(aka Yatterman Take 2) After months of waiting I finally had the chance to see this movie! I was pleasantly surprised that it exceeded my expectations. I thought I would be a little bias since Sho-kun is in it, but the movie itself was an explosion of colour and action that was very much representative of Miike. +++++ Backtrack to a month prior to the festival. I was a little annoyed by the lack of updates on the Fantasia site…
Paris was really my first taste of European culture. No matter how great it was in England, it didn’t quite count in that sense. Stepping foot in Paris was really an eye opener for me. +++ Getting back to where I left off – We got off the Eurostar at the Gare du Nord Station. I was actually a little surprise at how easy it was to travel on the Eurostar. I was expecting another line up at immigration, but…
Sorry for such a late entry! It’s been a while since I felt like updating this blog. Perhaps I wouldn’t characterize it as a writer’s block, but I needed some time after the last entry to get myself back into writing. And now is the perfect time because I need to catalogue another vacation! Yah!! +++++ First to start, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was suppose to expect out of this European adventure. Europe to me seemed so foreign….
I’ve been working on this entry this past week and I still haven’t gotten past the first paragraph. When I first started writing I was still very very bitter, since the Yatterman experience was far from what I had expected prior to setting off for NYC. I got kind of sidetracked as I ended up taking time to sum up all my bitterness in a nasty (but eloquently phrased) email to the Comic Con organizers to express my disappointment in…
With only one full day in Japan this time around, there was quite a lot to pack into the span of 24hrs, but somehow I managed to get everything I wanted to do in and made it through to the end of the day in one piece. Sort of. ***** Anyway, beginning with the morning. After a quick breakfast at the hotel (the food was courtesy of the ultra 便利な AM/PM across the street), we headed off for Shinjuku Station…