Rob‘s been thinking of forms of torment: I’ve been thinking about films for a while and those films that have left an impression on me. Many of them involve a character being tortured in some way or other in an attempt to get them to spill their guts. Name five tortures that would have you screaming like Winston Smith. Well, this isn’t what I expected to think about for the next few days (I bumble as I prepare this post beginning Wednesday night) but let’s see what I can come up with. That awful Baha’i torture death with the molten …
Month: November 2004
Personal Update
Had a relaxed evening with Lime; dinner and then we watched Hellboy at a DVD room. Now, she was resistant to the idea of watching the movie, but pleasantly surprised at how much she enjoyed it. I’ve never seen her make so many puns in one evening. While we were watching the movie, it struck me again how much Lovecraft has influenced horror, the comic book world, movies, and just the modern sense of evil, scary stuff. I’ve got a book of Lovecraft waiting for me to get to it, and now I feel slightly more into opening it up …
The Librarian
This, I promise, is not another vent about someone at work. In fact, it’s a good experience. I went to the library the other day and returned some overdue library books and CDs. When I gave the CDs to the Audio-Visual Center librarian, she looked them over carefully. I guess she remembered that a white guy had borrowed them, and was wondering whether I liked them, since they were all Korean traditional music CDs. I told her I did enjoy them, and as a rule tend to enjoy music from all over the world. She checked the CDs in and …
Elites, Expertise, and Aesthetics… and more
I’ve finally posted a response in the ongoing discussion Marvin and I are having about elites, rules and play, and aesthetics over at The New Sophists’ Almanac. Damn, I should post there more often, I kept him waiting a long time, and I think I even clarified a few questions I’ve been puzzling over about other things. If you have comments about the new post, please post them there. Really, all in all, it’s be going back to asking whether we can in any way acknowledge expertise on the part of connoisseurs, and whether ignorant reactions to art (or anything …
한국어 포스트 eclexys에서 왔어…
옛날에 한국어 블로그 있었는데 요즘 그 블로그 update 안했어. 그런데 요즘 한국어 공부를 다시 시작 했어서 까금 한국어 쓰기 연습 하고싶어서 eclexys에서 in Korean category 만들었지! (여기서 볼 수 있어요.) 그리고 엿날의 포스트들은 거기서 볼수있어요… (I’ve recently begun studying Korean again and while I don’t have it in me to sustain regular posting in Korean as I once did on my old Korean blog page, from time to time I would like to practice my writing in Korean, so I’ll post here. I’ve imported my old Korean blog’s posts into a category on this blog, called “In Korean”, which is …