![]() Hayao Miyazaki’s 2nd feature film is as impressive and definitive a “so, that’s what this dude is about” movie as it gets. THE FILM: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Now, we set our sights on his first “original” (it’s complicated) movie. Last time we saw an artist-for-hire determined to do put the best version of himself into his adaptation, even if that meant some serious rebuilding. Welcome back to our continuing series on “Living With Miyazaki,” as we examine the lessons one can take from his various films through their recurring motifs and varied approaches. Part 1: LUPIN III - THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO Continuing lessons on living from the animation maestro’s oeuvre Images subject to copyright ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() No love is easy though, and with war in the air, there's bound to be complications. Tender and innocent, not graphically described, but very meaningful and moving. They fall hard and fast, that sweet, young kind of romance that is all curiosity and wonder, and emotion. James is in love with her at first sight, but heads off to war two days later. ![]() These couples are against the odds - Hazel is sweet, determined, and a brilliant pianist. To save herself from public ridicule, Aphrodite begins a beautiful, tear-jerking story of two couples in WWI to show her husband (who doesn't love her anyway, but still wants her back) the power of love and why she, Aphrodite, needs to be with the one she loves. Hephaestus (Aphrodite's husband) catches them together, and threatens to expose them on trial in front of the entire community. The book starts at a hotel in WWII (richly described - very exotic and ominous, in my opinion), with Aphrodite and Ares alone and in love, but unmarried (quite the scandal). This author expertly writes from the viewpoint of Aphrodite, the greek goddess of love and passion. Plot is described below.įantastic writing, and a truly touching story combine in one of the best books I have ever read. This book has changed my life - a truly powerful, moving, and just touching story of love and friendship against all odds. I have no words for this display of magnificence in YA literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dancing schools we visit are populated by those who see dancing as the only way to escape poverty and a life selling cauliflowers at the co-op, the precocious brats who delight their mothers with displays of tap and ballroom, the tough cookies who lack artistic integrity but have the ambition and technique to succeed, and the truly talented who may spend their career in the corps without that lucky break. What we find are real people in the real world, and so it is with ballet, which despite being shown as undeniably romantic, is never romanticized. When we enter the world of Lorna Hill we do not find ourselves in a fairytale land where cherubic infants spend idyllic lives in perpetual sunshine. ![]() In this first of four articles I will look at how ballet is depicted in these two series, how it is one of four main strands running through the twenty titles, all of which contrast and entwine to form a complex and literary body of work. Those who refuse to judge a book by its cover will soon realize that the decorative dust jackets showing dancers in classical poses disguise a text in which ballet forms only the surface layer, a background on which to overlay the larger themes of life, love and art. To the casual observer, the fourteen Sadler’s Wells and six Dancing Peel stories written by Lorna Hill may be imagined to be only of interest to balletomanes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once again writing as Lauren, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings ( The House) tackle religion, identity, and sexuality, seamlessly interweaving Tanner’s Seminar project, his crush on Sebastian, and the fallout when Sebastian’s feelings conflict with his church’s expectations of him. Little does he realize it will dramatically change his life: 19-year-old Sebastian Brother, a local celebrity after his Seminar project was acquired by a major publishing house, shows up to mentor the class and sparks fly. When she dares him to apply for the Seminar, a specialized writing class where students attempt to write a novel in four months, Tanner agrees. The only person he’ll regret leaving is his best friend Autumn. Christina Lauren, quote from Autoboyography. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice. ![]() His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. ![]() Half Jewish, half lapsed Mormon, and 100% bisexual, Tanner is eager to finish his final semester of high school so he can move somewhere more accepting. Christina Lauren, quote from Autoboyography. Tanner Scott, 18, relocated to Provo, Utah, from Palo Alto, Calif., three years ago, but he has never quite fit in. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon she was the toast of the ton, every inch a countess fit for the earl, who vowed to prove to his remarkable wife that what he felt for her was far more than desire, that what he wanted from her was much more than… One Night for Love. So Lily agreed to earn her keep as his aunt’s companion and study the genteel arts. She had to leave him to learn how to meet his world on her terms. She said she wanted only to start a new life-wanted only a husband who truly loved her. Now he said he’d honor his commitment to her-regardless of the gulf that lay between them. The cream of the ton saw him stare, shocked, then declare that this was his wife! One night of passion was all he remembered as he beheld Lily, the woman he’d wed, loved, and lost on the battlefield in Portugal. Neville Wyatt, Earl of Kilbourne, awaited his bride at the altar-when a ragged beggar woman raced down the aisle instead. ![]() One passionate woman.