It’s strange… when I read someone else’s poems, about their life, I always understand the poems that are written at a specific time or from a specific experience or mood or notion to be timeless in a sense, an encapsulation of a moment. But when I look at my own work, it’s somehow different to me. I just found out about the breakup of a couple of friends of mine who were dating; I was looking through some of the archives of my writing and found a poem I wrote for them, and felt somehow uncomfortable with it, as if …
Category: REVIEWS
Music These Days
I really should start listening to something else. But when you hear these you’ll have some idea why I just am listening to the same albums over and over. Have a listen to these .mp3s Beck – Sea Change Nothing I Haven’t Seen Lonesome Tears George Harrison – All Things Must Pass The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Apple Scruffs Apples in Stereo – The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone What Happened Then Look Away Oh, and something a little more upbeat, to wake myself up after all this: Tabla Beat Science – Tala Matrix …
Boleora Bombaram
I just saw a Korean movie that surprised me in a few ways: I understood enough of it to get surprised looks from the girls who were sitting next to me (strangers, but, see, Korean theaters used assigned seating and no matter how uncomfortable they are with the idea of sitting beside some old foreigner, pretty girls usually just go on ahead and obey their tickets and sit down beside me). I realized after that it was because I was laughing at things in the dialogue that they assumed I would not understand, as well as laughing when I heard …
Terminator 3
It’s a franchise. I just had nothing better to do, really. But… it’s a franchise. Clear setup for Terminator 4. sigh I won’t even bother to pick it apart. I’ll invoke Bill Hicks’ criticism of Basic Instinct (wasn’t it?) instead… that is, that it’s not worth criticising simply because, plain and simple, it’s a piece of s__t….
H. Rider Haggard, Part I
Finally, a literary post, after so many photos and personal updates. I think my computer is working okay. Hm. So I am going to go ahead and talk about what I read while I was doing all those installations and reinstallations and waiting for the formatting jobs to finish. This weekend, in Seoul, I was looking at the “Classics” and wondering which one I should read. I try to pick up one “Classic” novel every once in a while, just to fill out my knowledge of how people used to write. I didn’t get a lot of this kind of …