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on being fully alive
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive.
― Stephen Levine, from A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
shintaro kago – mermaid
mind the static
Shintaro Kago 駕籠 真太郎) born 1969 in Tokyo, is a Japanese guro manga artist. He made his debut in in the magazine COMIC BOX, in 1988.
Shintaro Kago’s style has been called “fashionable paranoia”. He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity. Many of his manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects. He has also written Sci-Fi non-guro manga, most notably Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis (超伝脳パラタクシス Choutennou Paratakushisu) for Weekly Young Jump. Many of his shorts are experimental and bizarre. He frequently breaks the fourth wall, and he likes to play with page layout in extreme ways, mostly for comedic effect.
(Info from wikipedia.com)
babymetal – headbanger
The latest addition to the ‘everything japan/manga/anime/music/fashion’ obsession of my girls. Babymetal is super super commercial, total fusion of girlgroup meets metal, over the top. Everything that I dislike in music, but I still like it (shame on me).