A West Lake Moment (抹茶之戀味) Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Yim Ling Dir: Yim Ho – China – 2004 A West Lake Moment is a romantic drama featuring Xiao Yu (Zhou Xun) as the owner of a café in Hangzhou. She meets a man, Qin (Chen Kun) from Beijing, a playboy who shares the same idiosyncrasies [...]
Categories: Movie Reviews
Believe it or not, this is my 200th post on Blogger – a bit of a landmark, in just over 2 years writing rather pointless ramblings that occupy some little space in my webhost’s servers as 1s and 0s, and unscrambled into the nonsense you often see before your eyes that is this site. But [...]
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Tagged: Wise One Quotes
Now, now, it’s not really what you’re thinking. Or maybe it is. I StumbledUpon this amusing collection of photos by Martine Cotton, who has collected over 200 photographs of manhole covers (as opposed to the manholes themselves) in Japan, many of which are quite well spruced up. So pay her site a visit. One of [...]
Categories: The Odd Spot
Happy birthday to Peter, who turned old yesterday. Pre-empting, happy birthday to Annie who turns less teenage looking tomorrow (although we’re off to watch puppet sex in Avenue Q today). Happy birthday!
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Tagged: Friends
Well, ok, in sweltering London this summer, it’s not quite Plueys weather. Except for the occasional thunderstorm. But come autumn, it will be that weather time again. And when it comes, the great fashion to wear is a nice rainboot. One of my good friends, Karen (in fact, the one who got me dancing, thought [...]
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Tagged: Friends