dara just granted me an entire paragraph worth of talking on the phone, nonstop. gossipgossipgossip. im amused. she's probably just spoken 10x more than what she usually does on the phone.

there is some simmersimmer angry going on.

ANYWAY.

i folded about two bajilion paper cranes, the tiny kind. i dug out all my super special origami paper from years ago and just starting making them. i felt like a child labouror for a paper-crane factory coz i made them so robotically. i can probably do it in my sleep now.

i watched Howl's Moving Castle (above pictures) again last nite w/ my sister. i adored it. Miyazaki is a genius. this basically sums up my thoughts:

I understand the feelings of viewers who have criticized the movie as trite. I find it's less imaginative, in terms of character development and emotional profundity, than Miyazaki's best masterpieces. However, even a pedestrian Miyazaki movie is infinitely more rich, frightening, imaginative and humane than any six Disney films put together, and there's a lot to love in "Howl's Moving Castle."

i need to see miyazaki's other films again. the last time ive seen kiki's delivery service and princess monoke and castle in the sky was years and years ago, in korean and japanese [the japanese one without any subtitles... ha]. i haven't even seen spirited away yet and that's supposed to be the best of them all.

i love the unique storytelling and wtf-inducing weirdness that are present in all of them.