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saddleblasters
8 months ago
Added a section for short pieces that don't fit what "records of a saddle" has come to represent.
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thanks for pointing out the delineation of xiang3 vs think. it's tempting to draw conclusions about what the two languages presume is primarily on your mind (desires vs beliefs). in general i think it's really fun to observe how the two different language (families) draw lines around concepts and group them into words -- thinking/speaking in mandarin changes how i think about things compared to english.
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sorbier
8 months ago
that said i think (haha, jue2de) that the average mandarin word performs more roles than the average english word, which renders mandarin more figurative/conceptual broadly. apologies for stating it so definitively though -- agree that it's totally my subjective impression.
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palmistshouse
10 months ago
A local venue that my friends would perform at frequently recently shut down and is set to be demolished. It's always so heartbreaking when those kinds of things happen :-((
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balckwell
10 months ago
In our apartment, "upstairs" is the top shelves of the kitchen cabinets that my wife can't reach.
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Sorry. You would have probably gotten an email sent to you from neocities from a post I made about your RSS not working. It does. Ignore it. I'm an idiot
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underwhite
10 months ago
you know you can disable email notices right? I did it for my site cuz it's unnerving
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readingproject
10 months ago
Thanks for that. I’ll look into it. I assume others get them because I do.
saddleblasters
10 months ago
I have email notifications turned on so I did see the messages, but it's fine! This is exactly the sort of mistake I can imagine myself making too haha. Glad to hear RSS actually does work. I'd used a validator to check it and had tested subscribing to it myself, but as always was a bit paranoid I might have done something wrong.
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Thanks for your interest in our site. I found your follow this morning and started reading through your site. Despite lack of sleep and very tired eyes, I just kept reading. I felt what you said about dogs, among other things. They are great animals and can get a rough deal sometimes. Hoping to read more from your site. Cheers
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saddleblasters
10 months ago
Thank you for the kind words! I'd seen your website before, but it was only yesterday that I finally started reading through some of the reviews you did last year (*The Red and the Black* and *The Ark Sakura* to be specific) and I felt like you did a good job writing about some very tough-to-analyze books.
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saddleblasters
10 months ago
Also, despite the frivolousness of it all, I translated some Milk@Coffee lyrics in honor of madeinv's most recent post
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I wrote an essay about noise performances I saw last year and poems I wrote about them: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/essays/noise_poetry
Chinese noise is crazy... i know about Merzbow, Masonna, Gerogerigegege, Les Rallizes Dénudés, ...but had not much clue about the Chinese noise scene.
I only really talked about the Shanghai scene in this essay. If you're curious about the Beijing scene, you can read Yan Jun's English language writing (though a lot of it is outdated): https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/contributors/yan-jun/yan-jun_which-hell-do-you-prefer_