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The J-drama saga continues
Mar. 1st, 2007 08:07 pmI've been UNABLE to break away from drama-watching as of yet. It kept going all through aunt and cousin's visit (nice to see them, but rainy weather buu). Luckily my three-day enforced stay in Yokohama (fun!) that ended yesterday has made me take a little break at least, but who knows how long that will last...
( In roughly chronological order )
Oh speaking of haircuts, I got my hair bobbed in Yokohama! It's kind of chin length now wheee. The hairdresser dude was totally fun and cute, and got me a little drink service of juice and shoulder massage included along with the shampoo for only 3780! My friend got hers cut at the same time in the same shop but with a surly woman, and got none of the services but paid like 5000. Lame. I think this is my first time having a man cut my hair (yeah I don't get it cut that often), but maybe I should stick to men now! I asked him why Japanese men (him included) had that LARGE spiky hairstyle. He said he didn't really know... It must be fashion brainwashing! Like all the 80s fashions I see coming back now (nooooo).
Before that I also got this like strange physical therapy thing where they stretched you out to straighten your bones. Kind of a gentle chiropracty. (I miss my American chiropractor like CRAZY. But of course he does much more than straight chiropracty.) I think it was called satai or something, where the tai was 体. It was nice. There was also foot reflexology offered there, but I didn't do it.
I'm so behind on ALL my American TV. ::whistles::
My aunt and cousin watched a lot of Japanese TV while they were here. Because they had the TV on, I got to see this awesome piece on NHK about an onnagata. A woman who likes to dress up as a man and hates her own femaleness talked to this fabulous onnagata of whom she was a fan. And they talked about finding your own path and finding jibun no rashisa and how the woman who hated her own femaleness was according to the onnagata only otokoppoi in her suit jacket and tie, not otokorashii. So the onnagata dressed the *woman* up as an onnagata, with all the traditional makeup and everything, to help her experience her own femininity. While he was out of costume himself. And the gender theory made my brain HAPPY. (Judith Butler and all performing gender and stuff). And the onnagata talked about how men were able to portray a more ideal femaleness than women were. (The artifice is more true than reality, the men are able to analyze femininity from the outside, etc.) Like CLASSIC kabuki and Japanese historical theory still being said by people today! So cool! I wish I had it on tape. Wow, I can't wait to see Takarazuka in March, which has the same practice in reverse.
( In roughly chronological order )
Oh speaking of haircuts, I got my hair bobbed in Yokohama! It's kind of chin length now wheee. The hairdresser dude was totally fun and cute, and got me a little drink service of juice and shoulder massage included along with the shampoo for only 3780! My friend got hers cut at the same time in the same shop but with a surly woman, and got none of the services but paid like 5000. Lame. I think this is my first time having a man cut my hair (yeah I don't get it cut that often), but maybe I should stick to men now! I asked him why Japanese men (him included) had that LARGE spiky hairstyle. He said he didn't really know... It must be fashion brainwashing! Like all the 80s fashions I see coming back now (nooooo).
Before that I also got this like strange physical therapy thing where they stretched you out to straighten your bones. Kind of a gentle chiropracty. (I miss my American chiropractor like CRAZY. But of course he does much more than straight chiropracty.) I think it was called satai or something, where the tai was 体. It was nice. There was also foot reflexology offered there, but I didn't do it.
I'm so behind on ALL my American TV. ::whistles::
My aunt and cousin watched a lot of Japanese TV while they were here. Because they had the TV on, I got to see this awesome piece on NHK about an onnagata. A woman who likes to dress up as a man and hates her own femaleness talked to this fabulous onnagata of whom she was a fan. And they talked about finding your own path and finding jibun no rashisa and how the woman who hated her own femaleness was according to the onnagata only otokoppoi in her suit jacket and tie, not otokorashii. So the onnagata dressed the *woman* up as an onnagata, with all the traditional makeup and everything, to help her experience her own femininity. While he was out of costume himself. And the gender theory made my brain HAPPY. (Judith Butler and all performing gender and stuff). And the onnagata talked about how men were able to portray a more ideal femaleness than women were. (The artifice is more true than reality, the men are able to analyze femininity from the outside, etc.) Like CLASSIC kabuki and Japanese historical theory still being said by people today! So cool! I wish I had it on tape. Wow, I can't wait to see Takarazuka in March, which has the same practice in reverse.