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Category Archives: random
Reading without rhythm – 24/4/08
() Thanks TokyoMango! – Vom leisen Inferno der Depression und von der Unheimlichkeit des Glücks. – Vantan gets a sneak preview of the Peranakan Museum. The museum occupies the old Tao Nan school building at Armenian Street, next to The … Continue reading
Posted in books, film, random, Singapore, YouTube
Tagged dance, documentary, electronica, film, Godzilla, Gojira, graffiti, Iranian cinema, omodaka, peranakan, photography, Singapore, water, YouTube
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Randomness #785D
R.I.P. Gary Gygax. Found out from, of all places, How The World Works: In the deep structure of ancient Internet culture, where the same computer programmers who helped build the Net often spent their leisure time pretending to be online … Continue reading
Posted in China, games, history, pens, random
Tagged books, China, Lamy Safari, Lei Feng, obituary, pens, Stanley Kubrick, Zhou Enlai
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Randomness #520F
Whew! The Japanese Film Festival‘s over. If you missed this year’s movies and the Q&A sessions with director Ichikawa Jun and actress Yoshiyuki Kazuko (who seriously looks like she’s 50 and not 70+), Stefan has taken very detailed notes. Q&A … Continue reading
Posted in art, film, filmmaking, future, media, random, Singapore, virtual world
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Randomess #406V
The Japanese Film Festival‘s still on btw. Last day 23 Sept. Most of the Imamura films have been screened, but we haven’t started on Ichikawa Jun’s and Yoshiyuki Kazuko’s yet. In other words, come watch TimeOut writeup on JFF 2007 … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, film, Ichikawa Jun, Imamura Shohei, Japan, Jorge Luis Borges, public policy, Singapore, TimeOut, urban planning, Walerian Borowczyk, Yoshiyuki Kazuko
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Thoughts are messy things
Lots of interesting things. Even more ideas and ideas; possibilities skittering welding sparks. How to untangle and unravel everything and then rethread into words and reweave into paragraphs — papers and emails — without losing the original ideas?
A word from Housman:
Now times are altered: if I care To buy a thing, I can; The pence are here and here’s the fair, But where’s the lost young man?
Posted in nostalgia, random
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Pen irony
I couldn’t resist: Noodler’s Ink Tiananmen in my Hero 336 pen.
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Goodbye ToM, Hello Ectoplasmosis!
1 July 2007. Smoking banned indoors in all bars, restaurants etc. GST up to 7%. And Table of Malcontents, my preferred source of the esoteric and weird from all over, closed. Fortunately, the folks behind ToM have their own sites. … Continue reading
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Quasimodo’s Belfry
My brother’s finally set up a blog. Better late than never, so they say. Currently just Mac and PSP-related news, but who knows what will pop up there in future? Quasimodo’s Belfry Alert readers will detect the similarities in our … Continue reading
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