Oww! (The Musical Sound, Not the Pain Sound)

[kaitou]

Happy Birthday Thorne! Hope you have all the best today. Go have some yellow cake with chocolate icing and a big glass of milk, maybe a scoop of ice cream on the side. Traditional is good for a reason.

Tonight we're having another drinking party, all the schools and the Board of Education. There was a warning at the morning meeting that everyone ought to have their self-introductions handy, which I find funny since I, the foreigner, am actually the only one who doesn't need one. I work at the all 5 places, and I'm the only one who everyone already knows. I'm looking forward to it so I can party with the Futakawa Elementary people again, and hopefully go off and sing some karaoke. I really can't wait to sing some karaoke. The last time I went karaoke-ing with Melf I realized I can sing Tom Jones's "If I Only Knew" and one of my favorite Spitz songs pretty decently and I want to test drive them on a Japanese audience. (Who knew I could do that kind of "Oww!" and "Yeah!" so well??)

I watched The Mummy Returns, or whatever it's called last night, and it was not nearly as fun without Twig there to pick on for choosing it. (Though the whole 'You have brought about a second apocolypse!' 'Gasp!' 'You, lighten up. You, big trouble. You, in the car.' remained funny.) It's a sad state for a movie when the best actor in the thing is the little kid. George Lucas, take note.

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[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

I watched The Mummy Returns, or whatever it's called last night, and it was not nearly as fun without Twig there to pick on for choosing it.

I wanted to be an Egyptologist from the time I was four years old, so historical inaccuracies irritate me. However, I managed to swallow my nerdliness and enjoy the first one...the second one made my eyes bleed. But you're right, the kid's not too bad.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoyed the second better than the first. Probably due to the kid, who really did get all the best scenes. And this is despide the Sai weilding Ancient Egyptian Gladatorial Babes. I mean, I'm all for sais. I think they're wicked cool. But one wonders how a farm implement for checking the depth of water for rice paddies in Japan ended up THERE.

I was mad for Ancient Egypt as a kid too. Did you ever read The Egypt Game by some-woman-with-an-impossible-first-name Keately Snyder? (started with a Z) That's what got me into it.

One of my main reasons for liking the Stargate movie was a book in the foreground of a scene that I happen to own about the Treasures of Tutankamen. Kind of like how I saw the same edition of Yeats poetry I own in a bit from Good Will Hunting. Now if that's not the epitomy of geekery I don't know what is--looking for books you own in movies.

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

Zilpha Keatley Snyder! Yes, I loved that book! I blame LeVar Burton for my obsession, since the first episode of Reading Rainbow I ever saw was the one on Egypt.

And the height of geekery for me was when the British Museum's Egyptian exhibit visited Memphis...I was wandering around and recognizing everything from all these books I had. It was all much niftier in person...though that could have had something to do with the fact that the headphone tour was provided by John Rhys Davies.

[thorne-scratch.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! *HUG* I love that kind of cake.

(I only ever saw one bit of Mummy Returns, and it had all these little gremlin things running around. I couldn't take it seriously, so I had to watch a rerun of SNL. Well.)