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Nov. 14th, 2009 08:04 am
why i love ta-nehisi coates
Cause he talked about Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" in a way that I love, which led me to: Ginsberg's notes on Howl and:
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Aug. 4th, 2006 07:15 pm
chinese poetry
I found this Chinese poetry site today. It is so amazing - includes all the poetry, in Chinese, both simplified and traditional, and includes a literal English translation of the poems, and a more natural-sounding English one. It also includes a Mandarin pronunciation for the characters, although in my head it's been all in Cantonese.
Can you get homesick for a culture? I'm in this mood right now where all I want to do is listen to sappy Chinese love songs, watch stupid mo-lei-tou Chinese movies, and listen to people talk. I want to be able to speak in Cantonese without an American accent, and I wish my friends who do speak Cantonese were around. Maybe we could play mahjong or something.
Anyone up for a game of mahjong?
Can you get homesick for a culture? I'm in this mood right now where all I want to do is listen to sappy Chinese love songs, watch stupid mo-lei-tou Chinese movies, and listen to people talk. I want to be able to speak in Cantonese without an American accent, and I wish my friends who do speak Cantonese were around. Maybe we could play mahjong or something.
Anyone up for a game of mahjong?
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I got really pissed off reading slashdot today. Man, slashdotters sure are *confident* in their ability to get another job, and in their certainty that people in unions - people like my dad, their nurses, their teachers, their firefighters are just total lazy ass fuckers only in unions so they don't have to do any "real" work.
I think I am a masochist.
I really want to see Death and the Compass for two reasons: 1. It's got Doctor Who in it! 2. It's based on one of my favorite Jorge Luis Borges short stories.
I finished Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler a few days ago. I was on a Butler kick for the past few weeks, rereading the Xenogenesis series, and Wild Seed, then I bought Mind of My Mind. I'm starting to see common threads throughout the two series, and remembered just how much I loved her protagonists - the thing they all have in common is that drive to survive. I remember this being somewhat of an obsession for her; people in her books compromise themselves and their morals a lot, in order to just live.
Right now I'm reading Women Romantic Poets, 1785-1832. It's the era of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Where Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats are all very emotional and idealizing the pastoral and concerned with the "sublime", Women Romantic Poets are overall a pretty hilarious lot, with one moralistic exception. There are poems in the form of Scottish drinking songs, poems about classist prejudices, poems that make fun of the rituals of "romance", and domestic poems about raising babies. The Scottish drinking songs are my favorite so far.
My apartment almost looks clean.
I think I am a masochist.
I really want to see Death and the Compass for two reasons: 1. It's got Doctor Who in it! 2. It's based on one of my favorite Jorge Luis Borges short stories.
I finished Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler a few days ago. I was on a Butler kick for the past few weeks, rereading the Xenogenesis series, and Wild Seed, then I bought Mind of My Mind. I'm starting to see common threads throughout the two series, and remembered just how much I loved her protagonists - the thing they all have in common is that drive to survive. I remember this being somewhat of an obsession for her; people in her books compromise themselves and their morals a lot, in order to just live.
Right now I'm reading Women Romantic Poets, 1785-1832. It's the era of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Where Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats are all very emotional and idealizing the pastoral and concerned with the "sublime", Women Romantic Poets are overall a pretty hilarious lot, with one moralistic exception. There are poems in the form of Scottish drinking songs, poems about classist prejudices, poems that make fun of the rituals of "romance", and domestic poems about raising babies. The Scottish drinking songs are my favorite so far.
My apartment almost looks clean.
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