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Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
16 oct 07
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Good job, rebel! I bite my hands for not continuing to study Chinese after those first three terrible lessons. Now I would have the embarrassment of choice when it comes to work. Damn, is Ceresa still around? He made me piss myself laughing! Anyway, in general, the people studying Chinese and Arabic were the least stuck-up in university. Those studying Japanese were truly outcasts, socially avoided by everyone and notoriously uncool. My few classmates from the Japanese course and I actually hung out with completely different crowd. Unfortunately, Japan creates monsters, both at home and abroad. How lucky that you’re going to Beijing! I have a friend who also studied Chinese and has now moved there for a while, working as a chef for Hilton.
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
16 oct 07
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better to be an otaku of philosophy than of manga and anime (even though I wrote a thesis on it). I don't know, I've always been obsessed with studying other people's religions/philosophies, maybe because I've never been able to believe in anything metaphysical myself.
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
16 oct 07
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Well yes, you're right, mouse, I'm losing touch with philosophy; if only Raveri knew... Anyway, I agree with the last post on Zen. To be reductive, in the end, everything can be traced back to India in the Asian philosophical and religious field. Aside from animism and shamanism, of course. They never taught us a damn thing about Korea at university; could it be that the professors were racist against Koreans? Ah, and if I were Korean, it would really bug me even more, considering that everything that arrived in Japan must have passed through Korea. I have a gap in my memory: was Amidism formalized as a doctrine in Japan, or was there already a specific doctrine about Amitābha in the Buddhist canon? I know that the Buddha of the Western paradise has monstrous similarities with the pre-Zoroastrian sun cult, but I could be saying huge nonsense since I studied all this 8-9 years ago when I wanted to write a delirious thesis on Babylonian influences on Buddhism (obviously shot down by the professor with something like, "You're no Mircea Eliade!") Don’t you know what Amélie Nothomb discusses? I instead highly recommend (this will be the 10th time I'm writing it on this site in the last 4 years) "La Bambola e Il Robottone" by Alessandro Gomarasca, the only scholar with his eyes wide open to contemporary Japan.
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
16 oct 07
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It's true, rat, you're the only one who understands me... anyway, it's true, there's a lack of zen. Which, when you think about it, is Chinese. Yeah, I mean, it might be a cliché, but the criticism that the Japanese copy has a small grain of truth, I was talking about it with a Chinese importer the other day. They are monstrous syncretizers of external influences, which is still a sign of sharpness. But if I were Chinese, it would really grind my gears that people know about zen and think it's Japanese when the philosophical current and the name (Ch'an) are Chinese. Well, it's a bit like saying that pizza was invented in New York.
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
16 oct 07
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Mine wasn't a criticism of your idea of Japan, far from it. It was my reflection on the fact of writing a book and making a film about the usual four Western cultural myths related to Japan: geisha, samurai, Bushido, the bomb (if we're lucky). Few try to take a look at what contemporary Japan is like, or its post-Meiji industrialization, and thus why it is what it is now. And I hope no one tells me that Lost In Translation is a glimpse into contemporary Japan because it drives me crazy... Ah, I'm glad you're studying Oriental Languages; I also studied Japanese in Venice and lived there for a couple of years in total. Regardless of what it may say, it continues to fascinate me, but I always try to look beyond the cultural appearance... If you've already been there or when you go, you'll understand that the omote/ura relationship is an integral part of the social fabric and its interactions. Okay, I'm off to work, bye!
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
Rob Marshall Memorie Di Una Geisha
15 oct 07
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Let’s say I avoid films about Japan made by Westerners, and even more so I don’t watch those based on novels written by Westerners. And what's with this obsession with medieval Japan? It seems like there were only geishas and samurais. All this nonsense about Japanese spirituality is true, but it’s always less than we believe. Japan modernizes outwardly but increasingly entrenches itself in its tradition (even ancestral) as a defense against the invasiveness of technological progress, resulting in a losing battle, considering that its economic potential is based on the perpetual technological enhancement of the individual. They are definitely more connected to a spirituality with ancient roots, but they are well grounded in the perspective of profit and consumption (both induced and not).
Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill (Vol. 1 e 2)
Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill (Vol. 1 e 2)
11 oct 07
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I like Tarantino, I won't deny his cheekiness, but I grew up with "Le Iene" and "Pulp Fiction." After that, he made some nice things and not much more (perhaps aside from "Jackie Brown"). For me, this is the worst Tarantino, less self-ironic and with less delirious dialogues (as supersoul rightly points out, Tarantino's trademark - more than the action scenes and so on - are the nonsensical dialogues that fortunately reappear in "Death Proof"). It's easy to scream masterpiece for "Kill Bill"; Tarantino plays on the fact that the Eastern cinema (which "Kill Bill" pays tribute to/plagiarizes - see "Lady Snowblood") he draws inspiration from isn't very mainstream, so it can seem innovative. But it happens that if someone has seen the films he's inspired by, and connects the rampant nipponomania at the time in the USA (a phenomenon that has recently reached us as well, with those people wearing hoodies with nonsensical phrases in Japanese), they might raise an eyebrow a bit. The major flaws remain in the first volume, hypertrophic and for me with a non-existent rhythm. To be fair, I admit that visually it is remarkable, for its color combinations and framing, but it’s an action film that bored me.
Linda Perhacs Parallelograms
Linda Perhacs Parallelograms
11 oct 07
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I'll read it later... welcome back, dear friend, we needed someone to write about ancient things with knowledge, considering that I'm abdicating to the trivial new releases.
Kinski Down Below It's Chaos
Kinski Down Below It's Chaos
10 oct 07
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It's the album I prefer for now, but I was talking about it on another site... they can never manage to make an album that lasts in my player. Definitely more saturated than Alpine Static (which too often got lost in ambient stretches that I find not very expressive), but downloaded in August and listened to thoroughly until two weeks ago. I was about to buy it to write a review a month ago... and then it just faded away. I don't know, now it really gives me little. The best things are the organ inserts, really spot on... for the rest, unfortunately, I agree with Fest. Anyway, the review is perfect.
Battles Mirrored
Battles Mirrored
10 oct 07
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Well, people are just having sterile arguments, since tastes are personal. Anyway, which great masterpieces of MUSIC (come on, people still think about the foundations of MUSIC and music, but let's move on) would we have crushed? I keep my archive (even though it contains some major crap) close to me, but I'm open to suggestions, even from someone who's 10 years younger than me and has 10 years less listening experience.
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