Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2014 21:48:42 GMT -8
The Korean festival was fantastic. Great food, good soju, and surprisingly good makkoli (the ones I've had were bitter, this one was creamy and packed a kick). I need to learn some basic Korean before next year, though. It may have been in LA, but it might as well have been Seoul. Even the staff in our hotel were sluggish in English (and the toilet parts were labeled in Korean).
We saw two Korean movies (subtitled). The first, Admiral: Roaring Currents, was about a historic naval battle in which 12 Korean ships defeated 330 Japanese warships. Exciting, well-directed, they used real models for a lot of the naval engagement--so accurate a Japanese museum asked to keep one of the Japanese ships. The second was The Pirates, a swashbuckling, slap stick, romantic comedy. Well acted, beautiful principal female lead, but more important, laugh out loud funny. When they hit Netflix or Hulu--see them.
Then we were at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana for an afternoon of Southeast Asian dances. Local groups, so the crowd were mostly friends and families, and that made audience feedback really great. Today was the Norton Simon in Pasadena, where I spent hours looking at great Indian art--got some great ideas for terrain and figures for next year.
And as Pepys ended each diary entry, "And so to bed."
We saw two Korean movies (subtitled). The first, Admiral: Roaring Currents, was about a historic naval battle in which 12 Korean ships defeated 330 Japanese warships. Exciting, well-directed, they used real models for a lot of the naval engagement--so accurate a Japanese museum asked to keep one of the Japanese ships. The second was The Pirates, a swashbuckling, slap stick, romantic comedy. Well acted, beautiful principal female lead, but more important, laugh out loud funny. When they hit Netflix or Hulu--see them.
Then we were at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana for an afternoon of Southeast Asian dances. Local groups, so the crowd were mostly friends and families, and that made audience feedback really great. Today was the Norton Simon in Pasadena, where I spent hours looking at great Indian art--got some great ideas for terrain and figures for next year.
And as Pepys ended each diary entry, "And so to bed."
