DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Lucky Number Sleven
I also watched Lucky Number Sleven over the weekend. It was pretty good! In the style of “The Usual Suspects”, an interesting movie with a high-powered cast.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Jarvis Cocker!?
So this is a strange one. On the weekend I do a lot of work from home, programming, some stuff for fun (some programming on side-projects, translating manga so I don’t forget how to like, read Japanese) and so on. I like to play bad movies when I’m doing this. So, I finally got around […]
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Mystery Jets Concert
I’m going back and posting up quick notes on the concerts I’ve seen in the past few months. I haven’t had the chance to see many shows, since they cost anywhere from 5,000円 to 6,500円 a show. There are cheaper concerts for lesser-known local acts, but I haven’t had the time to get into that […]
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Video as an art medium
On Saturday I went to the Mori Art Museum with a friend and saw the Bill Viola exhibition. This was the first exhibition I went to that was entirely done in Video. I have to admit, I wasn’t impressed. I think video is a tough medium, because when it comes down to it, I do […]
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Whale cutlets in the Cafeteria?!?
Today for lunch in the office cafeteria one of the set lunches was a fried cutlet thing. Usually (almost always) this is a pork fried cutlet option that comes with rice, some miso soup, a small salad, and some tofu. I assumed that is what it was today, but when I looked at the card, […]
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll
I woke up this morning at 6:39am thanks to a small earthquake. At least, I think it was small. It registered a 4 on the Japanese scale in Setagaya-ku, but I don’t really know how that translates. In some of the earthquake materials I’ve read, a 4 is enough to possibly unstack your dishes and […]
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Mirror Mask
MirrorMask IMDB page This was a movie that I actually watched, over dinner after a long day coding. I was interested in this one because it is from Neil Gaiman, who I once saw open a Magnetic Fields concert with a reading, and the Jim Henson Creature Shop, which has done excellent work on all […]
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Good Night, and Good Luck
Another movie I had on in the background while programming. An interesting film, headed up by George Clooney. I enjoyed it, but found the discussion on the wikipedia page to be pretty interesting also.
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Capote
I do not remember exactly when, but while programming over the weekend I had Caopte running in the background. It was a really interesting movie.
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Gallery Hopping in Tokyo
On Saturday I met up with my friend Fumie Hiratai and we went gallery hopping with another friend of hers. Fumie is a very good guide to the art scene in Tokyo. We met when she was working at NII, but she is an artist and was able to give up her job at NII […]
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Weatherman
Weatherman IMDB site Weatherman official site A Nicholas Cage vehicle, pretty slow-paced and fairly enjoyable. I didn’t like the Nicholas Cage character – Dave Spritz, I seem to notice a lot of Dave characters and people in the news getting bad publicity for our shared name (particularly the Duke LaCrosse player accused of rape recently) […]
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Movies on FuguTabetai.com
I’m starting a section for movies that I watch. I can’t really say that I am a movie buff, but I do enjoy movies. What I used to enjoy most about movies was going to see a movie with my movie buff friend Carl Sable at the Magic Johnson Theater in Harlem, New York. That […]
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