Podcasts about The Pillow Book

This week, on episode #141 Jane Tara visits all the way from Australia to discuss her first book written for adults, Tilda is Visible. We talk about self love during the aging process, what it's like to write over 100 children's books and of course, we both recommend books. Christine Murphy, author of Notes on Surviving the Fire also recommends a favorite read. Books Recommended:Pictures of You by Emma GreyThe Cafe with No Name by Robert SeethalerThe Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna JohnstonThe Hypocrite by Jo HamyaThe Pillow Book by Sei ShonagonChristine Murphy Notes on Surviving the Fire recommends Devolution by Max BrooksThe Great Divide Giveaway LinkOne-Day Choir Defying Gravity LinkRead Nickel Boys with me on Substack in MarchFind Jane on Social Media:instagram: @authorjanetaraFacebook: @authorjanetaraJane's bookclub: Book QueensSubstack: @janetaraSupport the showGet your Books Are My People coffee mug here!I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Today on Various Artists! Sofia had a kōrero with Senior Curator of Global Contemporary Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Natasha Conland, about the gallery's newest exhibition - Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey. Eliasson is an Icelandic–Danish world renowned artist known for sculptured and large-scaled installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience, often speaking to a broader reflection of the history of human interaction with the environment and its impact, raising awareness about the climate crisis and the climate's impacted state. Beth had a kōrero with artist Chloe Summerhayes about her exhibition of recent paintings at Suite Gallery. Summerhayes is a visual artist who often explores themes of the subconscious in her work. Sofia had a kōrero with fine art dealer and gallerist Charles Ninow about his new gallery which opened on Karangahape Road last week, and the current exhibition it's showing by Ralph Paine - Leaves from a Pillow Book. And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton joined us in the studio to give us her 2024 theatre round up of the year. Whakarongi mai!

Charles Ninow is a new gallery space that has recently opened at 102/203 Karangahape Road.  Ninow is a dealer, auctioneer, and promoter of fine art in Aotearoa who draws inspiration from the first-principles approach of New Zealand's earliest commercial galleries of the 1960s and 1970s, believing in the transformative power of art by committing to expanding its audience. Ralph Paine: Leaves from a Pillow Book is Ninow's first and opening exhibition in this new space, continuing on from some of the less well known artists and projects he worked on and championed at his former boutique gallery and auction house, Bowerbank Ninow.  Sofia caught up with Charles about the new space and the exhibition by Paine.

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On Episode 73 of the Daebak K-Rambles Podcast, the Drama Trio is on deck! Jess is joined by friends Caitlin from NoSleep4Dramas Blog & Podcast and Liliana from the Tea & Soju Podcast to review Eternal Love of Dream (aka Three Lives, Three Worlds, The Pillow Book), starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Vengo Gao. Jumping straight into spoilers, Jess, Caitlin, and Liliana talk through this ultimately disappointing 2020 sequel to Eternal Love (aka Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms). After coming together to review the original Eternal Love on the Tea & Soju Podcast, the trio have trouble doling out praise in this much-anticipated watch, discussing the rampant pacing issues, confusing retcons from the first show, the displaced timelines in comparison to the source novel, the lack of character development, (sadly) annoying portrayal of our lovesick fox, and more frustrating writing that overshadowed the acting and chemistry from these beloved leads. GUEST: Liliana Tea & Soju Asian Drama Podcast: Available on Spotify, Google, Apple Instagram: @teaandsojupod Twitter: @tea_soju_pod GUEST: Caitlin NoSleep4Dramas Podcast: Available on Spotify, Google, Apple Website: nosleep4dramas.com Instagram: @nosleep4dramas Twitter: @NoSleep4Dramas2 - Caitlin (ALL THE DRAMAS) TikTok: @nosleep4dramas Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, follow us on all the socials, and be sure to let us know what you want to see in Season 6! Follow us! Patreon Instagram Twitter Facebook --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daebakpod/support

On your knees with the queens in the poetry darkroom,  poetic pleasures await! Then we wipe off our kneecaps before hitting the Pride Parade.If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTESTess Gallagher's "Stopping Place" is from her book Willingly.Donna Stonecipher's "Inlay 18 (Sei Shõnagun)" is from her book The Cosmopolitan. Read a bit about the book here. Sei Shōnagon's actual given name is not known. It was the custom among aristocrats in those days to call a court lady by a nickname taken from a court office belonging to her father or husband. Sei Shōnagon (c. 966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book.The Dick Dock in Provincetown is so popular it has its own Facebook page. Or check out this Youtube video called "Provincetown's Dick Dock: Making Gay Sex Magic!"If you want to know more about the history of the Meat Rack on Fire Island, here's a good starting place. Read Ocean Vuong's poem "Theology"Marilyn Nelson's "For Mary, Fourth Month" is available in her The Fields of Praise: New and Selected. Jim Powell did indeed win a MacArthur in 1993. Read more poems by Powell here.Read Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of the Desperado"Read more about Osip MandelstamKevin Prufer's book of poems The Fears won the Rilke Prize. Read the judges' citation here. Visit Michelle Tea's website here. Or read an excerpt from her poem "I Used to Be Straight" here (scroll down).Read Franny Choi's "Unlove Poem" Read "Prayer/Oracion" by Francisco X. Alarcón, trans. Francisco Aragón Read "American Wedding" by Essex HemphillHere's June Jordan's fiery "Poem About My Rights" You can read torrin a. greathouse's "Aubade Beginning in Handcuffs" here. 

I denne utgaven av Den Hemmelige Hyllen gir bibliotekansatte Ine, Robin og Joanna sine beste tips for bøker som lånes altfor lite. Først forteller Ine om «Tyll» – en sprudlende roman om den omreisende skuespilleren og provokatøren Tyll Ulenspiegel, skrevet av den tyske forfatteren Daniel Kehlmann. Robin snakker om en overraskende aktuell, morsom og fascinerende 1000 år gammel (!) japansk klassiker: «The Pillow Book» av Sei Shōnagon, og Joanna anbefaler den vakre diktsamlingen «Averno» av nobelprisvinneren Louise Glück.

I avoided Peter Greenaway's film “The Pillow Book” while hunting for material for this show. Instead, I used different recitations in English and Japanese. I included recordings…

Welcome to Bri Books! From sexy fiction to fascinating history, here's a look at what I'm reading in 2024. For a book lover, the new year is the definition of a blank slate. The books of 2024 offer escapes of all kinds. Below, I'vm nominating 8 books I can't wait to read in January and February. In this episode, I'm rounding up 8 titles I can't wait to read. 1:05: ‘From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture' by Koritha Mitchell. I'm a cottagecore princess, and I wanted to get to the roots of domesticity in the US. In high school I was obsessed with domestic/ Victorian values during the Industrial Revolution, and noticed the glaring absence of free Black American women from this history. But that doesn't mean we weren't there. In the book, Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards. ‘From Slave Cabins to the White House' illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature. 4:15: ‘The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America' by Erin Hatton. Everyone knows that work in America is not what it used to be. Layoffs, outsourcing, contingent work, disappearing career ladders—these are the new workplace realities for an increasing number of people. But why? In ‘The Temp Economy,' Erin Hatton takes one of the best-known icons of the new economy—the temp industry—and finds that it is more than just a symbol of this degradation of work. Succinct, highly readable, and drawn from a vast historical record of industry documents, ‘The Temp Economy' is a one-stop resource for anyone interested in the temp industry or the degradation of work in postwar America. 6:50: ‘New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation' by Thomas Dyja. A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future. Dyja's sweeping account of this metamorphosis shows it wasn't the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime. Instead, three New Yorks evolved. Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown—Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place—into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere. 9:12: ‘Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion' by music journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy was released in October of 2023. A cinematic narrative of glamour, grit, luxury, and luck, ‘Fashion Killa' draws on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the fashion world to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years. In the book, Krishnamurthy explores the connections between the DIY hip-hop scene and the exclusive upper-echelons of high fashion. She discusses the sociopolitical forces that defined fashion and tracks the influence of music and streetwear on the most exclusive (and exclusionary) luxury brands. At the intersection of cultural commentary and oral history, ‘Fashion Killa' commemorates the contributions of hip-hop to music, fashion, and our culture at large. 11:10: ‘Prayer and Our Bodies' by Flora Slosson Wuellner. Written in 1987, this book explores the very real relationship that exists between the bodily self and the spiritual self. Readers will heighten their awareness of the interactions among body, mind, and spirit. If you're someone who struggles to appreciate your body, this book is an important touchstone toward healing our relationships with ourselves and others. It talks about how prayer isn't just what we say, but how we live our lives. Flora Slosson Wuellner, a retired ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, is well known throughout the United States and Europe for her writings and retreat leadership that focus on the inner healing that God freely offers through Christ. She has written 14 books on inner healing and renewal. 12:36: ‘You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life' by Eleanor Roosevelt. This wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life was gifted to me by a lovely friend named Carrie. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this simple guide to living a fuller life—a powerful volume of enduring commonsense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, she takes readers on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity, civic stewardship, and more. 14:30: ‘The Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon. Written by 10th century court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, ‘The Pillow Book' offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period, describing the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion, and whim dominated, while harsh reality was kept firmly at a distance. Moving elegantly across a wide range of themes including nature, society, and her own flirtations, Sei Shonagon provides a witty and intimate window on a woman's life at court in classical Japan. 16:30: ‘Homebodies' by Tembe Denton-Hurst is already a fantastic read. An insightful, propulsive, and deeply sexy debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry. A meditation on identity, self-worth and the toll of corporate racism, Homebodies is a portrait of modern Black womanhood with a protagonist you won't soon forget.

