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AQUISITIVE
August 26, 2014
Recent aquisitions:
A cassette deck (garage sale, $15).
A table-top mitre saw (40% off at the
Sears close-out sale in downtown Oakland).
A dozen boxes
Some Israel-Palestine books, of cheap bikini I mostly wear
including a Gideon Levy underwear from the black, but
and a couple of Norman Mission St. they come in
Finklesteins. sets of 3...
A half-dozen bars
of Grisi soap,
A copy of the "Social Epistemology" Aloe Vera variety
anthology, edited by Alvin I. Goldman (I like the green,
& Dennis Whitcomb. and am averse to
switching soaps.)
Nordhaus, "A Question of Balance";
Phil Rosenzweig, "The Halo Effect"
Several Haruki Murakami novels,
(Belle Warring and Patti Smith "Sputnik Sweetheart" (1999) is
both talked him up, it's about readable, but rather slight-- the
time I read some). alienation theme rather heavy-handed
(you know, *some* people manage to
punch through the barrier between
self and other and are not quite so
quietly desperate and lost), and the
fantastic element (which is, of
course, ambiguous) is somehow not
convincing (e.g. hair turning white
overnight, from tips to roots...
what, did her sweat turn to bleach?).
A book on "Kawaii Design" where
Stacks of manga: the artist interviews seem
remarkably out-of-touch with
"Voice Over: what's going on in the art.
Young girl training to be a voice
actress has to come to terms with the
fact that she's better at male voices. Latest issues:
She gets roped into a contract where Kera
she's required to cross-dress and N+1
maintain a male professional identity.
The rude, gruff boy that hates her
female identity turns out to have a
sensitive side-- he has an apartment
full of rescued cats-- and begins
falling in love with her male identity.
"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service":
A variant of the psychic detective genre:
a group of people with the ability to make
the dead speak try running a business
based on asking unidentified corpses who
they are and where they'd like to be
returned to. A funny contrast between
supernatural and mundane, reminscent of a DOCTOR_STRANGE
Dr. Strange / Spiderman cross-over.
Some DVDs, most recently,
"Detroit Metal City", one
of the Viz Media releases,
which I skipped for a long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Matsuyama
time, because of the
evident dork factor, but Actually, that's Kenichi Matsuyama,
the male lead played Robo who also played L in the "Death Note"
of "Sexy Voice and Robo", movies (Duh).
which has me interested.
Several stacks of CDs over the
last few months, from roughly
three sources:
o amoeba, where I leaned
heavily on rockish things
I've neglected of late,
like St. Vincent and Lorde
o kinokiniya, mostly half
price singles and soundtracks:
dubious j-pop
o at the door at the "Chapel
of the Chimes" event, and
similarly direct from the artists
of the bay area improv/new music/ IMP_PERVERSE
creative music/whatever scene
in a few other locales.
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