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[kaiserkuchen]

Keeping everything else I want to post on the backburner AGAIN, have some YT clips that have been rocking my world lately. I must pack for my imminent wake-up in uh, 5 HOURS because I will be flying to BANGKOK!! again for 5 days FUCK YEAH. Three days without work, glory glory hallelujah.

NUMERO UNO: SANTANA ROCKING THE FUCK OUTTA VALERIE (ALSO: MIKE CHANG & BRITTANY = BEST EVERRR)


NUMBER TWO: I NEED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE ASAP. Historical anecdotes apparently spun to high heavens and movie-transformed! EPIC TRADITIONAL MUSTACHES!! FUCKING BADASS FIGHT SCENES! Muay Thai remains one of the most hardcore and awesome things everrrr *wipes away a tear of national pride*.


NUMMER DREI: THIS SONG HAS BEEN MY EARWORM FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS DURING WORK. And also the awesome banality of the lyrics never stop cracking me up-- a sample: "Found a wallet/but there were no thousand baht notes there/Want to go for a mountain road-trip/but there's no gas in the car" OR "Bought fancy wine/didn't know how to open it/now it's expired/Want to go to heaven/but forgot to make merit/so now it's probably hell for me" A+++ I LIKE.

(ughhhh why the fuck didn't embedding work just now?? *shakes fist at LJ*)

PEE ESS ...we still have to check out things + everything is still super tentative and dependant on a million things BUT I. AND I MIGHT BECOME HOUSEMATES (!!) SOON. There is a house basically across Ma's where the owners who live in BKK or whatever need tenants to uh, keep the mice away after they get the exterminator to do their thing. The rent would be something ridiculously low like 5,000 THB which I. and I would split anyways + utilities and just... This would be so much less than my current rent for my dinky apartment, an ACTUAL HOUSE and also: SEPARATE BATHROOMS (!!!) so I can happily live out my neuroses of not wanting to share bathrooms/toilets with other people! SWEET. Of course, we'd both actually have to get/renew our driver's licenses respectively, but one would have actual incentive now lolol

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[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

Hee, confession time here, but since I have so few friends that I can legit schlep to watch Thai movies with me I had such a gap in my viewings of Popular Thai Movies That Made it Big Overseas**... Slowly worked my way up to seeing Ong Bak a year or so ago though, and it was a GERMAN-DUBBED VERSION which was like hilarity times ten. Especially in the bits where people were speaking in Northeastern-dialect and you could tell where the dubbers just went "........THE HELL ARE THEY TALKING ABOUTTTT" and just left those dialogue bits as is. Quite the jarring transition, that was XD Still haven't seen "Tom Yum Goong" (THEY CALL IT "WARRIOR KING" IN ENGLISH?? Omg lollll for a whole 'nother reason than the obvious marketing ploy that was behind the Thai title, hee!) except for the awesome and hilarious cameos Tony Jaa keeps making in Mum Jokmok's own "The Bodyguard" action movies where he plays this exaggerated hyper-earnest idiot yet still badass version of his character. Every time I see Tony Jaa mentioned I always hear him yelling "WHERE THE FUCK IS MY ELEPHANT??" (CHANG GUU YUU NAIIIII) from those scenes XD

Chocolate is actually good? Will have to check it out then! I just remember reading a pretty unimpressed review from the Bangkok Post reviewer guy (who is admittedly more of an indie film dude than action) and just forgetting about it.

** some examples off the top of my head of not so recent movies that I have seen and ADORED though: Ruang Talok Hok Gao/6ixtynin9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WLwEyg2tA) (Mew Lalita is EXCELLENT), Jan Dara (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gxQVZD19tA&feature=related) (THE VIOLIN! Also this movie is so fucked up and twisteddddd) and Nang Nak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDqew5U68Q4) (a CLASSIC Thai ghost story at love that lasts from beyond the grave and a beautifully sad and wonderful adaptation. And the actor who plays Nak's husband remains one of the most classically handsome Thai men for me. SO MANLY, unf!)