Summer arrives: the warriors fall

fallen, originally uploaded by windupbaerd.

Summer arrives on wings of death, raking in its wake the final breath of many a fallen warrior denied sanctuary and safety from an ultraviolet glare, delivering a silent demise in the now, and a promise of cutaneous malignancy (for the rest of us) in the morrow.

because your word...

because your word..., originally uploaded by windupbaerd.

...just isn't good enough.

If you ever happen to get caught in a train that's been delayed and therefore cannot make it on time for work, please avail yourself of one of these "Late Notifications," issued at the station office, that magically imparts an air of authenticity as you explain to your boss later in the morning why you were REALLY off by five minutes.

Yamakasa

The Hakata Gion Yamakasa ended just last week, and in the rain I am told. In the few days leading up to the festival the floats that will be carried during the matsuri can be found dotting several locations in the city, like this one, outside the Fukuoka Asian Museum of Art.

Phror. Becadom, sissirishic and huwf.

Finally got around to reading Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire earlier this year, and it's still an experience that resonates with me six months later. Above and beyond the amount of research that went into it, and perhaps one of those great examples of an alternative take on the whole phenomenon of psychogeography, is the overwelming sense of warmth and humanity throughout the book. By the time I had read the first few lines of the chapter with the witches (dealing with the last of the witch hunts) I had gained a whole new level of respect for the warlock from Northampton. The final chapter was perhaps the riskiest, since every preceeding one had an element of... danger heaped upon a character instantly accessible by some drive or some inherent flaw or another, capped off in some narrative form; when the spotlight finally turns upon the city of Northampton itself, the risks that Moore comes to place upon himself as an author in the public eye becomes apparent, because unlike the rest of the book it is an entirely raw take where he's already raised up the curtains, and still expects the reader to follow him while he lays bare the tricks of his trade. It's probably one of those ballsy things that people have come to like him for.

There I go, talking as though I actually understood it all.

For Use/Numen

Vienna/Croatia. Love

...and whom do you share your sunsets with?

and with whom do you share your sunsets with?, originally uploaded by windupbaerd.

;O

Here's an interesting can of worms:

Japan Zines : Never Mind The Bloggers

"The hardest thing to crack into is the world of underground comics in Japan, not because they are hard to find but because there is so much it's almost impossible to find a point of entry. There are tons of stores selling dojinshi but, without exaggerating, 90 percent of it is either porno or parody — or parody-porno. As cool as it is to see Darth Vader having sex with Luke Skywalker, I really wish I could find more substantial stories. There are only so many naked Harry Potter pictures you can see before you just lose interest."