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Shit

9:38am JST Wednesday 5 November 2003

Woke up LATE

I lost my phone while running between trains in Musashi-Kosugi. That was my contact between Carla (for whom I'm working and who called me at 9:15 to make sure I was up (I wanted to be up at latest by 8:45) and who I then called back as was WALKING to the train station (cause I lost my bike key last night) and told her I'm late) and Cory (who I called after I couldn't reach Carla at first) who then emailed me Kawasaki Nova's number which was the last thing I entered into my address book before I lost it.

I imagine I'll get it back, but right now I'm visualizing the Hollywood-esque camera watching the phone receiving a call but no one to answer it and the caller going, "what tha hell?"

Sigh.

Okay; next station is Kawasaki. Time to run again.

ps: I made the train at Musashi Kosugi, which requires really fast runnin'.

Shoo

6:55pm JST Wednesday 5 November 2003

I got my phone back.

Took over 30 minutes at Musashi Kosugi, but I got it back and all is intact.

I told the cat I lost my phone and he snagged a phone from the back that looked a lot like mine but he said it wasn't mine.

I'm like, how do you know? but I could only think of the word "nande" (why) but not the full query.

He got an English speaking cat on the phone who was repeating in English the same things that the first guy told me in Japanese (call this number on Monday) and then I was like, "aight that's all good yo, but can you ask this cat how he knows the phone he showed me a second ago (*) isn't my phone?"

(*) by second I meant 20 minutes

And he was all, "lemme talk to that mofo," and soon enough I heard the guy on my end say "murasaki" (purple) so he had assumed that by saying pink (in my obviously limited Japanese) I couldn't possibly have meant this light lavender shade. But then the cat on the other end of the phone was like, "Oh check it yo, I'll call it an see if that bitch rings an shit" and sure enough it did.

Got my phone back.

Smoke

10:32pm JST Wednesday 5 November 2003

Just had my lesson with Shin. Got fed, got paid. Stanked like smoke until I took off my two shirts (white undershirt and U2 concert T) (using girl magic in the train station) and am now wearing only my GAP hoodie. Showin' a little bit of fur at the neckline.

At Miho's I put my hoodie and jacket in my backpack to hide them from the smoke.

keys

10:34pm JST Wednesday 5 November 2003

I'm headed to Kawasaki now for two reasons

1) to see Matrix Revolutions

2) to get my keys from Tomoko, who was so nice to pick them up for me from Suidobashi (not exactly next door to her crib or anything)

Mostly to see Matrix. I'd otherwise get my keys tomorrow from her. I can crawl in through the window one more time no problem.

(After work, I opened the window, tossed my backpack in, jumped up onto the window ledge and kneeled on it, then took off my shoes and tossed them across my room to where they go and then jumped sock footedly onto my bed. Perfect manners, even for a possible cat burglar.)

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Tomoko gave me my keys and smilingly led me to the entrance to Dice. Near there we saw a Japanese girl with a familiar face, but who seemed too short to be that face - was it Rie the high school punk bass player? No, not quite right.

"She's a Nova student, too."

"I recognized her face; what is her name?"

"Keii."

No bells rang.

"Keiko. She works in Cinecitta."

(ding).. (ding).. ding ding ding "Oh yeah, she goes to Keikyu Nova, not Kawasaki Nova." She wears heels at Keikyu, which explains the height difference.

- - - -

Interesting that Keiko seemed like a cat pawing at someone to see if she is awake (to see if Tomoko is Tomoko); I can't quite explain it, like Keiko didn't want to react first to the recognition of her friend.

Then they burst into smiley chatter which ended in Japanese-pronounced "mini-skirt" which each of them were wearing.

- - - -

"I heard you say "mini-skirt" at the end."

"Yes. We are both wearing mini-skirts."

I agreed and specifically did not look.

"We often talk about movies and fashion. And sometimes boyfriends."

matrix revolutions

2:25am JST Thursday 6 November 2003

Once or twice after seeing a movie in Japan, I have warned people "this gives away secrets of the movie blahblahblah" then realized nevamind; it already came out in the US a long time ago.

But this time, though the movie has come out in the US, it has just come out in the US. It just came out everywhere.

this gives away secrets and shit about Matrix Revolutions

If you don't want any secrets stop reading now.

