It all started when I somehow started putting together the pieces to give my new website it's final look today, or yesterday, as it is 2:30a.m. already. I did so well I was amazed at myself, at how I managed to do so much in one day. The joy was however not to go continous into the night as somehow one double click on the submit button left me with almost my entire day's work lost. It was frantic, I just saved whatever I had and ran outside to my waiting friend's car. We're going to go see "The Last Samurai", and this is the first time I'm going with him and his new girlfriend.

Now this friend, the best one I have, has always complained how I am moody when we are going somewhere. But dude, what can I do when nothing goes the way planned? Anyway, while he laughed around with his Peruvian girlfriend, I had thoughts of salvaging my work, and in less than 5 minutes I had it all figured out. Then I started wondering how I had long ago left the playing fields of "short-distance" relationships, for I am now good at the long-distance one. That must be because of my recently discovered anti-social behavior, or is it the other way around? Fuck it, let's watch Tom Cruise kick some JapAss.

Palisades Center seemed like a ghost town. All the snow had somehow kept the masses away from late night movie screenings, besides it was a wednesday night. We were in the auditorium a good thirty minutes before the show was to begin, the pre-preview previews actually had some nice music to them: from Saliva's 'Rest in Pieces' to some song from a band called 'Thrice', which btw featured some pretty good guitar tunes. Then the previews ran and the opening credits rolled.

I actually wanted to see "Paycheck", but my friend insisted on this one, so I had to. And I have no remorse for caving into acceptance of his demand. The movie was quite good. Actually, it was great! My preference of the other movie was primarily due to the seemingly bored image of a 1900 century Japan. But that's exactly the basis of this movie: how the new world and modernisation changed the way Japan was, and what had to be sacrificed to make way for those changes. The battle sequences were excellent, and although images of the LOTR movies were still fresh in my head, these new ones seemed a bit better because of the seemingly less reliance on special effects here. It was all a lot more 'real'. Speaking of LOTR, this movie was also shot n New Zealand. Do watch this one on the big screen, and it's not gonna play for much longer. If you do like it as much as I think you would, this entry suggests some nice Samurai movies you shouldn't miss. Tom Cruise did a great oscar-nod-material job, and I didn't even knew all those Japs were really bigtime Japanese actors until I read the credits at the site after coming home. But the first thing I did after coming back was to recreate that work that I thought I had totally lost. Oh, and I did get to see "Lost in Translation" yesterday, which is another great but totally different movie based Japan, the modern one. That's where I got the title for this entry.

It all worked just fine, the heavy snow made sure we couldn't get home in record time. I was dropped first since the tradition was quite, two-person, goodbyes and kisses can't be broken. Gosh, do I miss having a car, but that's another story.

As I go to sleep now I have quite a few thoughts left in my mind: what else needs to be done to finish my website; who's that other Peruvian girl my friend's trying to hook me up with? that Koyuki is a cutie; and why the hell didn't Tom Cruise's character die??? Life's like this I guess, all messed up. The answers are in there somewhere I know. I'll find 'em, don't you worry.