random thoughts about random things

Two sometimes not totally unrelated things!

For some reason I’ve fallen back into the anime-soundtrack valley again. I’m back to enjoying it tremendously. Like White Reflection by TWO-MIX. It’s not spectacular, nor amazing, but I suspect I totally love it due to the series it accompanied - Gundam Wing, a rather amazing mecha anime I highly recommend to anyone up for watching all of it. Also heard SEE-SAW again ( Yes, odd CAPSLINEMORECAPS names on some of these groups Oo ), and I keep being amazed at some of the odd music I seem to enjoy. It might be the random melodiousness, or that I can’t understand them, and can focus on the voice and the music. In any case. I mean for gods sake; I’m listening to j-pop and enjoying it. Scary.

Also I got to see Eastern Promises today which failed completely and utterly at making me crave big booms and insane whoah. It took me by surprise to see a movie that managed to avoid any painfully obvious clichès, and had 3 scenes where there was some form of action. One with boobies and sex, one bath-house fight, one where a guy gets his throat carved or something. Strangely quiet movie. Interesting dialogue with some impressive actors kept me in a pretty constant suspense due to the strangely tense plot. You kept expecting this and that, but it didn’t happen, or perhaps not right then, or was assumed. Strange I’ll admit, but it made the movie exciting and in the end an impressive piece of work. Viggo Mortensen in his strongest role yet, wonderfully supported by others who I can only applaud quietly, lest others shush me for it. I left the theatre with a smile and fully satisfied. It’s a damned good movie.

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