January 2012
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Making the move over here.
November 2011
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yesss, parks & rec did a d2 reference
Leslie (referring to Model UN): Andy, will you be Iceland?
Andy: The bad guys from Mighty Ducks 2? No, thank you.
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October 2011
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This giant book, however, grew from the tiniest of seeds. According to Murakami, “1Q84” is just an amplification of one of his most popular short stories, “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning,” which (in its English version) is five pages long. “Basically, it’s the same,” he told me. “A boy meets a girl. They have separated and are looking for each other. It’s a simple...
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On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful...
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.
Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape from sleep. She isn’t young, either - must be near thirty, not even close...
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countdown to 1Q84
Haruki Murakami: How a Japanese writer conquered the world
By Stephanie Hegarty
BBC World Service
At midnight in London, and the same time next week in America, bookshops will open their doors to sell Haruki Murakami’s latest novel to eager fans. This is not Harry Potter, it’s a 1,600-page translation from Japanese. So why the excitement?
When Haruki Murakami’s new book,...
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excerpt from two weeks in the midday sun:
I walked out of the Martinez and was made uneasy again by the wind. So I turned inland, away from the Croisette and the beach, and walked up into one of the ordinary commercial streets of Cannes. I cut behind the Carton, walked past the Hotel Savoy, and before long was at the little fruit and vegetable marketplace, at the other end of town from the big market. I took a table at a cafe, ordered an...
September 2011
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August 2011
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“Sorry to state the obvious, but maybe there’s not much connection between the convenience of people’s surroundings and the degree of happiness they feel.”
Haruki Murakami (via new yorker)
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WatchShe is amazing.