Maru's Mun Journal

The Nazgul and I saw a very cute movie today.

It's more child-like than the last few Miyazaki movies, but does have its very adult, and very Japanese, moments. It's full of magic, as Miyazaki movies usually are, but what most impresses about the movie is the humanity of it.

But the end title song is terribly, terribly catchy, especially if you understand some Japanese. So I must warn you against clicking that link.

Yesterday, my friend nazgulwears came to our usual Sunday session of movies and cooking with a  ginormous ex-military duffel bag on her back.



When she put it down in my living room, it looked exactly as if it contained one small murder victim. The cats, naturally, were immensely intrigued by it!

( See the mystery revealed! )

Afterwards, we watched 'Black Hawk Down'; and after that, the Nazgul made a very yummy South African casserole dish containing mango chutney, minced beef, onions, curry powder and raisins; I'm sure she'll post the recipe to collected_fudz if we wheedle nicely. In the meanwhile, as my Milli!Teja is in Team Fortress 2 being a BLU soldier (as I said, colour choice entirely unrelated to kendo) and I can't EP or tag out otherwise at the moment, I finished and posted a loooooong backstory fic I had been working on since Friday. Then, we watched 'Me And The Colonel', which the Nazgul spontaneously loved and almost missed her train for. All the while, that small murder victim was sitting in its duffel bag beside my Biedermeier cupboard...

Many of you do the Japanese thinggy as well, do you, being able to squee believably in that language and all?

My friend Stephan the japanologist has posted an extremely fascinating link, and as I am his link into the bloggosphere (for some reason, he doesn't get anything near the attention he deserves, so I need to repost sometimes), I repeat it here:

Why Japanese is the language for Nerds