Saturday, March 12, 2011

Rhinoceroses

I feel certain that rhinoceroses watch msnbc in the early morning and the oldest rhino of them all in political odds making, pat Buchanan, makes it useful among other potential reasons.I was gratified in the midst of watching japan and feeling concerned to hear Pat call Curtis Le may a Holocaust criminal, which he was based on the decision to fire bomb Tokyo as he made and carried out.I wonder who I would have been If I had never known about it.It was a shameful event and it seems to me the United States and Japan are intertwined because of it.There is a movie on sundance this morning that seems to take place in the area where the quake hit and you can see how beautiful it was.A very good current Japanese film made in 2009 about contemporary life in Japan called " still Waking ".I got teary eyed at the very end when they walk down the hill and I did not feel manipulated in to doing so.Its a good example of a simple film with a simple location and design working well through good film writing.I get the feeling this film shows that part of japan that was destroyed yesterday at any rate and, like Katrina, whats gone will not be seen again like that.The carefully pruned flora is gone and that's a lot. Especially from what I recall of the charm of New Orleans.I tried to explain to friends that if they had not been to New Orleans they never will but unlike me they did not know what they would now miss.Many years of art washed away.I'm sure parts still have the trees and bushes and all the excellent knick nacky things the people put about their houses but I'm sure its terribly changed.

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