January 2010
18 posts
Seoul subway stations that made me laugh today: Dongjak, Beomgye (pronounced - wait for it - bum-gay), Bulgwang.
“She’s looking into my eyes, she’s holding my hand. She says, ‘You can’t repeat the past.’ I say, ‘You can’t repeat the past? What do you mean you can’t repeat the past? Of course you can.’” - Bob Dylan
My Korean kindergartners are startlingly fluent in American pop music. Walk up to one of them and say, “Ain’t nobody dope as me?” and they’ll respond screaming “I AM JUST SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN!”
The point is: Outkast is for everybody.
“How everthing can be said, how for everything, for the strangest fancies, there waits a great fire in which they perish and rise up again.” - Franz Kafka