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...high school, Tsuyoshi, who played drums for a Kraftwerk and Cocteau Twins-inspired new wave band, spent most of his school days smoking cigarettes with his bosozoku (motorcycle gang) buddies. "But since my grades were good, teachers hated me more," he adds, laughing. His slacker attitude continued into university, where the budding DJ spent his graduation day "dancing in Goa." His absentee rate once prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between...
...Don’t forget to include a French epigram by Jean Cocteau and definitely omit the translation so as to alienate all your “non-intellectual” readers...
...filmmaker Jean Cocteau once remarked, "Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it." Stupidity's first cousins are evil and venality, which carry briefcases and are ingenious. God knows this decision is an ingenious, not to say hilarious, piece of work. I sometimes think that the absurdities of the French, philosophical and otherwise, result from the beauty and seductive elegance of their language, with which they can talk themselves into anything...
They became inseparable. Alice cooked, typed manuscripts, fended off the unwanted, did promotions and chatted up the wives and significant others of famous men, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. Alice was "Pussy" to Gertrude; Gertrude was "Lovey" to Alice. And if out walking for a while with a friend, Gertrude would say, "We must be getting back to Alice. If I am away from her long, I get low in my mind." Discussing homosexuality, Stein once told Hemingway that men were disgusted after sex together but "in women...
Stupidity is one of my favorite subjects. "It is always amazing," Jean Cocteau wrote, "no matter how often one encounters it." Like sleep, stupidity is a universal, surreal and mysterious phenomenon, a brownout, the mind passing through a tunnel. Sometimes stupidity is hilarious; most of the world's jokes are told by one ethnic group about the stupidity of another ethnic group. In its sinister forms, stupidity turns up as evil's incompetent half brother--evil without supernatural prestige. The "Evil Empire" was, in a more practical sense, the stupid empire; systemic stupidity, not evil or good, brought the Soviet...