I would like to start this post by saying that I can imagine very few people enjoying this film. For those of you who have never seen it, I am going to summarise it in the next paragraph. This is what is known as a spoiler, in the sense that it could spoil the viewing [...]
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13 Mar
Hanami in Zaragoza
Heen says:
Just as I was taking my twentieth photo the other day, a man came up to me and said, “What are you doing?”
Caught off guard, I instinctively glanced at my camera before looking him in the eyes. “I’m taking photos,” I explained quite unnecessarily.
“What of?” he asked, with seemingly genuine curiosity.
“The blossom on [...]
10 Feb
Lightning in April
Heen says: A few posts ago I mentioned that I met a girl who was reading the Tale of Genji. This is a book I started about ten years ago but never finished and to be quite honest I was getting bogged down in all those samurais and courtesans so I gave up. I’d always [...]
4 Feb
Magnificent Obsession – an introduction
Few films can have greater names.
I am a sucker for this film (Douglas Sirk, 1954) no matter how often I’m told that the story is absolutely preposterous. It only just verges on feasible (i.e. credible) thanks to an outstanding performance by Rock Hudson. (One day, people will give Rock his due as the Greatest Actor [...]
2 Dec
I am a nice person, honest.
Yesterday I received an email from a friend of mine who I haven’t seen for a long time. He’s been reading my blog and he gave me his frank opinion of the stuff Sheen and I have been writing here. I’ve always thought he was a very observant person, so I’m taking his remarks seriously.
He [...]
19 Oct
And The Nobel Prize Goes To… er… hang on…
Like many people, I was surprised at the news that this year’s Nobel Prize for literature had gone to Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio. I was aware that the committee that gives this award has a sort of knee-jerk opposition to any writer hailing from the United States and, from a political point of view, [...]
1 Jul
To Be A Japanese Schoolgirl
You don’t have to be Japanese to be a Japanese schoolgirl.
You don’t have to be a schoolgirl to be a Japanese schoolgirl.
It’s a state of mind,
It must be a real bind,
To be a Japanese schoolgirl.
To be a Japanese schoolgirl, you need a pillowful of dreams.
For a Gothic Lolita, nothing is what it seems,
You can dye [...]
9 May
Food Shortages? My Left Foot!
Heen says:
I am so SICK and TIRED of hearing that there’s a SHORTAGE of FOOD in the WORLD. People keep moaning that the PRICE of RICE is going through the ROOF, that CHICKEN is more expensive than EVER (gimme a raincheck on the price of EVER) and that PEOPLE can’t afford a LOAF of BREAD [...]
4 May
Don’t Quote Me On That
“I sit on a big throne, shouting and belching. That’s how they know I’m their king.”
- King Masootsama of Botswana, 1902
