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Princess Kaiulani movie review

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:55:36 GMT

A fairly accurate review of the film. I disagree that the soundtrack was overbearing though. I barely noticed it.

Barbarian Princess Review

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:53:42 GMT

Windy, rainy, yet sunny! What a strange day.

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Todays best facebook status update...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:01:54 GMT

A gift given with expectations attached is nothing more than a bribe.

Because its Carl Sagan day...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:13:26 GMT

Reposted from invaderxan...

Who would you vote "Queen of the Geeks"?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:50 GMT

Megan Fox was voted best sci-fi actress for her role in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, prompting website Contactmusic.com to crown her “Queen of the Geeks“.

So Seattle-Geekly.com made their own list of Queen of the Geeks, and on theirs is one of my favorite authors, James Tiptree Jr. AKA Alice Bradley Sheldon. Hmm, don't know if she should hold the title of Queen of the Geeks, but she definitely belongs among geek royalty. :)

"I live way within, in the unformed, unchallenging depths, occasionally lashing out at someone with a tongue-whip of words, a severe glitter -- 'See, I contain marvels!' -- then whisk, back into the hole."~Alice B. Sheldon

Hocus pocus

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:51:48 GMT

Didn't dress up and go to Waikiki like I've done in the past. Just kind of not feeling it this year. ok, so last year was the same and the year before.....lol. can't remember the last time I went, 2005? we didn't dress up at the office like we used to either, but Lisa did decorate the office. She bought everything and decorated it all herself. if it wasn't for her, it'd be bland cause the rest of us are just plain lazy.

Her and her mother a little bit of a shopoholic, when it comes to those after holiday sales and she snatches stuff up. and they collect nutcrackers...LOTS of nutcrackers...a whole house full of them.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Costumes for your faggy acting son...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:30:23 GMT

Snagged from sisyphus238....Costuming your effeminate son....

What people were doing around the world on Oct. 23, 4004 BC.

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:11:55 GMT

To each of these societies thriving around the globe so long ago, the world of their grandfathers' grandfathers was already ancient, just as Ecclesiastes described it to be. And on this particular day, Sunday, October 23rd, 4004 BC., no one alive would have believed that this was the first day, or that the Earth had just been created that morning.

Economic barbarians

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:22:23 GMT

My co-worker's yard and the exterior of her house were used in the short film "Lychee Thieves", which debuted last night at the Hawaii International Film Festival. She also got two tickets to see Barbarian Princess and is trying to wrangle two more tickets from the director of Lychee Thieves, so she can take her daughter and she said she'd give me the other ticket. Hope so.

Barbarian Princess is turning out to be yet another missed opportunity, no surprise there. Still want to see it though. With historic dramas there's always that problem of taking to much artistic license and end up distorting the truth. Stick with the truth as much as possible, it's always more interesting. But ultimately it's the 'vision' of the director or writer, whatever, that your watching. Even so, I still like watching historical movies.

maldito posted this link to a good article that pretty much sums up what's wrong with the movie....

"It would have been more historically accurate and dramatically engaging to tell the truth– that the overthrow and the results of occupation crippled a government and its people who had a constitution and a bill of rights that was arguably one of the most socially progressive in the world at that time. Just as the film referenced that ‘Iolani Palace had electricity before the White House, Forby could have just as easily referred to many examples, like the constitutional protections for immigrants, or policies outlawing slavery years before the Emancipation Proclamation, among others."

Emma Fern, pa'u rider.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:34:06 GMT

A collage of pics of my great great grandmother, Emma Fern. Her hat looks strange to me and in the one on the right, it looks like it's made of her hair. I'm sure there's a name for this style of hat, but so far looking on the net has resulted in nothing.

In 1875, vibrant writer Isabella Bird, wrote with awe about her arrival to the “Sandwich Islands.” She was especially impressed with Hawaiian women’s love of horses.

“Every now and then a flower-wreathed Hawaiian woman, in her full radiant garment, sprang on one of these animals astride, and dashed along the road at full gallop, sitting on her horse as square and easy as a hussar…The women seemed perfectly at home in their gay, brass-bossed, high peaked saddles, flying along astride, barefooted, with their orange and scarlet riding dresses streaming on each side beyond their horses’ tails, a bright kaleidoscopic flash of bright eyes, white teeth, shining hair, garlands of flowers and many-coloured dresses…Sometimes a troop of twenty of these free-and-easy female riders went by at a time, a graceful and exciting spectacle, with a running accompaniment of vociferation and laughter…Many of the women were in flowing riding-dresses of pure white, over which their unbound hair, and wreaths of carmine-tinted flowers fell most picturesquely.”

Funny hat

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:06:29 GMT

Edit: originally posted at genealogy

My great great grandmother is the woman in the center, with the funny hat on. I've seen this group of riders in various books, dressed exactly the same, so I know it's from the same day/parade/event, but the date given is June 11, 1900 in one book and when I ordered the picture from the museum, the date on the back said 1900-1910. She would have been 8 months pregnant on June 11, 1900. To complicate things, the man in the white outfit next to her is in a photo at the archives dated 1907, he has the same exact outfit on & I just found a 'moving picture' with this same group on a dvd. Their with a bunch of old clips called the Edison Films, 1898, but only one clip (the worst of the bunch) has the date of 1898 and all of them have the copyright of 1906. Now, my cousin on the mainland, emailed me this:

"Robert K. Bonine made a video 1906-7, titled Pa'u riders (some sources say 07). He worked for Edison. He made a lot of old videos in Hawaii and went to Hawaii in 1906...found stuff on him. There is a reference to it at the Manoa website and they say it's in the Library of Congress."

