deaths, ascensions and marriages
Posted by Chris on July 4, 2007 at 4:21 pm
In glacial-paced Taiwanese cinema news – RIP Edward Yang who died on June 29th aged 49. He was probably best known in the anglophone academy through Frederic Jameson’s chapter on his film The Terrorizer (1986). An obituary by Steven Shaviro can be found here.
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The king is dead, long live the king. What better way to start a new reign than a Diana concert – establishing a(nother) perpetual 10 year nostalgia loop. “Today we celebrate her rebirth”. Even the stars have to make way for the moon. Prince William claps in double time. Gordon Brown as avatar landlord of a maternal national body. Meanwhile apocalyptic weather betrays the new king’s inability to maintain ecological balance (now understood in scientific rather than relgiious terms).
puffy at Sunday’s Diana concert
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Further north Sami folksong (call it joik) from here. This is a marriage song in kildin.
A.A.Jurijeva – Marriage Cry 128k 3mb