Įnter the world of Mary Balogh-the glittering ballrooms and vast country estates of Regency-era England, where romance, with all its mystery, magic, and surprises, comes vibrantly alive. ![]() ![]() There’s the data analytics firm happily ignoring the fact that they’re actually just spying on people. We meet the prodigious CEO who treats his staff like dirt but remains worshipped by them. That aside, though, this remains a beautifully relatable and tender account of a young woman trying her best to swallow Silicon Valley’s Kool-Aid, but never quite managing to keep it down. If there was one part of this memoir I didn’t enjoy, it was her interminable lists of observations and objects so numerous you start to wonder whether they’re only there to beef up the word count. We know exactly what she had for lunch, what the stores on every street were selling, what colleagues in her office were wearing, their hobbies and foibles. She must have been taking notes the whole time. From this vantage, not quite at the heart of the action but adjacent to it, she carefully, wryly observes everyday life in the Valley. ![]() It’s the kind of people-facing job that tech companies need, but engineers and coders sneer at. A New Yorker with a liberal arts background who started her career in publishing, she worked briefly in her 20s in Silicon Valley in customer support. It is instead intimate, the rolling thoughts of a young hipster sucked into this world against her better judgment. ![]() Wiener’s account is not designed to shock in the way others have. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Importantly, growth implies a beginning: imprisonment wasn’t always used to enforce immigration law like it is now. The book revolves around the growth of immigration prisons. Migrating to Prison came out when President Trump occupied the White House, but I wrote it because of what happened under President Obama, practices and policies which became more severe under Trump. As a lawyer representing many people in this situation, I heard complaints about physical abuse and sexual assaults, but outside the walls of immigration prisons few people paid attention. Under President Obama, the United States government detained hundreds of thousands of migrants every year as immigration officials decided if they would be allowed to remain in the country. ![]() What motivated you to write the book and what's the main takeaway point from it? ![]() Your most recent book is entitled Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants. He has published extensively about the criminalization of immigration under U.S. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández joins the Moritz College of Law at OSU as the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties in August 2021. ![]() ![]() That is very much to his credit, I think. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you study Buddhism at all you will find a lot of familiar ground here although he only once, if my search worked correctly, mentions the word Buddha or Buddhism. “How many times have you been unable to fully enjoy a special moment because you couldn’t stop thinking about what was missing?” But he does suggest, rightly so, I think, that we “throw away the idea that you need to pause your life until you are fully healed.” Life is motion. His vision of self is a very healthy one. I can’t truly have a healthy relationship at any level if I don't understand myself first. Not trauma as we often think of it, perhaps, but the trauma of “jealousy, anger, doubt, and low self-worth.” And the recovery “is not about managing your emotions it is about managing your reactions to your emotions” because “our reactions tell us what our mind has internalized from our past experiences.” And since each and every one of us has different experiences, everything starts with self. There is material on self-awareness, personal relationships, and society at large, but it all comes back to self. ![]() I have never encountered this author or his work before reading this book but was not surprised to learn, after finishing the book, that he began his thoughtful journey during a meditation course focused on the self. ![]() ![]() I just thought of them as something self inflicted and silly that people could just get over if they really wanted to. ![]() There was a time, back in my teens and early twenties when I didn't take the idea of eating disorders at all seriously. I still don't really, since thankfully I have never lived that nightmare but I know more than I did before reading this book. Apparently De Rossi is one of those people.īefore reading this book I didn't know much about eating disorders. It stands to reason, now that I think about it, that some of the many people in show business are really just more comfortable in an old Iggy and the Stooges shirt, ripped jeans and Doc Martens. For example I had always thought, insofar as I bothered to think about them at all, that all actresses and models were interested in fashion, makeup and glamour. This book relieved me of some silly assumptions. Unbearable Lightness is a memoir of the difficult journey De Rossi faced to come to terms with being a lesbian, and with her natural weight. ![]() But behind the facade was a terribly insecure woman, hiding her true sexuality and hating her body, which she always saw as fat. She was young, beautiful, a successful model and actress with a recurring role on a hit tv show. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, “What is sex?” rather more complex. ![]() The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around)―even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent contradictions. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.Ĭonsider sublimation―conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. ![]() |