A blessing to write for the world’s oldest magazine again, this time on Taipei’s bin system and how I stumbled through it as a foreigner.
Here’s what else is up:
I got to see 8 1/2 on the big screen, one of the greatest cinematic experiences of my life. Early on I watched the same film and thought it tres misogynistique. Needless to say I was a loser when I was 18. Rossella Falk is my favourite Fellini girl for those wondering. At the end of the film most of us clapped but the guy next to me let out a relieved sigh that it was over!
I didn’t really like Isabelle Allende’s House of the Spirits, quite a lot of the prose read like ad copy
But I am having fun reading Lester Bangs
I’m listening to a lot of Pulp