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Cuddling with Little Girls, Dogs, and Music review of Yoshitomo Nara’s Exhibition at the Asian Society, NYC @nytimes.最近奈良美智在纽约的asian society办了个互动展。纽约时报两周前发了一篇评论。上面这句话印象最深，大概这就是为何那么多人喜欢奈良这些愤怒叛逆的娃娃的原因。还记得暑假回来在纽约的时候，看报纸也有谈及奈良的鬼娃娃要安在77街。当时rick笑说，你看，你喜欢那个画愤怒的日本小女孩的人的雕塑要安在大街上了。然后他说，maira不喜欢奈良，我说为什么？他说maira觉得日本人画给小孩看的东西都太成人太具象了，我说那也不喜欢宫崎骏吧？rick点头，说最近那个岩上的金鱼公主还好，但是也还是具象了。想想也是，maira画给小朋友们的儿童书，是真的一点也不做作地像是在和小朋友交谈，或者就像是孩子在说话。我很庆幸，我有她所有给小朋友画的画，会是我的小孩首选的儿童书。
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Q. The ideas of psychic powers and past lives, or at least people who believe in them, are central to your latest film. What got you interested in writing about them?
A. I was interested in the concept of faith in something. This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can’t. I’ve known people who have put their faith in religion and in fortune tellers. So it occurred to me that that was a good character for a movie: a woman who everything had failed for her, and all of a sudden, it turned out that a woman telling her fortune was helping her. The problem is, eventually, she’s in for a rude awakening.
Q. I half-expected to see you at that 12-hour performance of Dostoyevsky’s “Demons” that Lincoln Center Festival produced over the summer.
A. No, no, I’m a lowbrow. I read that material, more
out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it’s a beer and
the football game.
这事半个月前纽约时报的一个woody allen 专访，老头子样子看着返老还童一样。我个人很喜欢他对这两个问题的回答。他的新电影有我喜欢的naomi watts, 拍的是关于算命的故事。
法语课要是上得快进度超过预期，我们会做一段woody allen的翻译，老师把一篇woody allen 的短篇小说译成法语再让我们翻回英文。那个叫kugelmass的故事很有趣，满是woody allen的幽默。http://www.woodyallen.art.pl/eng/kugelmass_episode.php
3. " as ripe and smart as ever. " 这是上期new yorker里写影评的anthony lane先生评价的电影the town里的rebecca hall饰演的角色用的形容。莫名觉得特别恰当，想见对很多女人来说，这将是一个非常好的状态。the town是部很好的电影，个人认为。
每天都可以看到一些有趣有意思的话，看到有点触动，会想一下，就是件足够开心满足的事儿。所谓每天进步一点点，哪怕只有很少很少，也是好的。
恭喜乔迁之喜 什么时候我们可以去闹房子？
你。。。