I had a meeting at work this morning and all I could think about were the brightly coloured striped knee-high socks that I want to start knitting. I finally turned the heel on Darin's 2nd sock, so I am on the home stretch - thank goodness. Is there anything better than listening to music and knitting a sock on the train??!!
So Claire and I made it to the When Masters Were Young Film Series put on by the Japan Foundation on Sunday. We did the double feature and saw Insect Woman and the Tokyo Wanderer. I definitely enjoyed the Tokyo Wanderer more basically because it was a lot more fun - it was colourful, entertaining, had a great theme song, and Japan in the 60s looked fabulous (signage masters). Now the Insect Woman did grow on me (I particularly liked Imamura's use of stills throughout the film), but even though it was described as a serious comedy, it's hard to get past scenes where a father sucks pus out of his daughter's wound (for a reason that I have yet to understand), and other scenes of.......well it's hard to describe, but I'll use Claire's exact words because they really describe it perfectly.......scenes of tit sucking incest. She also described these scenes as social realism, but I like the first description better. I think I'll just leave it at that.
Whew...well I am going to leave you with some fabulous pink fixes that Stacey sent to me - they are so great - thank you for making my day a little pinker!!!
ladies at the Denver Zoo
dreamy wall of pink yarn
Fatima to Stacey (pink flower swap)
Stacey says, 'These dogs were outside a little shop called The Barkery on Balboa
Island in Newport Beach, California. One of them was named Taco-Bella!'
Stacey to Fatima (pink flower swap)
ps Hope you all had a nice Easter! I have been thinking about another swap - do you all have any ideas?? - at the moment I am leaning towards a swap of pink hair ornaments (bobby pins, barettes, hair ties, etc) What do you think?
Ooh, I`d love to join in a swap this time round. Hair ornaments sound good to me. :)
Tanoshimi!
Posted by: Merinda | March 29, 2005 at 01:18 PM
I love the idea of the hair ornament swap! I was JUST thinking about how brilliant the pink earring swap was, too!
That one dog looks like a basenji, but it doesn't have the curly tail. Veddy veddy interesting.
Posted by: Mariko | March 29, 2005 at 01:27 PM
Pinku, you read my mind!
I was wearing the gorgeous pink heart fred flare earrings over the weekend and thinking that another swap of some sorts would be fabbo!
Hair ornaments sound like a great idea. Count me in!
Posted by: nicole | March 29, 2005 at 01:36 PM
oh yes yes great idea. I love the idea of sending pink hair accessories flying all accross the world :) I am definitely in! xx
Posted by: Lucy | March 29, 2005 at 08:18 PM
That would be fun but I don't know how to make any of those things! ;)
I could try though...
Posted by: frecklegirl | March 29, 2005 at 11:28 PM
Count me in on another pink swap. I love the hair tie idea...or what about a round two of the earring swap because come on, you can never have enough pink earrings in my estimation!!
Posted by: Stacey | March 30, 2005 at 07:03 AM
A pink hair accessories swap is a great idea!! Or...what about a pink (not necesarily hand-made) sock swap? Round two of the earring swap like Stacey wrote sounds like fun, too. If and when you decide to do another swap, I'm in!
Posted by: drh | March 30, 2005 at 11:42 AM
Oohh, I love the return of the pink photos - especially that wall of pink yarn.
Posted by: erin | March 30, 2005 at 02:14 PM
What a cute site! I recently announced I was going to paint the walls of my bedroom pink and what did my beloved boyfriend say? He said if I did that he would never sleep at my place again.
So it's pink walls OR a lovelife?
Typically MEN. ;)
Posted by: nina | March 30, 2005 at 08:21 PM