Sounding Bored ...A series of rambling thoughts...
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Lee Jang Woo - Words I Couldn't Bear to Say [Hangul+Romanization+Eng]
Another favorite actor and soon to be in a new drama!
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Sukiyaki Kyu Sakamoto FULL SONG ReEdit STEREO ReMix HiQ Hybrid JARichard...
On August 12, 1985, Sakamoto was aboard Japan Airlines Flight 123, on which he was heading to Osaka for an event. The plane crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma which became the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. A total of 520 people were killed in the crash, including Sakamoto.His body is interred at Chōkoku-ji Temple in Minato, Tokyo
Friday, April 5, 2019
"ARE THERE NOT STILL FIREFLIES" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Are there not still fireflies
Are there not still four-leaf clovers
Is not our land still beautiful
Our fields not full of armed enemies
Our cities never bombed to oblivion
Never occupied by iron armies
speaking iron tongues
Are not our warriors still valiant
ready to defend us
Are not our senators still wearing fine togas
Are we not still a great people
Is this not still a free country
Are not our fields still ours
our gardens still full of flowers
our ships with full cargoes
Why then do some still fear
the barbarians are coming
coming coming
in their huddled masses
(What is that sound that fills the ear
drumming drumming?)
Is not Rome still Rome
Is not Los Angeles still Los Angeles
Are these really the last days of the Roman Empire
Is not beauty still beauty
And truth still truth
Are there not still poets
Are there not still lovers
Are there not still mothers
sisters and brothers
Is there not still a full moon
once a month
Are there not still fireflies
Are there not still stars at night
Can we not still see them
in bowl of night
signalling to us
our so-called manifest destinies?
"PITY THE NATION" (After Khalil Gibran) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
Goodbye My Princess
I recently began watching a Chinese drama called Goodbye My Princess (Chinese: 东宫; pinyin: Dōng Gōng). It is based on the novel Eastern Palace by Fei Wo Si Cun; starring Chen Xingxu, Peng Xiaoran and Shawn Wei. It aired starting February 14, 2019 and ran until March 25,2019.
It tells a story of a princess from a foreign land who has to marry the crown prince for political reasons.Peng Xiaoran plays Xiaofeng, the beloved ninth princess of Western Liang, who enters into a political marriage with Li Chengyin, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, played by Chen Xingxu. The latter has his own favourite concubine, and only agreed to this loveless marriage to secure his position as heir to the throne.It is later revealed that Xiaofeng had met Li Chengyin under the alias of Gu Xiaowu three years ago. He was on a secretive mission to conquer the western kingdoms, and used Xiaofeng to accomplish his goal. After finding out the truth, Xiaofeng jumped into the River of Forgetfulness, and Gu Xiaowu / Li Chengyin followed suit out of guilt, and perhaps also love. In the present-time, only Xiaofeng has regained her memories, and their heart-wrenching romance begins all over again.
My dilemma now is that a friend who watched this in real time posted comments about the finale without warnings of "spoiler" and I now know the ending of the drama. In the past I have watched movies based on real life and ones based on books that I have read and watched knowing the ending but wanting to still see how the depiction of the story would unfold and do judge how well it matched with my ideas of the story. In this case I have not read the book and have been forming my opinions right along with the episodes as they aired for me. I am only at 15 of 52 and had to pause now to digest the information as to the ending and decide to I want to continue watching to that conclusion.
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