Morning in the world

[imomus]

These two short films make me happy.

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Kumisolo, A Glass of Milk (See Kumi sing at La Fleche D'Or on June 29th.)

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Odakyu line, Tokyo, 13th February 2007

When I watch them it's morning in the world.

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

(You can also watch them simultaneously, like a two-screen installation piece.)

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

Those are fantastic, thanks for sharing those. The girl in the first video is really cute, I liked that unusual stripey nightdress she had. She also had a cute rabbit-thing hanging on her door.

The Odakyu line one is slightly hypnotic. I like listening to people talk Japanese. If you listen about a quarter of the way in you hear these weird blippy-electronic noise...

Here are two short films I've been enjoying:


Osamu Tezuka's "Jumping" made back in 1984.


Hatchan's Home Movies

Some Japanese girl has made a blog of her cat, and it's become very popular. Every so often they make it into the top viewed videos (when she updates). It's really popular for a cat video. I found myself watching all these videos of her and her cat.

There's this one video where she wears a giant cat paw and she's patting the cat on the head...

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, the odakyu line was really orgasmic to the train gland. But tell me, is that gray layer up in the sky real clouds or *gulp* smog?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Tokyo's air pollution was at its worst in the 1960s, when the kind of levels currently being seen in Chinese cities were recorded. It's currently got pretty good levels (http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/27/citydiff.htm) (apart from nitrogen dioxide, which remains high -- the suspended particles and sulfur dioxide levels are the same as those of Berlin, a city almost ten times smaller), and will do better when diesel engines are banned.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I wonder why Paris is not on that list. The smog there was worser than a drunken night in a london smog, and this was during the summer even with all the trees in full bloom! But are they seriously thinking of banning diesel engines in Japan?

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

(Should've been:... Worser than a drunken night in a London fog)

[alvaroceb.livejournal.com]

The Milk-movie and the Jumping-movie make me think of Bill Plympton. Same kind of humour noir.

Berlin

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading interviews with another fave of mine, Rufus Wainwright, and he's dating a Berliner and recorded his new album there, so he keeps mentioning it and reminding me of you (and your yesterday's meditations) indirectly:

Wainwright, who is writing an opera called Prima Donna about the day in the life of an opera singer for the New York Met, wound up recording Release The Stars in Berlin after he went there to live with Jorn, who was working for the German Opera at the time.

"I thought, 'I'll meet all these cool, electro-clash people like (Toronto transplant) Peaches and Chicks On Speed, and have my hip, David Bowie experience and get a weird haircut and hang out in the basement -- sans heroin," explained Wainwright.

Instead, he ended up going to Wagnerian operas with Jorn and "was violently assaulted by German Romanticism. I went out a couple of times to try to get into the hip underground but I started to really dig the overground."

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"Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge, I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces," Wainwright says. "The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way."

Re: Berlin

[imomus.livejournal.com]

F**king opera queen!

[introspectre.livejournal.com]

I popped my Momus cherry last night and bought Frilly Military from Cherry Red records. Really rather good indeed. I'll download the rest of Ocky Milk to go with with my loaf from Dai Bread tonight.

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

i like this kind of momus. this is a very personal momus. we need more 'me' momus. at least i do. i get the feeling with your essay posts that you're communicating yourself so externally. we need more internal!

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

...and have you ever had dreams like 'jumping'? i was just having this conversation with a friend. i get them often.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I get flying dreams often, but not jumping ones.

It's weird that you find me linking to a couple of YouTube movies so personal!