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Tag Archives: Life
Pirouettes on the edge of madness: Bertrand Russell, me, and other fucked up peeps
With my own sanity and mental health at greater peril than ever before, i start reading, for some inexplicable reason, about Bertrand Russell’s personal life. I have read some of his books before, on happiness, marriage, etc. and of course … Continue reading
Shanghai Business School Fire: now comes the blame game
Should they have jumped, why did the jump? Were they hanging off the rails of the balconies until they had no strength and just let go? Why didn’t any brave men climb up the stairs to rescue them? Four women … Continue reading
My theory of cats
I am beginning to wonder if I like cats because they are needy the same way that i am or if I have begun to assimilate or emulate their psychology instead. The constant need for contact and affection: I wonder … Continue reading
Music I’m listening to: Dido’s “Safe Trip Home”
I’ve never been a Dido fan, i don’t even know the name of any her songs save that “White Flag” one, but I did download her recent one. And although there are many nice tunes on it, there is one … Continue reading
Drunken phrasings
there is an insidious loneliness that razes things it goes about its business with a grin like someone that knows that everything can be swept–perfectly–under the carpet. i cannot stay at gigs too long. because their creativity unnerves me makes … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Tarsem’s The Fall, Deception and Righteous Kill
A lot of critics, such as the NY Times Nathan Lee, did not like this film. Here’s some of what he says: The details of this saga, a threadbare patchwork of postcard exoticism, turgid characterizations, stilted duels and lackluster spectacle, … Continue reading
It gets cold here in late September
“It gets cold here in late September”—I dont remember the rest of the song anymore. It was the autumn of 1999, probably around late September or early October. The place: the main cafeteria at the University of Washington, Seattle. I … Continue reading
Some pictures from Hong Kong and Tin Shui Wai (天水圍）
I don’t remember where I first heard of Tin Shui Wai, but I believe someone told me that this was the famous “walled city” (圍城） that the movie was named after, so I went there expecting something desperate and ghetto, … Continue reading
Some pictures from Wenchuan
The rest of that series is here. Some photographs from the Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann are here. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F20%2Fsome-pictures-from-wenchuan%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Some+pictures+from+Wenchuan’; addthis_pub = ”;
Life is still elsewhere
Yes, the title of this post has been overused but it remains the most succinct way of stating a particular phenomenological fact, and that is that despite having lived in Shanghai for seven years and knowing this place perhaps better … Continue reading