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June 24, 2005

Settling In

Random:
*-If it works out, I may be covering SICAF in August, along with a couple of other neat animation-related things.
*-I had a green tea McFlurry night before last and was underwhelmed. Starbucks' Matcha Frappacino is king of creamy green tea beverages after all.
*-It appears my landlady has stopped trying to have detailed conversations at me over breakfast, which is good. Now she's (presumably) limiting herself to things I absolutely need to know, but of course I can't understand those either.

Less random:
I was meeting Sumi and Sun Jung for lunch at a Japanese place in Hongik today, so I took the opportunity to walk around for a few hours before hand. Thanks to my handy-dandy transformer my iPod is back in business, so I had the first opportunity to try out my Sennheiser noise-reducing headphones (graduation present-- thanks Dad!) on the "bustling" (deafening) streets of Seoul. Incredible. I flicked that switch and it was like night and day. Unless there was a truck going by or someone throwing boxes around, there was total silence. It was as if I had rerouted my aural nerves directly into the machine. Kinda creepy actually, but awesome.

I took the opportunity to visit a record store (Purple Records) where I found some neat stuff, like Astor Piazzola Remixed (which I ended up not buying) and a 2-disc collection of Indian electronica that I will have to go back for sometime. What I did buy was the new Gorillaz album (freaking awesome-- Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head is really really weird) and a French compilation of loungey Japanese electronica called "Japan Touch: La nouvelle vague pop et electro." Good for kitsch value but not much else.

The entertainment listings appeared in the paper today and I wrote maybe half of them (the rest carried over from last week). You can see them here and here and they're OK except that I MISSPELLED RACHMANINOV!!! I didn't misspell the parts that are usually misspelled, though, instead I made an uncommonly stupid mistake. Which I suppose I should be proud of (the uncommon part, I mean). If you find any other errors let me know so that I might castigate myself appropriately. Diplomatic Pouch comes out Monday. Tomorrow is my day off (I work Sunday) so I'm going to go somewhere. I just don't know where yet.

Huzzah!

Posted by Ben at June 24, 2005 03:55 PM

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Posted by: Stephen Poon at July 30, 2005 12:33 PM