And I was like... "Naah!"

But then.....? o_O;; No wonder...

*feels the earth tilt*