In Shanghai
Oct. 17th, 2010 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaBy way of Narita and five hours late courtesy of Continental, who overbooked their flight by an entire tour group. It's called arithmetic, guys, it'll be on THE EXAM OF LIFE. On the bright side there were free whisky samples at the Duty Free and Japanese bathrooms in which to perform one's post-16-hour-flight ablutions, which go a long way to take the edge off. They also gave me a coupon for basically the value of my flight, in case I decide I want to visit Japan for real sometime next year as opposed to the airport.
While on the plane I watched Tropic Thunder, The Vulture (a terrible Japanese movie about corporate takeovers that I'm 97% sure was based on seinen manga, which was of interest in that I find I watch a lot of films nowadays to find out what stories societies tell themselves about their identity and role in the world at large, particularly when said stories are not made for export the way festival-circuit movies tend to be), and Broken Embraces. You know, the thing ppl don't say about Almoldovar is that he makes having kids seem great. XD You totally want to pop out babies so you can have an awesome relationship with your awesome artistic gay son years down the line, as long as he doesn't die of drugs or a car accident or something.
I'd forgotten convenience store booze in Asia is, well, geared toward Asians. To wit, I am drinking a grapefruit-flavoured seltzer to which the makers have helpfully added a whopping 3.5% alcohol. Luckily the parents have a bottle of Johnny Walker in the fridge, rolling, ten bucks say they didn't buy it themselves.
While on the plane I watched Tropic Thunder, The Vulture (a terrible Japanese movie about corporate takeovers that I'm 97% sure was based on seinen manga, which was of interest in that I find I watch a lot of films nowadays to find out what stories societies tell themselves about their identity and role in the world at large, particularly when said stories are not made for export the way festival-circuit movies tend to be), and Broken Embraces. You know, the thing ppl don't say about Almoldovar is that he makes having kids seem great. XD You totally want to pop out babies so you can have an awesome relationship with your awesome artistic gay son years down the line, as long as he doesn't die of drugs or a car accident or something.
I'd forgotten convenience store booze in Asia is, well, geared toward Asians. To wit, I am drinking a grapefruit-flavoured seltzer to which the makers have helpfully added a whopping 3.5% alcohol. Luckily the parents have a bottle of Johnny Walker in the fridge, rolling, ten bucks say they didn't buy it themselves.
