I want this thing so bad. I hate it and want it at the same time. Sometimes I look at them and think: “Why these are the most beautiful magnificent pieces of clothing to ever exist on the planet!” Other time I think: “Oh my god, who would make such an ugly thing? Why would anyone put this on themselves?” This applies only to the purely leathery leather ones, by the way. I like the sheepskin jackets lined with fluffy shearling, all the time, without feelings of ambivalence. Ri

Spoilers to Angel's Egg up ahead. Also a little background: Mamoru Oshii is the director, who I refer to in this article. Many talented people worked on the movie but he is the decision guy so, I blame him for all the problems I have with it. OMG. I know he like, gives as much as space for you to interpret his movies but I can’t help but feel like they’ve got this doom and gloom feeling about them all. By all I just mean, Angel's Egg and Jin-Roh, and a little bit of Beautiful

Before I start, I'd like to remind you that the director, Jacques Demy, said he made this movie because wanted people to cry. So, if you don't want to cry, don't watch this movie. And don't read this review! I am recovering from tooth extraction right now, so my default feeling is pain and I'm watching movie pain to distract myself from real life pain. Be warned that this thing is gonna be loopier than usual. Do you remember when you were 17? Well. I do. I remember feeling to

Website links to tank tops, skirts, bags. I'd bookmarked it all, just in case I forget what they are. But I will never forget. This stuff is etched into my brain. When it comes to shopping, I'm the elephant that never forgets. I remember the name of the item and the maker and everything, unprompted. One is named “A Trillion Layers Skirt, No layers, Faded, but Vibrant, Size S, but Size L”, it's absolutely bonkers unless you're also a total nerd for medium-priced women's fashio

I am obsessed with the Onitsuka Tigers. They are a type of minimalist sneaker with a very thin sole, still manufactured in Japan to this day, and most famously associated with 1970s martial arts icon, Bruce Lee*. They are extremely overpriced for what they are, and supremely hard to get. I'd have to pay an arm and a leg for them and then another arm and a leg to ship them back in case they don't fit. And I know in my heart of hearts, they are totally wrong for me. But I'm sti

A picture of a woman came up when I searched for Millennium Mambo , a movie I liked . I don't know why google decided to show this image. She is not the lead actress, instead, she is the writer. She looks nice and has a cute scarf. She is older than me, but I still thought we bore a little bit of a resemblance. This will be me in the future. I'd thought. And then another thought occurred: what did she look like before, in the past? This is where I made a fatal mistake. I wen

I still want an olive green coat so bad. Recently, somebody told me it was a symbol of being a millennial. And I almost punched them. I'm kidding! I love being a millennial. And I loved that olive thing to bits. I purchased it in 2012, in the Japanese department store conglomerate LUMINE in Omiya Saitama, either on floor 2 or floor 3, from a store called either Snidel , or JEANASIS , or One After Another Nice Claup . Yes, these are names for stores. It was a brand I had never

The other day, I went to watch Hamnet at the theatre. Because it was a Tuesday and Tuesdays are cheap, everybody got tickets and the regular theatre was packed, my only option was to sit in the very front row where I'd have crane my neck at 90 degree angle to look up the entire time only to see people's faces in shape of Easter Island guys like, you know, a giant chin, all distorted, and occasionally have their left eye all the way up in the corner of the screen. So I didn't

WARNING: Contains many spoilers to Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. I did think Jacob Elordi was a bit of an odd choice to play Frankenstein's monster. The movie kind of sets it self up to make you expect some sort of ugly thing, but he is clearly handsome. I have an expectation for him to have droopy eyes and a head that looks like it's got a lid on it, you know, like, a lid that's held together with stitches. So I was totally surprised when he shows up without anything cl

I used to take route 51 everyday to go to school. This was my third year as a person in Canada and I was still learning English. The...