Capricious Me » 2008 » August

Instead of packing like mad… I’m watching Lego versions of songs. :)

In no particular order, I present:
Les Mis Preview
One Day More (From Les Mis)

The Les Mis series song by song (chars are usually blurred and not pure lego stop-motion animation): Look Down, Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven, At the End of the Day, I Dreamed a Dream, Come to Me (Fantine’s Death), The Confrontation, Master of the House, The Thenardier’s Waltz of Treachery, Look Down (Reprise)/Stars, Red and Black, Do You Hear the People Sing, A Heart Full of Love, Attack on Rue Plumet, One Day More, and I’m looking forward to more…

On to Phantom of the Opera:
Phantom of the Opera

All I Ask of You
Lego of the Opera 1(Sounds like it’s from the movie version)
Lego of Opera 2
Lego of the Opera 3
Another prologue
A preview of what I hope will lead to more clips…

And enough linking… after one last tidbit of Lego Sweeney Todd. There’s a ton of awesome stop-motion animation done with legos. Including Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Monty Python… and the list goes on. :)

I got bit by a spider in my sleep. I woke up yesterday with an itchy knuckle. It slowly swelled and spread so that this morning, my hand looked as if i was wearing a fat suit on it. It looks like I have no knuckles on my right hand when I try to make a fist. I can see the two punctures where the spider’s little fangs sank into my knuckle.

Why? Why this unprompted, undeserved attack? I was SLEEPING!!

Seems like an unreasonably large number of people are incensed over the supposed scandal of Zhang Yimou using a nine year old girl to “sing” while dubbing her voice with a seven year old who was not deemed cute enough.

Um. Why WHY are people so hung up over this? Hollywood (ever seen Star Wars? My Fair Lady? Sound of Music?), Bollywood (um…. EVERY SINGLE MOVIE) has been doing this for ages and people love it. The opening ceremonies are just that - ceremonies, a show, entertainment. Lighten up. Enjoy the show. Think about it this way… instead of one little girl getting to participate and receiving all the attention, two will now benefit from the “exposure” of this lip-sync scheme.

I really hate listening to the commentators and coverage. Of all the things to show about China, of all the improvements Beijing has made, of all the modernization China’s gone through, why show us your reporters grimacing and being disgusted by fried scorpions, which is hardly the street food that I or many others grew up with. It’s like having someone come to the US only to report back that Rocky Mountain Oysters are a very popular snack.

America, is this what you consider human rights? This is, unfortunately, not an isolated incident. What a shame. People look to the US as the land of opportunity, but the harsh reality is veiled xenophobia and adverse bureaucracy that seems to mock the greatness this country achieved through the toils and contributions of immigrants.

China’s victories in team gymnastics makes me soooo happy. I always root for China. :) What can I say? I may be an American citizen, but I’m still Chinese.

The men’s gymnastics is always amazing to watch… but the Chinese men were so much better than anyone else that I wasn’t too surprised when they won. The women’s results were much more exciting, especially since it was such a tug of war all the way through. I’m looking forward to the all-around and individual event competitions.

The synchronized diving is pretty amazing to see too, but I only got to see the women’s 3m. Of course China got the gold there.

Go China!! Jia you!

Tonight, I shall be watching the opening ceremonies and making crepes. :)

Earlier this week, I made quite a few using prosciutto, serrano ham, cheese, lemon juice, nutella, bananas (not all at the same time). Tonight, I add mozzarella, basil, and tomato. I’ve been planning the basil, tomato, prosciutto, mozzarella for a while… I hope it does not disappoint.