weekend

Jai and I went to see House of Flying Daggers this afternoon. About two minutes before everything went completely to hell, I thought, “Oh, shit! This is going to end badly!” And lo, it did. I mean, of course it did: it’s a Chinese movie. They always end badly. (Wonderfully, but badly.) I felt rather silly for not realizing it until ten minutes before the film ended. Of course, Jai said she was completely blindsided by it all ending badly, so at least it wasn’t just me. :)

I enjoyed it. Chinese movies have wildly different pacing than American movies, and I get a little impatient with the slow, deliberate set-up, but the flip side is having these amazing scenes where the actors barely change expression yet convey *tremendous* emotional charges, which you rarely get in (at least mainstream) American film.

Sadly, Jai developed a horrible headache during the movie, so we didn’t hang out and talk after. (I developed a minor one myself. The sound was awfully loud.) But it was nice to see her, anyway! :)

Didn’t do much else today. Printed out O:C and I’m going to read it tomorrow morning and see how much further I can get in writing it after that. Um. Bought the TV/DVD thing yesterday, but we have yet to figure out how to get the treadmill to our house, as it will not fit in either the Jeep or Shaun’s truck. Anybody local got a truck we could borrow? (Erm, does anybody local besides Jai and my family *read* this?)

*looks around* Right. Okay. G’night, then. :)