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Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1927, on his unlikely beginnings as a writer – inspiring assurance for any creative endeavor. 

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How devastating that we have lost David Bowie – remember his trailblazing and courageous spirit with his answers to the Proust Questionnaire.

Kafuka: Inaka Isha (2007) is Koji Yamamura’s short anime film interpretation of the 1917 Franz Kafka story “A Country Doctor”, in which a doctor is called to a secluded house in the cold of winter to tend to a young boy’s mysterious ailments. Both the film and novel involved ordinary scenarios distorted by surreal events.

[Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands and Horse Skull. 1931. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

2016 is coming! #HappyNewYear

Not a holiday thing, I know, but it’s still pretty damn cool.

Kierkegaard on ideals, happiness, and the false allure of the extraordinary.

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Fellini.

“Wong’s chief inspiration for Chungking Express was a short story entitled ‘On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning’ by the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. The story is about the mutability of perceptions, and begins with the sentence, ‘One fine April morning, I passed my 100% woman on a Harajuku back street.’ Chungking Express similarly begins with a chance encounter, which becomes a motif in the first episode… Wong develops the themes of chimerical relationships with the same evanescence displayed in Murakami’s short story. People’s lives just touch but never interpenetrate (maybe they do not even touch but just brush past, mere possibilities, foregone opportunities to connect, impermanence). Like Murakami, Wong injects a sense of magical element into everyday life but with a sense of fatal consequences. Like Murakami, he invokes icons from popular culture to suggest the part that memory plays.” (From Wong Kar-wai by Stephen Teo, 50-51)

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