lady_kishiria | (no subject)

I'm stuck at home today because the cleaning ladies are here, and by the sound and smell of things, they're hard at work in the kitchen and the main room. I've locked the cats in the bedroom with their food, water, and litter box.

Once they finish cleaning, I think it'll take *one* hour of bear-time to get the place into its previous state, which wasn't *bad* although far from Home-and-Gardens attractive.

So I'm in the armchair in the TV room reading. I finished off the Kipling collection that

electorprince shipped to me at AIT and am resuming "Warriors of God".

ommkarja has expressed interest in that after I'm done, partially to read about the longtime romantic partnership of Richard I "Coeur-de-Lion" and Phillip Augustus of France. We Are Everywhere indeed.

I finally got around to watching "Ong Bak" last night. If you have this in your Netflix queue, look forward to it, move it up higher on the list, even. While "Tom Yum Goong" is the more lush-looking film with a bigger budget behind it, "Ong Bak" is a good action romp with more fight scenes, and that's the one you want! I noticed that TYG follows up on the same motif as OB, namely, a village having to reclaim its stolen symbol of identity from dark urban forces that see this identity as a mere commodity. In TYG the Chinese mafia in Sydney steals two elephants, in OB the head of the village deity is stolen in order to be sold as a mere artifact. In both cases, the soul of a country village is taken in order to be sold as a mere "thing". If that's not a message, I'm a bird-of-paradise plant.