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Anna Overseas

4/2/2005

I saw Sin City! I saw Sin City! I saw Sin City!

It was violent and gory and ugly! There was torture and blood and guts and gore and more blood and castration and that's not even counting the bits with the eating of people. I saw probably less than half of it, and actually had to leave the theater for about three minutes during one scene (Tom warned me, and he's a good judge of what I don't like), but I loved it. I loved it!

Lots of violence, lots of gore. Oh so appropriate. Heaven only knows why someone who has a standing rule of "Don't discsuss violence in front of Anna, it makes her sick" is such a big fan of these stories. (Of course, the advantage of reading them in a comic instead of watching them in a film is my eyes tend to skip right over the violent pictures and focus on other things.)

I will admit, since I am such a fangirl, that I noticed that one of my favorite lines was missing. "And if you're going to keep pistol whipping me like that, you should do it with the butt of the gun, not the barrel. You're going to warp it."

Let's see, I should say something other than Yay! Yay yay yay!

Um... Let's see. The cinematography is outstanding, with both the bright splashes of colour and some subtle uses of it that are very powerful. It's amazing. I think they did an excellent job of recreating the comic on screen. It's remarkable.

Jessica Alba can't act her way out of a paper bag. Gah. Also, one would think that the stripper would, at some point, actually take off her clothes, but I guess not. Oh well, it's not as bad as it could be, in that she at least looks incredibly sexy. But damn it, Nancy Callahan should actually get naked. *sigh*

(Unrelated comment: When I was thinking about this earlier today, I kept thinking, You know, I can think of friends who would have done a better job of that part, and would have looked damned sexy taking their clothes off, too. Then I thought, I probably shouldn't mention their names in my blog, though, because there's something a little creepy listing random friends that you want to see naked on the big screen. Man am I strange some days.)

It was violent to the point where there were audience reactions to the violence, and at least one girl left the theater in tears. Which I can understand. I was prepared for it. I knew where to close my eyes.

Oh, oh, I am totally going to go see this again. In fact, at least twice. I was so afraid I'd be disappointed in this, considering how much I've been looking forward to it, but I wasn't.

Goldie. She says her name is Goldie. She smells like angels ought to smell.

Anna stopped here at 7:46 PM

3/31/2005

I was talking to a friend today about his final week at school. "I don't want to go to classes," he says. "They feel like interupting time I could be spending on my essays."

God, I totally feel like that right now. I don't want to go to work because it's interupting time I could be spending getting rid of all this damned clutter. I have too many things. And I am drowning in a sea of boxes.

I actually had to remind myself today that there is never going to be a shortage of file folders. If I suddenly find a need for file folders, I can go out and buy them again.

"But!" said myself. "I have these packages of file folders that have never been opened! I can't give those away! It would be wrong!"

"Ah hah," I said. "That just proves you have too many that you don't need. Put them in the Give To Charity Box, woman."

And thus, they are in the Charity Box. I haven't found a charity yet that uses hanging file folders, but I haven't looked very hard. If anyone wants any hanging file folders, do just let me know, I have a box of them. A big box. A very full big box.

Anna stopped here at 8:51 PM

Male Lion

These beautiful stone lions are everywhere in China. It's quite normal to see a pair of them at the main entrance to public buildings. This one is male, as you can tell by the fact that he's holding a ball in his paws. The female ones have a small baby lion instead. (Oh, a baby lion is a cub. Yay google.)

My understanding is that the male lions hold a ball that symbolizes the world, because men are supposed to work in that sphere, whereas the female ones hold a cub, to symbolize family.

Can you imagine something with such blatent gender roles in front of every public building in Canada?


I know, not much to say about the stone lions. Sorry, I'm a bit unfocused today, since tomorrow is when Sin City opens! Sin City! Yay yay yay!!!!

I'm sure it's quite shocking to anyone who's met me that I want to see this movie. I don't like violence, at all. I've walked out of RPGs that had too much violence for me. But gah, am I ever a fan of Sin City comics. They're violent, but in a way that makes sense in the city. I never feel there's violence in these stories just for the sake of violence. It's there because it's necessary to the way the story works. I didn't mind the violence in Wicked City, either. And no, I won't link to Wicked City. You've either seen that anime and have been scarred by it, or you haven't, and may be happier that way.

But, Sin City! Aaaaa! AAAA!!!!


I watch them watch me I watch them too
Across the street across the room
I dress myself like a charcoal sketch
My eyes are brown and my hair's a mess

They annoy me those who employ me
They could destroy me
They should enjoy me
We eat Chinese off our knees
And look for each other in the TV screen

The sun goes up and the sun goes down
I drag myself into the town
All I do I want to do with you
Everyday I'm at my desk
At my desk I'm like the rest
All I do I want to do with you

Anna stopped here at 2:45 PM

3/28/2005

A whole bunch of people made it a point yesterday to call me and wish me a Happy Easter. I'm really quite touched at this. *smile* This is the first holiday since coming back from China that I haven't worked, and everyone I knew was doing family stuff, so I was alone for most of it. But, yeah, people called, which I thought was sweet.

Anyway, the point of this post is that I'm going out of town for a few days. Since a few people get nervous when I don't return their emails or calls, I thought I'd let everyone know that I wasn'd disappearing into the ether, just going to a friend's house for a few days of frantic laundry doing. *grin* And baking. Yay!

Anna stopped here at 9:48 AM

 mind the gap

A 20-something Canadian who used to teach English in China. There's lots in the archives about my experiences with teaching, with culture shock, and with my adventures in China. Occasionally it meanders into melancholy (part of the culture shock), which must be very dull to read, so you can skip that.

But right now, I'm back in Canada, and kinda determined to do something with the several thousand photos I took, as well as write more about China and other stuff.

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