Reading: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Last movie watched: Spirited Away
Playing: Mirror's Edge, The Sims 3; Uncharted; Prince of Persia
Listening to: eScala
Mood: Inspired

Well, thursday I was incredibly bored. It was very hot outside, so leaving home would be like hell. I jumped to the couch and started to think about the movie that I should watch that afternoon. Well, after incredibly long minutes of trying to pick between light-hearted comedies and tragic dramas, I just took "Howl's Moving Castle" out of the shelf, decided to watch it one more time.

I love Hayao Miyasaki. Unfortunately, I know very little about his work (I only watched "Howl's Moving Castle", "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited Away" and "the Cat Returns"), but after reminding myself how much I admire his films, I decided to finally collect all his movies.

"Howl's Moving Castle" and "Spirited Away" are probably my favorites. I love the "weirdness" of his work. All his characters are incredibly well done, and the mixture between japanese culture and occidental traditions is fantastic. I also love his villains and monsters (incredibly gross in most cases, I have to say), that in a way show that when you are bad on the inside, you are also ugly on the outside ;) Sometimes, I even think of Hayao Miyasaki as the japanese Tim Burton, because of his bizarre work and notorious themes!

Of course that after watching "Howl's Moving Castle", I ran to my computer and ordered from Amazon the three books ("Howl's Moving Castle", "Castle in the Sky" and "The House of Many Ways") by Diana Wynne Jones. Now I am anxiously waiting for them to arrive!

In the next day, I watched "Princess Mononoke", t"he Cat Returns" and, of course, "Spirited Away".

If you never heard about any of these movies or Hayao Miyasaki, I highly recommend it! :)

Cheers!

~Irith