So if you were trying to date this photograph, what conclusion would you come to?
I'm also wondering about that hat. Is there a name for that style & when it was popular?

'Moving Picture' of the same group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6bi5cpGIq0

Sunday Morning

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:15:23 GMT

Needs hotsauce.

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:00:12 GMT

Giant marionettes

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:55:21 GMT

Snagged from jvmatucha...

To commermorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, they made these giant marionettes, acting out a fairy tale.

usernames

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:40:51 GMT

So I was gonna set up an etsy account, but someone already took the name cosmorama. I thought it might have been me, even though I don't remember ever going there, so I tried all my emails and nothing. Then I went to cosmorama's profile & it says user not found. But that username is already taken? Whatever.

I hate coming up with new usernames, can never think of any good ones, except the lame ones. lol.

Discussion & content collaboration

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:22:34 GMT

Thanks to merlinwon for bringing this to my attention~~~~~

Google wave looks VERY promising. Can't wait till it's available some time later this year? I love the thought of updating multiple things from one browser window. I could send & receive email, have instant messaging, update blogs, play games, update twitter and other social sites, all from one place & have it instantly updated.

Upload me scotty!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:02:56 GMT

By 2040, you'll be able to upload your brain...

The Marshmellow Test

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:14:16 GMT

Native Hawaiians Denounce Movie Title

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:26:12 GMT

"A movie based on the life of Hawaiian Princess Kaiulani has drawn fire from native Hawaiian groups, primarily because of its title -- Barbarian Princess. In a front-page article that appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser on Wednesday, University of Hawaii professor Jon Osorio was quoted as saying, "We really feel helpless to deal with producers ... who sensationalize our history in order to get to the wider audience." Vicky Holt Takamine, president of the Ilioulaokalani Coalition, called the title an "outrage." But Roy Tijoe, a co-owner of Island Film Group, which produced the $8-million movie insisted that the title was meant as "irony" and was drawn from newspaper accounts of the Princess's visit to the mainland shortly before the turn of the century. "It was a way to bring to the fore what had happened in the past," he said. (The role of Princess Kaiulani is played by Q'orianka Kilcher, who portrayed Pocahontas in 2005's The New World. The Advertiser noted that after an earlier protest the title was dropped, only to be reintroduced in time for a screening at the Hawaiian International Film Festival next month. The producers told the newspaper that they were unable to come up with another title that could pique interest in the movie as effectively as the original one.

Personally, I never had a problem with the title, but reading the script which was online last year, I thought it boring. Couldn't get through the first couple of pages....
NOW, after seeing this preview, I can see the problems. First of all, the princess never had a love affair with a guy in England. She wrote once (that I know of), where she said her and her lady friends in England were a bunch of flirts. "...we are about the three biggest flirts you could find, so we simply have a lovely time. " is what she said. Of course, just having her in England, studying and being a bit of a flirt, is boring for a movie I guess, so they add a love interest. Secondly, I don't think the actress (Q'Orianka Kilcher) "got her", in spirit, or at least the way I've come to know Princess Kaiulani through all the books I read. I guess it comes down to, she doesn't portray Kaiulani the way I want her to.

I dunno, as an introduction to her life, I guess it'll be an ok movie. The only way I'll hate it, is if they whitewash the overthrow as not to make Americans look bad.

Mad mothers

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:19:11 GMT

Someone in this house keeps watching Fox News and specifically Glen Beck. Usually I only have to be subjected to that as I walk to the bathroom from my room, but I was out trimming plants in the front yard, & the tv is right next to the window and I had to hear Glen Beck's babble with a bunch of angry moms. Mom's who are angry as hell about what's going on in this country and how their freedom is being taken away, blah, blah, blah....

What I should have done is gone to my room and got my ipod, but I found myself slowly sucked in to there discussion. Sorry, angry moms, but I'm not buying any of yours, or Glen Beck's BS. Could only take so much of that & had to get my ipod.

Greatest invention ever.

Bizarre

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:18:44 GMT

Hmmm, this is just strange. Do people actually have partys like this? I get the feeling the actors had a hard time taking this seriously.

Polynesian origins.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:41:56 GMT

Since we were talking about it at work, when I got home I decided to do a little research on the internet. There's so much theories and speculation and some genetic evidence points to one particular origin, but then the female side genetic evidence counters that. THEN, you get some native american dna mixed in with the Easter Islanders, blah, blah, blah...So you turn to the actual scientific research and come across stuff like this:

"The Y-chromosome data highlight a distinctive gender-modulated pattern of differential gene flow in the history of Polynesia"

What the fuck does that mean?

Rallies of Rampaging Racists Riff on Radical Rabble in Ruthless White House

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:55:49 GMT

Hmm, thought I'd press the random journal button & put whatever came up in the subject line, but those damn russian journals kept popping up. Although, those would fit nicely with this somewhat bizarre music.

Love her.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:19:35 GMT

She's got a great idea of what to do with the book.

In response to what Kirk Cameron's gonna do...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/kirk-camerons-origin-of-s_n_294349.html

Staycation

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:39:50 GMT

I was off this whole week & it's the last of my vacation days for this year. Did I do anything or get anything done? no.