I just couldn’t resist this one. Simon’s cat reminds me of Tito when some flying critter winds up in the apartment. š I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Midnight Movie Madness: āGetting Any?ā
āGetting Any?āā (1994, Japan, 108 minutes ā no rating)
In modern day Japan, Asao (Dankan) is anĀ ordinary guy in his thirties living with his grandfather. Asao, however, is driven by an obsession to have sex in a car and soon embarks on an extraordinary journey in this comedy from Takeshi āBeatā Kitano.
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Friday Night Cat Blogging with Sith Cats and Cat Sith
Well, it’s another Friday.Ā Tonight we have some trivia, some humor, and the boys, of course.
First, the cat trivia:
Cat SƬth (Scot.) or Cat Sidhe (Irish) comes from Celtic mythology.Ā According to Wikipedia:
Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. Some common folklore suggested that the Cat SƬth was not a fairy, but a transformed witch.
According to Celtic Myth Podshow:
The cat, whether wild or domestic, is sacred to the Goddess in Celtic tradition, appearing in Irish, Welsh and Breton folklore. But it is in Scotland that is found a particularly powerful connection. A number of Scottish clans held the cat as their totem animal: those of MacIntosh, MacNeishe and MacNicol the domestic cat, and the MacBain the wild cat. The cat-people, a Pictish tribe known as the Kati, lived in Caithness, the ness or promontory of the cats, and in Sutherland in Gaelic is the Cataobh ā cat country.
Note:Ā The MacBain in bold is my doing.Ā It’s my clan.Ā The clan motto is touch not the catt bott a targe which translates to touch not the cat without a shield. š
Sooooooooo what happens when we mix that with a bit of Star Wars?Ā Well, instead of Cat SƬth we get Sith cats.
For those with short attention spans… SQUIRREL!!!!
Hmmmmm, so what does Tito think of all this? As a young kitten he bored easily and fell asleep. He just wasn’t a Star Wars fan.
Kitsune, on the other hand, adores Star Wars as do I.
Public transportation: a must, or a choice?
Do you perchance enjoy people watching? I thought I did and this made using public transportation tolerable if not appealing.
Well this very afternoon, I got more than I bargained for.
Concentrateā¦ Do you feel a rant coming? It was an old dude. Hell, Iām an old dude, but this guyā¦ This guy was evidently so old, he reverted to child-like.
Right hand plugged and dug in the right ear. Gross, but not as gross as the left index finger exploring, scraping his nostrils to the point where a deviated septum became a real risk.
Scratch that. His septum was probably bent five ways from Sunday decades ago. Anyway, he scraped the result of his excavations onto the stainless steel pole passengers are supposed to hold on to.
Nice. Very nice.
Then, he danced the cavity Macarena: right hand, right ear again, left hand pinching nostrils, with occasional index forays into the nose. In between exploratory moves, he looked at his fingernailās harvest and spread the results on surfaces for all to enjoy.
Oh, you nasty @#*&&%#@$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Treasure of the Sierra Moraga
Tiled steps in San Francisco: an instance of a neighborhood bonding
Many times before, driving to and from one of our favorite diners in the city, we found ourselves looking up to a not-too distant hill, a rock outcropping, really, covered in grass and a few trees, which seemed to promise sweeping views of the San Francisco.
Looking closer, there seemed to be long flights of stairs leading to the top.
Midnight Movie Madness: “Immortal”
āImmortalā ā (2004, France, 103 minutes ā rated R)
Well aren’t you lucky..? Two Midnight Movie Madness recommendations within a week!
This is a bit of a curio for sci-fi fans. Written and directed by Enki Bilal, based on two graphic novels from his Nikopol trilogy, āla femme piegeā and āla foire aux immortelsā (āthe female trapā and āthe carnival of immortalsā).
Watch the trailer here:
Bilal (born Enes Bilalovic) moved to France at age 9, in 1960 or so.
Midnight Movie Madness: “the girl who kicked the hornet’s nest
āThe girl who kicked the hornetās nestā ā (2009, Sweden, 147 minutes ā rated R)
The third installment of Stieg Larssenās āMilleniumā trilogy moves deeper into a dystopian present made of corrupted power cells both part of and unknown to government bureaucracy, in other words, the tapestry widens.
That was obscure, but the trilogy takes its time exposing Larssonās vision of power and its abuses, of unseen environments where human monsters are made, flourish and devour everything available to them. Provided it is sanctioned, and at times even without approval.
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Friday Night Cat Blogging? A dog and…
It’s usually time for the boys to shine, but they were very lazy today, as you can see.
Soooooooo here are a few more critter pics for your pleasure.
There’s a pond at the park where the dogs play.
Gung Hay Fat Choy: Itās the Year of the Hare or Rabbit
Gung Hay Fat Choy loosely translates as ācongratulations and be prosperousā.
Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year.Ā The festivities begin with the new moon on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar.Ā It ends fifteen days later on the full moon and is celebrated by the Lantern Festival.
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Riddle me thisā¦ Catdomās present and future
The mythological sphinx, while not to be confused with the Sphynx, does combine elements of other species. How many of us have observed, while watching a cat āhe/she looks like a bat! An Owlā¦ A panther, monkey, rat, wolf, birdā¦.ā
I often think of Tito as a wolf with stripes, but as to Mazuzu Whangā¦
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