afterward it could be said that he had "a piercing gaze"

[chronovore]

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[captainblack.livejournal.com]

It's Australia, Jake.

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that dawned on me a bit; it was inspiring to hear that the guy just chalked it up to a rough night on the town. In the USA, the victim would be suing the guy, the bar, the maker of the chair...

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

What am that weird pic?

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

It's a cropped screen-cap from a fantastic sixties movie called TOKYO DRIFTER.

That's one of the bad guys, and he's about to blow his brains out. :)

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Rock on.

I'm not familiar with that era much, outside of Zatoichi.

[captainblack.livejournal.com]

Yep. Australians are just cooler than us. That's been proven. It might be because our country was founded by religious crazies and slaveholders, whereas theirs was founded by convicts and pirates.

[captainblack.livejournal.com]

redmomoko and I tried to watch that film, but I guess we weren't in the right mood.

I have seen it before also, in pieces, and it never appealed to me, so maybe it wasn't just the mood. But I'm glad someone liked it. I can see that there is stuff in there that could be fun.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to Benchilada's movie, or Zatoichi?

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about that Australian theory, but I do tend to think of Canadians as slightly-more-rational Americans. It could be that I've just been lucky; I /have/ met one Canuck who was an arrogant bully, but he has to-date been the exception to the rule.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I groove on that icon. I wandered between disgust and amusement when that ad campaign was running here, and then I realized that Lucas has damaged the mythos more than any mere marketing veep might manage.

Darth chatting up the schoolgirls

[captainblack.livejournal.com]

I just loved it for the creepiness factor.

--in my icon roster, I have it labeled "Enjo Kosai"

[captainblack.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my syntax was sloppy. I meant Tokyo Drifter, but unfortunately, I didn't groove on Zatoichi as much as I would have hoped either. : /

I'm a philistine, i suppose...