Stolen from thematrix.com

           Just over an hour ago, Larry and Andy Wachowski, Joel
           Silver, Keanu Reeves, and Jada Pinkett Smith found
           themselves in a theater in Shinjuku, Tokyo, introducing the
           film to a crowd of thousands. This was twenty minutes
           before the film was to start, because at the actual moment,
           on a platform outside the theater, a counter ticked off the
           seconds.  Raining, with a sea of Matrix code umbrellas
           dotting the crowd, Joel announced the weather fitting,
           considering the Super Burly Brawl in the film.
           
           At the moment of reckoning, lights flooded the surrounding
           area, soap bubbles and green tinsel confetti poured down,
           and inside the theater, the film began. Right now, in over
           20,000 theaters, in over 100 territories around the world,
           people are watching the third and final chapter in the
           Matrix trilogy.
           
           Updates are underway here at the site, but considering
           everyone should be in a theater about now, maybe we'll wait
           a beat...
           
           More shortly...
           
           TheMatrix.com

Nice. I know that station.

(no I wasn't there for the opening described above)

- - - -

Sweet movie. Pulled characters together and wound up the fight scenes another notch, this time without building a freeway to crash a bunch of cars on.

- - - -

The fight scene with the cats walking around on the ceiling as if gravity meant nothing was pretty fly. Good work with Trinity striking the same pose as the first "wut da hell?" move in the first movie to blast that guy upside down to smitherines.

- - - -

Some of the lines were predictable. But I liked a couple.

"If we're lucky, there'll be a guy checking for weapons."

"and if we're not?"

"There will be lots of guys."

That was predictable, but still good.

- - - -

Trinity dying in the end makes it better for Neo to die, but I still hoped for a way for them to escape. I noticed the lines blasting through her body as they crashed the ship into the robot city. I was like, "uh oh; that didn't look good." (I wonder how good it will look in slo-mo on DVD)

- - - -

In the first movie I complained about the timing of the last scene. In short, Morpheus shoulda blasted the EMP before Neo got out cause, he's Neo; he doesn't need the thing to jack into the Matrix. How right was I? Yep, the coma in which we find Neo in the last movie is him jacked into the matrix without a jack. I knew it.

- - - -

Oh my god the shooting scene where the huge wearable robots taken from the set of Aliens were blasting up at the pierced ceiling... that was fine. It outdid the lobby shooting scene in the first movie and the Neo fighting every Smith guy in the second movie. Totally sweet. Oh and it outdid the first movie helicopter shooting into the building scene (which should have been bloodier, btw)

- - - -

When Neo took off running (RIDICULOUS) to catch the train, he should instead have Pulled a Neo and BLASTED toward the train and then flown past the screen in that train station like 20 times in 3 seconds before he stopped and goes, "shit."

I mean hell they didn't even get the footsteps to match up correctly; there's a break in them. It's a fucked up scene.

Imagine, the seedy sweaty tooth ugly duckling triplet of the twins from the second movie punches Neo then takes of in his crazy train, so Neo is like, Oh yeah, I'm going to fucking fly faster than superman and kick your ass! and he crouches down to fly and the world goes "wubba wubba" in the cool circle pattern and the whole audience goes, uh oh, Buck's gonna start chewin' some gum, man, and Neo TAKES OFF after the train only to fwip fwip fwip fwip fwip fwip fwip fwip past the screen like the pullstring on a pull-down blind that just won't stay pulled down...

That would have been funny.

But they made him RUN after a train and fucked up the sound effects of the footsteps in the process of showing it was fruitless.

- - - -

Classy that they didn't try to overtly outdo the multiple Smith fighting scene.

- - - -

Somewhat cheesy the way he talked to the matrix, but I have no better solution.

- - - -

When the sentinels all split from Zion and the world had black cats walking by twice (same sound effect btw) where was The Oracle chillin? In the real world? How did the sky get fixed that fast? As I think about it, she must be in the matrix, and that was the matrix sky getting fixed. But why would the matrix sky be fucked up just because the robots and humans were fighting?

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Interesting that the sentinel used the same device to listen to the matrix as it did to listen to sounds. Presumably the matrix machine didn't call off the fight with a sound wave, but with radio waves.

That cat with the gashed up face after the sentinels ate his lunch was some pretty good costuming.

- - - -

I like how they depicted a woman as a better driver than a man.

- - - -

Trinity taking control of the French cat was sweet. "I don't have time for this shit."

- - - -

Oh the super-slo-mo Neo punching Smith scene kicked. The water drops elongated was dumb but acceptable to get the point across.

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Um, so yeah. The movie ruled the Matrices.

3:36am

I gotta go to bed.

(ps: the taxi cost 2900 yen to get home. Shin paid me 3000 yen for the lesson tonight)