November 2010
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Chinese films I want to watch:
- Crazy English
- Together
- Seventeen Years
- 4:30
- All tomorrow’s parties
- The story of Qiu Ju
- Blind Mountain
- Au Revoir Taipei
- Woman Sesame Oil Maker
- Daughter of the Nile
- A Confucian Confusion
- Goodbye, South, Goodbye
- Flowers of Shanghai
- The Personals
- Parking
- As Tears Go By
No of listed films available in my region on...
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Me: I would like to be a Chinese film academic in my spare time
Mother: (Will not meet my eye and stares at the ground)
Me: Well you know just as a hobby...
Mother: What kind of job are you going to get?!?
Korean Word of the Day
senshuk:
평화 (pyonghwa) - peace
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Tuesday Poem: Tanka by Shuji Terayama
failing even to become an actress I listen to the sound of seagulls shot in the winter marsh
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I posted three more of his poems here, each with the same melancholy, damp feeling that I think is strengthened by this strange sort of in-between form.
I hope by next week I will be able to...
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Tuesday Poem - William Carlos Williams reading his...
“But then again, that is what war is, the mocking of plans”
As the shooting of the movie starts, reel life and...
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Tuesday Poem: Hypnic Jerks by Geoff Cochrane
This is from his book of the same name from 2005. I first came across his work early this year, when I was looking at the small poetry section at Te Papa, I was very interested to see who would be chosen to represent NZ. Geoff Cochrane’s book ‘84-484’ was one of them..
The Tuesday Poem blog has links to many different and interesting poems posted on a Tuesday here
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Tuesday Poem: Excerpt from 15 Flower World...
o flower fawn about to come out playing in this flower water out there in the flower world the patio of flowers in the flower water playing flower fawn about to come out playing in this flower water . in wilderness I am that only melon flowering & splitting sending vines out everywhere you are in wilderness I am that only melon flowering & splitting...
