Pulse is another great movie, from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of Bright Dreams, reviewed a few days ago. There is a lot of industrial imagery, not very alienating, that is easy to compare to the cover art of Zen Arcade in its nature. Bright Dreams ended with an image that could be desribed as "descriptive of appropriate teenage male behaviour as interpreted by the Minneapolis music community". I was thinking about Soul Asylum's Runaway Train sometime during this movie. It's all very modern and appropriate. Made in 2001, available at Netflix' Watch Now.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has a name, 黒沢 清, the Kurosawa is the same as Akira Kurosawa, no relation. Kurosawa is "black water" and Kiyoshi is "clear". Do you like the song "Black Water" by Brian Eno on Before and After Science? Akira Kurosawa's name is 黒澤 明, or "black water" and "bright". It's the same name as Minnesota, and one supposes that being born in 1955 and growing up liking American movies, one might naturally as an art student wonder about Akira Kurosawa and what it had to to with America. Maybe Vincent Spano thought about the nation of Vietnam while he was growing up. I don't know. My name means "European Drugs" in Chinese; I can tell you that Bayer aspirin is a good thing to have around the house if one is a workaholic. I can also tell you that from my experience of taking two valium, it's like drinking 4 beers w/o feeling dehydrated after you sober up, that arid zoned out feeling that comes w/beer. Don't drink and drive.
For some reason, from knowing people from Minnesota, I am familiar with Minnesota. I am familiar with Soul Asylum, The Replacements, Prince, Morris Day and the Time, Purple Rain, Husker Du, The Cows and more. Garrison Keillor, Bob Dylan. It's a great state, Al Franken should be a great senator in 2008. From working on the Wikipedia, I can tell you it's a fact that there are a lot of famous people from this place.
Living near the coast in New England, the sky is often cool and gray white in the summer; Tokyo is similar.
Rx Dill
In boring summer months, Americans use dill in the food, in potato salad, dill pickles, et cetera. Sugar cookies are for December, and this green page is MTV in its nature rather than Hallmark.
Studying acupuncture is a good substitue for the overuse of dill and other summer foods. There are up to 1000 acupuncture points, all with names. If one is a body-minded person, a medical student, just into one's health, all these points and names and diagrams are as interesting as baseball.
The art on the picture is appropriate for if one is weary of "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet" and "the good old summertime". Too much lemonade, too much Budweiser. "I'm so bored with the USA - but what can I do?"
African website
In 2005 Chinese companies signed a lot of long-term supply contracts with Sonangol, the Anglolan oil company. In 2006 Angola surpassed Saudi Arabia to take the position of China's number one importer, this is a good thing for Angola, selling is hard work, like going out to Fenway with one's Italian ice cart and selling out in 45 minutes and going in to see the game. This story and more at www.cabc.org.cn, China's new big China Africa Business portal, in Chinese and English.
Maps
Teenagers sometimes worry about their employment future. If there is some shortage of problems in this world, I haven't heard about it. Making these new Wikipedia maps was good work and good practice.
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