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In this third episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we talk about the origin of BAD in Bad Diaries, and how, in our diaries, we can allow the badness – and  the goodness – of our unedited lives to show. Jen coins the term ba-goodness, and we commit to making bad good (and making good bad).We bring other people's diaries to this episode of the podcast, raiding our bookshelves for a random selection of Not At All Bad But Really Very Good Diaries to discuss. Some are diaries that we love and have re-read a bazillion times. Others we've only dipped into, or haven't quite got round to reading (no shame!), despite best intentions.There's some very heavy fan-grrrling on Helen Garner, and lots of love for Sylvia Plath, Katherine Mansfield and Derek Jarman (and Tracy's decades-long obsession with his cottage and garden). Sarah Laing, in The Covid-19 Diaries, reminds us of The Bubble, but we can't remember whether or not (or why) The Pillow Book was sexy. Different note-making and page-marking styles are revealed (Jen's a corner-folder, top and bottom; Tracy's appalled), we ponder crossings-out and missing facts in our diaries, and we talk about gaps and guilty pleasures (again, no shame) on our bookshelves.As we often do, we talk about this (writing) life. We get into professional competition (and jealousy), writing relationships (spouses and parents and sibs, oh my), and the importance of sisters (and how sisters freak Tracy out).Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

This episode is from my other podcast The Bend but it's really what Somebody's Watching is about! Thanks again to horror specialist Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and film professor Professor Peter Lehman for their time, it was an honor to be able to chat with them. Enjoy! A Selection of Peter Lehman's Work: Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture Pornography: Film and Culture Peter Lehman's Arizona State University Profile A Selection of Alexandra Heller-Nicholas' Work: Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study 1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema Alexandra Heller-Nicholas' Website Watching Rape, the book Alexandra mentions Wesley Morris' NY Times article on Black male sexuality Films mentioned: The Virgin Spring (1960) Drive, He Said (1971) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Last House on the Left (1972) I Spit On Your Grave (1978) Sweet Savage (1979) A Room with a View (1985) Drifting Into Chaos (1989) The Pillow Book (1996) Traps (1998) Baise Moi (2000) Django Unchained (2012) PVT Chat (2020) Zola (2020) Minx (2022-) Kevin Bacon's penis PSA

Dans ce deuxième épisode, je reçois Aurélie Zajakala, une styliste évoluant dans le monde de la fiction et de la publicité, tant sur papier qu'en vidéo. Aurélie nous livre dans cet épisode les secrets de son parcours et de son métier aux multiples facettes, qui requiert créativité, organisation et rigueur. Nous abordons également le sujet de l'accessibilité des métiers du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel pour la nouvelle génération, et on dérive trèèèès légèrement sur Neymar

What is it to write? What roles do ceremony, beauty, and material play in the act of writing? Not only is The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon  an early classic of Japanese literature, written in the 10th century by a lady of the Heian-era court, it is also—five hundred years before Montaigne— the world's first sustained portrayal of an individual self as she lives, thinks, and feels from day to day. A genre-bending mix of poems, lists, essays, and anecdotes, Shōnagon's original work was composed on Empress-provided fine paper and expresses as much delight in the materials and physical activity of writing as in the human dramas and exquisite moments of courtly life. In this episode, Santa Fe host Krishnan Venkatesh and tutor Ron Wilson explore the power of the material conditions of writing—the handmade ink, the rare pens, the costly paper, the social culture of the highly insular court—in energizing and focusing the creator's mind. They explore the writer's love of writing as ceremonial beyond Shōnagon to Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and poet Susan Howe, writers for whom the material conditions of writing are essential for their work. From this arises a pressing contemporary question: what has been lost in today's digital world, where few material limitations exist? 

Just the tip-off! You'll laugh, you'll gasp, you'll win $50 in breakcoin (more crypto than currency). Polish up your high-heel cleats and get out your pompoms! Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.Writing for the Ploughshares blog, Robert Anthony Siegel calls Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book “a progenitor of the fragmentary, nonlinear, hybrid-genre work....” Read the whole, short essay here.You can watch Elaine Equi read four poems from Big Other here (~4.5 mins). And read more about this fabulous poet's bio here. Hear Plath read “November Graveyard” here (~1 min)Hear Plath read “Poppies in October” here (~1 min)Plath reads the Rabbit Catcher here (~1.5 min)Plath reads “The Applicant” here (~2 min)Watch a beautifully-read, dramatic rendering of “Crossing the Water” here (~1 min)Audio of Plath reading Lady Lazarus can be heard here (~3 min)Watch Clara Sismondo perform “Blackberrying” (National Poetry in Voice) here (~3 min)Hear “Tulips” in Plath's voice here (~4.5 min)Watch this arresting short film of “Death & Co” produced by Troublemakers TV here (~1.5 min)You can read “The Couriers” here.Read “The Colossus” here.Hear Plath read “Daddy” here (~4 min)Read “Electra on Azalea Path” hereRead “The Babysitters” hereRead “The Beekeeper's Daughter” hereRead “Winter Trees” hereYou can read this fascinating essay about acquiring Plath's table by David Trinidad here.Listen to David talk with scholar Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the light and dark sequences in Plath's life.Watch Dorianne Laux read a very recent poem “What's Broken” here (~2 min)You can attend virtually this fabulous Terrance Hayes reading at the University of Chicago (~1 hour)

Episode 175: Cyberglorp At long last, the Gaylords find themselves slain by Orphan: First Kill! Stacie & Anthony talk full-ass woman Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, and Stacie's Pillow Book before a shocking new Chopping Block. Don't get spoiled—watch this movie before you listen! Find out more at https://gaylords-of-darkness.pinecast.co

And now for something completely different. I sat down with film professor Prof. Peter Lehman and horror scholar Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas to discuss male nudity in cinema. We discuss our connections with the topic, the phallus vs the penis, rape revenge, the pitfalls of “respectable cinema,” the prosthetic penis and a lot more. I'm so glad and grateful that I had a chance to talk to these bona fide experts about a topic that I have been wondering about for a very long time. I hope you take something away from this unusual film exploration. A Selection of Peter Lehman's Work: Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture Pornography: Film and Culture Peter Lehman's Arizona State University Profile A Selection of Alexandra Heller-Nicholas' Work: Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study 1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema Alexandra Heller-Nicholas' Website Watching Rape, the book Alexandra mentions Wesley Morris' NY Times article on Black male sexuality Films mentioned: The Virgin Spring (1960) Drive, He Said (1971) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Last House on the Left (1972) I Spit On Your Grave (1978) Sweet Savage (1979) A Room With A View (1985) Drifting Into Chaos (1989) The Pillow Book (1996) Traps (1998) Baise Moi (2000) Irreversibel (2002) Django Unchained (2012) Promising Young Woman (2020) PVT Chat (2020) Zola (2020) Minx (2022-) Kevin Bacon's penis PSA Lastly, thank you to Karolin Schnoor for all the support and for making the brilliant illustration!

