An interesting anecdote which maybe doesn’t sum up this volume of writing advice, but certainly illuminates it, has Mozart being asked for hints on symphony composition by a young, aspiring composer. He advises to start with small pieces and work up, and when the composer is confused by this and points out that Mozart himself […]
The best martial arts movies combine poetry and action into something unique, and boy, does this one ever succeed at it. At once a parody of the genre, and a masterful example of it, humor and inventiveness make this an exhilarating masterpiece. The feeling of sheer delight was heightened considerably by the fact that for […]
Chomsky doesn’t deserve the movies made about him. Manufacturing Consent was an adequate representation in both content and style of the man who often appears to be the only sane person in a large room full of fanatics, but Distorted Morality and Power and Terror, both done by Jon Junkerman, are little more than badly […]
Als ich um die Ecke biege, sitzt er da, vielleicht zwei Meter entfernt, und inspiziert einen halbzerkrümelten Keks. Das bindet seine Aufmerksamkeit so sehr, dass ich die Entfernung halbiert habe, ehe er mich bemerkt. “Tenki-wa atsui desu”, murmle ich im abwesenden Zwiegespräch mit dem Ipod, dann “Iie, tenki-wa samui desu”. Sprachlehrganghohlheiten sind keine Kekse, aber […]