[This is good]: modern celebs, classic styles. How would Hannibal Lecter look rendered by impressionists?
Random thought: 100 years ago, short writing was normal for fiction, either as short stories, or serialised works that would be collected as novels; in music, long forms of music were popular.
Now we've reversed things; the short story is increasingly hard to publish, even in collections, while pop music dominates the aural arts.
And on pop music, Green Day's Misery sounds wierdly like Tom Waits filtered through, well, Green Day. Specifically, “Back in the Good Old World”
Well, buying a guidebook to Judo kata paid off just for learning about daki-age, essentially a body slam. Bannd from competition, but it's legal during sparring, which gave me something to surprise the more senior guys with last night. Sure, it'd hardly be sporting to use a jarring power move on someone close to my own ability, but I figure guys several belts ahead are fair game. They should have the skills not to let me get into a dominant position where I can use it, anyway.
Last night was, on the whole, an excellent session. The sempai, Brian, is overall the best teacher I've worked under so far, and there was a good balance of practise and sparring. On top of that, I managed a submission on a green belt and, more importantly, it's the first submission I've executed during sparring that's actually been a well-executed move, rather than desperate scrambling and overpowering someone. Even better is that it was the application of a defensive strangle I'd learned at my last session. So I'm feeling very pleased with myself, although my neck is still feeling the effects of learning a few new strangleholds the hard way.