Ménilmontant, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
60 South Korean Civilians Massacred in Mine Shaft at Kum Bong San (1950), Korea
idea for my going-away party (going away to university next school year):
- facebook group: R.I.P. girl
- go to beach/park (this will be summer)
- (buy thousands of candles beforehand)
- light candles in circle, interpretive dance
- get high get drunk yell at everyone in their faces. tell them that i hate them all and walk away
In 1933, renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows.
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions
Things to think about:
What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:
(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?
Ingmar Bergman wrote of the film’s iconic penultimate shot, in his autobiography:
“The image of the Dance of Death beneath the dark cloud was achieved at hectic speed because most of the actors had finished for the day. Assistants, electricians, and a make-up man and about two summer visitors, who never knew what it was all about, had to dress up in the costumes of those condemned to death. A camera with no sound was set up and the picture shot before the cloud dissolved.”
Eric William Carroll, from Plato’s Home Movies
“I didn’t pay any special attention to trees until I stopped seeing them.” -Eric William Carroll
from the Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang.
from top to bottom:
- government buildings on Kim Il Sung Square
- Yongwang subway station
- Pyongyang ice rink, built in 1981
- The Arch of Reunification (shows two women holding a map of an undivided North Korea)
- 500-foot-tall Pyongyang Koryo Hotel
- The Party Foundation Monument (consists of a hammer, a sickle and a writing brush to represent workers, farmers and intellectuals)
- Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace, a six-story building built in 1989.
- Grand People’s Study House, Pyongyang’s main library
- residential block of Pyongyang