I started to take interest in reading Japanese literature. It started when I want to read a Haiku poem by Basho. I read a couple of penguin classics books on Japanese poetry, then I got some recommendations on Japanese authors: The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) by Lady Murasaki The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Classics) by Matsuo Basho Kokoro by Natsume Soseki I borrow those books from my local library. So I have been reading them during the week. They are fascinating and educational. I learn a alot about Japanese history go and insight into the past. I then was looking up some Japanese literature on YouTube. I watched some top recommendations on a few Japanese literature/ novels. There are a few recommendations I have taken interest in reading. I will try to borrow them from my local library. Crime novels: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino Newcomer by Keigo Higashino Slice of life (indie novels) Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata New mangas I got some new manga I bought from Amazon and CD Japan: Amazon Pink Cherry Complex (G-Lish) by Megane Shitsuren Junkie (KiR) by Taka CD Japan: Fudanshi Shokan: Isekai de Shinju ni Hamerare mashita 2 (Marginal Comics) by Moe Fujisaki Shacho, Osuwari no Jikan desu (eyes Comics) by Megane Hon Toku Art Book: IDEAL (KiRcomics) by Hon Toku (ArtBook)

Tantalize, Memory: Our kiki with David Trinidad continues! Buy David's new book, Digging to Wonderland, at your favorite indie bookstore -- or buy it here from Loyalty Books, a Black-owned independent bookseller in Washington, DC.Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act whose memory was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy. You can watch here some footage of her performing an abbreviated (and very clean) version of her famous routine, "The Psychology of a Stripteaser" in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen (~5 min).John Yau's new book, Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal, will be released September 2022 from  Rizzoli International Publications. For more about Brainard, visit the website dedicated to his work here. A great retrospect about Joe Brainard appeared in Artforum. Larry Rivers has a great portrait of Frank O'Hara here. According to this website Roger (1954 - 1982) was an American gay porn star who appeared in pornographic movies in the 1970s. After an early career as a model and go-go boy from age 17, he appeared as a "Discovery" centerfold in "Blueboy" magazine, Roger appeared in many film loops of the pre-condom era, co-starring with other notable porn stars of the time, including Al Parker, Jack Wrangler, Chuck Samson, and Bruno. Roger was also a popular stage performer in gay nightclubs and theaters. Roger left the adult film industry in 1980 and in 1982, en route to Las Vegas, perished in a car accident. In 2000, an imposter posing as Roger appeared on a number of Yahoo! groups, but was soon exposed as a fraud. He told stories of having attended Al Parker's memorial service in 1992, remaining in touch with co-star Jack Wrangler, and maintaining a monogamous relationship since the late 1980s while living in a suburb of Chicago. All of this information was completely false.Hear David read his poem "Ode to Dick Fisk" here  (at Naropa).Read more about Elaine Equi here. Watch Rachel Blau DuPlessis talk about the "exuberant sexual and lexical energy and gay will to power" of Frank O'Hara's Second Avenue here (~6 min)Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子, makura no sōshi).Want to read more about Sexton, faith, and love? Your wait is over. Read Sylvia Plath's poem "Edge" here. If you want to know what Hart Crane looks like, click here.

We've just been in a hot air balloon and be warned, we rave about it for quite a lot of minutes before we get into this week's episode—an enthusiastic chat about grammar. Does it matter? Is it elitist? Should we throw the whole lot in the bin? And what does it all mean for marginalized writers? Tune in and find out what it's like being in a hot air balloon, what Joe thinks about class and grammar and cutlery, and why Vicky thinks the publishing industry desperately needs more people who don't look like her.   Key Takeaways:   [1:00] Vicky and Joe woke up really early today and jumped into a hot air balloon! [04:15] Joe gave up reading The Pillow Book. He found it culturally difficult to connect with it. [05:25] Joe moved on to reading Boyhood, Childhood, Youth and Vicky asks him if he is enjoying this one. [06:55] Georgia Pritchett is such a sparse writer and Vicky just gushes about her! [07:50] Is grammar elitist? Vicky talks about the article she read by Leone Ross. [11:30] As long as the meaning comes across, the grammar really doesn't matter. Vicky expounds on this further.  [15:05] People in the marketing industry say you should write like you speak but Vicky disagrees. [16:35] Grammar rules are there for clarity but the main point is to be understood by the person you are writing to and for. [18:05] Part of the snobbishness of grammar is the rejection of the unfamiliar and unwillingness to change.  [19:00] Vicky talks about the podcast, The Allusionist, where they interviewed somebody from Iceland and how their language has changed. [20:50] The world is changing and for a language to survive, it has to change with it.  [21:20] What's the point of this episode? Vicky shares the dreams of her future publishing business. [23:45] Whatever language we're using to write, we need to be skilled in it and that's not being elitist. [26:05] Vicky shares how Leone Ross summed up her article and why she really likes it. [27:30] Broaden your horizons and accept that there are voices different from your own. Let it go and rather focus on honing your skills in writing. [29:00] Vicky is looking for two people to work with for her next six month creative book coaching program!   Mentioned in This Episode: Website Creative Book Coaching Join Vicky's Power Hour March Content Calendar Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, and Overcast Email Vicky about 1:1 coaching at: vicky@moxiebooks.co.uk The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon Boyhood, Childhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy The Great Hunt: Book Two of ‘The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan My Mess is A Bit Of A Life by Georgia Pritchett Is Grammar Elitist? By Leone Ross - Mslexia Magazine Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Normal People by Sally Rooney Theallusionist.org

Hey c'est Margo ! On est de retour pour vous parler d'un nouveau drama. Aujourd'hui on va vous parler du drama: Eternal Love of dream (the Pillow Book) ou 三生三世枕上书 (San Sheng San Shi Zhen Shang Shu) en mandarin avec Dilraba (迪丽热巴) et Gao Wei Guang (高伟光). Cet épisode contient des spoilers ! Music: Intro/ Outro by Thannoid - Bodytonic. lien pour discord: https://discord.gg/sPfWVfp257 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/margo-dramas/message

Hey c'est Margo ! On est de retour pour vous parler d'un nouveau drama. Aujourd'hui on va vous parler du drama: Eternal Love of dream (the Pillow Book) ou 三生三世枕上书 (San Sheng San Shi Zhen Shang Shu) en mandarin avec Dilraba (迪丽热巴) et Gao Wei Guang (高伟光). Music: Intro/ Outro by Thannoid - Bodytonic. lien pour discord: https://discord.gg/sPfWVfp257 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/margo-dramas/message

My favorite feeling is melancholy, it's both a mixture of comfort mixed with a bit of sadness. This is where I spend most of my time. For me, Spring holds this feeling more than any other season.  Anyway, I wanted to talk in this short episode but decided not to. I don't want to interrupt the music or convey my own thoughts onto the music. It's a complete mood that often takes me on an escape from my overthinking brain. A very thoughtful gift was given to me a couple of months back on my birthday; a blank notebook in which to use as a travel journal. I've been doing this already although I haven't gone anywhere yet.  I've been writing favorite things: a sort of "Pillow Book" ( it has many pages so I'm not too worried about running out of space ). However in a couple weeks I will be off on a short trip and have the idea of filling the pages not only with journal entries but I may try watercolors to capture visuals. A few entries so far - When the fog turns to tiny rain at 2AM in the redwood forest. Driving too fast with the windows down through the desert. Lightly touching your mates goose-pimple skin. Reaching the mountain top after a long hike. Staying awake as the campfire slowly fades. Pulling into the driveway after a long vacation. The smile of a cook as they hand you a meal they prepared. The roar of the Pacific late at night. 

We set court politics aside in this episode to explore the life and work of Murasaki Shikibu, the eleventh-century lady-in-waiting who penned a work which is considered by many scholars to be the world's first novel: The Tale of Genji.For artistic renditions of Murasaki Shikibut and Sei Shonagon, check out the supplemental post!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/AHistoryOfJapan)

On this episode of the Books on Asia Podcast, sponsored by Stone Bridge Press, we have guest interviewer Lisa Wilcut speaking with award-winning writer and translator Meredith McKinney. McKinney is translator of many Japanese classics such as Sei Shonagon's 11th-century "The Pillow Book" and the 14th-century "Essays in Idleness," which was published along with "Hōjōki." She has also translated "Kusamakura" and "Kokoro" (see our review) by Natsume Sōseki, one of Japan's most celebrated modern writers. Today, she is going to talk about her long career and also about her just-released book on the wandering poet Saigyō called "Gazing at the Moon" (Shambala, September, 2021).The Books on Asia Podcast is sponsored by Stone Bridge Press, publisher of fine books on Asia for over 30 years. Subscribe to the Books on Asia Podcast.About the InterviewerLisa Wilcut is a writer, editor, translator, and educator based in Yokohama. She writes and edits works on Japanese culture for both scholarly and general audiences and teaches courses in Japanese society and culture as well as philosophy at the University of Maryland Global Campus in Yokosuka. She holds an MA in Japanese language and literature from Stanford University and an MA in philosophy from San Francisco State University. She also writes short fiction and poetry. Find her on LinkedIn.

