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Research for my potential earthquake disaster Pinto.  Good to know that I don’t have to work a tsunami in.  And that my idea of a more modest 8.1 quake is in the actual realm of possibility, because I care about that sort of thing.

This article is hilarious, and particularly correct about one thing: Alexandra Daddario DOES have intoxicating eyes.

I really liked a Chinese 2010 movie called Aftershock. An excellent drama, it’s about 1976 Tangshan earthquake and how it affected one particular family. The father died during the earthquake, trying to save his children – 5-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. The mother survived. The next day the children were found under the collapsed house, still alive. The thing is, they were trapped under a concrete wall, and saving one meant killing the other, so the mother had to chose. Despite that she implored to save both, the rescue workers said it was impossible. Eventually, she chose the boy, and the girl heard that. At first, the girl appeared to be dead, but by some miraculous way (I didn’t really get it) she was alive. She was adopted by another family and remembered for the rest of her life that Mother chose not her.

She met her brother years later, in 2008 in Sichuan, when they were both helping rescuers after a huge earthquake there. 

I talked to a Japanese friend of mine, and she said that the movie wasn’t broadcast in Japan, apparently due to Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The reminder would be too painful.

That film sounds great, but too sad to draw on for this. A bit Sophie’s Choice, but with the complication of survival. That would really fuck someone up…

My intent will be less campy than San Andreas, but not by much…

Also, a new album I’m listening to has the lyric “when the ground beneath you shifts, it’s too late to run.” So really, the whole universe is conspiring…

15 “San Andreas” Events In Order Of Increasing Scientific Inaccuracy