jodawi | (no subject)

There's a scene in Tampopo... "A man, rushing from work to his home, seeing his wife on her deathbed. He makes a final request to her, "Please cook for us". And she manages to rise from her bed, almost passing out. And whips up simple meal. And when she sees her family eating, praising her food, a smile of delight comes to her face. Then she dies." As I recall, he thought of the please cook thing because he knew that would magically revive her enough to stay alive a little bit longer.

I think of that scene every time

sebab gets home from an impromptu 3am visit to the ER and she starts trying to assure me that she will get to those dishes as soon as possible, or (worse) starts doing them. Then we have to have a fistfight about who gets to do them. She wins the fight, because I don't want to hit her too hard while she can barely stand after 5 days of not having more than an hour of sleep before medication side effects have effects. I'm pretty sure the mishap with the spray thing spraying in non-dish directions was a sign from Science that she really should listen to me and sit down and eat her sooop already instead of expiring in the soapsuds.

When she's 132 and on her deathbed, she'll probably manage the final rinse of the final dish. And then when the mourners are done and put down their glasses of water, she'll rise from the dead briefly to rinse them off and get a little soap on them.

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Great movie.

Great sequel he has scripted here.

Indeed, but now find a Japanese actress to play Sebab in this non Hollywood sequel

For starters, I think it's hilarious that you're using that avatar as an icon, particularly for this post. For seconders, shame on

sebab! Tell her I scold her and chastise her and she should leave the dratted dishes for you to wash while she watches things recored on her lovely new tivo, or ::gasp:: sleeps!

For that matter...
::stomps off to do scold

sebab personally::