« Chuseok | Main | And the Lord said, "Go to sleep, little grad students." »
September 19, 2005
Also...
I bought an LG Region 3 external DVD/CD burner drive. It's USB 2.0 so I was worried about speed but so far it has actually outpaced the crappy drive in my laptop at both reading and writing (it writes DVDs at 1.7 MB a second. A second! I'm probably broadcasting just how out of touch I am by being impressed by that).
So I bought a bunch of DVDs. Including, but not limited to:
Korean DVDs: Taegukgi, The Scarlet Letter (I had to see what a Korean contemporary version would look like), DMZ, Wonderful Days, another animated movie with a pig
Other: Minority Report, The Great Dictator, Apollo 13 Special Edition, Kung Fu Hustle, Kill Bill 1 & 2.
That last one was incredible. I watched them both over the weekend and I gotta say I didn't think it was possible for movies to be that much fun. At least, not for me, anymore. I loved every minute.
Posted by b-applegate at September 19, 2005 12:47 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
https://blogs.princeton.edu/mt/mt-tb.cgi/355
Comments
Ah yes, the DVDs. So nice, so many, and so cheap. I bet it is even better in Korea. I loved the Kill Bills too. But I LOVED Kung Fu Hustle. Brilliant film, I think it should be required viewing. If you were so inspired, I'd love a list of Korean films to watch. We can get a few (not too many, but enough) here, and it would save me from the painful point-and-watch-bad-movie experience.
Posted by: Sally at September 23, 2005 11:27 PM
I will be sure to let you know! I am doing the point-and-buy thing for language practice, so it'll be nice to be able to save someone else the trouble on the way. ;)
Posted by: Ben Applegate at September 25, 2005 12:43 PM
Ben!
How are you! I can see from your blog that you have been busy. Anyway, Wendy and I as well as our entire teachings staff is coming up to Seoul for a conference on Monday, October 3rd. We plan on coming friday night. We should meet up (me, you, Wendy, Farook (the other PiAer). At the moment, our only plans are a DMZ tour with some teachers here Saturday (maybe until 5 or so). But other than that, we will be free probably saturday night and sunday during the day. Let me know if you are avaiable and if you want to hang out. If yoiu have a cell phone, you can give it to me (Farook has a cell as well. Wendy and I do not). Anyway, I hope to hear from you soon.
Best,
Leo
Posted by: Leo at September 29, 2005 12:01 AM