isogashii da yo!

Couple of things that I have been up to lately - I went and saw the Pixar exhibition at ACMI with Brad, Ben, Yoko and Shiori. It really was an amazing thing to see - the creative process from sketched ideas to full blown 3D animation. I haven't seen all of their films and had not been that interested until I saw Finding Nemo, which I thought was great - but will endeavor to hunt down and watch all of their films in the near future. We talked about how Pixar is kinda the western Ghibli, but I dont think they are quite there yet. I just think sometimes their stories lack depth and subtlety. Too merchandising oriented perhaps? Now if you could get Miyazaki to write a film for Pixar - then we'd be getting somewhere. Not really his style I guess.

I ate some great food last night at a Korean place near where I used to live in North Melbourne. Pork Bolgolgi, Kim Chi, etc - really good and cheap. Unfortunately they had no Cass, so I drank some strange Japanese Pilsner beer I had never heard of - Reijyou or something. I tried to remember the URL on the can - lemme see if I can find it online... it was one of these.

I have been working on a couple of short films - one for my Time Based Media class, of which the treatment and storyboard is finished. The other is actually for a film festival happening next weekend called Shootout. Should be interesting and if the film turns out half decent, I'll post it up for people to watch.

I have been kinda wondering whether this blog is worthwhile or whether I should move my ramblings to Facebook or Mixi. Probably not Mixi, because if you arent a member, you cant see my profile and it's all in Japanese. Maybe facebook? I dunno.

Other quick points:

-Daft Punk is playing in Dec, emailed my sister to try and score some tickets
-Loving the Neutral Milk Hotel record
-Loving Panda Bear
-Have started listening to some old techno again
-Parents have moved into their new place, despite some hiccups and it not quite being finished yet
-Photos are up from BZ's birthday and my parents house on Flickr - link over to your right
-Looks like Howard and the liberals are going down in flames. ABOUT FUCKEN TIME
-My three favourite TV shows are in one after the other - Spics and Specs, The Chasers War on Everything and Summer Heights High. God bless the ABC
-I learned some great blokey Japanese yesterday - やった？ (asking a mate after he went home with someone)
-Have almost completely decided on end of year trip - Japan / Malaysia
-Plan to catch up with a mate that I used to work with at HP. Hopefully next week or the week after. Facebook FTW.

Thats it for now.