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"Science is interesting; if you don't
agree, you can fuck off."
agree, you can fuck off."
Soju.
Personally, 막걸리 is my drink of choice (although I can never spell it correctly).
Article on the rising suicide rate in the Japanese Self Defense Forces, courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor.
I would be curious to find out if there is some sort of hyper-masculinization of the culture within the JSDF, given their lack of power (based on the Constitution of Japan) in contrast to Japan's martial history. The article mentions one death specifically linked to a hazing ritual.
eXIT cLOV has a new song available for free download from their website. Titled "My Country's At War", and as you can probably guess it's a folk-y anti-war song.
It's cool to get more political songs out. We can, of course, just recycle stuff from the 90's, like 7 Year Bitch's "No Fucking War".
This weekend I watched the Korean gangster movie "비열한 거리", or "A Dirty Carnival". It is an attempt to make a gangster movie that is less romantic and more sympathetic to the subjects. The story starts out strong, with a protagonist who becomes a gangster due to the necessity of caring for his family but not having the means to get a good job. He is intensely loyal to his friends and underlings, but after he's cheated by his superior he is hard pressed to make ends meet.
Very interesting article on the status of immigrants in East Coast schools.
There are a lot of thorny issues addressed. The only comment I will make is that issues of pedagogy should be resolved by professional educators with solid research, not politicians or laymen.
Recently, Marc Ecko's Complex.com ran a short piece on SNSD. It is pretty much a casual, shallow and snarky review. I've never run across Complex before, but it seems to be an IGN/Maxim knockoff.
Recently the Korea Times (the most popular English-language newspaper in Korea, which is slightly more relevant than the most popular Swahili-language newspaper in Canada) recently printed an article about a guy from Taiwan who, in the course of his study of Korean, watched 130 movies in one year.
Since I have nothing else to do but study Korean and watch movies, I figured I might as well give it a shot. I will try to watch 130 Korean movies within 365 days.
From the NY Times, an article on drag racing in Saudi Arabia. Of particular interest;
I've fucked in the East. I've fucked in the West. I've even fucked women with really large breasts. But I'll never be happy. I'll never be free. Until I've fucked someone, like the Army fucked me. --Unknown.
