Galactic Japanification – What Comes Next?
Politically, most Western countries are not in the same postcode… societies are already polarizing and political systems buckling.
Politically, most Western countries are not in the same postcode… societies are already polarizing and political systems buckling.
“Yoko Ran’s singing voice… seems to drag the listener back into the darkness of the womb.”
Both Carmen and Terayama were brought up by single mothers – who were themselves often absent – with little or no memory of their fathers.
Just as the gap between the writer and reader has shrunk, so has the gap between the writer and the written about
His party political broadcast, mostly in idiosyncratic English, turned out to be a classic of the genre.
“You have a wife, don’t you?” “Yes, she’s as cold as ice. When she’s asleep, I often dream of setting her on fire.”
She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
All is resolved somehow and the goat goes back to the wide open pastures of Hokkaido.
Our hero is disengaged, transgressive and filled with a restless energy that makes him dangerous – rather like his creator
Imagine that the counter-culture of the late 1960s was transposed to the last decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.