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Another Kamakura : Through the eyes of a friend
Today I met up with a friend from work and went to Kamakura. I showed her my usual hiking course and choriso sandwhich restaurant, then she showed me her favourite temples. It was great. We went on the Enoden line which is a tiny railway line that has only 10 stops. The train passes within a few inches of the houses and skirts the coast, and even goes on the main road at one point. It's the cutest railway I've ever been on. Just an hour from Tokyo, it feels like you're lost in time...
The other day I watched Happiness. This is an absolute masterpiece. Undeniably harsh and shocking but so well acted with such a great script that it's hard to find fault. Sexual deviance, emptiness and loneliness being the central themes, from the title scene in which a guy gets dumped by his girlfriend , you know the title is irony in it's purest form. I'm going to watch Storytelling next which is meant to be in the same vein.
Just a week to go now before I start my new job. Got lots of ideas down for the characters. I hope they like them. I've got Floating animals, Weather family - including storm boy and rain girl - and Shadow kids - who wear cool shades! I kind of made them all slightly in the style of Western characters, if that's possible. The Shadow Kids especially are very much in the vein of children's adventure story books in England. Anyway, I could think forever about characters, I think. There are so many possibilites.
Now, where was I ? ( a Haiku )
It's amazing -
How easy it is
to forget to live.
posted by PA on Thursday, September 23, 2004
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