ishte | Hammered?

Me? Uh... Well it appears so. Friday in fact, while having dinner and drinks with a friend I apparently miscalculated the intake:time ratio and got myself completely and totally hammered. I don't even want to talk about the results by the time I got home... Other than that it was at least a couple of hours before I could go to bed due to such idiocy. I thought that I learned a couple of decades ago, exactly how much I could drink and at what pace. I'm of the opinion that what happened was a miscalculation of the time differential, as I'm pretty sure I was home by about midnight, and that would mean that I drank quite a bit in only 3 hours where I thought that more time had passed... so even the two large glasses of water I drank while drinking didn't save me this time, and of course by the time I got home there would be no more drinking of water for a while. >_< So I spent yesterday drinking as much water as I could and still feeling drunk most of the day. hahaha... what a sad picture. I had plans too... and really was trying to get there, but as each 'goal to leave the house' time came and went, I realized at about 6 that it just wasn't going to happen, and settled for driving a couple blocks to get something to eat instead. (being as I was too lazy to cook anything else, and was tired of eggs and kielbaso.)

Goddess knows what has happened to Daniel in our game, because I was not there to keep him out of trouble... Of course, the plan for him was to that he would circulate amongst the crowd at a festival, pretend to get rip roaring and snorting drunk in celebration of his 'recent marriage' to Mara, and hopefully hear a few things that a sober man might not hear so easily. Maybe he found his tolerance somehow less than he normally expected.

Now today, I feel normal, except that I ache all over as if I have partaken in some extremely vigorous exercise that I was not used to.

I spent about 4 hours watching a Kurosawa film--Seven Samurai--and not particularly liking it. Perhaps part of it was that the quality of the rip was fairly poor. I had seen it before too. I had forgotten what a freaking nutjob Kikuchiyo was! And now having been spoiled by the beautiful artwork of the animé--Samurai 7--I found myself also disappointed in Katsushiro. Given that in 15th century Japan, a samurai was considered a man at 15, the man chosen to play him seemed entirely too old for the part. It was hard to take the other samurai seriously when they called him a boy, when it was obvious that he was at least 20. Funny thing that I would think a slender green haired green eyed boy drawn in an art style that is... well it's not typical of animé... I don't know how to explain it other than that the curves are very simplified, and everyone seems to have very tiny feet. But I like it. maybe because it's different.

Anyway, there's my weekend for you. Oh that and feeding my latest Animé addiction. Now that I've watched all 26 episodes of Samurai 7, I'm working my way through Fullmetal Alchemist... and just started on Basilisk. I have a feeling that this is what I'll be doing the rest of the year. Seems like I just can't concentrate on writing this year at all.

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Wasn't Samurai 7 beautiful as an anime. I has been too long since I saw Seven Samurai, so I lost some of the character connections. Kikuchiyo is the one that, in Seven Samurai, we jokingly call "Running Naked Monkey Boy", correct?

We were also trying to associate the characters with the clan they would be from in the Legend of the Five Rings RPG.

I agree with you that Samurai 7 was beautiful. The art style is sort of unusual, which is part of it's appeal to me. Your name of Running Naked Monkey Boy for Kikuchiyo in Samurai Seven is probably the best description of this complete nutcase character I could ever have come up with. Why did not some one give him even the most raggedy of hakama to wear so that his butt wouldn't be showing all the time? Hahahaha...

His posterior was not all that was hanging out of that tattered loincloth. A simple hakima would have been appreciated.

From what I do remember of Seven Samurai, Katsushiro was a young man, perhaps 20 is correct. Yes, Gempukku should be between 13-16. He also struck me as begging for training. Perhaps he had no sensei and no master, and therefore was never given his Gempukku. Hence, he would still be a "boy". ((I am supplimenting my limited Japanese cultural knowledge with data from the L5R RPG, which follows Japanese culture fairly closely from what I can tell.))

Genpukku in that era would normally have happened at the age of 15 when a boy was considered to become a man. Katsushiro had his own sword, and was probably the best dressed of all the seven, so it seemed out of character to me to assume that he was ronin, rather than one who simply had not found had a sensei to train him. The story took place before the Tokugawa shugunate, which was a very chaotic time. But I still found him to be much to old a person to be playing a character who was obviously supposed to be much younger. What I mean is, this older man, probably 20 or more years old was playing a character that to me was clearly written to be a young man of 16 or 17, and really should have been played by a 16 or 17 year old man. I though Samurai 7 captured his character much better, even though it was only an adaptation of the original. Just my opinion of course. Maybe the Anime spoiled me because it was so beautiful.

Oi... I meant to say too, that genpukku traditionally did not have to come from one's master, but could come from a male family member too as often the family tradition was passed down. Katsushiro may very well have learned enough of the family sword style and archery, calligraphy, and all the other things considered of importance for a young samurai, (as he obviously was not completely clueless) and now sought a sensei to teach him things like battle tactics and help him gain experience at things that could not be learned at home.

You're right. When I watched Seven Samurai, I was not big on remembering the names of the characters. Katsushiro was just "pretty and useless boy."

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