the walking dead
People with nothing to hide don’t usually feel the need to say so. Michonne, The Walking Dead People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had … Continue reading
Sanshiro Sugata (1943) from japanesefilmarchive
Sanshiro Sugata (1943) from japanesefilmarchive What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow; What are brief? Today and tomorrow; What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth; What are deep? The ocean and truth. Christina Rossetti, What Are Heavy? Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, … Continue reading
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A little help from Google on your New Year’s resolutions | Official Google Blog. In an article about new year’s resolutions there was a paragraph called getting fiscally fit. I thought it was a typo. You know, like in Madagascar. … Continue reading
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Designing 007: James Bond’s style celebrated in Barbican exhibition | The Guardian Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront … Continue reading
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I’ve written about a time travel movie before in time takes. I saw another ‘time slip’ movie recently. This one didn’t sound very promising. A time travel movie starring a member of an aging boy idol pop group. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi … Continue reading
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I saw Ode to Joy today – Baruto no gakuen バルトの楽園 in Japanese. Ode an die Freude in German. It’s the story of a prisoner of war camp in Japan during the First World War. Some of the actors overact a little … Continue reading
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To pursue surfing not just as an athletic endeavor or as a sunny day diversion, but to try to glean whatever lessons you can from the practice. It means being aware of your surroundings, and respectful of the people and … Continue reading
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Patrick Swayze died in September 2009 of pancreatic cancer. He was in a few popular movies, for example Road House and Dirty Dancing. I liked him very much in Point Break (which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won the … Continue reading
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This is a quick post linking a couple of recent blog articles. In in the zone: limitless I talked about the movie Limitless. Another story of an addictive drug is A Scanner Darkly. That was based on a science fiction novel … Continue reading