In deference to the small Japanese children in our party, we went to see “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” dubbed into Japanese. It seemed a bit slow, but maybe that’s just because I only understood every 20th word. Even so, I thought the giant spiders were quite scary, though they didn’t seem to bother the 5-year-old girl next to me.
Monthly Archives: December 2002
Harry Potter to Himitsu no Heya
Waking Life
Amazing animation, though Joanne found the pervasive floatiness a bit disorienting. Lots of interesting talk about dreams.
Eternal Youth — Future Bible Heroes
Not as good as their first album Memories of Love, but still with those mordant lyrics and cheesy synthesizers.
Chocolate Beckham
Following the trail of rumour, we mounted a search for the giant chocolate statue of David Beckham. We found him in Shibuya, complete a with long queue of people waiting for a photo with their chocolate hero. It was pretty impressive, perhaps 2 metres tall. (Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera with me when we found the Beckham.)
Amazon.com
Huge, famous, but quite good for stuff you can’t buy locally. Of course, this is just a ploy to get you to buy stuff through my link so I get a commission. While you’re there, see if you can find my wish list and buy me a present. Thanks!
h2g2
The Earth edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It contains everything you never thought you wanted to know. You can even contribute, as I plan to, one day, when I have time.