October 2011
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In defence of 500 Days of Summer
Things which prompted this discussion:
4 Pieces of Relationship Advice Movies Need To Stop Giving
Jezebel’s opinion: 500 Days of Summer Writer Really Wants His Ex-Girlfriend To Feel Bad For Dumping Him
Why I Hate The Manic Pixie Girl
The Daily Beast: Indie Dream Girls
Opinion: why 500 Days of Summer is sexist
I’ve put those links up, not to focus any attack on them, to simply to point...
September 2011
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i like to avoid definitions
I like to avoid definitions and labels, for they too, seek to limit. I am writing to this because I feel I have been struggling with myself, as to the future. I think about the future a lot. It is norm, I hope, and I has made me forget to focus intensely on the past, which was my previous vice. I often think what I need to do to define myself, to some extent, ‘brand’ myself as, to sell myself...
August 2011
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Palahniuk, Holly Golightly and thoughts on...
Tetsuya Ishida and society
A few months ago I discovered Tetsuya Ishida’s artworks. They’re some of the most beautiful paintings I’ve ever seen. Ishida was a Japanese painter who was known for his darker portrayal of Japanese life - a topic, of which some of you may know, I’m fascinated with. Not just Japanese life, but a portrayal of life with regards to belonging, to alienation and how...