Archive for the 'Movies' Category
From ‘In a Station of the Metro’ to Radiohead Paying ME to Listen to Their Music
6 Comments Published by hasan November 3rd, 2007 in Failed Attempt At Cooking, Movies, Silly Ideas, daily life, dorm, observations.Ezra Pound put it beautifully:
In a Station of the Metro
THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
I find train stations to be both symbolic and microcosmic at once. I get a rush every time I walk into a train station, no matter how many times I’ve passed through it before. [...]
11 Reasons I Think I Would Be a Good James Bond
0 Comments Published by hasan December 29th, 2006 in Bored, Movies.Okay, so, I just came back from the cinema after watching the new James Bond movie (it’s about time). Despite going to the movie alone, and despite the train ride back to Kunitachi being delayed for a few minutes because someone decided that tonight was a good night to commit suicide by throwing him/herself onto the [...]
“Motorcycle Diaries” and Protecting Myself from Earthquakes
0 Comments Published by hasan June 16th, 2005 in Earthquake, Movies, Revolutionaries.Okay, so here I am in the 国際交æµä¼šé¤¨(International Students Dormitory) on a very rainy day, some say the beginning of a very rainy season. Today was another unusually usual day, another Japanese Grammer/Vocabulary Quiz with many silly little mistakes that I shouldn’t have made. In the afternoon, one of the teachers from the International Center [...]