00:42 - A thousand autumns, revolutions and Rod Hull-alikes.

Today I finished reading The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell  - A book thats language describes it's setting so beautifully that i actually felt a real sadness finishing it. I wanted to to stay in it's floating world forever.  I implore that anyone who has stumbled across this blog and hasn't read the book to get a copy or download it to what ever nano device/cerebral implant that you using these days to ACCESS RAW TEXUAL INFORMATION FOR PLEASURE and lose yourself in it for a couple of weeks. It's cheaper and possibly better than a holiday.

I also watched Persepolis tonight. Well, it was between that or Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.  Ended up opting for Kurosawa's Macbeth inspired epic. I however seem to have lost another DVD to the sands of moving between flats and/or mental ex-es frisbee-ing my stuff out of windaes so Persepolis won by default.



Heavy fucking film. Quite, quite brillant though. It's an animated autobiographical account of a young girl's life growing up in Iran pre and post Islamic revolution with a few stints in Europe based on a graphic novel. I've never read the novel before but the film was visually stunning - the terse black and white animation fitting the oppressive feeling of post revolution Iran.

In other news, some supercool DJ [Mehdi] did a Rod Hull and died in a freak roofing related accident today and i haven't got a fucking clue who he is.

It's a sad day for me - I have officially become uncool as fuck. I'm away to hold a candlelight vigil for my lost credibility. Even if they are sooo early 2011.

We are all my lost credibility. 

A brief history of time

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Japan Airlines Flight 2

Japan Airlines Flight 2 was a flight that was piloted by Captain Kohei Asoh on November 22, 1968.

The DC-8 plane was scheduled to land at San Francisco International Airport but due to heavy fog and other factors, Asoh mistakenly landed the plane in the waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway.

The "Asoh defense"

In his 1988 book The Abilene Paradox, author Jerry Harvey claimed that Asoh, when asked how he had managed to land the aircraft in the bay, replied "Asoh fuck up." Harvey termed this frank acceptance of blame the "Asoh defense".