I like the comments that you guys had going. I haven't posted because I'm using what free time I have to either a) think about lost or b)read stupid old lost messageboard threads. I just wish I had believed everyone at first when they said Lost was so good because now I have to read the old messageboards so as not to spoil everything for myself.
Fun weekend. Jaybiz's command performance kept the crowd in the palm of his hand. The walk-on duet with Neil Diamond was completely unexpected, Neil usually calls me when he is in town. Too bad Joel couldn't come to do his toasting part during white white wine. Holy shit! I was looking for the myspace page of jay and joel just now and ended up searching four eyes myspace and there is another band (person) named four eyes. The scary thing is that the song that played was called "becky demo" and I am just self-centered enough to think that it was about me, but the song is bizarre and sucks, so it couldn't be about me (no cracks!) Here is the Jay and Joel show page.
Saw Apocalypto. Mel Gibson is a sick fuck. The most disturbing thing about this movie for me was watching it with a bloodthirsty crowd that laughed at the violence. Also, when a guy's heart was cut out of his chest this middle-aged guy behind me kept saying "eat it" over and over.
Sampinos has continued its roll of good stuff. We got a rotisserie chicken and some corned beef. Both meats were delectable.
If anyone is going to make those bacon cookies, I'd leave out the syrup. Last year I left it out and they were more like bacon sugar cookies which was a better flavor than bacony ginger snaps.
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Speaking of Japan, Mel is call'd "hisgama-takaye" he're...it means "the white of the whitest rice"...bacon' at a place called "Sumi" cost's 6,000 yen? heh...you know that one little guy who wor'ks the door? when's Sa'cramento coming here to? visit...take care, jay
ehm... i'm not a fan of mel gibson, so much so that i'm not seeing that movie because it's his, but the violence was probably pretty right on. the mayans and incas were pretty effing hard core. their gods made a game out of cutting off an enemy's head and playing a sort of futbol with it. their gods demanded blood sacrifice, and they quite often engaged in self-injury to give it to them. that and the viscious slaughter of anyone they happened to be battling. but still, mel gibson sucks.
-lily
made a game out of cutting off an enemy's head and playing a sort of futbol with it.
Actually if you talk to a lot of modern day Mayans, they'll tell you that nobody really knows why the heads went off after the ball game. Could have been the winners or losers, but the Spanish destroyed a huge amount of their written history. Recording & interpreting a lot of Mayan history & culture was then left up to the oh-so-impartial colonizers and Catholic church. It is true about the ritual bloodletting & body modification practices - Linda Schiele's The Blood of Kings is an excellent overview, she was the first person to really crack their code.
What's really disturbing about movies like this is that it keeps the whole glorification of the (real or not) past the Mayans had, while overlooking their current day circumstances in places like Chiapas & Guatemala.
Lost is the crack cocaine of tv shows fr' sure.Hurry up and catch up to to season 3 so we can watch it together in Feb. I have all but the first episode this year on my dvr, let me know when you need to watch em'!
In school we were taught that the Mayans were extinct. It was quite a surprise to get down there and meet Mayans. They were selling silver. It was not plated. The salesman that sold them the stuff taught each of them the same joke. It was really surreal to walk a Denio's type market and ever at every booth a smiling man or woman or kid holds up a machete and says, FOR YOUR MOTHER IN LAW.
That game they played involved a big rubber ball. There are people playing it now, trying to revive it, but with out the head chop ending. Just catching the ball is supposed to require more grit than most of us can conjure.
Here is Rudolph the red nose reindeer in japanese---
maaka na ohana no tonkaa san wa
itsu mo minna no warai mo no
demo sono toshino christmas no hi
santa no ojisan ee mashita
korai yo michi wa pika pika no
omae no naite ta tonkaa san wa
coyo e coso wata yorokobemashita
and now the english trans..
Red nose reindeer
always everyone make fun of it
but this year`s christmas day
santa old man said
dark night road glittering
your nose helps(me)
always crying reindeer
this night(i`do my best)be pleased
This one of cool things i learned in class today......Jay san
Lost has hidden audio which scares the crap out of me. Anyone try to play the Lost on line reality game? I tried and it was the most geekin out I've ever done.
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