November 2009
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I can't decide which is greater:
How loath I am to make value judgments
How happy I am not to make value judgments
Part of it is that I don’t trust myself enough to make declaratives. The other part is that I love floating around in the liquid space between solid statements. Ideas and thoughts, to me, are so much more valuable than opinions.
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Don't be lonely.
Jeannie: i think i'm gonna bed time
James: fine. leeb me...awww awone...:'(
Jeannie: bawwwww. here.
(Jeannie sends James a photo of author Neil Gaiman and his dog, Cabal.)
Jeannie: gaiman and his dog will keep you company
James: kay
Jeannie: woof woof, brood brood
There’s a divide, in pretty much any work of art but especially in Lost In Translation, between artistic meaning and cultural consequence.
Lost In Translation isn’t at all about Japan. I think you’re right when you say that the Japanese could easily have been any other group of people. Is it fair that A Group Of People (and I think Charlotte’s husband and that ditzy...
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I really need to re-watch Lost In Translation and...
Maybe it isn’t Sofia Coppola’s fault that Hollywood can’t make a movie about Japan that has human, complex, real Japanese characters in it. But whose fault is it, then? And why do I feel the need to find someone to blame about it?
It’s not like Japanese media is some shining beacon of cultural tolerance, anyway—matter of fact, Japan is horrible about...
Like ninjas.
wearetheweirdos:
“People who make no noise are dangerous.”
— Jean delaFontaine
I never realized anyone on Tumblr was nice!
charliereynolds:
jeannr:
Just barely making it into GPOYW.
is this you? I never realised anyone on tumblr was pretty!
SHUCKS.
So the warm blood flows, With the red blood cells...
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