Moved

Moved back

kat — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:52:19 +0000

Coffee-cat.NET

Hopefully this time (more) permanently. There are still some bits and pieces need to be imported, but it's there and it's running. Blog is now part of the portfolio. LJ feed will be updated soon.

Moving out soon

kat — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:04:58 +0000

I might be moving out of WordPress.com to a local installation pretty... soon-ish? Basically, I've just purchased a friggin' 20 GB webspace (domain transfer still in progress though), and I need to fill 'er up.

Ferdydurke

kat — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:00:44 +0000

Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz, 1937
translated by Eric Mosbacher
Marion Boyars Publishers; Reprinted Ed edition (July 21, 2005)

A parody of common literary forms in prewar Polish literature, in Ferdydurke a 30-year-old complacent narrator, Johnnie (who, like Gombrowicz, has also published a book called Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity), is dragged by an old, all-cultural imposing professor Pimko back to secondary school. Absurdism of pomposity, immaturity, posed masks, unapologetic mysogyny, with short stories about Philifor and Philimor Honeycombed with Childishness inserted in the middle, Gombrowicz presents a madcap comic parody with intense underlying analysis of the way external factors shape one's (re)actions.

The Monkey’s Wrench

kat — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:17:13 +0000

The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi translated from the Italian by William Weaver Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (July 1, 1995) Narrative is contained within another narrative in this novel, as Faussone, an exuberant rigger, tells his stories of working to a chemist-writer narrator (no doubt Levi's alter ego):his constructions, an adventurous monkey, a machine that caught stardust, a name gone wrong, overcoming the fear of water, from India, Russia to Alaska.

Lumumba

kat — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:03:45 +0000

Lumumba
directed by Raoul Peck, 2002

"This film is not an 'adaptation,' it aims to be a true story. I want to extract the cinematic narrative from reality by remaining as true to the facts as possible," so said Raoul Peck. Using archival images of official history (many of film's pivotal scenes are moving recreations of famous still photographs and newsreel footage from Lumumba's short political life and assassination), Peck crafted a documentary-style recreation and meditation for what might have been in the events surrounding Lumumba's assasination.

Protected: The Mangy Fluke

kat — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:15:40 +0000

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Under the Glacier

kat — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:04:57 +0000

Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson Vintage (March 8, 2005) A young, unnamed emissary is dispatched by the Bishop of Iceland "to conduct the most important investigation at that world-famous mountain since the days of Jules Verne", i.e. to investigate Kristinihald undir jökli (the original title which literally translated would mean Christianity under the Glacier) and the strange going-ons in Snæffels glacier.

Beatrix

kat — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:29:29 +0000

Stoatshead

kat — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:01:55 +0000

Um, crack, possible brain-damage alert. Because I keep my promises, one step at a time.

That was a shitload of posts, eh?

kat — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:39:05 +0000

If you'd like to skip the ostentatious review trites and get on with the juicy (?) gossips of German opera zombie dragon, Gondwana beasts, Superman and whatnot, the password is [removed].