August 5th, 2010 / 8:00 pm
Author Spotlight
Jimmy Chen
Author Spotlight
Haruki Murakami has a lot of issues (not talking about his various extra copies of The New Yorker in which he published) and being alienated in Tokyo with a hard-on is not one of them. Does thinking you have hypochondria make you a hypochondriac? What if you really suffer from thinking you suffer? I suspect Murakami, during and in between writing novels and their respective advances, has a handful of time on his hands — and should those hands be populated with parts of his failing body, then we are not to judge. Everyone loves a sensitive man, but lay off the Bengay.
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Apparently he also suffers from really bad hemorrhoids: http://bit.ly/9FdxuQ
Dude is a distance runner. It hurts. Back off him.
Apparently he also suffers from really bad hemorrhoids: http://bit.ly/9FdxuQ
Dude is a distance runner. It hurts. Back off him.
Weird n’ eerie. I just finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle mere hours ago. Too many stories within stories. Loses momentum after about the 300 page mark. If Markson had a copy, he’d have written in the margins something like: “We got the point of this stuff a long time ago. A long time ago. It’s now BORING! And has been.” Or: “Oh God.” Although the stuff about Lieutenant Mamiya was gripping.
Anyway, those pictures of Murakami made me realize that he is damn near identical to the MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba (pictured here: http://www.thetrainingmat.com/Images/Stock_Photo/kazushi-sakuraba.jpg). And while the pictures of Murakami’s shoulder pain/tennis elbow/stomach cramps look uncomfortable—at least he doesn’t have to go through anything where he ends up looking like this: http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/265733/sakuraba_arona.jpg
Weird n’ eerie. I just finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle mere hours ago. Too many stories within stories. Loses momentum after about the 300 page mark. If Markson had a copy, he’d have written in the margins something like: “We got the point of this stuff a long time ago. A long time ago. It’s now BORING! And has been.” Or: “Oh God.” Although the stuff about Lieutenant Mamiya was gripping.
Anyway, those pictures of Murakami made me realize that he is damn near identical to the MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba (pictured here: http://www.thetrainingmat.com/Images/Stock_Photo/kazushi-sakuraba.jpg). And while the pictures of Murakami’s shoulder pain/tennis elbow/stomach cramps look uncomfortable—at least he doesn’t have to go through anything where he ends up looking like this: http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/265733/sakuraba_arona.jpg
a pox on thee.
shudder.
THEY DON’T LOOK THE SAME AT ALL
how dare you soil sakuraba’s name. that dude is fucking legit. the gracie killer.
before anyone else.
murakamii is a fad. and he’s lame.
like old hippy pulp shit.
meaningless.
don’t knock old hippie pulp shit like that.
YES YES YES finally someone else sees the resemblance
i remember liking norwegian wood. there’s some scene where they see smoke in the air from a nearby fire. not much of an indelible image, but indelible nonetheless.
Srsly. Similar like Diddy and Fiddy in their remarkable un-Brangeliniality.
That book was terrible.
hahahaha.
Murakami is a fad? Either you haven’t read him, or you don’t know what the word means. Plus, the fact that HTML Giant is ripping him is proof of his genius. Complaining about his discursiveness is like complaining that AC/DC is loud.
THEY DON’T LOOK THE SAME AT ALL
how dare you soil sakuraba’s name. that dude is fucking legit. the gracie killer.
before anyone else.
murakamii is a fad. and he’s lame.
like old hippy pulp shit.
meaningless.
htmlg is a fad.
the shoulder pain picture is a musical
don’t knock old hippie pulp shit like that.
YES YES YES finally someone else sees the resemblance
i remember liking norwegian wood. there’s some scene where they see smoke in the air from a nearby fire. not much of an indelible image, but indelible nonetheless.
I didn’t rip him. He’s a flawed writer but good look in your search for perfect.
Cat+Jazz+Beer+1st person narrator+ talking monkey=Murakami!!
Srsly. Similar like Diddy and Fiddy in their remarkable un-Brangeliniality.
Blake and Jereme just wrote an excellent haiku. I’m going to title it Murakami for them.
Though, once I asked a friend who was studying Japanese lit what the deal with Japanese punctuation was. He pointed at a glyph (politically correct? doesn’t seem so) and said “See this? It means nothing. It’s not codified. It’s a symbol without a signifier. Murakami makes up characters when he wants to create a blank space, a pause in the river of words.” I still think about that.
That book was terrible.
hahahaha.
Murakami is a fad? Either you haven’t read him, or you don’t know what the word means. Plus, the fact that HTML Giant is ripping him is proof of his genius. Complaining about his discursiveness is like complaining that AC/DC is loud.
htmlg is a fad.
the shoulder pain picture is a musical
fad…that’s the word i’ve been looking for the past five years
I didn’t rip him. He’s a flawed writer but good look in your search for perfect.
Cat+Jazz+Beer+1st person narrator+ talking monkey=Murakami!!
Blake and Jereme just wrote an excellent haiku. I’m going to title it Murakami for them.
Though, once I asked a friend who was studying Japanese lit what the deal with Japanese punctuation was. He pointed at a glyph (politically correct? doesn’t seem so) and said “See this? It means nothing. It’s not codified. It’s a symbol without a signifier. Murakami makes up characters when he wants to create a blank space, a pause in the river of words.” I still think about that.
fad…that’s the word i’ve been looking for the past five years
oh poor haruki :(
what about jimmy chen’s failing body pix??
oh poor haruki :(
what about jimmy chen’s failing body pix??
In terms of pain endured, the greatest Japanese writer must surely be Yukio Mishima.
They say only older Japanese men have perverted fetishes, but this thread proves that in the West, there is a perverted fetish for older Japanese men.
They say only older Japanese men have perverted fetishes, but this thread proves that in the West, there is a perverted fetish for older Japanese men.