Archives: News from 2007
October
Oct 6, 2007
The news of many moons
Since it has been so long since I’ve updated, I have a few categories of interest, so I’m going to split this post up into a few sections.
June
Jun 9, 2007
New lodgings
Hey guys, sorry the long time with no updates. Looks like we missed two strait months. Oops. Well, let the excuses begin.
March
Mar 10, 2007
Hard Work
I used to do a lot of hard work. It has just been a part of that country living life that I have actually enjoyed. I learned a lot from it, learned that I don’t want to have to do it to get by, and learned to appreciate those that do. This weekend I came back home to do some hard work, and I was quickly reminded that I don’t do it very often anymore.
February
Feb 24, 2007
Dear Diary
Sorry I haven’t updated in so long. I guess my only excuse is that it is a lot of work to put together a decent post describing all of the interesting things that have happened since my last post. To solve that particular problem, i’ve adopted the philosophy of ‘some is better than nothing’ so I’m going to post stuff anyway, even if I’m still missing a lot. Also, I was really bored earlier today.
Feb 10, 2007
Short month, short news
February is the short month, so it’s only fair that the news update be short too, right? Ok, ok, I know that is a lame excuse.
January
Jan 13, 2007
Everything you never wanted to know about China
Actually not. I should retitle this “Everything you never knew that you would be wasting your time reading about Chinese cinema!(€? In case you were thinking of watching “The Curse of the Golden Flower”? DON’T. it has officially been added to my top ten list of worst movies EVAR. Also in my top ten worst movies list are two other Chinese movies (in case you are wondering), The Promise and The Banquet. The Promise was actually the most expensive Chinese film ever made. Also the worst. And these aren’t enjoyably bad like Battlefield Earth was bad, these are more like “OMFG I can’t believe someone actually spent money to make this when there are starving children in Africa”? bad. Now if you wanna see a good Chinese movie”¦ well, you will have to watch an older one, cause I haven’t seen any of those lately. Even the latest Jakie Chan movie, Rob B Hood, was unenjoyable despite Jakie’s awesome moves and the incredibly cute baby. However, don’t let this past year’s poor movie selection make you think there are no good Chinese movies. Some of my favorite movies are Chinese. In fact, Chinese Odyssey 2002 is my favorite film of all time. Willow and Wayne have my copy, go over to their place and watch it (no you can’t borrow it! Do you have any idea what I had to go through to get a copy of that movie?)). Another Chinese film in my top ten is A Chinese Odyssey part 1: Pandora’s Box and A Chinese Odyssey Part 2: Cindarella, starring Steven Chow who you may know from Shaolin Soccer and Kung-fu Hustle (also enjoyable films). Actually Steven Chow has done some other fun movies, but we can’t find them with English so I won’t mention them here. Anyway, the point is good Chinese movies are out there, just not this year. Last year. Whatever.