Just took a hot bath with the window open, which I like doing because it makes me feel like I’m at a rotenburo. I especially like it when there’s violent weather outside (Tokyo is being hit by a typhoon, it rained all day and now it’s really windy). There’s something I like about feeling very strong wind blowing, while at the same being completely enveloped in steaming hot bath water right up to my chin. To me, it’s relaxing. Now I’m in my jinbei, and we’re soon going to start watching the Japanese horror film UZUMAKI, which is based on Junji Ito’s excellent manga.
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
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I enjoyed Uzumaki very much. It condensed some of the best parts of the manga into an extremely creepy (although not very scary) movie. I wish the final chapter wasn’t as rushed as it seemed to be but this was an enjoyable movie nonetheless.
I’d like to see that movie again! I had seen it at FantAsia in Montreal several years ago, and liked it very much too.
I’d seen the move many times before (I own the DVD), but this was the first time watching with Yuko, and she kept complaining about the bad acting, especially with the lead girl. Reminds me that I need to get the 3rd volume of the manga, as it’s finally out in English.
In the teachings of Don Juan the wind is power to be soaked up and used.
Our A/C went out Sunday and we spent the night with our windows open and fan going. My wife said it was natsukashii like when we lived in Japan. It was very nice.
I must like the wind energy then.
As for fan and open windows, I’m experiencing that right now. Rainy season is about to start, and it’s getting pretty damn humid. Bah.
This year the weather has kinda sucked so far! Soon the rainy season and then the humidity will be upon us…