Yeah I just quoted They Live, which I will be referencing in a future post about dystopian fiction including 1984, animal farm, and they live.
Now as far as anime posts go I will have a series on Mushishi and philosophy(since everyone describes this show as so philosophical and deep I’m going to investigate). I will have a post about gundam soon although this cheeky bastard pretty much has the market cornered on intelligent gundam posts. I haven’t been watching any anime in a while although both kaiba and toshokan sensou look brilliant.
As for personal updates I have been watching more movies(Magnolia, and Memento being my favorite), reading more books(Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, and a bunch of poems by T.S. Eliot)
This blog is not dead, merely kicked in the groins by life outside of the blogosphere.
April 13, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I’m sure there’s enough Gundam out there for both of us! We may be competing on the ‘intelligent Gundam post’ market (if there is such a thing) but I’m with you on looking forward to Kaiba and Library War. And also on Eliot, who was definitely a great poet. Though I’ve never managed to summon up the courage to try Joyce, given his reputation and my fear of novels.
April 14, 2008 at 2:34 am
y’know animanachronism, I always thought I knew the classics and stuff till I started reading joyce. It’s really good(Ulysses, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and insanely hard to read for my feeble brain, but I enjoy it alot.
as for gundam I love the show but i’ve never even really thought about blogging it or anything then i noticed how much you actually write about it so i’m going to try it.
and yeah Eliot was badass Prufrock might be the best poem i’ve ever read.
April 14, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Yeah, the Gundam tag does rather dominate my tagcloud. Can’t keep a good fanboy down, I suppose.
Prufrock’s ace. I first encountered it a few years ago, and then we wrote the first four essays for this year’s poetry course on it. Anything which can survive that much study and still impress me must be good. (I remember reading an article describing how when it was first published the literary establishment was like ‘WTF?!’)
In fact, if I recall correctly Eliot was Joyce’s editor and played some part in popularising him – though I may have that th wrong way round!
April 18, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I just wrote about Joyce in a recent post, too. What timing.
I never liked Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The effort one has to put through will not be commensurate to one’s enjoyment. I have, however, read of The Sound and the Fury five times, and it is my favorite book of all time (as yet).
‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerunt: Sebulla pe theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo.’
Its introductory line is poetic in itself. Have you read it yet?
April 19, 2008 at 9:24 pm
@Michael-Yes Ulysses does require quite a bit of effort, but ever since I was little my mom had all these brilliant literature obsessed friends who only ever talked about Joyce, and now that I’m heading off to college soon I felt like the timing was right to at least try it.
The sound and the fury feels tougher to read, to me at least. It’s enjoyable, but so disjointed, I suppose it’s like trying to wrestle a bear made of chocolate, I’m quite sure it’s delicious, but at the same time it’s very difficult to take a bite.
That’s the weirdest analogy I believe I have ever heard or made.
also no I have not yet read the waste land, I read Prufrock, and put the book down and have yet to pick it up.(I had to even google that quote to know what you are talking about, and came up with this neat article, http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8096 )
April 20, 2008 at 2:47 am
Well, I gave up on Joyce easily, I’ll tell you honestly. I just read a few pages of Ulysses and quit immediately. At the time I had a lot of things to do, and I just never went back to it.
I initially was simply lost in the world of the Compson family, but when something clicked and I realized the obfuscation was meant to reveal something evocative and harrowing – I just totally loved it. In Quentin and Benjy’s section I realized that the family was anachronistic. After I finally figured the book out (not everything, mind you) and reveled at its perversion I read it again and again. It always brings me something new, and although the novel slows down in the latter sections the sight it offers of a family unto ruin is as epic (in a different manner) as works by Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.
I had a very difficult time understanding The Waste Land but I read it nevertheless (and no, I still didn’t understand it). After realizing that the poem is a narrative of different personas, I’m going to try that again. And Prufrock was simply beautiful.
Sorry, I messed my other comment up. Here’s one to make up for that. Thank you for visiting my site, I appreciate it.