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today, we've got a great guest on to talk about a great Scotsman - Ewan McGregor! Conor and Dan are blessed to have the wonderful Fiona Underhill (of JumpCut Online) on to talk through the (still, somehow) underrated actor's incredibly diverse career. We focus on: The Pillow Book, A Life Less Ordinary, Down With Love, and Perfect Sense. We dish on Ewan's iconic looks, the full frontal nudity that punctuated his early films, the conflicted accent work, that James Joyce movie he did, and the long feud between him and Danny Boyle that happened because of The Beach. Additional items include the animated film Robots (from the now-shuttered studio Blue Sky), an especially-effective short film called Desserts, and Max Richter's luminous score for Perfect Sense. And, last but not least, a special shout-out to Mark Osborne's magnificent short film More, which deserves to be seen by everyone. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. We are also now on Spotify and Stitcher. Enjoy!

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are joined by Gretchen Rubin, and we are discussing: Bookish Moments: rereading an old favorite, a bookstore visit, and using the strategy of pairing Current Reads: we each share two books that we’ve read recently and what we thought about them Deep Dive: Read 21 in ‘21 and building a reading habit Book Presses: a book to dip in and out of, and some wonderful children’s literature As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  New: we are now including transcripts of the episode. These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 1:22 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 1:24 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin 1:25 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin 1:30 - Happier with Gretchen Rubin - the Podcast! Bookish Moments: 2:48 - The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon 5:13 - Changing Hands Bookstore in Arizona 5:47 - Fabled Bookshop in Waco, TX 6:46 - The strategy of pairing - You can read about all 21 strategies HERE! Current Reads: 8:31 - Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Gretchen) 8:31 - Wild Seed by Octavia Butler 8:50 - The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (Kaytee) 10:14 - Flash Fire (Extraordinaries Book 2) by TJ Klune - due out this fall 10:20 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 10:54 - The Man from the Train by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James (Meredith) 14:42 - Piranesi by Susanna Clark (Gretchen) 15:27 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 17:11 - Little, Big by John Crowley 17:57 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. 18:35 - The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas 19:27 - A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K Barnett (Kaytee) 19:40 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 21:34 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 22:07 - Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston (Meredith) 24:33 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 24:56 - Geekerella by Ashley Poston Deep Dive - Reading for All Four Tendencies: 25:47 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 25:53 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin 26:44 - Read 21 in ‘21 on Episode 305 of Happier with Gretchen Rubin 29:34 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin 29:49 - Free Quiz to find your tendency 35:31 - Don’t Break the Chain Printable Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 43:57 - A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Gretchen) 47:02 - The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser (Kaytee) 47:36 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry 50:05 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 50:07 - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 50:14 - The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye (Meredith) Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Gretchen is @gretchenrubin on Instagram and @gretchenrubin on Twitter. Her website is gretchenrubin.com, and her podcast is Happier with Gretchen Rubin Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

On the one hundred and sixty-eighth episode of THE THIRD ACT PODCAST the crew is rockin' around the Flicksmas tree once again. For our new release review we talk about David Fincher's atypical biopic about the screenwriter of Citizen Kane, MANK. We pair that a young girl's strange, erotic journey in THE PILLOW BOOK. Finally, we celebrate during our annual Merry Flicksmas segment and open the gift of first-time watches of A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, KWAIDAN, and THE WAGES OF FEAR. We also discuss Mario and Luigi, egg nog, and lightsabers. Check out The Flicksation Podcast to hear the other half of the Flicksmas festivities. Keep in touch with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheThirdActPodcast and Twitter: @TheThirdActPod and email us anytime at: TheThirdActPodcast@gmail.com

This week The Cultists Present Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1996). This film was marketed as your standard mid-90s soft-core erotic tale, and yet, in typical Greenaway form, there is nothing standard about it. A deeply insider film about calligraphy fetishism, formalist objectification, and 10th century Japanese literary references—all culminating in a climax of Ewan McGregor getting turned into a literal book because his skin is an art that's just too pretty to let go— The Pillow Book unfolds in a manner that is singular to itself. A film that despite it's bizarre premise and turns, remains indeed surprisingly hot. Deep dives include: film formalism; The 10th century Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon; the hemisphere cognition of sound processing; and how (not) to make a book out of human skin. Episode Safeword: “vanilla”

In this episode, we continue the flash conversation from last week, along with our resident barkeep (not “mixologist”) David. He makes us an essayistic shot, and we all discuss Sex and the City, our shared Italian heritage, the flash equivalents of the drama world, David’s Instagram animal searches, where we’re all absconding for the rest of the pandemic, and, eventually, even more flash essays: Bernard Cooper’s “Live Wire,” and a bunch that Elena put together for a lightning round. Episode links: Bernard Cooper’s “Live Wire”: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Maps_to_Anywhere/SN53b7BqmUkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bernard+cooper+live+wire&pg=PA67&printsec=frontcover Sei Shonagon’s “Pillow Book” (the whole thing, because I couldn’t find the essay Elena picked): http://faculty.sgc.edu/rkelley/the%20pillow.pdf Ann Carson’s “On Homo Sapiens,” from Short Talks: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx5d3djcmVhdGl2ZW5vbmZpY3Rpb258Z3g6NjliMjQ3ZDA4YzkxMTc3Yg

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#CINEstudios #ThePillowBook #ArteYErotismo #AquíNadieEstudióCine El arte ha perseguido a nuestra invitada, ella lo abrazo y lo hizo suyo. Lo plasma es su obra, en sus palabras, en sus gestos y hasta en su sonrisa, Eva viene a platicarnos de su director predilecto Peter Greenaway y nos quiere introducir a él por medio de The Pillow Book (1996). Es protagonizada por Vivian Wu como Nagiko e Ewan McGregor como Jerome. Una pelicula embriagante, erótica, plagada de detalles, estética, cultura entre muchas otras cosas que los invitamos a disfrutar hoy. DENSEEEEEEE Editor: Jorge Ochoa (jorge.3333@hotmail.com)

