'looking good in pants' will spend the month of november in japan, likely only in tokyo but elsewhere provided funds and hospitality (please send information on candidates for generous benefaction).
however, knowing that we'll spend at least a grand on airfare we're set now on tacking on at least five days at another exotic locale.
goddamn self-realization. and the internet! cheap multi-stop flights be praised and be damned. but the potential second destinations we've searched all share a common theme: go to hong kong and imagine ourselves passing secret lovers in the street a la "in the mood for love" (that first scene of maggie cheung and tony leung passing on the staircase to shigeru umebayashi's "yumeji's theme" is maybe the most beautiful phrase in cinematic history); go back to budapest and track down every site from the shooting of "evita;" go to stockholm and bounce between the thrilling ambiance of the stieg larsson trilogy and the quiet resignation of "let the right one in;" go to madrid and study with the dancers that inspired carlos saura's "carmen."
walker percy's the moviegoer shouldn't have eluded us for so long.
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