hey y'all

My blog is steadily moving to here.

Why I am (hopefully) moving.

Hi y'all. Currently I'm in the process of moving over to Tumblr. I'm doing this for two reasons; one is pictures and interface are much more pleasant over there; the second is I want to make a private work diary and I have to have a primary blog to do so.

It'll probs take me a while to work out the interface. I don't want to have a traditional scroll-down affair if I can avoid it. Then again I do have to Google terms such as "script", so that may take a while. But on the up and up, I will have another hi-lar article published somewhere soon, and a few short-stories off to various places.

Let the horrid inter-web fenangling begin!

Shut Up Fifth Element you are so fine

Look at you. Your costumes are by Jean Paul-freaking-Gaultier:

  You have Milla Jovovich with minimal dialogue:

Your villain is Gary Oldman with a flavour saver and an over-sized orthopedic shoe.

You have an operetta in space in a space-opera film. With hip-hop stylings!

The good guys are literally Mighty Ducks, not just the symbolic, anthropomorphic sports-team kind:

And IMDB puts you 19th on it's list of best-sci-fi/fantasy movies of the last twenty years?  Beneath Avatar!? Really?

Really. But that's okay.

Sort of.

One more thing

Inside of this:

I read a fascinating article about this:

written by the man who wrote this:

 

that is all.

Things I've been reading lately.

Culcher: Akira Yamaguchi

Movies: The Chaser and The Yellow Sea

I've been meaning to catch up on my Korean films. More than anything else they're always surprising. Perhaps it's just I don't know the cultural stereotypes and story tropes, but I never know what's going to happen. The Chaser is exactly like that. For starters it's a murder thriller where the main character is a cop turned pimp, and the killer is caught in the first half-hour. From there it gets messier and messier as the police force tracks down the killer's lair before the next victim dies. Now that I think about it in some ways that's like quite a few Hollywood movies. But this is different! I'd explain how but it doesn't matter, since this one is being adapted into a Hollywood version ala Infernal Affairs.

In translation "The Yellow Sea"

The Yellow Sea is the next film from Na Hong-jin the director of The Chaser. It's also about murders. FYI guns are apparently v.rare in South Korea, because I've never seen so much stabbin' before. As in pretty much every death (and I'm guessing there are at least thirty)is by stabbin' and axin' and motherfuckin tomahawkin'. Killings aside, it's actually really compelling and gives a great insight into a world most of us know nothing about.