Saturday, September 11, 2004

Witty observations have been replaced by the soothing screeches of howler monkeys.
Crap crap crap.

Comment Commentary

Shin- Yeah, I know.

Mal- I'll get to that. :P

StarBound- Heh. ^_^'

Mimmi- Problem with that is school funding. ~_^

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In the morning VH1 shows their top twenty videos or whatever, and I tend to watch that before school. Sure enough, a Beastie Boys video was on there, and it was stuck in my head for the next several days. I then reflected back to the other video for Two the Five Boroughs, their latest album, and noticed something.

They totally suck.

Each of their songs has all of those weird little sound effects going in the background, along with nonsensical and irrational rhymes. It all seems sort of half-assed, in my opinion. This one didn't even grab me beat-wise. At least the Ch-Check It Out thing had a catchy bridge.

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The mall today was nice. As per usual, I arrived on time and Christine (A good friend of mine) showed up soon after, and we waited for half an hour for everybody else to arrive. Once everybody was assembled, we went through the typical mall schedule- Arcade, Suncoast, Hello Kitty Store (=_=), movie, food court.

Wicker Park was sort of slow at first.. In the beginning I felt it was sort of a letdown. The main character's best friend's actor seemed insane/stoned, but he seemed to calm down after his introduction scene. The rest of the actors had amazingly realistic performances, though Alex (The crazy girl)'s actor ended up being my favorite. Her role called for a lot of spontaneous mood changes, going from jovial laughter to sobbing within minutes, plus an insane, sinister side, but she did it all in a way that made me feel for her character, and in a way, sympathise with her plight. As nice as the leading male's performance was, I didn't really feel like rooting for him. He didn't grab me.

But the killer for me was how it was all presented in a confusing manner. The movie jumps back and forth between a three-year-period, with no indication of when things are happening. After some conversation afterwards, things became clear, and I had a positive opinion about it all.

I know that wasn't the best review ever.. It's 8:54 and I'm really trying to get this post out on time. I'm probably not going to do an authentic, newsletter-worthy review for Wicker Park, though, because it would be hard to talk about the story without spoiling anything.

And you know how many thirteen-year-old poser-jocks are just itching to find out what happens in this psychological tale of unrequited love and obsession. *rolls his eyes*

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We just got back from Tokyo Steak House. I hope I won't have to explain what kind of restaurant it is; its name is pretty self-explainatory.

*decides to do it anyway* It's one of those Japanese restaurants where they have the big grills in the middle of the table and the chef cooks your food right in front of you, with all the fancy tricks. We've done places like that a few times before (Kisho in nearby Valencia two or three times, plus Tokyo Steak House in the next town over), but we had never been to our nearby TSH. Upon entering, I was incredibly impressed. The whole restaurant looked authentic- there were private booths where you could sit and have conversation with colleagues, a sushi bar with little boats that the sushi floats by on (Not a conveyor belt, but interesting enough), and sliding doors. The other one wasn't quite like that (Despite their interior decorating, it still sort of looked like western architecture).

Though this joint had the style down to the very last detail, aside from the plastic coconut cups, the employees weren't quite up to par with the other ones. Most of them didn't speak unknowledgeable Engrish, which is a big part of the experience for me. As a matter of fact, most of them were white. I couldn't quite place the ethnicity of our chef, but I could tell he wasn't Japanese. I don't think his little tricks, like spinning the knife around and tossing things onto your plate from a foot away, were quite up-to-par as a lot of other chefs, but he provided little witty remarks throughout the meal. The food was excellent, as well. I love their onions and steak..

Oh, and there was sushi. We ended up getting the sampler platter (as always) and six Spicy Tuna Rolls, but I only got the shrimp and one roll. I was trying to get the salmon, but the salmon is sort of chewy and tastes like crap if it comes apart from the rice. And sure enough, it fell off, so I ate the rice and pretended like the salmon wasn't there.

It was all good, aside from the slightly under-par showmanship of the chef, but the food and atmosphere was perfect. I love their fried rice..

And my mom apparently wants to get one of those grills for our house. I swear, sometimes I question her logic and if her "happy pills" haven't affected her thought process.

Teh SillyCircus Day 27- Updated at 8:58 (11:58 EST).
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