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[skygiants]

So yesterday there was an earthquake apparently! EXCITING. I noticed absolutely nothing. My roommates promptly decided this was because I can't tell the difference between normal failing-to-keep-my-balance and earthquake-prompted-failing-to-keep-my-balance, which may well be absolutely true for all I know.

Much more actually exciting than the earthquake: yesterday innerbrat and I went to go see the BROADWAY-STYLE KOREAN MUSICAL Hero at Lincoln Center about legendary Korean freedom fighter An Chunggun ! Debi has done an amazing and detailed write-up which you should all go read. I will only tell you that the production began with a bunch of REVOLUTIONARIES dramatically cutting off their index fingers as a sign of their DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE (which is what lets you know it will be epic!) and included, among other things tailored to our interests:

- a ragtag group of bantery revolutionary misfits
- numerous amazing dance-fight-chase-sequences
- an intensely dedicated policeman in a black-and-red leather jacket and slicked-back pompadour of EVIL singing the Korean equivalent of "Stars"
- a scene in which a brusque and antisocial sniper finds himself, to his own horror, dancing about the power of his FEELINGS
- a courtesan spy assassin! who spends every single one of her songs singing about her love for her tragically dead Empress! (I am pretty sure they put that subplot in just for us)

Comments

[surexit]

I have learned about a new person today!

[skygiants]

I also learned something when I saw it! One of these days all this Korean media will result in me . . . actually learning some Korean history . . .

[surexit]

I have the same thought about Japan. Not that I consume much Japanese media, but at some point I'm going to crack a history book, right? (I've read one, about the medieval period. NO ONE IS SURPRISED THAT I AM UNINTERESTED IN ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED CLOSER TO THE PRESENT DAY THAN ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, RIGHT?)

[skygiants]

At least you are actually there to go museum-ing, surely you can absorb some history that way! (Hee hee. I am shocked, SHOCKED.)

[surexit]

Yes, bits and pieces, but I don't do much museum-ing. Too tired at the weekends. :(

[newredshoes]

Hey ma'am! Off-topic, but did you happen to get my email yesterday?

[skygiants]

I did, and thank you for reminding me I hadn't responded! *sheepish* GOING TO DO THAT NOW.