as they sent my organic baked sweet potato through the xray machine for the third time I felt a sense of security wash over me. probably similar to how the sweet potato itself feels in a dark box penetrated with scientific waves but covered by cellophane
12/9/14
whqt these saven digits did blew my mind
512 38seven 77ㅇ1
everytime I step on a plane to fly across the sea I think about that scene in the never ending story where they walk through a narrow valley and big obelisks have lasers. its dark but blue and white. dark blue. maybe id rather die like that than with three hundred strangers in very cold pacific water. or maybe thats conan the barbarian. but then this phone number came along and changed everything. I get free texts and incoming calls. sprint had 10 cents a minute back in the first gulf war. I can see that pen dropping but thankfully I cant remember the sound. or was it a coin. the more you know.
and with this number you can reach me anywhere, as long as I have battery on my phone and remember to turn on the talkatone app, and oh yeah cell phone coverage, but at least thats nearly universal in korea (yes I said that, and I said this in parentheses). also one more condition, that is more about me self agrandizing because youre really here to read about me and not that wonderful phone buy a bigmac number that nobody sponsored me to popularize, and that is that this number will only work if north korea is not blowing us all up, because I live here and thats what I think about. if north korea attacked my data probably wouldnt work for awhile. thats torture for me. im not kidding. id probably really need data, oh yes. that grapevine shrivels up real fast when everyone runs away with their clothes all torn and their feet bleeding.
anyways, more about me. I dont have much to say, and not much to offer. so maybe you shouldn't take it personally that I only email you twice a year and even then only to finish the first email because I accidentally hit send half way through. so, now we are connected again, the possibilities are limited, and maybe you can couch surf in korea some time. amd my number might change but you can always email me or talk to me on facebook, and I can ignore you or read your message after my morning shower before work and oiling my beard and then file it away under very important should do that later next Tuesday at four, but youll never know and I will mostly think about you in terms of you thinking im running away from life at best qnd secretly bearing a grudge over that time you misunderstood our mutual friends breakup and thought I sided with that bitch. but youll never know, unless you reach me at that number.
im about to transfer but I want to tie it in to the beginning because this is the alpha and the omega. if atreyu or conan dies, people will still remember me for my phone number, even after it connects you with someone else when im done using it. you can use it to talk into my ear, to spread our conversation like the blood on his sword or that flying dog.
11/29/14
my review of the prime minister and i
http://asianwiki.com/The_Prime_Minister_and_I
I recently watched this television show called The Prime Minister and I.
I'd like to review it here, and I'd like to start by talking about Korean TV in general.
I haven't watched that much Korean TV, but there are definitely some trends that I've noticed. Usually the first few episodes of any show start with a flourish of camera work, lighting, locations, plot lines, and characters. Then all of the orbits start to collapse on each other and everything revolves around two people falling in love. The actors start to look tired, with much more make up, and the scenes and sets sometimes start to show wear and tear, too.
So, maybe my standards are a bit low, but I enjoyed The Prime Minister and I quite a bit. What really won me over in the beginning was that the writers seemed to second guess their own bullshit exposition and story line. It turns out that journalists as characters are wonderful plot devices because it is perfectly acceptable for them to question everything that is happening, just like a jaded or skeptical viewer. There were a couple of dream sequences in particular where every character seemed to mock him or herself, and there were a few "its just like we are in a movie.." lines. In these parts of the show the actors really seemed to be enjoying themselves.
The romance between the leads seems forcefully woven in to the story, instead of pasted on top. I found the scenes comprising their awkward beginning to be hilarious. Having ten minutes to cover two people hugging each other: People hug, It is natural, It is not always sexual. Someone would see the hug and then that person would tell other people. So much fuss about a hug, or a kiss. The show was falling all over itself to be PG-13 but still managed to talk about the main character's virginity at age 24, pregnancy, and raging sex. I got the feeling that writers were capable and desiring to do much more, but were even more restrained because they were self-censoring on top of whatever the normal restrictions are. Maybe I should mention at this point that the two main characters are bound together by a contract that says they are to pretend to be married, but that they are not allowed to actually fall in love.
The funny mistakes: the sexpot that is not, the rich and jealous wife too well cast, kids with perms.
The main actress is supposed to be a stunningly beautiful woman, but she's kind of like an athlete from an obscure sport. She is incredibly tall and thin, to the point where her walk is a bit strange, and when she bends her body it bears no resemblance to my own. Whereas in other shows I've seen the supporting characters seem to be going out of their way to make comments about the lead to try to get the audience to believe something that's not true ("she is so fat and ugly"), the comments about the leads in TPMAI were subdued and mostly accurate. "She looks good in that dress today." "The Prime Minister looks professional when he wears a suit."