Mindful Divine Podcast, Hosted by Shana BianchiWhat Money Can Teach Us about Self-Acceptance & Financial Abundance + How to heal your relationship with money, build your financial EQ and become a money magnet.// Introduction:I recently took a workshop through MindValley on money mindset, and I was so interested in the content I wanted to share it with you this week. The workshop was led by Ken Honda, author of over 50 books, including “Happy Money”, is a Japanese financial expert who trains professionals for no less than $30k for just a few months of support. Ken was mentored by the famed Wahei Takeda, who is known as the Warren Buffet of Japan... and btw did you know Japan has more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world? Pretty impressive. So, the workshop talked a lot about targeting the ‘money wounds' embedded in your brain: which are similar to limiting beliefs that your mind holds onto. By releasing these beliefs, you'll shift your money mindset and uncover secrets from some of the world's wealthiest people.Get ready to get abundance on demand, by restructuring your money mindset, and finding peace with money. As you look at your relationship with money, your life will shift, and as you heal your money wounds your whole outlook on life will change. You'll have better sleep, relationships, and finances. Once your belief system changes, your life will change. You will be able to trust life more and do what you want and need - you can take risks, which really is just following your heart and intuition. It all starts with transforming your mind. Get ready to start your new money life today.Forgiveness for the past can be a fortune for the future. It's important to look at past pain and resentment that's silently dragging down your financial success in the present. A lot of our beliefs of money that take place are rooted in the house we grew up in. Our parents wounds and our younger wounds become our current woundsHow did your parents view money when you were a child? How did they talk about it? Did they say or imply rich people were mean, bad, and selfish? Did people who have little money try to take from those who “worked harder” for their money, thus making them less deserving? Did you come from a family that said you need to be careful of money, or beware of where you put it? Did you hear your parents always saying, “we don't have enough money for this or that?”I've found we need to recognize the knowledge in doses like this, I like to call it life's micro-learning. Through the exercises today you will learn why you may no thave the bank account you want, or are in debt because you don't have the right mentors to teach you about money.For most, our mentors are our parents or guardians, but remember they have their own wounds too (from their own childhood and life experiences)! We are not taught the skills to acknowledge and heal these wounds growing up, but it's important to learn them now, because it's never too late for your SHIFT.For my money wounds, for example, I'm reminded of my childhood when my dad would have to output money. My dad would always be very cranky and angry when it was that time of the month to pay bills. He would be visibly upset, and as a young girl my thought pattern was this:Well, money, and paying out money makes you mad and upset. So to be happy, I must get, make and keep my money. My fear of having too little became an obsession as I got older to strive to always make more and do more, thus leading to professional burnout and emotional fatigue.I now understand that I can remove the imprints and wounds of money from my family, and instead make my own new imprints.Maybe try to interview your parents, grandparents or whoever raised you -- and ask them their views on money (both when they were a kid and now). Then draw comparisons and see if you now fall into the same patterns and beliefs.See, money is energy. It's an exchange of energy. You can decide if you want it to be a good exchange or a bad exchange. If you want to get angry when it goes out, that's your choice emotionally. If you want to be grateful when it goes out, that's also your choice.IQ, as we know, has to do with intelligence, and you may have heard of EQ - connecting to emotional intelligence. It's important to know that EQ also pertains to money, since, as we just learned, money is energy. The methodology for Money EQ Will transform your relationship with money, and in turn skyrocket your success in money and in life. It's a proven process that countless people across the world have already benefited from, too.A high money IQ (meaning the hard skills of money like saving and investing) can help you grow your money in the short-term… But without a high money EQ (your relationship with money) you will never achieve lasting wealth or peace of mind with your money.// Method to Manifesting 101:As much as we want it, we are either afraid of money or obsessed with money. Why is it that when we need to make a decision to buy something, like a car or a house - we feel like you cant make any mistakes and are almost paralyzed in fear. It's because we don't have a good relationship with money, and we aren't accepting the input and output of energy itself.There are 3 Systemic Models, or money types that people fall into, often taken from when you were a kid, and stuck onto you like glue as the adult you are today. When you can identify your money EQ type - it will help you see where your money block may be, and when you recognize the block, you can start to clear it.The 3 money types are:1. Control2. Indifferent3. FearSo let's get into that a bit...- The “control” money type: Someone who wants to control everything and save money, make money and increase it. Do-ers. Anxiety-ridden sometimes, and often didn't come from a home that had money, so they want to control the amount they bring in, in order to control their happiness or emotions. May have thought if they had more money they could be happier or avoid pain or escape suffering.Statements that may resonate with the control money type are:*** I spend a lot of time thinking about what I will do with my money. Save it, earn it, spend it.*** I would like more money in my life and have many plans for what I would do with it*** I am happier when I am actively doing something to change my finances- The “indifferent” money type: Often school teachers, homemaker, volunteer workers. They don't really care about it, or don't know how to manage it, so they often do good, meaningful work in the world but can be broke or make less money than they're worth. Often brought up in a nice or okay middle class home. Given what they need, good presents, so they are indifferent and they don't have to worry about it much.Statements that may resonate with the indifferent money type are:*** I am generally not motivated by money*** Money seems to flow to me without much effort*** I don't spend much time thinking about money- The “fear” money type: They are afraid, judge or try to run away from money. They often think people who have lots of money are dirty or evil and people who have it are bad people, or had to step on others to make it to the top. They are often afraid, freeze or try to run away from systems - hippie types or anti-rule followers, and don't want to have anything to do with it, though they likely still complain about not having enough money.Statements that may resonate with the fear money type are:*** I spend a lot of time worrying about money*** I often find myself frozen when it comes to making financial decisions*** I will often ignore my finances or keep money at a distance.Ps. It's also important to remember that you can have more than one money type. I'm sort of a mix of control and fear, but control is more dominant for me. Now that I recognize that, I can understand when I receive or spend money, how I feel about it, and I can create my own financial freedom.Think about what money type you are, and say out loud, “I am not my past money wounds, as of today, I am lovingly healing my relationship with money, and welcoming it with positive energy, flow, appreciation and gratitude.”// Ancient Ancestors:Arigato is a Japanese word, meaning thank you. It directly translates to something being impossible or difficult, and to explain why this is, arigato is used to address a thank you to the person who has done something impossible for you.You'll find traces of the word arigato as far back as the 794-1192, in the Heian period, and you can even find it in the Pillow Book, also known as “Makura no Soshi”. The Pillow Book is comprised of a bunch of entries written by court lady Sei Shonagon. It was finished in 1002, and Shonagon included excerpts of musings and bits of her life; poems, quotes, passages, message bits, essays, etcetera. She also happened to write down “Arigatakimono”, which expressed some sentiments that she found it hard to exist in this world.The word would later evolve with the widespread religion of Buddhism in Japan. People connected arigato with the idea of gratefulness of the blessings given by Buddha. To this day, this is still the way people perceive the gratitude behind arigato.It's no secret that words have power, feel free to head back to episode 2 to listen to the reality of words for more info here… but the spiritual power of words is also a biggie in the Japanese Language and culture.Japan has a traditional philosophy called kotodama. People in ancient times referred to Japan as “The country where kotodama brings happiness”, and the idea still holds true today. Gratitude and thanks bring about happiness.Today, I want to tell you a secret technique, used by billionaires worldwide.It's called The Arigato Technique.Years ago, Takeda (remember the Warren Buffet of Japan) was asked - “What is the secret to wealth?” To which he replied, “There is only one secret: Arigato your money and smile.So we know now that Arigato means “thank you” in Japanese, and Takeda said the #1 secret to wealth is by saying thank you. You might be thinking, wait… that's it? That can't be it. Takeda is a billionaire, how is this the most important secret. But when was the last time you thanked your money? If ever? Can this method be that simple? Thes short answer is yes.When the money comes in, you must appreciate it. When the money goes out, you must also appreciate it. By thanking the money output, and input, you are recognizing the appreciation and gratitude of it, and also the circular flow of the money itself, thus making it “happy money”.“Arigato In. Arigato Out.”So here's the trick to the Japanese Art of Mastering Your Money - say out loud, “thank you” to the check, or money or whatever you get - and when I spend on money with your credit card online or at the store, or write a check for your rent or mortgage or bills, say out loud “thank you” and direct it to the money. You can say it in any language, it doesn't matter - the universe picks up on the ENERGY of gratitude… though I do say “Arigato” because that resonates with me personally. Try to say it out loud when you say it, but if you really are in a place where you can't, be sure to say it in your head.By using the Arigato Technique, you are blessing the money, and the next person and the next person - imagine the journey of it - think about - when you pay for food at the store, it goes to the farmer who made it, the cashier's hourly wage, the rent or electricity to have a store down the street from you. The money energy is something that connects all of it, and we never even think about it. If the energy is not appreciated, it will not flow.This way, it becomes a circular money - it will flow all around your, and you will realize you can access it at any time. It becomes easily accessible because there is a constant flow of money as if you are BREATHING it.It's such a healthy mental model! It will attract new opportunities and levels of money and financial abundance for you. The technique is simple, but the results are profound. Others will do it back and reflect it to you, too, if we're all appreciative of the money. The Mental models from our past hold us back, but with the Arigato Technique, you will begin to welcome miracles into your life, you'll see.// Mindful & Metaphysical:We now know that we must clear the money myths and shift our mindset, and we've learned that thanking your money with the Arigato technique is the secret to welcoming more of it, as we recognize the circular pattern of the energy of money.Now, I want you to think about your money mindset.I want you to think “money is air” …now say it out loud - “money is air”That's an easier concept for our younger generation to think about right? Money is air -- we use apple cards, venmo, and text people money. We rarely have cash or coins, and have leaned on plastic for years now. So it's not like we have to feel tied or connected to a dollar in our bank account. If we can imagine a room with plentiful air, could we imagine an account with plentiful funds. Yes, you can!According to Wahei Takeda and Ken Honda, there are 3 levels of money. I think of these like levels that you graduate through.Money is like ice, you will not move through it or get more of it if you fight itMoney is like a river, you can feel comfortable on it, but it could carry you awayIf you go to the highest level, money is like air, you don't even know you're breathing because it's everywhere, all around you, ever abundant.Think of it this way, we don't wake up in the morning thinking, “Is there going to be enough air for me to breath today?” Because it's ever-flowing all around us. Try to think of money that way.You may never feel rich UNTIL you shift your mindset around money to the mental model - If you level up, and think of the energy of money like air, then the money will come like air. Say right now with me, “The money I need flows to me whenever I need it.”I will say, money energy can't be selfish either. You can't be like… I want a million dollars to help myself and sit in a vat of gold while eating truffles and drinking champagne. Think about money, why you feel like you need it, or who/what it can help. Remember the importance of having a servant's heart, and how you can be living a life of altruism.There was a fascinating discovery revealed after Ken interviewed over 12,000 self-made millionaires in his home country of Japan. While many of these millionaires had more than enough cash in their bank accounts, some of them still did not feel financially secure. Keep in mind, some of them were multi-millionaires. Some even had private jets. And yet, these people were still fraught with financial worries. So if it's not the number in our bank accounts that can help us dissolve the stresses we so often experience with handling money, what can? That's when Ken pieced the puzzle together.You'll also be chasing but never feel fulfilled. Ya know, don't aim for a jet, because there will always be something else you want, like chasing a horizon. The closer you get, the farther it goes.All you need is the capability to thank the money and welcome it.It's not just the money - once you trust the universe is nice and friendly to you, it will come. I always say the universe is always conspiring with you, not against you. You can co-create your future in every aspect of your life! This is one of the most powerful things you can learn in this human life -- - - - - - - - - - -As always, thank you for reading along, listening to, sharing, and subscribing, and don't forget to stay Mindful & Divine.x.shanaMindful Divine WebsitePodcast • YouTube • Book • InstagramQuestions? Want to Work Together or Discuss a Future Project? Email shana@mindfuldivine.com- - - - - - - - - - -Additional Sources I enjoyed reading and researching while writing this episode / post:https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/money-energy-is-spiritual-energyhttps://blog.mindvalley.com/how-to-attract-money/https://shellybullard.com/blog-manifest-abundance/why-money-is-spiritualhttps://spiritualarts.org/blog/evolving-your-soul/the-spiritual-purpose-of-money/https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/things-i-learned-from-you-are-a-badass-at-making-moneyhttps://tobemagnetic.com/free-native-1/2017/9/11/the-energetics-of-money-manifestationhttps://www.thecut.com/2018/05/lacy-phillips-podcast-interview-youtube-review-manifestation-class.htmlI took the mini-workshop, but the full online course can be found here: https://www.mindvalley.com/money/masterclass

