Month: August 2003

There’s a new trailer out for ZATOICHI, the new film by Takeshi Kitano. The top link is the new trailer, and the bottom link the old one. The film opens September 6 in Japan.

Yuko is 32 years old, and the other night she was barred entry to a pub because she didn’t have any ID on her. The legal drinking age in Canada is 19 years old, so let’s just say she was a bit shocked. It happened during the big celebrations downtown for Acadia Day, so they…

I am so glad I use Macs. My dad’s computer got the wicked Windows virus that is doing the rounds these days, and he had to bring it in to the shop to get it eliminated, which cost him $50. Sometimes being part of the lowly 5% of computers users who use Macs has its…

Lil just made a neat contribution to The Mirror Project, all the way from Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. She also has a new gallery from the same place at her TypePad site.

August 15 marks the anniversary of Japan’s surrender during the Second World War, but it’s also the day of celebration for all Acadiens (the remnants of the first French settlers in America who didn’t go to Quebec). I figured there’d be a better party here, so Moncton definitely beats out Tokyo today. Vive l’Acadie!

I was walking in the mall today, wearing my Takashi Miike t-shirt (which you can see here), and a girl I didn’t know came up to me and asked me why I was wearing a t-shirt with the name Mike spelled with two “i”s.

I met up with one of my friends tonight while he was doing his college radio show (same station I used to do mine). I had brought my iPod along, thinking that we would do somekind of Japan spotlight, but some bastard DJ took the cables that we needed to plug the thing into the…

It’s quite obvious that I’m really into games, and for the past year I’ve been really intrigued by a board game called THE SETTLERS OF CATAN. Winner of game of the year awards in Germany (where it’s from) and the US when it was released (95 and 96 respectively), it’s a strategy game that depends…

A few days ago I wrote an entry about a Takeshi Kitano movie being shown on TV, and then a few people wrote in comments about one of Kitano’s old TV shows from the eighties being shown in America. I was flipping through the channels tonight and caught MOST EXTREME ELIMINATION CHALLENGE (what they call…

The holidays just keep on going, but they’re going fast. Only one more week until I leave for another epic overseas flight, which I’m not really excited about (yeah, there’s the airport stuff that I’m not looking forward to, but there’s also that the movie selection for the flight back seemed lame). With everything I’ve…