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[This is a translation of my previous post]

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Six hours ago I left a meeting for seniors at the high school. There some guy told us that--in short--if we threw money at his company, he'd give us a bunch of useless stuff that we'll throw away right after we graduate. And it seems like lots of morons do as he says, because he threw money at us. "Hey, you know what I just said? Great, here's fifty bucks." Unfortunately, he didn't throw any at me. Maybe he knew that I'm cynical and was going to laugh at the meeting. But, they had everything: booklets for photos, graduation announcements in case we're too lazy to make our own--which probably wouldn't look any worse--and everything you can think of with the words "Seniors 2008" on it. I was almost surprised that they didn't have tampons.
In better--but less humorous--news, this afternoon there was a bad movie day at the library. We had tonnes of movies, of all varieties--black and white, 怪獣映画 (kaijū eiga, or Japanese monster movies), and the cheapest of the cheap; but we only saw two.

The first was The Valley of Gwangi. What could be better for a bad movie day than one about cowboys and dinosaurs? But some folks were talking during the dialogue, because it was a bunch of boring clichés. But in the end they learned how to watch bad movies: you mock the dialogue, not only the special effects. But everyone laughed at the final scene: the dinosaur follows the cowboys into a huge church in Mexico--because, of course, he wants to eat the people in the church, rather than those at his feet--and after a fight, they burn him to death. In the street, people watch, happy that the monster is dead--it's very touching, if you forget about their church. They don't care that their centuries old church is burning down, and in the desert, that fire isn't going to remain there forever, and--wait, a stone church is burning down? Eh, who cares?
Afterwards, since that was so wretched, we watched Night of the Living Dead, since that was well written. But, that was it. So I checked out Rodan.