Prise de possession ultime du corps, le tatouage pour les femmes n’a rien d’anodin. Pratique datant du 18eme siècle et marqueur social fort, les tatouages sont aussi des symboles de lutte, de survie ou d’embellissement pour ceux et celles qui les arborent. Depuis longtemps investi par les femmes, le milieu du tatouage, majoritairement masculin ne se soustrait pas aux logiques du racisme, du sexisme ou de l’appropriation culturelle. Sans fioritures, Clémentine et Anne-Laure parlent aujourd’hui du tatouage par et pour les femmes. Références entendues dans l’épisode : Le mot “tatouage” proviendrait du tahitien “tatau” (“dessin”) noté en 1772 dans le journal le capitaine Cook, premier navigateur à explorer le triangle polynésien. La scarification est une pratique consistant à effectuer une incision superficielle de la peau humaine à l'aide d'outils coupants (morceaux de pierre, verre, coque de noix de coco, couteaux) elle peut revêtir une valeur de rite de passage particulièrement en Afrique de l’Ouest. Ötzi aussi surnommé Hibernatus est un homme momifié naturellement découvert le 19 septembre 1991 à 3 210 mètres d'altitude, dans le val de Senales en Italie. Il porte les plus anciens tatouages connus dans le monde. La micronésie est une région d’Océanie où le tatouage est très présent représentant la fertilité, ses motifs ont inspiré le fameux tatouage « tribal », composé de longs aplats noirs curvilignes.Les Aïnous, premiers habitants du Japon (région nord) utilisaient le tatouage comme marqueur social, les femmes étaient marquées par un tatouage recouvrant les bords de la bouche et remontant légèrement sur les joues chez les femmes mariées, ressemblant à une moustache. Les courtisanes japonaise sous l’époque d’Edo étaient soumises à la pratique de l’irebokuro dont sa variante le kishibori consistait à se faire tatouer le nom de leur amant pour représenter l’amour éternel ou plus souvent leur possession par de riches clients. Le tatouage chinois ("Wenshen" ou "Chiqing") avait une valeur punitive en Chine (sur le visage) puis redevient populaire du VIIème au XVIIème siècle, tatouage considéré comme porteur de chance. Les docteurs Albert Leblond et Arthur Lucas écrivent en 1899 Du tatouage chez les prostitués. Quelques exemples des tatouages retrouvés sur les prostitués au XIXème siècles. La septicémie est une infection qui pouvait se conclure par une gangrène ou une amputation résulte de la non désinfection des ustensiles pour tatouer. Elle était courante au XIXème siècle. France Borel écrit l’essai Le vêtement incarné : les métamorphoses du corps (Calmann-Lévy) en 1992. Le hand poked tattoo est un tatouage fait à la main avec une aiguille, réservé autrefois aux prisonniers. La culture rockabilly (contraction de “rock” et “hillbilly”, terme péjoratif pour décrire une personne peu cultivée) est souvent associée à un genre musical des années 50. Elle a également produit toute une esthétique (langage, art, mode, danse) qui inspire tout un genre de tatouage encore aujourd’hui. Mildred Hull alias Millie Hull (1897 - 1947) est une ancienne danseuse burlesque et seule femme tatoueuse à New-York en 1943 régnant sur le quartier de Bowery grâce au Tattoo Emporium, son salon fondé dans les années 20. Irène “Bobby” Libarry (1893 - 1978), illusionniste et bonimenteuse, a créé son propre cirque appelée “The world’s strangest people” avant d’ouvrir son salon de tatouage en 1939 à San Francisco. Maud Wagner (1877 - 1961) est la première tatoueuse américaine, pratiquant le handpoke jusqu’à la fin de sa carrière. Artiste de cirque à ses débuts, elle commence sa carrière après avoir rencontré Gus Wagner, le “globle-trotter tatoué” pendant l’exposition universelle du Missouri en 1904. Leonora Platt (1883 - 1960), ancienne des Sheesley shows, est une tatoueuse américaine dont le salon de norfolk connaît beaucoup de succès en 1912, jusqu’à pouvoir inciter ses collègues à engager des femmes tatoueuses. Un article qui retrace l’histoire de ces tatoueuses américaines. Le concept de “technique du corps” (évoqué dans conférence du même nom en 1934) désigne selon Marcel Mauss la capacité à transmettre un acte sur le corps traditionnel et efficace de génération en génération, à la croisée de la biologie, de la sociologie et de la psychologie. Michel Foucaut dans Surveiller et Punir en 1975 reprend cette définition dans son concept de “techniques disciplinaires”. Ces techniques ont en commun le fait de s’appliquer aux corps des individus durablement en vue d’une sorte de dressage. Pour Norbert Elias, la société ne peut se construire et se comprendre qu’à travers un processus d’auto-contrainte générale, et le tatouage en est une de ses facettes corporelles, entre conformisme et transgression. L’étude IFOP publiée par le Syndicat National des Artistes Tatoueurs (SNAT) en janvier 2017. L’étude de psychologie sur la perception des femmes tatouées menée en 2004 par Hawkes, Senn et Thom au Canada. Un article sur la perception des femmes tatouées au Canada. Colette Guillaumin est une sociologue féministe et militante antiraciste, chercheuse au CNRS, elle parle de la portée du tatouage chez les femmes dans son recueil Sexe, Race et Pratique du pouvoir. L’idée de Nature (iXe, 2016).L’article du Guardian sur le “survivor tattoo”, “Instead of a scar I had a piece of art : women on their post-masectomy tattoo”. Le tatouage “point-virgule” initié par le Project SemicolonUn article de Madmoizelle sur le tatouage “point-virgule”.Un article de CBS sur les tatouages des survivants de l’ouragan Katrina.Un article de l’Express sur les tatouages mémoriels des attentats de Paris. Un article du Rose Magazine sur le tatouage comme alternative à la reconstruction mammaire après un cancer. La brésilienne Flavia Carvalho et la russe Zenya Zakhar dessinent des fleurs ou des papillons gratuitement sur des traces laissées par des agressions subies par les femmes. Kat Von D est une artiste tatoueuse présente dans L.A Ink, elle a créé sa propre marque de maquillage qui a fermé récemment. L.A. Ink est une téléréalité suivant le salon de tatouage High voltage Tattoo diffusé sur TLC et Discovery Channel de 2007 à 2011. Le MS13 et le Barrio 18 sont des gangs rivaux d’Amérique centrale dans lesquels le tatouage fait office de contrat ou de rite d’entrée. Au Salvador, la clinique financée par Taïwan qui propose d’effacer les tatouages pour permettre aux ex-membres de gang de se réintégrer. Un article de Racked Magazine sur le “tramp stamp”, ce tatouage au bas du dos stigmatisé. L’article du Figaro Madame sur ces travailleuses du sexe tatouées de force par leurs proxénètesUn article de France Info sur ces jeunes israéliens qui se font tatouer le numéro de détenu sur l’avant-bras de leurs aïeux survivants. Numbered est un documentaire sur ce phénomène de Dana Doron et Uriel Sinai réalisé en 2012. Les membres de la communauté LGBTQI+ se réapproprient et se tatouent le triangle tête en bas noir et rose qui servait à marquer les lesbiennes, les homosexuels ou les “associaux” dans les camps de concentration. Le double anneau sur l’avant-bras, symbole d’égalité dans la communauté gay dont la signification est détournée par les fake news. Un portrait dans La Presse de la députée d’origine inuite Mumilaaq Qaqqaq qui arbore les tatouages de sa communauté. L’article d’Hélène Molinari dans Komitid sur Elizabeth Kerekere, militante Maori lesbienne. L’article de Buzzfeed sur le tatouage de symboles féministes et leurs significations. Un article du Time sur ces tatouages féministes provoqués par la course à l’élection présidentielle américaine et la phrase d’Elizabeth Warren. Margot Mifflin évoque l’entre-soi viriliste du milieu du tatouage américain, “The white boy bro culture of tattooing”, dans son livre Bodies of subversion. A Secret History of Women and Tattoo (Powerhouse Books, 2012). Le compte Instagram @payetontattoartist dénonce les tatoueurs sexistes. L’article de Vice sur Instagram comme moyen d’exister pour des femmes, des personnes LGBTQI+ et des personnesracisées d’exister hors des sentiers traditionnels. L’article de Bustle sur le racisme et les mythes de la peau “trop foncée” pour être tatouée.Un article d’Inside Out sur la relation entre la culture et le tatouage.Un article de Macunion sur l’appropriation culturelle et le tatouage. Anna Wanda Gogusey est une illustratrice et tatoueuse, elle a aussi un site. Daria Marx est une féministe, blogueuse et écrivaine.Ma Vie en Gros est un documentaire de Daria Marx diffusé en février 2020 sur France 2.La Nuit du Chasseur est un film de Charles Laughton de 1955 où le personnage du révérend Harry Powers joué par Robert Mitchum a les mots “love” et “hate” tatoués sur les premières phalanges. Lisbeth Salander est l’héroïne de la série de romans policiers Millénium de Stieg Larsson, adaptée plusieurs fois à la télévision et au cinéma. Elle a entre autres tatouages un gigantesque dragon sur son dos. Harley Quinn est un personnage de l’univers de DC Comic interprétée par Margot Robbie au cinéma. Elle est tatouée sur tout le corps. Cressida est un personnage de la série de roman Hunger Games interprétée au cinéma par Natalie Dormer. Elle est tatouée sur le crâne. Un article sur les tatouages de Lena Dunham dont son personnage, Hannah, parle également dans la série Girls. Elle s’est faite tatouée par une de ses amies aussi actrice dans Girls Jemina Kirke.Zoé Kravitz est une actrice, tatouée, Kristen Stewart est une actrice américaine, tatouée entre autre sur l’avant-bras. Angelina Jolie est une actrice américaine, tatouée sur plusieurs partie du corps. Un article sur les tatouages de la chanteuse américaine Ariana Grande. Un article sur les tatouages de Marion Seclin sur ses tétons. The Pillow Book est un film Peter Green Away sorti en 1996. Memento est un film Christopher Nolan sorti en 2001. Le “Fire rose unity survivor tattoo” de Lady Gaga. Faites-moi plaisir est un roman de Mary Gaytskill (Éditions de l’Olivier, 2020) qui a également écrit le roman adaptée au cinéma en 2002 La Secrétaire. Iris Brey est une journaliste et autrice. Elle a publié en 2020 l’essai Le regard féminin, une révolution à l’écran (Éditions de l’Olivier). Morning Show est une série de Michael Ellenberg et Kerry Ehrin diffusé par Apple TV+ depuis 2020. Le podcast de Norah Benarrosh-Orsoni Tout de suite les grands mots du Collectif Transmissions. Karine Tuil a écrit le roman Les Choses Humaines (Gallimard, 2019) qui a reçu le prix Goncourt des Lycéens et le prix Interralié. Woman World (Éditions La Ville brûle, 2020) est la première BD de l’autrice canadienne Aminder Dhaliwal, traduite en françias par Clémentine Beauvais. Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes, cet épisode est conçu par Clémentine Gallot et présenté par Anne-Laure Pineau, mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Montage et coordination Ashley Tola.

