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2003-01-27

In case any Swedish person with impeccable taste has missed it, it is Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV4 tonight at 23:00. Which is better than the 00:10 slot they had given it the last time around. It is also much better because there is nothing else worth watching at the same time. But never mind that for now.

The important bit is that it is the episode called Bad Girls. It’s a great episode and all, but there is one scene in the middle where Buffy and Faith is ion the dancefloor at the Bronze after a slay. The music in that scene is a song by Curve. I realise that this is not for everyone, but I can’t stress this enough. Curve, the band that if we lived in a fair Universe should have been renowned by now and sell much more records than... I don’t know... talentless hacks such as the Beatles.

Not everybody likes Curve though, but what do they know? Right. Nothing at all.

Previously this week (technically it was last week) I saw the Pillow Book. It has gone a few days, the images is still there. The calligraphed letters, the small windows that sometimes are used to show the actual movie. It is... The text... God, this is hard. The movie is about text, the text matters and plays an integrated part in the story. It is hard to explain, which is a bit weird. Text is supposed to be read and written, but here it almost takes a visual aspect. It is really neat. Sadly to say, they don’t make many movies about text fetishism.

It is an artsy movie, but in a good way. (Note to self: I might need to clarify what I mean with artsy sometime in the near future and the difference between that and artsy-fartsy.) Wonderful use of rare techniques of the media, great use of languages (English, Cantonese, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin), quirky narration and so on. The only problem is the somewhat paperthin plot but I guess its’s just that kind of a movie. It is very hard to describe it properly. So Tommy, this is another of those movies that you probably should stay away from.