I think this is the song you wanted, Lime — Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Rain”. It’s popular here in Korea, so maybe that’s the one.
Category: REVIEWS
Lunar New Year Reads, Book #31: A Draft of XXX Cantos
Ezra Pound is one of the modern masters of poetry. Ezra Pound was a dismal failure. Ezra Pound was a genius. Ezra Pound was a madman. These readings of the man, or readings of the man from his Cantos, I can understand. I can understand each of them, collectively as well as individually, and I can even affirm them collectively as well as individually. You might say that Ezra Pound transformed poetry forever, and I would not be inclined to disagree with you. On the other hand, you might be inclined to say he inflicted terrible wounds on poetry and …
Richard Pryor’s Gone
Requiescat In Pace.
What Ever Happened to Hal Hartley?
Anyone else out there wonder sometimes whatever happened to Hal Hartley? Here are an interview at Wired and a feature at New York Metro to bring you up to speed.
TV Series of Late
I’ve been working a lot on my computer lately, and what I’ve been reading away from it has tended to be so very heavy and demanding that I’ve preferred to spend my spare time viewing TV series to which I have gained access. The two I’ve watched lately have been the BBC series Peep Show (which is not what it sound like) and the American series Arrested Development.
A Few Links for Ezra Pound Fans
First, an interesting (if problematic) assessment of the Cathar heresy and the basic dualist impulse one often senses in people confronted with the theodicy — the paradox of evil in a world created by a good deity, by Hilaire Belloc. Second, an interesting snippet on Neoplatonism at Wikipedia which, far from incomplete, refreshes my memory and makes it clear to me why Pound was so into Plethon and Psellus and the rest of this lot. Lastly, an essay I’ve seen around before, but one which points out some interesting facts regarding the relationship between Ezra Pound and the Occult, a …
The Big White / The Final Cut
This sounds like it should be a post from Marmot’s Stupid Foreigner Tricks section, but in fact it’s about movies. I’ve been on a Robin Williams kick. Not the soft, mushy, albeit pretty-good films of yesteryear, but things with a distinctly different angle — bent, dark, or just plain weird. The two films I’ve seen lately are titled The Big White and The Final Cut. The Big White is a kind of Alaskan Fargo, though calling it that is doing it a disservice. It’s more like an Alaskan portrait of insanities: the insanity of the insurance claims adjuster pursuing the …
Flightplan
After having thought a little over the Jodi Foster film Flightplan, which I saw last night with Lime, I am of two minds. Spoilers follow.
뒤섞여 있음의 기쁨: Yes, I’m Published in Korean
What does that mean? I’m not quite sure, but Lime said it was something like what I took to mean “Joyful Melding” or something like that. It’s the title that was given to the translation of the article I wrote in English about the Jeonju Sori Festival, which was published in this month’s 문화저저늘 (Culture Journal). Since I didn’t title it myself, the title can only be credited to the translator… Lime says the writing as rendered in Korean is absolutely beautiful, and of course I’m not sure whether that means my writing is good, or whether to credit only …
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy?
For all you would-be SF authors (like me), here’s a guide. (nabbed from BoingBoing)