On our search for the good life, is there anything they we can focus on throughout the day to help us? Dr. Puff explores 2 key ingredients of living the good life. Two books meantioned in the talk were "Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust and "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com

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Special Guest: Artist Jade Cohen (@jadecohenart). Movie by April 10: The Pillow Book (1996). Hall of the Mountain King Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Double Violin Concerto 1st Movement Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In today’s episode Elaine chats to Scottish actress and photographer Jessica Hardwick. Jess should have been at Pitlochry Theatre then on to The Lyceum Theatre in Barefoot in The Park playing Corie. However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and no gatherings of more than 2 people this production has had to be cancelled for the moment. Here is hoping they can remount soon. Jessica graduated from the BA Acting course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Since graduating she went on to win the Billy McColl Award for Most Promising Newcomer in Scottish Stage Acting 2014 and won Best Female performance at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2018. Theatre work includes: Numerous productions with The Citizens Theatre, Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Perth Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival. She has worked extensively with National Theatre of Scotland, most recently playing Roxane, In Cyrano De Bergerac and Prudencia Hart in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, which toured all across the US and transferred to New York. Helen in Meet me at Dawn at the Arcola. Radio work includes: A Christmas Compass: East, When the Pips Stop, The Vital Spark: Intelligence, Reachers Point, Brothers, McLevy and The Pillow Book (all for BBC Radio 4). She also played one of the leads in the BBC Radio 4 six-part series The Fair Intellectual Club by comedian Lucy Porter. She recently recorded the audio book version of Canongate Books Salt on Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie, which is now available on Audible. https://www.jesshardwickphotography.com/ For those of you struggling financially just now remember we have started a Go Fund Me Wan Mair Tune Fund to help Scottish creatives. Head to persistentandnasty@gmail.com and ask for a bread and butter form. Or if you can help by donating please follow the link below. Big Love, Elaine, Louise and Misha https://www.gofundme.com/f/wan-mair-tune-fund-coronavirus-scottish-artists?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR3hXCySZF-eCLe2Kx1_T59CLkD56CIa-5y6xOdG7WDJWDUaaJ1gLA0MDlc You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty To check in with our Nasty Action Plan and see what we're doing to keep busy & positive check in on social media: Twitter: @PersistentNasty Instagram: @PersistentandNasty Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms. On Twitter @weareohsocivil On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

Welp, here we are! Yes! Wild times. Strange times.

Pour retrouver l'intégralité de l'interview et découvrir l'univers de Valentine Gauthier en images, faites un clic ici: http://bit.ly/VALENTINEGAUTHIER Dans ce podcast, la créatrice qui commença "accidentellement" sa carrière chez Martin Margiela explique comment la mode s'est imposée dans sa vie. De cette expérience auprès du maître belge, elle a conservé une approche exigeante du vêtement qui fait la renommée de sa marque. Ayant grandi dans le sud, dans un milieu familial où l'art tenait une place de choix, Valentine Gauthier dévoile comment cette sensibilité artistique développée depuis l'enfance, impacte ses collections. Elle parle aussi de la tribu de créatifs qui l'accompagne dans sa vie et qui nourrit sa réflexion. 2 phrases clé: -10'34: "Martin Margiela a une candeur absolue. C'est quelqu'un d'assez touchant et merveilleux. Il m'a terriblement donnée envie de faire ce métier. Je me suis dit que l'on pouvait être un artiste et apporter une réflexion sur le vêtement". - 18'43 : " Je suis très marquée par le film The Pillow Book de Peter Greenaway. Il a profondément bouleversé ma jeunesse. Il m'a appris à regarder la vie différemment et à m'interroger sur la beauté des choses que l'on pourrait considérer comme inutiles"

This week we go full head up the rump and wrestle with some art films. Masterpieces of moving images... at least that is what we were told.First, we dig into the film that is widely accepted as gateway Buñuel. We gaze deeply into the inner... uh... somethings of people who like to dinner party. Their failures and dreams lead to total confusion over The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.What do you get when you combine a novella from the father of cyberpunk, one of cinema's most fiercely independent voices, and two of the greatest character actors of their generation? I don't know but there's a close approximation with New Rose Hotel.Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book is a tale of revenge wrapped over a technical exercise inspired by a classic book that has thrived over the last thousand years. Finally, one of the silent era's most brilliant voices plays with composition and sound, shadows and multiple languages combine with horror and mystery inspired by the pen of Sheridan Le Fanu in Vampyr.All that and Dave has a rant, Tyler is overwhelmed by the beauty, Kevin marches to the beat of his own sensory deprivation chamber, and in the shadows a grand scheme is being hatched. Join us, won't you?Episode 143- Arty Arty Oxen Free

