Category Archives: books

books, cinema

inherent vice

lack of plot.complicated plots. lack of artificial exposition. natural unfolding of the story.

to see

repo man (1984) by alex cox

via wikipedia

the big sleep (1946)

via wikipedia

north by northwest (1959)

police squad! (1982)

via wikipedia

the joy of filmmaking

the close-up on p t anderson, 58 mins.

josh brolin. dp/30

short indiewire (1998) on the coen brothers:

The coen brothers speak (reluctantly) the big lebowsky, the big sleep, etc.

Read
Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young

via wikipedia

books, cinema, memoria

3.14

woke up to π/einstein/white day celebrations.
watched the imitation game.

bought at the used book store:
the sun also rises
how warren beatty seduced america by peter biskin
a textbook
달에게 들려주고 싶은 이야기
my third copy of getting to yes

celebrated white day by buying chocolate and spending the afternoon with elly.
won a doraemon from a vending machine at 230am with one coin. 아싸!

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books

yazidis, jews, the crusades and terror

Yazidi man in traditional clothes| via wikipedia

article from the NY times: The First Victims of the Crusade

Comparison of militant Islam and the crusaders of medieval times.
First victims of the crusades were Jews. The Christians descended on Jewish communities as they rode to Jerusalem. The Jews had a choice of converting or being killed.
In Mosul, Iraq, Yazidis, Muslims and Christians coexisted until ISIS arrived in 2014. The militants asked the infidels the same 900 year-old question- convert or die.
Yazidis~Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity.
Book by Susan Jacoby “Religious Conversion: A Secular History.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis
art, books

wabi sabi aesthetic

Zen and Mahayana Buddhism influence.
Imperfection. Simplicity. Transience. Economy. Asymmetry. As opposed to western Apollonian aesthetics.

Three marks of Existence.
Emptiness. Impermanence. suffering.

Wabi sabi style music: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shikanotoone_new.ogg

Desolation and solitude.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_garden

Read essay In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ali/2010ema8600/tanizaki_in%20praise%20of%20shadows.pdf

see
mono no aware http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

Found it while listening to The Man In The High Castle.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

books, location scouting, memoria, viajes

red brick, narrow lanes

Tuesday.
Ran 30 minutes on upper Banyeo around Baejan-ro. Near the market I found red brick apartments lining narrow back streets and alleys. They resembled Victorian era working class housing in East London. Similar, perhaps, to Jack the Ripper’s old stomping grounds.
Started listening to the audiobook of The Man In The High Castle on youtube.

visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel

via wikipedia/public domain