Higashiyama ward — “Most Japanese girls giggle,” begins Capote’s 1957 profile on Marlon Brando for The New Yorker. I first came across this piece a few years ago during my Capote phase in which I was hunting down and devouring any and every piece of his writing I could find. This one resonated in a particularly powerful way. Capote wasn’t just profiling Brando, he was profiling him in a post-war Kyoto that I had ne...
New york — I take the express in the mornings. Eleven stops, but only the two last hop neighborhoods, the Financial District to 14th to Herald Square, twenty blocks in a gulp. This was a city center once, when t...
Wellington — I’m in Wellington, New Zealand, a point on a map, but my soul — as William Gibson likes to say — is lagged. Somewhere over the Pacific. Lost. I was in Tokyo yesterday and San Francisco just a few days...
Berlin — Yes, this seems to be a classical painting. At first. But if you take a closer look there’s something amiss. Quite a lot, truth be told. After some scrutiny, anyone with a dime’s worth of taste can se...
Paju book hotel rooms
Brando's room
There's a drinking game for that hotel facade, right?
New vertical commute.
Crystals
Beautiful late evening sunlight.
Hell is colorful