January Project: The King and the Lonely Man

8 hours on this thing. Eww. I set the bar low so I can surpass it easier. :-{)

Great thanks to Yoojin for his acting and I-Pod, Jonathan Barker and D.Money for helping me so much, and Terrance for the idea of wasting 8 hours on videos for a year.

Squeezing Eternity Out of Hugs, Cannibalism, Favorite Insults, and Larry King

I should make a song entitled that.

Anywho, I realized that whenever I observe my brother, I am filled with an irresistible desire to embrace Sam and just hold him forever. I also realized that my brother does not.

This got me thinking about other instances when I want to just eat a child. I know this sounds horrendous but you know what I feel. It's the feeling you get when you see a little kid SOOOO cute you want to connect to him in any way (which may include consumption of said child).

Anywho, since I cannot embrace anyone forever and I don't think I can eat him (oh man that must be a very special connection), I found a way to squeeze eternity out of the few seconds that I hug a person.

This is what you do: you embrace the person with your whole being. Since you cannot suck everything from the person you're hugging, you give that person your everything and you build the connection. Then after you end the hug, then you can go back to the little piece of yourself that you left in that hug with that person. Sadly, I realized this too late and I did not do this in Paraguay with Laura, BUT I do think that she had a lot of love for me and so I can still kind of go back to it.

The only thing about this is that it fades over time no matter how strong the connection.

If none of this makes sense, then you need to broaden your imagination and stop being so close-minded. :-{) hyuk hyuk.

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Back to cannibalism, this thought came to me WHILE I was writing this post but what a special and unique relationship a eater and the eatee must have. right? Nobody can physically be closer to you than a person that eats you. NOBODY! Enough creepiness for you. :-{) hyuk hyuk.

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Favorite Insult: "SHUT YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO ME!" :-{) hyuk hyuk.

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I was watching an episode of Conan (Conan O'Brien show) with Larry King as the guest and I truly realized the charisma of that old man. He completely changed the mood of the show with one question to Snowboarding Carrot Top, Shawn White. It was fascinating to see.

I had more to say but I forgot. :-{) hyuk hyuk.

Jjimjilbang with the Family minus Shinae the Fool and Rhami the Triangle

So I went to jjimjilbang today with my family and it was quite an experience. More than anything, I learned about the relational aspects of people through a thorough observation of my brother.

Towards the beginning of the stay there, there were these piece of trash kids who flipped a birdy at my brother, tripped him while he was running, and almost beat him up if I didn't show up at the right moment. I was watching from a distance wondering why my brother would bother with people who were below him, but let him be because he deserved to learn that there were just some people not worth befriending. They reminded me of some people from my past and they are probably what a majority of the people in the world were when they were kids. I try my best to associate myself with people who were not completely asinine when they were children. I don't know how I gauge this but whatever.

THEN those little demon children went back to whatever hellhole they spawned from and a new group of kids came. These were phenomenally friendly to my brother. It was a beautiful 3 hour friendship.

At the end when we had to go home, I knew that my brother would never see his dear friend again. The truly sad thing was that my brother seemed to know this as well. Before the other boy's family left, my brother went and shook his hand to end the wonderful friendship they shared for the night. My brother was sad and in an attempt to console him, I told him, "I know you will never see him again, but I will always be here for you."

Now, there is a running game between my brother and I. I call him Captain and I am called the Magic Man. And I told him that Magic Man will forever be there for him because I am the Magic Man. And his face brightened instantly and all was good.

And then I got home, and then Simon bothered me about some quarters.

Japanese Stuff, Dark Knight Rises Stuff, Korean Stuff, and other Random Stuff

I was watching Muhandojun and one of the commercials that they shot was really cool so I decided to post it up here. It also helps that it's all about the foods.

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So the Dark Knight Rises villains are decided. Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman and Tom Hardy will play Bane. Again, I cannot see the compatibility of the actors and the characters but Christopher Nolan sees things that we mere mortals do not. Case in point, I would never have imagine Heath Ledger as the Joker and he was beautiful.

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I have recently been on a Japanese film binge because I've come to deeply appreciate Japanese philosophy on life and whatnot. It's extremely nostalgic. I have see Summer Wars, Paprika, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time which are all animated films and they were all amazing. Also, each film kind of expressed the underlying attitude that the Japanese have. That the world is a dream reality. It may not be true, but that's the gist of the feeling I got from those films.

After watching these animated films, I went on Japanese movie hunt. I've found one film of interest: Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge. Yes. Is that not the coolest title for a film. I've always been fascinated with the Japanese ability to come up with the most amazing names ever. Crying Out Love in the Center of the World ( a film) and the amazing Thee Michelle Gun Elephant with their song Deadman's Galaxy Days.

I'm really sad they don't let me embed the video but here's the link. Check them the crap out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKvRl6DJaQM

Obviously, as a lover of awesomely peculiar names, Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge would catch my attention. I watched the film and it fascinates me because everything about the film is mysterious to me. Synopsis of the film: Everynight, the chainsawman comes to fight Eri who has to kill him for some mysterious reason. Within the film itself, there is a Chainsawman whose origins are never revealed and they don't even tell you why or how he got there. It doesn't tell us why she has to fight him or who she can kill him, seeing as to how he's impervious to knives and stabs to his heart.

This is not the only thing that fascinates me. The fact that it is marketed in Japan as if it's pretty normal to have a name like Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge blows up my mind. Anywho, I really enjoyed how this film made me feel in terms of the wonder and mysteries this world holds. The thing about films like these is that I don't think they mind being unreasonably mysterious and in that sense a bit realistic. Tom Clancy said that the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. I've come to truly appreciate this because reality doesn't make sense in letting us go to heaven. (religious plug :-jD)

12 Videos in 1 Year

This is a respond to the challenge foolishly concocted by the late and great Travel Panda.

Actually, this is just a bitter attack on him because he didn't let me join his little club thing. Anywho, I decided to retaliate and take it a bit overboard by bringing in two masters of disasters: D.Money straight out of war-torn Bosnia and J.Barkey-Barkey recently returning from his exile to Siberia. After many hours of deliberation and thought, the name I came up for my crew will be:

Supergiant

or more famously in 18 Spanish speaking countries and 1 German speaking country:

Los Gargantuanes

And, yes. The rumors are true. We ARE banned from Japan, Paraguay, the Congo, and the Silicon Valley. Look forward to our junk ya'll.

Matilda by Roald Dahl

I've completed this book and I only have one thing to say: This is not a children's book.

The weird thing is that it is. It is something that only children can innocently enjoy without feeling something immensely wrong with the overall events in the book. Only someone with reason who picks up this book realizes that something is very very wrong with the world inside. Yet, somehow, Roald Dahl gets away with it because he is such a wonderful writer with an even more wonderful sense of humor.

I recommend it.

After reading a paper written by my dear sister (Rhami), I learned two things: my sister has horrendously horrific writing and her spelling is garbage.