On Wednesday mornings I teach a class with three elderly ladies who are really just learning English as an excuse to get together and chat and don't really care if they actually learn anything...so, it is a pretty interesting class, to say the least. Last week, I discovered that one of the ladies, "M," has a thing for black dudes.
How did I find this out? Well, we were talking about what we did over the week. Coincidentally, each of us had seen a movie and M had gone to see the movie American Gangster. She said it was very interesting and it had Denzel Washington in it, who is black, and he is a nice guy. So I thought, great...so, she is saying she is surprized that a black man could be a nice guy? Or did she mean he played a nice guy in the movie? (not having seen the movie I couldn't be sure, but I am pretty sure the "American ganster" is played by Denzel, and I am also pretty sure the character is not a nice guy...) At any rate, we finished talking about our weekends and moved on to talking about the US primaries, AKA the competition between Clinton and Obama, which I have already mentioned is a super popular topic in Japan right now. One of the other ladies, "K" said that she really admires Clinton because she has a lot of experience and is a very strong and powerful woman. While M on the other hand likes Obama because, "he is a nice guy." Um...OK, yeah, he seems like a nice, charismatic fellow...I can't disagree with that... It was at that point that "H," the third lady, who arrived late, came in, so we gave her a quick recap of what we had been talking about and when I mentioned that I had seen Sweeny Todd, H asked if that was the one with Russel Crowe in it...("no, it stars Johnny Deppp" "Russel Crowe was in Gladiator) H said she didn't like Russel Crowe very much, but K and M both said they thought he was "a nice guy." OK, now I know for a fact (at least I have heard) that Russel Crowe is not a nice guy at all, in fact he is a real jerk. So, this is when I realized that "he is a nice guy," is Japanese Old Lady-speak for "he is a hottie." So, it seems that M really likes black guys, and Russel Crowe. Great...now I know...and I really wish I didn't. Oh, and nobody said that Johnny Depp is "a nice guy"...WTF? He is deffinately a nicer guy than Russel Crowe and Barrack Obama, and although Denzel is a pretty nice guy, I have to say Johnny beats him as well...in fact I think Johnny Depp is one of the top 10 nicest guys in Hollywood...but I guess that is just my personal opinion.
*One Pound Gospel Update*
Even after confessing her love for Kamenashi Kazuya (I prefer to refer to the boxer's character by the actor's name, because it makes it that much more ridiculous), Sister Angela is still confused about her feelings and not sure what she wants to do. So, she does the only reasonable thing-- she goes to live at the boxing gym and train as a boxer... After staying there for a few days, being near Kamenashi Kazuya 24/7, and convincing the son of the gym's owner who runs away from home that even if he has a fight with his mom, his home is still his home (awww, so touching), she decides that she can't run away either, and must go back to her home, the nunnery. BUT...when she arrives the rest of the nuns are outside waiting for her, and won't let her in, saying she should just move out permanently. BUT...Kamenashi Kazuya shows up and begs them to let her return because, even though it would be better for him if she got kicked out, the nunnery is her home, and he wants her to be able to go home (awwww, so touching). BUT...he also tells her, "Sister Angela, I'm going to become the champion! I'm going to beat God!!" Yeah... so tune in next time for "Kamenashi Kazuya vs. GOD" in the boxing match of the millenium...hmmm, I wish...but it does look like in the next episode, Sister Angela goes to a host club, and no, I am deffinately not kidding about that one.
Also in recent Japanese news: One of the members of SMAP, Masahiro Nakai--or "Papa SMAP" as I call him, got a buzz cut for a drama he is filming...This story is causing a huge stir in entertainment news, gaining it more coverage than the Japan Self-Defense Force ship that crashed into a small fishing vessel whose crew remains lost at sea and are presumed dead. In addition to the new do, he has been on a diet (he was already super thin, of course) per the director's request. They compared some footage from last August to what he looks like now, and sure enough, he has "slimmed down and his jaw has gotten a lot sharper." When asked how he has lost the weight, he didn't beat around the bush, but declared, "well, it isn't very good for you, but I just don't eat anything." So there you have it, don't eat anything all day, except a small meal of soba or natto (smelly, fermented soy beans) in the evening, and you can lose weight too! Well, everybody was commenting on how good he looks, without commenting on how maybe you should deffinately NOT try this at home! I'm pretty sure the "Nakai Diet" is sweeping the country as we speak, by which I mean really, it has always been the case that most Japanese people who go on a "diet" have just stopped eating. Oh, and by the way, the director said Nakai still needs to lose more weight.
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