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Random things:

One day I will learn that staying up until 1:30 AM on a Sunday night is not, in fact, a good idea, no matter how good the picture is and how much I want to post it online before I go to bed.

The cat is very suspicious of the new standing fan I bought. But not suspicious enough to let it stop her from getting her daily treats. I feed her these hairball-treat thingers daily, which do seem to keep her from yarking up all over the place, and yesterday I could see the thoughts going through her head: "The big blowy thing is on ... I have to walk by the big blowy thing ... But there are treats ... big blowy thing ... treats ..." She compromised by slinking very hesitantly around it, staring at it so that the moment the big blowy thing leapt upon her, she could escape. She made the journey without incident, I am happy to report, and spent every other moment of the day curled tight in her kitty condo, safe from the rampaging fan.

I love Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre but unfortunately the CD I have with it has the peppiest version of the Danse Macabre EVAR, and manages to crank it out in seven minutes flat, while a version I used to have on tape, ganked from a former roommate, took eleven to finish. I shall have to get another version of it one of these days.

The best part of summer is that parking on campus is EASY.

Still liking Bangkok 8.

Are there any Chinese non-kick-flick movies that aren't meant to be Deep Dramas and yet have happy endings? It seems that every Chinese movie I watch that doesn't involve people attacking each other with a variety of exotic weapons has some sort of sad ending and I'm starting to get skittish about them.

In TV cop dramas, why is it that all witnesses who are being interviewed all have things to do and turf the cops out ASAP. I know the real reason is to have the scene come to a natural close, but when you've been mainlining Law & Order: SVU for a week like I have, it's annoyingly obvious and artificial to have every single witness be barely cooperative and say "Excuse me, I have to get back to work" after dropping the next clue to the mystery.

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Well, there's Shadow Magic, which is about the introduction of film to China. I'm not sure if that counts as Chinese or another country's since I think it was a collaboration between filmmakers, but it's a start, at least.

Have you seen Wasabi? It doesn't really fit your criteria (being French-Japanese and involving some kicking but not-so-much exotic weapons -- I only remember guns and kicking, actually), but it's fun and has a happy ending (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281364/). Be sure to watch the sub, though: The dub is horrendous.

How about "Shower (Xizhou)"? If I recall correctly, that had a happy ending.

you could always try IQ dudettes which is, um, remarkably bad? ^^; what can i say, i'm fond of things that cost less than ten dollars.

Ah, damn, what was that series again. The comedies about an undercover Chinese agent that were so, so bad and and so, so good. In one he infiltrates a high school (it ends like Counterstrike), and in one he pretends to be the husband of a very rich woman (because they're magical movie doubles). From HK, of course. I think there are three? Seriously blanking here, but most Chinese comedies follow a formula and they frequenly don't have kung fu, so if you don't mind lots of dumbness and physical comedy you could look into something along those lines.