gyrmination

Flurries. What does it even mean? Despite that, it sounds like the feeling. The body below disappears. Empty pit of stomach, in my chest a wrecking ball on its way through rice paper. When I concentrate on winning.
I make it to the final round, then the sinking feeling of being overwhelmed, the unbearable weight of […]

I realized several things in afterthoughts about “Lust, Caution” after my previous post.
First, there were not two, but three times when Jiazhi’s movie experience is disrupted. If I remember correctly, in the first instance (which I had forgotten to mention before), the show is interrupted by a boorish nationalist public announcement. When the rest of […]

Bob brought home a dog. It’s actually composed of two ideas. Two menacing teeth pinch out into the air, like rodent mandibles on display at the airport gallery. It’s watching me by the glass door of some house. I can’t decide whether it’s waiting to welcome me, or standing guard against me.
Bob goes in. Of […]

The following comes to mind:

我知道我就要开始回忆
像烟花绽放后留下黑影
不肯散去

It’s a phrase from Sunrise. It roughly translates as:

I know from now on I can only think back to those memories
Like the darkness left by fireworks
Unending

I’m watching, and I can’t help but think that fireworks embody the importance of being in the herenow. Any experience or sensation exists for but an […]

I reach for my metrocard. You gotta be kiddin’ me. Pat pat, pat pat.
Oh shit.
It’s gone. My wallet.
The Jamaican mama occupying the ticket booth must have cottonballs up her ears, she takes so long to respond to my plea for help. When I tell her my wallet is missing, she barely hides her irritation; Don’ […]