Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The Man in the Bus

Apologies for the return of the lazy busy sandwich, digestion of which kept me once more from my beloved blog-readers, and even more beloved blog-comment writers! Actually I am still busy, maybe not so lazy. I shouldn't be writing this, since I have lots to do today and little time in which to do it, but I felt coincidence beckoning and couldn't resist. Yesterday I watched one of my favorite movies, Napoleon Dynamite, for what must have been the 20th time. And last night I received an e-mail via my Japanese homepage from a young lady in Tokyo whom I have never met. It seems she also watched the movie and did a search under the Japanese title, バス男, or "Bus Man". Since I mention it on my profile, she found me. She asked me to translate some poetry from English to Japanese.... First I will need to translate it from English to English! Anyway, here is her review of バス男, followed by the Google mutilation, uh, I mean translation:

コメディ映画『バス男』を観たけど、、題名の意味が分らないままだった〜。
主人公の容姿やナポレオン・ダイナミックという名前からして、ほ〜ん(* ̄ ̄*)って面白いのだけれど、、『バス男』と何の関連があったんだろ・・・。
特典メニューも全て見たけど関連性がつかめずじまい。
まいいっか。

ナポレオン役のジョン・ヘダー、いいわ〜♪
テケテケ走る姿もクスっと笑える。
何気にダンスうまかったし(笑)
ああいう人、私好きだわ〜

「肉のハナマサ」で買ったワインでも飲んで、次はCDを聞きましょ

The rice D movie 'bus man' was seen however, meaning of title did not continue to understand, -. The figure of the protagonist and doing from the name, Napoleonic dynamic, the [ho] - it is (*) it is the [tsu] [te] to be funny however, 'some relation met with the bus man', it is the [ro] which is…. However the benefit menu everything you saw, it cannot grasp connection and the stripe is. Will not it is, the [tsu]? John [heda] of Napoleonic part, good [wa] - ♪ [teketeke] the [kusu] [tsu] you can laugh also the form which it runs. Dance it was good in some air and (laughing) such person, me favorite the [wa] - with drinking even with the wine which is bought “[hanamasa] of the meat”, the next inquires about CD, the better [yo]

As for real life, well, I have plenty to blog about. And I have been keeping a list. My vacation is coming soon, so perhaps I will find free time and motivation along for the journey to help me with my mission. Though I must confess, lack of comments makes Hack a slow poster! I am thinking of my readers, here. I want to know it is being taken in in the proper order, see? It reminds me of Pink Floyd (and I believe this is the second time I have mentioned Pink Floyd in my ramblings): "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!"

7 comments:

Will said...

I'm a grown man. I can have as much pudding as I want, meat or no... but then, who wouldn't want to eat their meat?

Anonymous said...

Finally a new post - wicked busy with finals - just finished an 8 hour one and know going to write a paper. I will be very glad when this is all over. Missed you at the IAWL party last weekend; but thought of you as I ate meatballs and drank punch.

ldmiller said...

Hey have you disappeared? I need a post update. I promise I will have a new post, if you have a new post. Plus you owe me an e-mail. Thanks for the Birthday greetings on the blog. Learned some stuf about Japan that I didn't know from my World Missions course this week. Asia sounds like the place to be.

Anonymous said...

I second Lucas's sentiments, especially since you're back in tako yaki land with access to a computer. Also, this has got to be the best title for a documentary ever, and, I do say so myself, very apropos given your latest vacation destination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJo7ZkLwkng&mode=related&search=betelnut

Anonymous said...

Oh my head, still no post? This is getting ridic.

KI said...

DUDE. Tony! I give you props with a link on my web page, and you leave us cold-and-postless? As my officemate's simple-but-direct T-shirt says, "WTF?"

BillG said...

It's too bad you've been sooooo slow in posting . . .

Wait a minute. *Scurries off to his own blog to try to think up a post*

Glad to see you're still alive, Tony. Love the new look of the page. Will post soon, and will use subjects in sentences.

Sometime . . .

Billy