The rich wife character, the daughter of a tycoon, is a wonderful doormat to hate rich people and their excesses, while at the same time envying their material possessions. She has the worst plastic surgery, the kind kind that gives her face a texture like melting ice cream, and she has a high pitched voice, which she puts to good use because pretty much every character in the story gets a chance to shit on her head and make her really unhappy. And just to really show some story line power, this most hated character has the most pitiable and believable sadness. This despite the fact that every other character in the story, no exaggeration, has a devastating legend of loneliness all their own.
Kids on set must get really bored. And makeup artists and art directors must get tired of talking to stressed adults all the time. Maybe that's why children in TV shows have the craziest haircuts and most frequent costume changes? The kid acting in this show was actually good. Mostly the children were emotional, greedy, selfish, and confused. It probably wasn't out of their ability. They just wanted to steal a piece of bread from their sister while their dad was busy running the country.
I would sum up the ending like this: well, there's just too much bullshit going on, so let's take a step back and think about things. As far as outlandish plots go, I thought that was somewhere close to being reality. My favorite moment was the first time they thought the lead actress's father was going to die. He is shown sleeping a lot in the show, and she goes into his room and sees him sleeping, she says "wake up!" a little too suddenly. Maybe the scene was done intentionally, so poorly, to make us feel confused just like the character in the scene. You could even see his face moving, he clearly wasn't dead, and he wasn't.
Give it a watch. its like watching 6 or 7 movies.
I recently watched this television show called The Prime Minister and I.
I'd like to review it here, and I'd like to start by talking about Korean TV in general.
I haven't watched that much Korean TV, but there are definitely some trends that I've noticed. Usually the first few episodes of any show start with a flourish of camera work, lighting, locations, plot lines, and characters. Then all of the orbits start to collapse on each other and everything revolves around two people falling in love. The actors start to look tired, with much more make up, and the scenes and sets sometimes start to show wear and tear, too.
So, maybe my standards are a bit low, but I enjoyed The Prime Minister and I quite a bit. What really won me over in the beginning was that the writers seemed to second guess their own bullshit exposition and story line. It turns out that journalists as characters are wonderful plot devices because it is perfectly acceptable for them to question everything that is happening, just like a jaded or skeptical viewer. There were a couple of dream sequences in particular where every character seemed to mock him or herself, and there were a few "its just like we are in a movie.." lines. In these parts of the show the actors really seemed to be enjoying themselves.
The romance between the leads seems forcefully woven in to the story, instead of pasted on top. I found the scenes comprising their awkward beginning to be hilarious. Having ten minutes to cover two people hugging each other: People hug, It is natural, It is not always sexual. Someone would see the hug and then that person would tell other people. So much fuss about a hug, or a kiss. The show was falling all over itself to be PG-13 but still managed to talk about the main character's virginity at age 24, pregnancy, and raging sex. I got the feeling that writers were capable and desiring to do much more, but were even more restrained because they were self-censoring on top of whatever the normal restrictions are. Maybe I should mention at this point that the two main characters are bound together by a contract that says they are to pretend to be married, but that they are not allowed to actually fall in love.
The funny mistakes: the sexpot that is not, the rich and jealous wife too well cast, kids with perms.
The main actress is supposed to be a stunningly beautiful woman, but she's kind of like an athlete from an obscure sport. She is incredibly tall and thin, to the point where her walk is a bit strange, and when she bends her body it bears no resemblance to my own. Whereas in other shows I've seen the supporting characters seem to be going out of their way to make comments about the lead to try to get the audience to believe something that's not true ("she is so fat and ugly"), the comments about the leads in TPMAI were subdued and mostly accurate. "She looks good in that dress today." "The Prime Minister looks professional when he wears a suit."
The rich wife character, the daughter of a tycoon, is a wonderful doormat to hate rich people and their excesses, while at the same time envying their material possessions. She has the worst plastic surgery, the kind kind that gives her face a texture like melting ice cream, and she has a high pitched voice, which she puts to good use because pretty much every character in the story gets a chance to shit on her head and make her really unhappy. And just to really show some story line power, this most hated character has the most pitiable and believable sadness. This despite the fact that every other character in the story, no exaggeration, has a devastating legend of loneliness all their own.
Kids on set must get really bored. And makeup artists and art directors must get tired of talking to stressed adults all the time. Maybe that's why children in TV shows have the craziest haircuts and most frequent costume changes? The kid acting in this show was actually good. Mostly the children were emotional, greedy, selfish, and confused. It probably wasn't out of their ability. They just wanted to steal a piece of bread from their sister while their dad was busy running the country.
I would sum up the ending like this: well, there's just too much bullshit going on, so let's take a step back and think about things. As far as outlandish plots go, I thought that was somewhere close to being reality. My favorite moment was the first time they thought the lead actress's father was going to die. He is shown sleeping a lot in the show, and she goes into his room and sees him sleeping, she says "wake up!" a little too suddenly. Maybe the scene was done intentionally, so poorly, to make us feel confused just like the character in the scene. You could even see his face moving, he clearly wasn't dead, and he wasn't.
Give it a watch. its like watching 6 or 7 movies.
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