Sunday, May 06, 2007

does anyone have a poster for howl's moving castle?

i ordered a signed copy of "the name of the wind" from patrick rothfuss. i spent at least a half hour leafing through the book trying to find a suitable quotation for the personalization. after rejecting,

"it's a goddamn huge dragon and it's going to come over here and eat us!" because it's the most ?casual? line in the book and it might have seemed i was poking fun at him for picking it out. not casual, exactly, but out of character? low language? i'm not sure.

"valaritas" because for all i know it means shitface.

"may you find the name of the wind," or some variation thereof, because he would be writing it on a book named the name of the wind, and that seems silly to me.

i settled on, "may your pizzle never fizzle," because it's funny. also one of the more ?hokey? lines in the book, but oh well.

i watched she's the man today. i enjoyed it much. it was genuinely funny, and at almost any point in the movie there's a pretty face on screen. i might even acquire the dvd. i have a soft spot for teen-oriented "shakespearean-inspired" films. as long as they have beautiful girls in them, i'm sold.

i also watched howl's moving castle, which started me on a wall scroll search. there are none in existence. it makes me sad. does anyone know of a way to capture shots from a DVD on the computer and then to make one's own posters out of it? i've always wanted to do it for princess mononoke since for some reason the only posters/wall scrolls are san and her wolf, and NONE of ashitaka and san together.

anyways, the howl search led me to nausicaa.net, which i browsed until i came across some interesting articles concerning "gedo senki" (tales of earthsea). interesting stuff, involving race, racism, and especially reverse racism. stuff like racism, abortion, or the war in iraq just make me tired. they're too big for someone like me to think about.

interestingly, howl's pacifist attitude toward the futility of war was not really in the book, and came more from miyazaki's own feelings as he worked on this movie as america went to war with iraq.

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