Everywhere, all the time, it seems like we’re being sold on the idea that getting rid of things will solve our problems—from the life-changing magic of Marie Kondo to the streamlining of all those DVDs into digital subscriptions—and it’s all being sold under the label of minimalism. In his new book, The Longing for Less, Kyle Chayka criticizes this trend as a kind of upscale austerity designed to get you to buy and consume things. Maybe fewer things, but things nonetheless. Have we lost the true meaning of minimalism? Chayka takes readers through a history of art, design, and philosophy that goes much further back than the 1960s work of Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, and John Cage, to show that maybe the most meaningful part of “minimalism” is the search for meaning. Chayka has written for The New York Times Magazine, n+1, and The Paris Review, and he joins us in the studio to offer up a brand of minimalism that won’t bankrupt you, emotionally or financially.Go beyond the episode:Kyle Chayka’s The Longing for Less: Living with MinimalismWatch a short documentary about the painter Agnes Martin from the TateView Donald Judd's massive installations in Marfa or New York, and be sure to stop by Walter De Maria’s The Earth Room while you're at itPoke around Philip Johnson’s Glass HouseListen to Julius Eastman's hypnotic composition “Stay on It” (and read more about him here)Two Japanese touchstones of minimalism: Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book and Junichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of ShadowsTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Everywhere, all the time, it seems like we’re being sold on the idea that getting rid of things will solve our problems—from the life-changing magic of Marie Kondo to the streamlining of all those DVDs into digital subscriptions—and it’s all being sold under the label of minimalism. In his new book, The Longing for Less, Kyle Chayka criticizes this trend as a kind of upscale austerity designed to get you to buy and consume things. Maybe fewer things, but things nonetheless. Have we lost the true meaning of minimalism? Chayka takes readers through a history of art, design, and philosophy that goes much further back than the 1960s work of Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, and John Cage, to show that maybe the most meaningful part of “minimalism” is the search for meaning. Chayka has written for The New York Times Magazine, n+1, and The Paris Review, and he joins us in the studio to offer up a brand of minimalism that won’t bankrupt you, emotionally or financially.Go beyond the episode:Kyle Chayka’s The Longing for Less: Living with MinimalismWatch a short documentary about the painter Agnes Martin from the TateView Donald Judd's massive installations in Marfa or New York, and be sure to stop by Walter De Maria’s The Earth Room while you're at itPoke around Philip Johnson’s Glass HouseListen to Julius Eastman's hypnotic composition “Stay on It” (and read more about him here)Two Japanese touchstones of minimalism: Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book and Junichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of ShadowsTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Danielle introduces Max to the list poem form with Lee Ann Roripaugh's "Things that Leave an Aching Feeling Inside." Topics include: list form, The Pillow Book, the importance of poetry during the Heian period, and breaking your own heart.

Dramaturg and Director Alison Ruth joins us in this episode of Beckett's Babies to share her thoughts on dramaturgy, playwriting, and directing. We discuss what makes theater unique from other art forms and how dramaturgy can lend itself to directing. We loved having Alison on the show! She's a wonderful human being and that's our favorite type of guest on our show. Check out the episode! Grumble Theater: http://www.grumbletheater.org/ Episode 6: "Writing a Pillow Book" Playwriting Exercise from Alison Ruth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies We would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info and playwriting exercises visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com

Clouds, Mountains, Birds, Different Ways of Speaking. Things That Matter, and Things That Do Not Matter. Things Found in a Local Grocery Store. Things Found in The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Billboards, Clouds. One Week in April. Beautiful Things. Fires.

This week, we cover the fascinating tale of Sei Shonagon and the Makura no Soushi, or Pillow Book. Why is a collection of anecdotes considered to be one of Japan's greatest literary classics? What mkes the Pillow Book so famous? And why does Isaac love it so very much?

Jonathan Lethem drops into the Damn Library and the guys are damn excited to have him. They talk about Lethem's new one, The Feral Detective, of course, but they also talk about his work as a whole, and how his books are in conversation with each other, along with a tangent into timeliness and how lucky he feels. Then they get into Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book, a classic unclassifiable Japanese work, began in the year 990. Translation conversation, and what a "pillow book" is, ensues. One for the ages! contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb for drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: somanydamnbooks.com music: Disaster Magic (https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sei Shonagan invents the internet! In this episode, we discuss different translations, Sei Shonagon's epic snobbiness, and how she may have also invented the humble brag. Essay: How Sei Shonagon Invented Your Tumblr by Sady Doyle Recommendations: Hanadai: Price of the Flower by Evelyn De Wolfe (forthcoming) The Bughouse by Daniel Swift (FSG, 2017) Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn Tokkaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson

In episode seven of Literary Canon Ball we discuss Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book. Join us as we discuss the genre bending nature of this thousand-year-old book. And, as always, we have a bunch of excellent recommendations just for you!

Some of Chris' earlier projects included: The Pillow Book, Shadow of the Vampire, and Max. Chris' work as editor over the years has also included the films Dead Man's Shoes, This Is England, and Dreams of a Life. More recently, Chris co-edited Partisan, and edited the The Ones Below, The Falling, and '71.

Welcome to Books @ Bedtime, a softly-spoken podcast featuring classic literature to help you relax. In this episode, I read a snow-filled excerpt from The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon.

My guest for the hour today is poet Rebecca Lindenberg. Clouds, mountains, flowering trees. Difficult things. Things lost by being photographed. Things that have lost their power. Things found in a rural grocery store. These are some of the lists, poems, prose poems, and lyric anecdotes compiled in “The Logan Notebooks,” a remix and a reimagining of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a collection of intimate and imaginative observations about place—a real place, an interior landscape—and identity, at the intersection of the human with the world, and the language we have (and do not yet have) for perceiving it.

Peter Greenaway kommer väl alltid att förknippas med sin genombrottsfilm Tecknarens kontrakt från 1982 med tonsättaren Michael Nymans lika nyskapande musik. Och den rad av långfilmer han producerat sedan dess, exempelvis ZOO, Dränkta i nummerordning, Arkitektens mage, Kocken, tjuven, hans fru och hennes älskare, Prosperos böcker, Barnet från Mâcon, The Pillow Book, 8½ kvinnor och Nattvakten har med sitt överväldigande bildspråk slagit den konstnärligt intresserade filmvärlden med häpnad, och lika imponerande är den svit av utställningar som han strött ut över världens museer och konsthallar. Stockholms Filmfestival är bara en i en lång rad av filmfestivaler som lagerkransat Greenaway när han i höstas tilldelades festivalens Visionary Award. Idag hör han till de konstnärer som utgör sin egen lilla industri - eller ska vi säga konstinstitution - som turnerar över världen med ett nät av skickliga medarbetare som administrerar hans aldrig sinande idéström. I dagens kulturdokumentär tecknar Karsten Thurfjell hans porträtt.

Peter Greenaway kommer väl alltid att förknippas med sin genombrottsfilm Tecknarens kontrakt från 1982 med tonsättaren Michael Nymans lika nyskapande musik. Och den rad av långfilmer han producerat sedan dess, exempelvis ZOO, Dränkta i nummerordning, Arkitektens mage, Kocken, tjuven, hans fru och hennes älskare, Prosperos böcker, Barnet från Mâcon, The Pillow Book, 8½ kvinnor och Nattvakten har med sitt överväldigande bildspråk slagit den konstnärligt intresserade filmvärlden med häpnad, och lika imponerande är den svit av utställningar som han strött ut över världens museer och konsthallar. Stockholms Filmfestival är bara en i en lång rad av filmfestivaler som lagerkransat Greenaway när han i höstas tilldelades festivalens Visionary Award. Idag hör han till de konstnärer som utgör sin egen lilla industri - eller ska vi säga konstinstitution - som turnerar över världen med ett nät av skickliga medarbetare som administrerar hans aldrig sinande idéström. I dagens kulturdokumentär tecknar Karsten Thurfjell hans porträtt.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 168 This episode... The Hunger Games, rooms full of giggling Eskimos, Bill Moseley, Jaws, what’s up with rich kung-fu knowing vampires, erotic cartoons, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Police Capt. Hook, David Lynch tells you about dental hygiene, the 30th anniversary of the Summer of ‘82, Salvador Dali, Alice in Wonderland: The Adult Musical, non-mutant Huck Finn, Home Improvment in a wilderness store, Troll Hunter, Creature Comforts, Jennifer Lawrence, Pan, Adrien Brody, Rango, Flesh Gordon, Shut Up Little Man, soccer moms, Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles, laughter canneries, The Big Sleep, maybe too intense for some viewers, my favorite thing Nicolas Cage ever said..., covert anti-feminist propaganda, you don’t mess with Ashley Judd!, making the sports noises, Barbie is like Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, porn talk, caller number four you’re on the air, drunken history videos, my life’s goal... to steal a pizza, The Pillow Book, I’m pro-popcorn!, the Groundhog Day factor, Barbie’s acting resume, Joanna Cassidy, Brett Ratner...didn’t I go to high school with him?, Julie Adams, A Zed and Two Noughts, more on the David Lynch coffee commercial... and cookies. Lots and lots of cookies. “They teach kung fu in hell don’t they?”